Project Gutenberg 2025-05-13 Public domain in the USA. 192 Rockwood, Roy Shute, A. B. (Augustus Burnham) 1851 1906 Shute, A. Burnham Shute, Augustus Burnham 05032920 Rival ocean divers : $b or, The search for a sunken treasure $aNew York :$bGrosset & Dunlap, $c1900, copyright 1905. Aaron Adrignola, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Rival ocean divers : or, The search for a sunken treasure" by Roy Rockwood is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows teen diver Dave Fearless and his father Amos as they join Captain Broadbeam’s government ship, the Swallow, to locate a fortune lost with the wrecked Happy Hour in the Pacific, while the wealthy Lemuel Hankers and his son Bart mount a rival hunt aboard the Raven. Expect inventive deep-sea gear (notably a new diving bell), fierce marine creatures, South Seas hazards, and a bitter family rivalry over a long-lost inheritance. The opening of this novel sets the stakes and the chase in motion: Dave learns of the treasure and the Happy Hour’s probable resting place; Bart Hankers eavesdrops and his father rushes to get a head start, even planting a hireling to frame Dave in Washington (a ploy that fails). Dave and Amos ship on the Swallow, descend in the bell, and survive a harrowing encounter with monstrous deep-sea fish, followed by a shark attack at the surface. A violent storm strikes; lightning leaves Amos alive but unable to speak. At San Murio Island, Dave and young engineer Bob Vilett go ashore, fall into underground caverns, and Dave is captured after overhearing Lemuel Hankers and his man Rackley plotting to sabotage the Swallow by infiltrating her as a “castaway.” Bob rescues Dave from a jaguar; the pair endure a gorilla attack, then reach the beach only to be seized by islanders occupied with butchering a stranded whale. The section closes with the boys bound inland as a group approaches, including a white man disguised among the natives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822041827759&view=1up&seq=7 20221124155224rockwood 1900 us Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Sea stories Treasure troves -- Juvenile fiction Action and adventure fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature 297320 2025-07-30T06:38:36.345849 text/html 271560 2025-05-13T19:29:42 text/html 738121 2025-07-30T06:38:43.991769 application/epub+zip 737168 2025-07-30T06:38:38.167799 application/epub+zip 301252 2025-07-30T06:38:37.158733 application/epub+zip 1232460 2025-07-30T06:38:47.998689 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1202312 2025-07-30T06:38:43.220755 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 267035 2025-07-30T06:38:35.029815 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 247091 2025-05-13T19:29:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14756 2025-07-30T06:38:48.168728 application/rdf+xml 26125 2025-07-30T06:38:37.545737 image/jpeg 4210 2025-07-30T06:38:37.350765 image/jpeg 1598648 2025-07-30T06:38:36.408757 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia