Shadow
Divers
Robert Kurson
The True
Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last
Mysteries of World War II
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. No one, not even the Navy had known or
even suspected it was there. Over the next six
years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of
them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter
rivals, would be drawn into a friendship with each other and with the drowned
U-boat sailors–former enemies of their country. As their dives grew more
daring each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost
U-boat and its nameless crew.
The account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it
is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet
the dangers of the ocean’s underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems
too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in
the deep blue sea.
“An engrossing saga of the suspenseful, intriguing, and dangerous underwater investigation of a Mystery U-boat.” –CLIVE CUSSLER
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Price: Euro 26,95