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FEBRUARY 1945.
A GERMAN U-BOAT REACHES AMERICAN WATERS AFTER AN AGONISING THREE MONTHS AND FOUNDERS THERE. BLASTED APART BY UNKNOWN CAUSES. FIFTY YEARS LATER, TWO DEEP- SEA WRECK DIVERS HAVE A TIP-OFF ABOUT A SITE OFF THE NEW JERSEY COAST.
SHADOW DIVERS is the extraordinary story of the six-year quest for Hitler's lost sub. In the attempt to identify the sunken U-boat and its crew, the team teach themselves military German, befriend U-boat aces, turn back fanatics and conspiracy theorists, and piece together an incredible story. In between, they make some of the most daring and dangerous scuba dives ever attempted. Deep water wreck diving is the world's deadliest sport, and John Chatterton and Richie Kohler pushed its limits to the final breath.
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World War II Military History, Excavations (Archaeology), Underwater archaeology, Deep diving, History, Shipwrecks, Submarine, Nonfiction, World War, 1939-1945, Naval operations, German, Naval operations, U-869 (Submarine), German Naval operations, Submarines (ships), Excavations (archaeology), north america, World war, 1939-1945, naval operations, submarine, World war, 1939-1945, naval operations, german, Large type books, German, Naval Military operations, nyt:expeditions-disasters-and-adventures=2015-09-13, New York Times bestsellerPlaces
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""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.""
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"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."
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Shadow Divers is a riveting true 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 hallucination, navigating through a minefield of perilous wreckage, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death often in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.
But in 1991, not even these bold divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the New Jersey coast: 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 sediment.
Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and the drowned U-boat sailors–former enemies of their country. As the men’s marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.
Shadow Divers spent 24 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, peaking at #2. The book was awarded the American Booksellers Association’s 2005 “Book of the Year Award,” and has been translated into 22 languages.
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