| Introduction | p. 1 | |
| The Grand Empress | p. 21 | |
| Broken Skulls | p. 41 | |
| Schrödinger's Wave | p. 63 | |
| Karma, Tiger Sharks, and the Golden Carrot | p. 85 | |
| Wave Good-bye | p. 103 | |
| Mavericks | p. 125 | |
| "I Never Saw Anything Like It" | p. 149 | |
| Killers | p. 169 | |
| Heavy Weather | p. 191 | |
| Egypt | p. 215 | |
| Out, Way Out, on the Cortes Bank | p. 239 | |
| The Wild Coast | p. 259 | |
| At the Edge of the Horizon | p. 281 | |
| Epilogue | p. 297 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 313 | |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 317 |