Adventure novelist Clive Cussler follows up on the success of his first nonfiction book The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks which documented the formation of his nonprofit organization named after the fictional agency in his novels, the National Underwater and Marine Agency which is dedicated to the discovery of famous shipwrecks around the world.

This volume documents the search for the final resting places of fourteen additional ships or other historical sunken artifacts not documented in the first work. Unlike the first book, this volume documents searches for ships that Cussler's group has found, and searches that were ultimately unsuccessful. As in the first work, preceding the details of the search is a fictionalized imagining of the events that led to the loss of the ship.

• Part 1: L’Aimable (Lost ship of René-Robert Cavelier)
• Part 2: The Steamboat New Orleans
• Part 3: The Ironclads: Manassas and Louisiana
• Part 4: USS Mississippi
• Part 5: The Siege of Charleston: Keokuk, Weehawken, and Patapsco
• Part 6: The Cannon of San Jacinto
• Part 7: Mary Celeste
• Part 8: The Steamboat General Slocum
• Part 9: SS Waratah
• Part 10: RMS Carpathia
• Part 11: L’Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird, biplane flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli, who vanished on an attempted transatlantic flight in 1927)
• Part 12: USS Akron
• Part 13: PT-109
• Part 14: The Hunt for Samuel Morey's boat Aunt Sally

• 2002, USA, J.P. Putnam's Sons 0-399-14925-2, December 7, 2002, Hardcover.
• 2003, USA, Berkley 0-425-19372-1, December 30, 2003, Paperback.

• The Sea Hunters II - book review