|
A Glance at Clive Cussler's Adventure Heroes Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin |
||
|
Dirk Pitt: |
Kurt Austin: |
|
|
Eye Color: Green. |
Eye Color: Coral blue (blue-green, green). |
|
|
Hair: Black, wavy. |
Hair:Premature Steel (Silver)-gray, almost platinum white. |
|
|
Height: 6'3". |
Height: 6'1". |
|
|
Weight: 180-190 pounds. |
Weight: 200 pounds. |
|
|
Born in Newport Beach, California. |
Born in Seattle, Washington. |
|
|
Father: Senator of California. |
Father: Wealthy owner of a Seattle based marine salvage company. |
|
|
Has a master's degree in engineering. |
Receives a master's degree in systems management from the University of Washington. |
|
|
Lives in an airplane hangar. |
Lives on a boathouse. |
|
|
Wears a Doxa diver's watch. |
Wears a Chronosport watch. |
|
|
Does not own a personal computer. |
Owns a laptop computer. |
|
|
Collects classical cars. |
Collects antique dueling pistols. |
|
|
Likes to fly antique aircraft |
Likes to scull. |
|
|
Loves to race his cars. |
Loves to race his boats. |
|
|
Dives for exercise. |
Rows for exercise. |
|
|
Favorite firearm: an old .45 caliber automatic Colt pistol. |
Favorite firearm: a Ruger Redhawk .375 Magnum revolver, custom built by Bowen. |
|
|
Both were in the Scouts: |
||
|
Eagle Scout - Valhalla Rising (38) |
Cub Scout - Fire Ice (5) |
|
|
Both have participated in a race which is interrupted: |
||
|
Sailboard race in Cyclops (4) |
Speed boat race in Blue Gold (1, 2) |
|
|
Both quote lines of poetry/philosophers from time to time: |
||
|
Quotes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoarfrost spread; Bur where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burned away, a still and awful red.' Sahara (7) |
Quotes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.' Blue Gold (28) |
|
|
Quotes Robert Southeye: "No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be." The Mediterranean Caper (14) |
Quotes the first line of the Oliver Wendell Holmes poem, "Old Ironsides," that had inspired the nation to save the ship from destruction:"Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high," Austin said. Fire Ice (32) | |
|
Quotes Francis Hutcheson, a Scot: 'Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.' (Dragon (26) |
Quotes Rene Descartes: 'One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.' Fire Ice (8) |
|
|
Both collect recipes for St. Julien Perlmutter: |
||
|
Apricot sautéed prawns - Inca Gold (12) |
Imam bayidi - Fire Ice (22) |
|
|
Both have dived on the shipwreck Andrea Doria: |
||
|
Flood Tide (26) |
Serpent (42) |
|
|
Both have flown on an airship/blimp/zeppelin: |
||
|
Prosperteer in Cyclops (18) |
Nietzsche in White Death (37) |
|
|
Both have found the remains of an historic figure: |
||
|
Abraham Lincoln in Sahara (63) |
Christopher Columbus in Serpent (48) |
|
|
Both have been in a situation requiring unusual transportation in Washington: |
||
|
Drives a plane down Pennsylvania Avenue in Atlantis Found (Ashes) |
Goes for a dog sled ride in White Death (25) |
|
|
Both have worn disguises: |
||
|
Wears a Big Bad Wolf costume in Iceberg (21) |
Wears a disguise to Razov's yacht party in |
|
|
Both have lost a woman they have deep affection for: |
||
|
Summer Moran in Pacific Vortex and Maeve Fletcher in Shock Wave |
Francesca Cabral in Blue Gold |
|
|
Both have participated in a fake NUMA archaeological expedition: |
||
| With Lily Sharp in Treasure |
With Nina Kirov in Serpent |
|
|
Both have partners who drive old cars, love the ladies and smoke cigars: |
||
|
Al Giordino |
Joe Zavala |
|
|
While the two have never worked together, they see each other from time to time. |
||
|
Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala run into Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on the elevator at NUMA. Serpent (15) |
||
|
Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino run into Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala outside Sandecker's office at NUMA. Trojan Odyssey (15) |
||
|
Dirk Pitt is waiting when Kurt Austin return's Pitt's red Vanderbilt Cup replica racer to the Manassas National Battlefield. Polar Shift (36) |
||