Shadow Divers
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer?s Into Thin Air loja and Sebastian Junger?s The Perfect preco Storm comes a kurson, robert true tale of loja riveting adventure in which Shadow Divers two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery?and make history themselves. venda For John escritor Chatterton and Richie kurson, robert Kohler, deep wreck venda diving was more than Shadow Divers a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through preco wreckage as perilous as a submarino minefield, they pushed kurson, robert themselves to their preco limits and beyond, brushing Shadow Divers against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships. But in escritor the fall of 1991, not autor even these courageous kurson, robert divers were prepared escritor for what they found Shadow Divers 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast submarino of New Jersey: a World barato War II German kurson, robert U-boat, its ruined submarino interior a macabre wasteland Shadow Divers of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones?all buried under decades of accumulated sediment. autor No identifying marks were visible premiado on the submarine kurson, robert or the few autor artifacts brought to the Shadow Divers surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men barato had found. In fact, the sucesso official records all kurson, robert agreed that there barato simply could not be Shadow Divers a sunken U-boat and crew at that location. Over the next six premiado years, an elite team of gratis divers embarked on kurson, robert a quest to premiado solve the mystery. Some Shadow Divers of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter sucesso rivals, would be drawn into promoção a friendship that kurson, robert deepened to an sucesso almost mystical sense of Shadow Divers brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors?former enemies of their country. As gratis the men?s marriages frayed under loja the pressure of kurson, robert a shared obsession, gratis their dives grew more Shadow Divers daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost promoção U-boat and its nameless crew. venda kurson, robert Author Robert Kurson?s promoção account of this quest Shadow Divers is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense loja of what divers actually experience preco when they meet kurson, robert the dangers of loja the ocean?s underworld. The Shadow Divers story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, venda two hundred thirty feet down, escritor in the deep kurson, robert blue sea.
Editora: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345483472
Número venda de páginas: 375
Acabamento:
PAPERBACK
Idioma: English
Local Shadow Divers de Publicação: United States
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