Salvage of the Tatiana

About the Book

Combining realism and intrigue, the author delivers a gripping tale of high adventure under the sea.  Larry Miles, an ex-marine haunted by ghosts from his past, goes on a mission that proves to be the ultimate test of his will to survive.  He leads a team of six men on a saturation diving job to salvage a freighter in the North Sea.  In a region with the most treacherous weather on the planet, Artic storms, cold, fog, and brutal currents, an already dangerous operation turns into a nightmare when the divers discover nuclear weapons in the sunken vessel.  A chaotic scenario unfolds, when miles finds himself battling Russian arms smugglers and a traitor among his team.  Miles becomes the only men who can prevent a nuclear weapon from being delivered to a rogue state, but he is trapped in a pressurized compartment, and faces certain death when the salvage vessel threatens to sink in a raging storm.

Filled with underwater gadgetry, electric submarines, manned submersibles, and eccentric characters, Salvage of the Tatiana gives the reader a glimpse of the extraordinary and dangerous world of commercial diving.

About the Author

Norbert Weissinger is a former commercial diver who helped build the oilfield in Campeche Bay, Mexico.  He has traveled throughout the world and lived in Thailand.  His favorite diving spots are Roatan, Honduras and the Philippines.

He currently lives in Orlando, Florida, where he is a computer consultant.  This is his second novel.