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He died a few years ago in high end Paradise Valley during a time when I was living in the area. He was known for his car collection, and mirroring his most noted character Dirk Pitt, he led expeditions searching for deep sea wrecks. He found a sunken Confederate vessel on one such trip.
I'm reading the first in the Pitt series:
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Dirk Pitt has been called oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones. This book was published in 1973. Pretty old fashioned cultural Americana really. In his time Cussler was probably one of the 4-5 top fiction writers in America. German-English ancestrally.
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