DARK SALVAGE
Lonnie Marks was the world's top marine salvage diver, with millions of dollars worth of sunken ship treasures to his credit, until a diving accident he could have prevented claimed the life of one of his partners.
Now Lonnie lives in seclusion, running a dive shop in Carmel, California and staying away from the water.
When Charles Donnagio, a marine historian, approaches him with a dive job on a Spanish Galleon sunken off the coast of Belize... The legendary San Miquel loaded with twenty four tons of gold... Lonnie realizes that this may be his last chance to prove that he can still do it. His last chance at a future, instead of a past.
And when one of the prizes might be Donnagio's scuba diving daughter, Kelly, Lonnie decides to lead the expedition and assembles a dive team.
Moving across the Caribbean from Belize City, Lonnie and Kelly fight storms, sharks, and modern day pirates armed with seaplanes and machine guns as they search for the wreckage of the San Miquel.... the Holy Grail of sunken ships.
Leading the 'pirates' is Curt Williams, a rival salvage expert known for his ruthless and violent pursuit of treasures. Williams is also Kelly's ex-lover...
And Lonnie's ex-childhood friend.
The stakes are high, and so is the risk. Along the way are double crosses, fist fights, deadly sharks, underwater chases, lost ships, found romances, twists and turns, Jet Ski chases, and a moment of truth where Lonnie Marks must decide whether he is a diver... or just a man with a past.
"DARK SALVAGE" is high adventure in the tradition of Indiana Jones, Bond in "Thunderball", and TV's "Sea Hunt". The deeper you dive, the darker it gets...
"THE DARK SALVAGE" a screenplay by William C. Martell
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