This work details the author's continuing search for famous shipwrecks with his nonprofit organization NUMA.

There is also a television series titled The Sea Hunters which is based on the book.

[1] It airs on the National Geographic Channel and History Television in Canada.

Adventure novelist Clive Cussler follows up on the success of his first nonfiction book The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks which documented the formation of his nonprofit organization named after the fictional agency in his novels, the National Underwater and Marine Agency which is dedicated to the discovery of famous shipwrecks around the world.

As in the first work, preceding the details of the search is a fictionalized imagining of the events that led to the loss of the ship.