Expedition whydah barry clifford

The Diabetes Cure. Vern Cherewatenko. Paperback Read a Sample. Amazon Indigo. Barry Clifford Biography Barry Clifford is an undersea explorer who discovered and excavated the Whydah, the first pirate shipwreck ever authenticated, off the coast of Cape Cod. Paul Perry Biography Paul Perry is an internationally bestselling author who has co-written nine books on near-death experiences.

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Especially interesting to me as I live in the area and I'm also a scuba diver. Good blend of pirate history and the challenges of underwater archeology. I wish I had read it before seeing the Whydoh exhibit, not six years after.

Greg Graves. Author 5 books 4 followers. While I find stories of archaeology interesting, and by with pirates doubly-so, Clifford and his co-author, Perry did not do a good job of staying on the narrative of the excavation, and instead offer up too many criticisms of people who got in the way, and too many pats to their own backs.

One of the groups that Clifford goes to great pains to criticize are the academic archaeologists who disagree with him, and in doing so takes a shit on the whole discipline of archaeology from too great of a height. While some of his complaints about them are true, the fact remains that a given site can only be excavated once.

While Clifford may or may not have taken the necessary precautions, if we accepted his argument then it would be that money, not brains or a sense of curatorship, would be the ultimate arbiter of access to a site, ignoring the shared social value of historic sites. Author 1 book 23 followers. This book is alright.

It is in the end an adventure story, which I will be honest was simply not what I was looking for. Barry Clifford seems to have written this book in part self defense, defending his actions and telling his side of the story as there have been many questions about the wisdom of having such a valuable archaeological find in the hands of a man who is a treasure hunter and admits it.

Barry Clifford write a readable book however, one that follows both the rise and fall of the fortunes of the pirates of the Whydah and the rise and fall of his own crew. He tells both in a rather romanticized fashion, but I suppose that is to be expected from a man who also admits to a fondness for Captain Blood and Treasure Island. Since childhood, Clifford had heard tales of a pirate named Sam Bellamy who was shipwrecked off the coast of Cape Cod in Once the mass is located and raised, his team will need to gently break it down using electrolysis and small hand tools.

Since his discovery, Clifford and his team have returned nearly every year to the wreck, over which he has special rights. They've already reclaimed some , artifacts, including thousands of silver Spanish coins, hundreds of pieces and fragments of rare African gold jewelry, dozens of cannons, various colonial-era objects and other prizes. A new find at the wreck that made him famous would be a coup for Clifford, who has been dealt major setbacks on other recent expeditions.

In , he claimed to have found the wreck of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus' flagship from his first voyage to the Americas in , off the coast of Haiti, only to have researchers from UNESCO conclude it was more likely a ship from a later era because of the presence of bronze and copper fasteners.

UNESCO again threw cold water on the pronouncement, concluding an over pound silver ingot Clifford produced as proof of his find was actually 95 percent lead.