Shadow divers [electronic resource] : the true adventure of two Americans risked everything to solve one of the mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson.
Publisher:
Books on Tape
Copyright Date:
2004
Description:
Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 225633 KB).
Downloadable audio file. Duration: 15:41:49. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Read by Michael Prichard.
Summary:
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.