Bibliograph

Shadow divers, the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II, Robert Kurson

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Shadow divers, the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II, Robert Kurson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-344) and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shadow divers

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Robert Kurson

Sub title

the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II

Summary

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into thin air and Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery - and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships. But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones - all buried under decades of accumulated sediment

Target audience

adult

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