Pirate Hunters

Audio book version Narrator rating 5/5

I want to preference this review by saying that I don't think I was the intended audience for this book but I was drawn in by the synopsis and great reviews. That being said, this was a tough book to get through. The combination of constant story side-stepping, numerous false starts and the overly toxic, ultra macho egotism that is riddled throughout this book made it a difficult listen. At the start, the story was interesting and engaging I was eager to go along for the ride the author promises in the synopsis with the two main characters but the book turned more into a 4 person biography but only one of those, that of the Pirate captain, is justified. The more I learned of these explorers the less I liked them especially John Chatterton, whom aside from his abilities as a diver has no favorable qualities. The constant rotating topic made this book hard to follow and by disc 4, I was dreading listening to the last 3 discs. Overall, they FINALLY find their ship with little to no respect to the Country and the people of which they are plundering their lost treasure, I think a better suited title to this book would have been “I'm a man who does manly things because I'm a man and that's what men do, I have a false sense of pride and I do dangerous things because I am not afraid to die because I am manly.”

P.S. I know that his is a non-fiction book and the author has no control of the facts including the personalities of the two main characters but I wanted to include that criticism in my review for readers who are put-off by those personalities and the supporting theme in the book of “macho pride” If none of that bothers you think you'd enjoy it, it is well written from a technical standpoint but I think an abridged version would have suited my taste better.