Quest Associates A Novel Author:Jack Richards Since 1500 A.D., records show that the average annual loss of documented vessels numbers 2,172 ships. Almost twenty-five percent of all the gold and silver mined, and nearly three hundred trillion dollars in valuable cargoes have been lost in marine disasters. After they save the life of the wife of the owner of Quest Associates, a company dedic... more »ated to the recovery of sunken treasure, three former teammates at Stanford University are offered a job in this very dangerous enterprise.« less