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While returning from a mission on the Congo River Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. They save Sloane MacIntyre, who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area.

An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature ... and man against himself. As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic...

The classic story of Gulliver's voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and other strange places, written as a satire of the author's world.

In this fourth novel of the seas, Alan Lewrie sails a vessel (disguised as a merchant ship) into cloak and dagger escapades from Canton to Calcutta in the late 1800s.

Twenty-four hours out of San Francisco, submarine captain Cassidy unseals his top-secret orders and reads two fateful words: Destination Tokyo.

Jane Bunker gives up her career as a homicide detective to move to Green Haven, Maine, where she works as a marine insurance investigator and enjoys a more peaceful life, but when a dead body washes up on shore, Jane is pulled into another murder investigation that proves more dangerous than she imagined.

Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times, the Empress of Ireland, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Brittanic, and the Titanic.

A grieving father becomes obsessed with salvaging what is left of his family by finding his missing daughter.