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<p>In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s <b>Into Thin Air </b>and Sebastian Junger’s <b>The Perfect Storm</b> 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.<br><br>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.<br>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.<br>No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had foun
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- Author
- Robert Kurson
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375760983
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (260 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Shadow Divers : The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004)
- Shadow Divers : The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2009)
- Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (Alex Awards (Awards)) (2004)
- Shadow divers : how two men discovered Hitler's lost sub and solved one of the last mysteries of World War II (2005)
- READS-TO-GO (2005)
- Shadow Divers: The True Adventure Of Two Americans Who Risked Everything To Solve One Of The Last Mysteries Of World War Ii (random House Large Print) (2004)
- Shadow Divers : The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2019)
- Shadow Divers Shadow Divers (2004)
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