Shadow Divers
Subtitle: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Edition: Ballantine Books Mass Market Edition (1)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780345482471
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Naval operations, German; Submarine; Military - World War II; Shipwrecks; Submarines; World War, 1939-1945; History; History - Military / War; Military; New Jersey; Naval operations; Europe - Germany; Military - Naval; History / Military / World War II; Excavations (Archaeology)
First sentence: BILL NAGLE'S LIFE CHANGED the day a fisherman sat beside him in a ramshackle bar and told him about a mystery he had found lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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.
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Notes: US/CAN