A Maine diver tells his own story: salvage work, a sunken schooner with something aboard worth more than the hull, and a partnership that turns on whether a treasure is worth what it costs. Holman Day was a Maine newspaperman and knew the coast, the courts and the talk. The narrator's voice does most of the work, and it never slips. Fifty-nine plates of wrecks, rough seas and working vessels by painters including Joseph Stannard and Thomas Luny carry the same salt air that runs through Ross Sidney's account.
