Goldfinder
The greatest rags to riches story ever told
“Outstanding, inspiring and beautifully told, no true tale of the sea makes better reading”. Clive Cussler
Keith “KJ” Jessop was the greatest treasure hunter in history, a man who raised tens of millions in gold and precious metals from the sea-bed, but his life was also an incredible human story. Born illegitimate and in abject poverty, his first job was as an underwater scrapman, risking his life with crude home-made equipment, diving for metal at depths and in seas that no others dared face.
A fearless pioneer of modern diving techniques, his prodigious talent for research and gambler’s instinct then led him to wrecks that had been given up as lost for ever, and in his greatest exploit he raised ten tons of gold from the icy depths of the Arctic.
KJ hobnobbed with presidents, princes and billionaires, and fought warlords, gangsters, pirates and crooks. He knew personal happiness and tragedy, made and lost millions and overcame obstacles and hardships that would have broken a lesser man.
Keith Jessop’s adventures would fill 100 lifetimes - a life lived to the full, and a story you’ll never forget.
The greatest rags to riches story ever told
“Outstanding, inspiring and beautifully told, no true tale of the sea makes better reading”. Clive Cussler
Keith “KJ” Jessop was the greatest treasure hunter in history, a man who raised tens of millions in gold and precious metals from the sea-bed, but his life was also an incredible human story. Born illegitimate and in abject poverty, his first job was as an underwater scrapman, risking his life with crude home-made equipment, diving for metal at depths and in seas that no others dared face.
A fearless pioneer of modern diving techniques, his prodigious talent for research and gambler’s instinct then led him to wrecks that had been given up as lost for ever, and in his greatest exploit he raised ten tons of gold from the icy depths of the Arctic.
KJ hobnobbed with presidents, princes and billionaires, and fought warlords, gangsters, pirates and crooks. He knew personal happiness and tragedy, made and lost millions and overcame obstacles and hardships that would have broken a lesser man.
Keith Jessop’s adventures would fill 100 lifetimes - a life lived to the full, and a story you’ll never forget.
