Trivia / Dirk Pitt Adventures

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• Defictionalization: As alluded to above, the NUMA organization has existed in Real Life since 1979, being Clive Cussler's shipwreck hunting non-profit organization, of which he wrote *The Ship Hunters* books and documentaries.
• Died During Production: Clive Cussler died in 2020 and his son Dirk continued the series with the 2021 novel The Devil's Sea.
• Extremely Lengthy Creation: Clive Cussler began work on the series in 1965, with his first book, The Mediterranean Caper, published eight years later. It was still ongoing at the time of his death in 2020.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The new genetically enhanced salmon trying to get on the market are called Frankenfish. Sounds like someone is a fan...
• Outlived Its Creator: Since Clive Cussler's death, his son Dirk has written a sequel, The Devil's Sea.
• The Red Stapler: Dirk's signature orange DOXA dive watch is based on what was popular when Cussler worked in a dive shop. When he wrote the first book and left the shop, the owners let him pick one. So he eventually wrote it into the books, it got so popular DOXA relaunched the watch to great success, and got Cussler to endorse it in 2002. The watches still sell on eBay for thousands of bucks, used.
• Recycled Script: Possibly inevitable with the massive amounts of content in Cussler's universe.
  • Most of the books follow a plot pattern: Pitt and company (or, alternately, Austin and company) fortuitously rescue a scientist working in some obscure area, later learn that there is some mystery surrounding said matter and they go to investigate it to some exotic country, then the evil forces behind all are revealed to be an Evil Corp directed by a colorful megalomaniac who is interested in the scientist's work in order to rule the world, and finally, Pitt and co. get help from the government and destroy the bad guy's plans, with the baddie himself dying in some unusual way. And then Pitt and the scientist get around.
  • Both Atlantis Found and Polar Shift feature Nazi involvement, lost cities of Advanced Ancient Humans being found underground in frozen wastelands, the bad guys attempting to cause a cataclysm by reversing the Earth's poles, and bikers.
  • The NUMA Files novel Lost City and the Oregon Files novel Shadow Tyrants both have as their main antagonists families which hold huge amounts of power and can trace their influence back thousands of years, with a source of conflict being one member of the secret families who is disillusioned with their behind-the-scenes manipulations and works behind their backs to bring an end to it. The Immortality Inducer in Lost City also started as a secret World War program to create super-soldiers and ended up having dangerous side effects, a backstory it shares with the Typhoon drug from Typhoon Fury.

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