When Kurt Austin the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States & Mexico Halcons scheme hinges on Ninas recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus & a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin & his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon & the Andrea Dorias silent steel hull
- & if their deadly mission fails Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death & destruction.