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April 17 - June 1, 2023
and they experienced these scenes unbuffered by curators or commentators or historians, shoulder to shoulder with life as it existed at the moment it had most mattered.
Nearly all the myriad other dangers lying in wait for the deep-wreck diver involve narcosis or decompression sickness.
Other dangers? You just got done telling me about nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness.
The nitrogen in the diver’s breathing gas poses another problem. It accumulates in his tissues with both depth and time.
Yeah? You just told me this.
In this way he overcomes his humanness and becomes something else. In this way, liberated from instincts, he becomes a freak of nature.
How does returning to your senses make you a freak of nature. A little dramatized, dontcha think.
but it hadn’t touched his explorer’s heart, the part of him that believed an alcoholic world still to be beautiful for the stories it hid in secret places.
Wut?
And he would not go and get himself killed—the last thing Nagle needed after the Feldman accident.
I wouldn't say Feldman got himself killed.
If the passing partygoers seemed insufficiently offended, the gang would seal the deal by mooning the boat.
Well, it's official, Kohler and I would not get along.
One schedule promised “beer tasting sessions, pig calling lessons, lesbian watching, automatic weapons, more beer tasting sessions, greenhorn bashing
Grow up.
“Mooning families on passing boats and making up pornographic dive schedules and wearing little matching uniforms is fun?” “Hell yeah, it’s fun. You should try it.” “That’s the problem with you guys—”
I can't stand Kohler.
“I don’t mean to be a prick,” Kohler said. “I respect you. I just want a fair shot.”
You might not mean to, but you seem to be a prick by nature.
— elimination of narcosis
Entirely?
Chris jokingly ordered Barb Lander, the only woman aboard, to fix his breakfast and wash his dishes.
As Chatterton and Kohler pored over the body counts,
*poured
On one occasion, after he spoke to a Nazi official near Nuremberg, Helmuth told Friedhelm that the man’s anti-Semitic beliefs were “appalling” and “sickening.” Friedhelm begged his brother to stay quiet.
Not that there weren't Germans who opposed Natzi leadership at the time, but I've noticed that this book has a habit of making some of it's spotlit subjects out to be more saintly than they might otherwise be.
Guschewski found a wonderful radio station playing Glenn Miller music, the kind he knew the crew loved. He turned up the volume. Feet began tapping and fingers snapping.
I came here for deep sea wreck diving and hostorical facts, not this in depth of a look at the sub crew. I'm sure each one has a story to tell, but please get on with the one you're writing.
Even before he joined the marines, young Siegfried Brandt of Zinten, East Prussia, was known in his town as an “aufrechter Mensch”—a genuinely good person.
Holy shit! Another crewmans back story?! And of course he's a saint.
Nedel and Gisela had met in 1940 while she was attending a Hitler Youth program in the countryside and he was pursuing an apprenticeship as a butcher.
I would be far more interested in learning about the sub crew if I wasn't already exhausted with diver backstories.
SINCE 1991, CHATTERTON AND KOHLER had believed in history. Every book, expert, and document listed U-869 as sunk off Gibraltar. Now, two and a half years later,
What is this? A recap of something that's already been repeated a dozen times?!
