num_pages: 390
description: In the fall of 1991, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey, weekend scuba divers John Chatterton and Richied Kohler made a startling discovery under decades of accumulated sediment: a World War II German U-boat, its interior a maze of twisted metal and human bones. Equally astonishing: All the official records agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat at that location. 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, were drawn into a deep bond of friendship. As the men's marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their diver grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting for more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.(back cover)
language: English
title: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
titlecomplete: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
characters: Richie Kohler, John Chatterton
genres: Historical, Audiobook, History, Adventure, World War II, Mystery, Science, War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 30273
places: New Jersey Shore
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks