A bunch of us were in the chat room wondering if Dirk Pitt ever wore any type of hat or head gear in any of his adventures.

Lets see if anyone here can recall if he did.

Yes, I believe in Iceberg he wore a really outlandish hat that kept up the persona of his "feminine side" and to hide Tidi Royals face on the boat so she would appear to be Dirk. That's all I can remember right now.

Night Probe--Heidi Milligan meets Dirk aboard the Ocean Venture. He's described as wearing a Portuguese fisherman's cap

I remember Al wearing a baseball cap while he and Dirk were traveling along the san juan river in costa rica and unless my memory is slipshod I do believe Dirk was wearing one too in TO.

As I recall in Night Probe when Dirk and Brian Shaw had their meeting on the Manhattan Limited Dirk was wearing either a derby hat or a bowler, I don`t remember which. w:

Here is Eo171's find ;

If Sandecker and Tidi looked and dressed like a pair of fishermen, Pitt came on like the queen of the May. He wore red suede pull-on boots, multicolored striped duck pants, so tight the seams were strained beyond endurance, supported by a two-inchwide tapestry belt and a -stretched purple sweater trimmed at the collar by a yellow neckerchief. His eyes blinked rapidly behind a pair of Ben Franklin glasses and his head was covered by a tasseled knit cap. The guard's mouth slowly drifted agape.
"Hi, sweetie," Pitt said, smiling slyly. "Is our boat ready?"

The guard's mouth remained agape, his eyes blank and unable to communicate to the brain the apparition they were focusing on.
"Come, come," Pitt said. "Miss Fyrie has generously loaned us the use of one of her boats. Which one is it?" Pitt stared fixedly at the guard's crotch

Here's what it may have looked like ;




Here is Nick's find ;

Functional, if not attractive, the derrick possessed the capability of lowering a variety of scientific packages through the hull to the seafloor or of raising heavy objects such as salvage debris straight into the ship's bowels. The Ocean Venturer was the perfect vessel to act as a work platform for the treaty search.

Pitt stood on the stern, clutching a Portuguese fisherman's cap tightly to his head as the blades of a NUMA helicopter whipped the air around him. For a few moments the pilot hovered while he tested the wind currents. Then he dropped the chopper slowly until the skids settled firmly on the painted markings of the flight pad.

Pitt hunched over, jogged up to the craft and opened the door. Heidi Milligan, dressed in a jumpsuit of cotton painter's cloth in dazzling azure blue, hopped out. Pitt helped her down and took a suitcase that was passed to him by the pilot.

Here's what it may have looked like ;



Here is Tommy's find ;

A figure wearing a derby hat with a yellowed newspaper covering his features was sprawled in a red velvet revolving chair. Two of his companions sat folded over a mahogany dining table, their heads in their arms. One was dressed in what Shaw identified as an English-cut coat and trousers. The other wore a tropical worsted suit. It was the second who grabbed Shaw's interest. A withered hand clutched the grip of a small travel case.

Almost as if he was afraid of waking its owner, Shaw painstakingly removed the case from under the rigid fingers.

Suddenly he froze. Out of the corner of his eye he thought he caught an imperceptible movement. But it had to be an illusion. The wavering shadows on the walls were causing his inborn fears to run wild. If it was left to his imagination, the feeble light could make anything come alive.

Then his heart stopped. A cardiologist would say that's impossible. But his heart stopped as he stared paralyzed at a reflection in the window.

Behind him, the cadaver with the derby in the revolving chair was straightening to a stiff-backed position. Then the hideous thing lowered the newspaper from its face and smiled at Shaw.

"You won't find what you're looking for in there," Dirk Pitt said, nodding at the travel bag.

Shaw would never deny that he'd been rattled out of his wits. He sagged into a chair, waiting for his heart to pump again. He could see now that Pitt wore an old coat over a black wet suit. When he finally collected his senses, he said, "You have a disconcerting way of announcing your presence."

Pitt added to the dim illumination by turning on his dive light and then nonchalantly turned his attention back to the old newspaper. "I always knew I was born eighty years too late. Here's a used Stutz Bearcat Speedster with low mileage for only six hundred and seventy-five dollars."

Here's what it may have looked like ;

From Shock Wave when Dirk and the Haida Indian Broadmoor infiltrated the mining operation:

"He was dressed in yellow oilskin pants with suspenders that were hung over a heavy woolen sweater knitted by Irma Broadmoor. He wore a stocking cap pulled down over his thick, black eyebrows.

Later, after Crutcher kicked him:

"He pulled off his stocking cap as if in respect, revealing a mass of of black hair whose natural curls had been greased straight."

Then, when he's meeting the mining engineer, who we later learn to be "C. Cussler, Chief Foreman":

"He unfolded a jumpsuit, a respirator mask, and a hard hat and handed them to Pitt...(who) dutifully zipped up the front of the jumpsuit, tightened the chin strap of the hard hat, adjusted the respirator mask over his face and set out after the man..."

Later still:

"He stepped back into the elevator, but before he pushed the next button on the panel, he handed Pitt an acoustic-foam helmet. 'Take off your hard hat and set this over your head.'"

Sorry I don't have any pictures. Let me know if I missed any from Shock Wave

~Erik

Nice work, oswalder!

Three different hats in one book.

We're up to 6 hats confirmed. Still havn't found tonym5's reference.