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Title	:	Shadow Divers
Author	:	Robert Kurson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 335 pages
Published	:	2004 by Random House
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Adventure. Biography

Shadow Divers

Robert Kurson

Hardcover | Pages: 335 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 24242 Users | 2157 Reviews

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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm 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.

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 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 found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew 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, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with 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.

Author Robert Kurson’s 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.

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Original Title:	Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
ISBN:	0965925072 (ISBN13: 9780965925075)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	John Chatterton, Richie Kohler
Setting:	New Jersey Shore(United States)
Literary Awards:	Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2005), ALA Alex Award (2005)

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A thrilling story that's even more compelling because it's a true story.

Akin to "Shadow Divers," I know what it's like to have a deep-shrouded mystery gnawing at you, where the answer is out there, somewhere, but finding the answer is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I was adopted as an infant, and spent my entire adult life sifting through murky waters, so to speak, for clues. No joy. Zero, zip, zilch. But joy of joys, just last week through an act of faith after years of searching, I found my birth siblings and my father!!! And I love each and every one of

Such a spectacular tale of the characters and mystery behind the discovery of a sunken German submarine off the NJ coast. From the technicalities of deep wreck diving to the lives of U boat sailors in WWII, this incredible true story reads like a Clancy thriller. Literally could not put it down. Bravo, to the discovery itself, and to the author for telling the tale so well.

This is an action-packed adventure story. An adrenalin thrill. Make sure that is what you want before you start. It is also a non-fiction book about the discovery of an unidentified submarine where none was said to exist. Which submarine was it? Who were the men that discovered it? What was done to discover its provenance and how it came to be there? Who were the dead men on that U-boat? That is the theme of this book. It can be tackled in several ways, two of which are to make it into a

*Diving for historys sake.*"In contemplating the Doria's tilted grandness, he could glimpse shadows of the secrets great shipwrecks offer those who see with their minds." This was my second Robert Kurson book after Rocket Men, and its clear hes working from the same blue print. Highlight event, then background on event, deeper history on individuals involved, minor related events, final analysis of main event ... more or less. Very formulaic, not necessarily in a bad way. A very dear friend of

As a kid one of my favorite television shows was Jacques Cousteau's Undersea Kingdom. I was enthralled with the idea of scuba divers swimming with dolphins and looking for sunken treasures and video taping their findings for the world to see. While Cousteau's weekly program showed coral reefs and shallow water scuba diving that many tourists engage in, he on occasion aired a program about deep sea divers searching for the sea's mysteries. When the nonfiction book club on goodreads selected