Kleindeutschland -- Americans discover the world below -- Rivals beneath the river -- A submarine engineer at war -- The Pacific Pearl Company -- Panama -- Requiem -- Archaeological examination of Sub Marine Explorer -- Sub Marine Explorer's context, condition, and options -- Appendix 1: Anatomy of Sub Marine Explorer -- Appendix 2: W.W.W. Wood's report on Sub Marine Explorer -- Appendix 3: Inventory of the personal effects of Julius Kroehl, 1867
Summary
In 2001, while vacationing on Panama's Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed by the ebbing tides in a small cove at Isla San Telmo. Local inquiries proved inconclusive: the wreck was described as everything from a sunken Japanese ""suicide"" submarine from World War II to a poison-laden ""craft of death"" that was responsible for the ruin of the pearl beds, decades before. His professional interest fully aroused, Delgado would go on to learn that the wreck was the remains of one of the first successfu
