Great product!Product DescriptionIn the tradition of Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air and Sebastian Jungers The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mysteryand 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 bonesall 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