Treasured Life: Surrendering to the Siren's Song

Randy Lathrop's underwater adventures have taken him far and wide throughout the oceans of the Caribbean, Atlantic, as well as the Great Lakes, and the submerged caves of Florida and Mexico. "A Treasured Life" is a very personal recollection of life as a diver in both the commercial and recreational venues.

As a teenager in Florida, he took up cave diving in Florida's many springs and sinkholes. An accidental discovery of lost Spanish gold while hunting for lobsters and fish along Florida's Treasure Coast lead to a lifetime of diving and the quest for treasure. Being in the right place at the right time he was hired as a diver by several salvage firms to work on a number of the famed Spanish Fleet wrecks lost in 1715.

Those projects were followed by similar efforts in The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Belize, and Lake Huron. He made national headlines in his pursuit of the lost Spanish ship, the La Esclavitud, off the coast of Cape Canaveral and the subsequent court battle that followed.

While running his own business as an underwater videographer, he was involved in the initial exploration of the world's longest cave system in Mexico, Nahoch Nah Chich. His videos and photos have been shown on the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives, Inside Edition, NBC, Wall Street Journal, the Smithsonian Magazine, and numerous other news agencies.

The book has over 150 photos, along with 4 maps, a complete index, and footnotes. More than 330 exciting pages of great reading.