The Shallow's Deep Secrets, vol 1

The Shallow's Deep Secrets carries the reader along with Jess E. Hanes and his wife, Marie Ann, as they explore history on and in the rivers and lakes of the Great American Loop cruise around Eastern United States. They make their home on a 42-foot Nordic Tug trawler during a 6,500-mile 14-month adventure. He is a retired military and she recently sold her accounting firm. They spend winters on their ranch in the Texas hill country between San Antonio and Austin. Then they go to Shuffleville, Indiana, during the spring and summer months. This year, they are taking a cruise in their cruiser/trawler/yacht on the Great American Loop Cruise, treasure hunting along the way. They will be searching for historically lost or intentionally buried precious metals: gold, silver, copper, and also iron relics--ferrous and nonferrous metals. The cruise starts in Benton Harbor, Michigan, across Lake Michigan to Chicago, down to the Mississippi River to Florida, and then up the east coast to the Hudson Bay, over to the Erie Canal and then across the Great Lakes, and ends back in St. Joseph, Michigan. It will be a twelve- to thirteen-month cruise. Each chapter of The Shallow's Deep Secrets takes the reader on a leisurely segment of mystery and adventure for shallow water treasure hunting.