Daniel Lenihan

(pictured here with co-author Gene Hackman)
Founder and Chief
of the United States National Park Services elite Submerged Culutral Resources Unit
(SCRU) Team, Daniel Lenihan is one of the worlds leading underwater archeologists.
Over the last 25 years he and his SCRU team have been the subject of endless national
media in print (such as The Washington Post) and on television (documentaries airing on
CBS, ABC, BBC, CNN, and The Discovery Channel). He has written for popular audiences in
many venues, and is a frequent contributor to Natural History. He is
co-author of SUBMERGED: ADVENTURES OF
AMERICA'S MOST ELITE UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY TEAM (Newmarket Press, 2002) and
co-author of UNDERWATER WONDERS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS (Fodors/Random House).
Dan is also a talented novelist. He
is author of WAKE OF THE
PERDIDO STAR (Newmarket Press, 1999), co-authored with friend Gene Hackman,
a historical adventure saga set on the sea in the early 1800s. WAKE was
critically-acclaimed and was a commercial success. His second novel, JUSTICE
FOR NONE, also co-authored with Gene Hackman, was published by St. Martins
Press in 2004, to critical acclaim, as was his third novel, ESCAPE
FROM ANDERSONVILLE (St. Martins Press, 2009).
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