NUMA Projects

NUMA Research Expeditions
NUMA/Dirk Pitt's Services Requested by the US Government/Military
Special Assignment Team Projects

NUMA Research Expeditions:

Book (Chapter)

Two NUMA oceanographic ships conduct subbottom profiling and underwater acoustical tests in the Kurile Trench off Japan. Another ship is working over the Cayment Trench off Cuba.

Pacific Vortex! (7)

A NUMA zoologist studies and records fish sounds off the Continental slope near Iceland.

Pacific Vortex! (7)

Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino airlift supplies into an ice probe station camped on an ice floe nirth of Spitzergeb.

The Mediterranean Caper (3)

First Attempt: Expedition to find a rare fish, nicknamed "Teaser" by the NUMA crew, off the island of Thasos in Greece.

The Mediterranean Caper (3)

Dr. Len Matajic and Jack O'Riley study the current below a depth of ten thousand feet in Baffin Bay. Dirk Pitt air-drops supplies to their camp on the ice floe.

Iceberg (7)

Pacific Ocean lab project.

Iceberg (7)

Nearly forty percent of NUMA's projects are mining the sea floor.

Iceberg (8)

Archaeological team diving for artifacts from the Bounty near Pitcairn Island.Dirk Pitt airlifts supplies to their site.

Raise the Titanic! (16)

The First Attempt usually Conducts plankton studies off north Carolina around July.

Raise the Titanic! (4)

Sappho I: Lorelei Current Drift Expedition.

Raise the Titanic! (23)

Reference to the Beaufort Sea Expedition.

Raise the Titanic! (23)

Vixen 03 (30)

The Cumberland project to salvage the ram from the Merrimack.

Deep Six (3)

Survey the sea floor in the Bering Sea off the Aleutians.

Cyclops (13)

Deep-ocean mining project.

Cyclops (13)

Sounder: Mapping project of the continental slope off southern Brazil.

Treasure (39)

Deep-sea mining operation off the Canary Islands.

Treasure (39)

Dirk Pitt and Herb Garza: Project along the western desert stretch of coast in South Africa.

Treasure (65)

Sounder: Sonar-mapping project the seafloor south of the Aleutians.

Dragon (11)

Conduct an archaeological survey of the Nile River to locate Pharaoh Menkura's missing funeral barge.

Sahara (7)

Calliope: Locate the source of the pollution in the Nigre River causing the red tide off West Africa.

Sahara (10)

Deep Fathom: Conduct an underwater geological survey off Peru.

Inca Gold (2)

Alert the state oil company of significant deposits of natural gas in the Gulf of Guayaquil.

Inca Gold (20)

Locate a Chinese airliner that crashed off of Japan.

Inca Gold (22)

Reference to the NUMA search team finding the Zavala under a parking lot in Galveston, Texas, in 1987.

Inca Gold (38)

Ice Hunter: Expedition to determine why seals and dolphins have been disappearing in the Weddell Sea at an astonishing rate.

Shock Wave (3)

Ocean Angler: Deep-sea survey project in the Bounty Trough west of New Zealand.

Shock Wave (28)

Marine Denizen: Study the diminishing coral reefs of the Yucatan.

Flood Tide (5)

Ocean Retiever: Project on the Maine coast.

Flood Tide (50)

Explore a complex system of waterways that once drained the western flake of the San Juan Mountains and the maze of caverns that connect to the old mine tunnels in Pandora, Colorado.

Atlantis Found (2)

Polar Storm: Assess the impact behind the current warming trend shrinking the sea ice around the Antarctica.

Atlantis Found (9)

Deep-sea geological project in the middle of the Pacific is being organized.

Atlantis Found (12)

Underwater shipwreck (a fleet of Viking ships) project with Danish archaeologists in the Baltic Sea.

Atlantis Found (15)

Conduct a deep-water geological survey in the Tonga Trench in the South Pacific Ocean.

Valhalla Rising (3)

Atlantis Project in the Antarctic.

Valhalla Rising (10, 11, 43)

Drilling into the sea floor in search for life under the silt in the fractured rock off Japan.

Valhalla Rising (21)

Expedition to survey and examine the widespread death of coral around the Fench Frigate Shoals northeast of the Hawaiian Islands.

Valhalla Rising (43)

Penetrate the ice down to a vast lake scientists believe is under the Antarctica ice cap.

Valhalla Rising (43)

Conduct a study of coral reefs inside the Navidad Bank near the Dominican Republic to determine what is killing sea life through out the Caribbean. Operating from the underwater habitat the Pisces.

