Lost Below

The Southwest's Most Intriguing Shipwrecks, Sunken Aircraft, Submerged Ruins and Undersea Treasures

by David Finnern

Lost Below, by David Finnern, features the Southwest’s most intriguing shipwrecks, sunken aircraft, submerged ruins and undersea treasures. It features stories about local shipwrecks, plane wrecks and diving underwater in search of these forgotten wrecks. Steamers and river ports of the Colorado are included, including an expedition to the forgotten site of Port Isabel at the mouth of the Colorado River in Mexico.

Lost Below is 108 pages long and features over 200 photographs of the most fascinating sunken historical treasures of the Southwest and true adventure of exploration and discovery.

David Finnern is an award winning author with hundreds of articles in Skin Diver, Immersed, Western and Eastern Treasures, California Diving News, Underwater USA, and others. He is a former president of the Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles, the California Wreck Divers and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Here are the stories:

Lost Treasures of the Winfield Scott In Search of Jack London’s Ghost (Jennie Thelin) The Wreck of the Monfalcone: Sharkbites and Sunken Treasure Inferno at Sea - The Saga of the Valiant Last Flight of the Avenger Last Flight of the Avenger The Discovery of the Aimee Mystery of Isla Chuenque’s Sunken Aircraft The Wreck of the Elsie I - The World War II Veteran of Huntington Beach Bill White and the Wreck of the Melrose Ning Po - California’s Sunken Pirate Ship The Search for Catalina’s Sunken Seaplane The Wreck of the Monte Carlo Quest for The Lost City (St. Thomas, recently exposed by the lowering of Lake Mead) In the Wake of the Newbern Ghosts of the Colorado (landings and steamers of the Colorado River) Expedition to Puerto Isabel The Last Steamboat (the Charles. H. Spencer)