Mystery of the Last Olympian
About this ebook
The book gives you a firsthand account as Richie Kohler takes readers on the intriguing journey from the rise of the magnificent Olympians to the fateful day in 1916. He then moves forward in time through multiple expeditions beginning with the great Jacques Cousteau who located the ocean liner in 1975. Each successive team that risked their lives uncovered new clues, but it was not until 2009 when Richie and his dive partner definitively pinpointed the secret that had eluded them.
Finally, in July 2015, Richie and a small team attained the goal of documenting their findings that answered the century-old question as to why all the engineering solutions built into the mighty Britannic could not save her from sharing the same fate as Titanic.
Experience the expedition as Richie and his team unravel the mystery of the HMHS Britannic:
- With damage to only one compartment, the ship should have been able to stay afloat, and yet she sank twice as quickly as did Titanic. How was that possible?
- Was the hospital ship criminally torpedoed as the British press claimed, or did she ineptly blunder into a minefield, as the Bismarck Government countered?
- Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Britannic and Titanic. Experience her intriguing story.
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About the author
Richard Kohler is one of only four men in the world who has been to the RMS
Titanic and physically diving inside her equally tragic sister ship, HMHS Britannic. His passion for technical scuba diving and maritime history began in 1980, and he is internationally known for exploring some of the most challenging and dangerous shipwrecks in the world. His explorations have helped to locate and name numerous lost vessels, including the minelaying submarine U-215 on the Georges Banks off Nova Scotia and the WWII destroyer USS Murphy that was crushed and forgotten in the New York approaches.
Charlie Hudson a retired army officer and veteran of Desert Storm, is an avid recreational scuba diver who has authored several scuba-themed novels and women’s fiction as well as nonfiction books. She contributes to two online scuba forums and spent two years writing for a local community newspaper. Her twenty-two year Army career included assignments involving extensive technical writing, and she was published in different military journals. She later had a corporate career as a defense services contractor and technical writer before she retired.
