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Clive Cussler
1931–2020·American
Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was an American adventure novelist best known for creating the fictional underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt, who starred in a long-running series of action thrillers beginning with The Mediterranean Caper in 1973. Beyond fiction, Cussler founded the real-world National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), a nonprofit that located more than sixty historically significant shipwrecks, including the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley. His novels were translated into over forty languages and sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
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