Book excerpt: This is a story of hopes and dreams and chasing treasure. It is a story of a desire to find and salvage a shipwreck and recover a cargo of importance. Starting without any money, without any special qualifications and without any special equipment. Just the dream. From the time DIANA first became known until the time she and her cargo were recovered from the deep, ten years elapsed. But it was worth every agony, every night’s lost sleep and every frustration because of all the ways in which money can be earned, historic shipwreck salvage is probably the most exciting, pleasurable and satisfying. A glimpse into the a family, and a thoroughly researched history of the British HEIC and East India Trade.