Goldfinder - Keith Jessop - Paperback - SECOND HAND

"Outstanding, inspiring, and beautifully told. No true tale of the sea makes better reading."-Clive Cussler. NOTE: Unfortunately these books are no longer in print. As such these copies are good / fair condition second hand copies and of limited stock. Once they're gone they're gone! Keith Jessop was the most successful treasure hunter and salvage diver in history, a man who made - and lost - millions rescuing treasure from the deep. The bastard son of a penniless Yorkshire mill-girl, he left school without a single qualification and, to make ends meet, he started salvaging scrap metal from shallow water wrecks off the coast of Scotland using the inner tube of a tractor tyre covered in wire mesh as a vessel. Always ready to embrace danger, he learned to deep dive during a series of spectacularly risky recoveries in ever more treacherous waters working on the salvage diver's harsh principle of 'No Cure, No Pay'. It was only with advances in technology, allowing longer and deeper dives that his dream of recovering the Edinburgh's gold began inching towards reality. Goldfinder is the extraordinary true story of Keith's progress from aquatic Steptoe and Son to salvaging the richest prize of all - over £100 million of Russian Gold - from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It is also a compelling adventure story of the discovery of untold riches against a backdrop of piracy, big business, government conspiracy, treachery and betrayal and even the involvement of a leading member of the Royal Family, encompassing the thrills and terror of deep sea diving and the awesome, unforgiving power of the ocean. A time when the dangers of narcosis and the bends were barely understood. Keith was in on the ground floor of saturation diving, working in the North Sea oilfields in the Wild West early days – but he also had a flair for research and an uncanny ability to find valuable wrecks.