In the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by acclaimed novelist Clive Cussler, Admiral James Sandecker is the Director of NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency. In later novels, he was appointed as the Vice President of the United States after the Vice Presidents unexpected death while in office. Sandecker graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy class of 1939. He achieved flag rank in the Navy before the age 50. He last commanded the Navy guided-missile cruiser Tucson. He has been divorced for many years and has a daughter and three grandchildren who live in Hong Kong. He is a vegetarian and health nut, jogs and lifts weights. Has a Vandyke beard and red hair. He smokes 10 custom made cigars a day, and is stumped by the fact that Al Giordino always smokes the same custom brand without any of his personal stock disappearing. In Valhalla Rising, it was explained that Giordino was buying his cigars from the same source as Sandecker. Dirk Pitt is a fictional character, the primary protagonist of a series of bestselling adventure novels written by Clive Cussler. ... Clive Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Alhambra, California) is an American adventure novelist. ... Numa may mean: Numa Pompilius, an early king of Rome The town of Numa, Iowa, USA. The acronym NUMA, in particular Non-Uniform Memory Access This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In the 1980 film Raise The Titanic, Sandecker was portrayed by Jason Robards. Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Jason Robards, Jr. ...

In the 2005 film Sahara, Sandecker was portrayed by William H. Macy. Publicity photo of William H. Macy William Hall Macy (born March 13, 1950) is an actor, teacher, and director, in theatre, film, and television. ...