false 680923 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177099426m/680923.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177099426s/680923.jpg 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 mens' 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.]]> 9530 20 1267146 2004 Shadow Divers total:1931|5:793|4:819|3:279|2:35|1:5| 1931 8153 2475 479 6243 4.13 2582 728 8478380 405910 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1602 2004 5 4 false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 31 08:52:21 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 04 08:18:19 -0800 2008
2 amateur “shadow” divers moved beyond reason, spent 6 years of their lives in study, research, planning, travel, and dangerous deep sea diving (risking dea...more...]]> 28745776 1309404 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 3 2 false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 09:19:16 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 12:11:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 43040124 1873333 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 5 1 false Wed Jan 14 13:15:22 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 05:08:59 -0800 2009
Rich with adversity, adventure and war history, the author's enthusiasm for the tale (which in turn is lit by the dedication and determination of the divers t...more...]]> 40913293 1693763 657500 0345482476 9780345482471 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176832825m/657500.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176832825s/657500.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657500.Shadow_Divers_The_True_Adventure_of_Two_Americans_Who_Risked_Everything_to_Solve_One_of_the_Last_Mysteries_of_World_War_II 4.38 93 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.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2004 5 2 false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 22:05:12 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 19:42:22 -0800 2009
Mr. Kurson was able to tell John Chatterton and Richie Kohler's stories so that it read just like that, a story. H...more...]]> 30531751 1263717 680923 0375508589 9780375508585 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177099426m/680923.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177099426s/680923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/680923.Shadow_Divers_The_True_Adventure_of_Two_Americans_Who_Risked_Everything_to_Solve_One_of_the_Last_Mysteries_of_World_War_II 4.16 102 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 mens' 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.]]> 2004 3 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 19 06:54:26 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 08:00:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45451151 1491190 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 4 1 false Thu Feb 05 07:51:31 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 20:00:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45459375 1008236 680923 0375508589 9780375508585 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177099426m/680923.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177099426s/680923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/680923.Shadow_Divers_The_True_Adventure_of_Two_Americans_Who_Risked_Everything_to_Solve_One_of_the_Last_Mysteries_of_World_War_II 4.22 1931 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 mens' 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. 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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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i cannot express in words how fantastic i thought this book was. an absolute page turner that i wish i could convince everyone to read.

the fact that this was non-fiction made it all the better. i cannot believe that they haven't made a movie based on thi...more...]]> 41742919 275015 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 4 0 false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 13:23:37 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 13:32:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 68604142 2658483 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 5 0 true Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:41:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 05:46:45 -0700 2009 Shadow Divers a work of fiction by Robert Kurson, dives deep into the minds of some of the worlds greatest divers on the east coast in the 1990s as they search through records and reckage to find out what sub is doing near the coast of the united states and which u boat the discovered ship could...more...]]> 20430404 327259 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 5 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 20:36:28 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 20:54:11 -0700 2008 19983497 818241 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 4 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 11 21:51:03 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 21:52:42 -0700 2008 43947278 934951 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 4 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 22 11:13:05 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 11:14:58 -0800 2009 78525879 1131405 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 2 0 false Sat Nov 21 07:38:06 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 18 09:03:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 37720304 1706323 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 3 1 false Fri Nov 14 10:12:13 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 10:14:12 -0800 2008 67901465 770692 9530 0965925072 9780965925075 405 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017m/9530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166028017s/9530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers 4.22 1931 2004 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Aug 18 10:54:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:08:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=680923