Trojan Odyssey (2)

Investigate the waters off the west coast of Nicaragua to determine the source of the brown crud.

Trojan Odyssey (15)

Survey the harbor around the island of Brwyn to find the shipwrecks of Odysseus's fleet in Guadaloupe.

Trojan Odyssey (32)

Deep Endeavor: Underwater survey of the Aleutian Basin.

Black Wind (2)

Mariana Explorer: Seismic mapping project off Mindanao.

Black Wind (12)

Sea Rover: Study of polutants along the eastern coast of Japan.

Black Wind (20)

Blue Gill: Marine survey off Drake Bay.

Black Wind (43)

Deep Endeavor: Testing a submersible in San Diego, California.

Black Wind (43)

Conduct a bottom survey to see if offshore oil drilling is affecting the Moroccan sardine fishery in the Nereus.

Serpent (6)

Testing a submersible in the Mediterranean

Serpent (8)

Shake down cruise from the Mediterranean. The Moroccan govenment is worried about off-shore oil drilling affecting its sardine fishery.

Serpent (6)

Survey tektites near the Chixulub meteor impact site.

Serpent (7, 16)

Research the Dolphin habitat along the Amazon in Venezuela.

Blue Gold (3)

Run field tests off of San Diego.

Blue Gold (5)

Sea Hunter survey in the Caribbean..

Fire Ice (24)

William Beebe invited by the Danish vessel Thor to join in a Faroe Islands research project.

White Death (25)

NUMA/Dirk Pitt's Services Requested by the US Government/Military:

Book (Chapter)

Dirk Pitt is loaned to the Navy to help locate the Starbuck.

Pacific Vortex! (4)

Dirk Pitt and the crew on the First Attempt are requested to assit INTERPOL in nailing Bruno von Till.

The Mediterrnean Caper (15)

Dirk Pitt's assistance is requested by Jerome Lillie with the NIA.

Iceberg (13)

Dirk Pitt's assistance in identifying Oskar Rondheim and his assassins at Disneyland is requested by Dean Kippmann with the NIA.

Iceberg (20, 21)

Rescue Sid Koplin.

Raise the Titanic! (2)

Locate and salvage the Titanic.

Raise the Titanic! (25)

Dirk Pitt is part of the top secret Doodlebug project to detect underground minerals.

Night Probe! (22)

Salvage the Empress of Ireland and the Manhattan Limited express train to find the copies of the North American Treaty.

Night Probe! (37, 38)

Salvage cannisters containing Quick Death on the plane wreck Vixen 03 in a lake in Colorado.

Vixen 03 (9)

A NUMA research ship on the Pacific Coast will dump the twenty-eight cannisters salavged from Vixen 03 off the continental shelf.

Vixen 03 (42)

Locate a shipwreck containing the Nerve Agent S.

Deep Six (2)

Find the presidential yacht the Eagle.

Deep Six (26)

Locate a sunken Soviet submarine off Greenland on the pretext of conducting a geological survey of the seafloor.

Treasure (4)

Find the Library of Alexandria.

Treasure (22)

Nicknamed Soggy Acres by the NUMA crew - a highly classified subocean test mining and survey project (excavate geological samples from the seabed) in Big John, a deep sea mining vehicle.

Dragon (8)

Determine which of three shipwrecks was carrying the nuclear bomb.

Dragon (6)

Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino are assigned to the MAIT team.

Dragon (21)

Dragon (36)

Retrieve and relocate the A-bomb on Dennings' Demons to sink Soseki Island off Japan.

Dragon (62)

Rudi Gunn informs Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino of the US Custom's'Peruvian government's request that they return to the sinkhole and look for evidence that can be used against the looters, as well as return to the City of the Dead to provide a list of artifacts they saw.

Inca Gold (14)

Locate Huscar's treasure.

Inca Gold (34)

Gather and provide information on Sungari on the Atchafalaya near Morgan City and the U.S.S. United States in Hong Kong.

Flood Tide (5)

Find the Madras in the Anarctica and locate the chamber on St. Paul Island in the Indian Ocean.

Atlantis Found (13)

Special Assignment Team Projects:

Book (Chapter)

Set-up a fake archaeological expedition in Tucson, Arizon. A failed sting operation.

Serpent (15, 17, 19, 20)

Find cannisters of anasazium.

Blue Gold (30, 31)

Rescue Gamay-Morgan Trout.

Blue Gold (33)

Check out the abandoned submarine base in the Black Sea.

Fire Ice (10)

Sandecker requests the Special Assignments team to expose Oceanus.

White Death (29)