Steven Schwankert: Global Book Launch of “Poseidon”
Posted: November 6th, 2013 | Author: LumDimSum | Filed under: Food For Thought, Upcoming Events | Tags: Clive Cussler, Google Play Store, Hong Kong University Press, Kindle, Midnight in Peking, PADI, Paul French, Popup Chinese, Poseidon: China’s Secret Salvage of Britain’s Lost Submarine, Scuba Steve, SinoScuba, Steven Schwankert, The Badlands, The Wall Street Journal, theBeijinger | 1 Comment »A proud moment for my long-time Beijing friend, Steven Schwankert (aka Scuba Steve) is about to launch his first published book “Poseidon: China’s Secret Salvage of Britain’s Lost Submarine” this Thursday, November 7 at The Bookworm. It’s the true story about a British submarine that mysteriously sank off China’s coast in 1931 and how he stumbled across the HMS Poseidon on a list of unexplored dive sites as he was seeking out different wrecks to dive in northern China.
“His private obsession with bringing wreck diving to China became a public and personally high-risk mission to uncover a secret history of political intrigue that took him half way across the world in search of evidence. His search for the submarine revealed a story that was far more complicated than he had first expected, challenging official accounts of the escape, and uncovering the truth behind the forgotten wreck.”
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