{"product_id":"shadow-divers-the-true-adventure-of-two-americans-who-risked-everything-to-solve-one-of-the-last-mysteries-of-world-war-ii-9780375508585","title":"Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 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 sailorsformer 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 Kursons 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 oceans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495964794933,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375508589","price":27.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375508585.jpg?v=1780904431","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shadow-divers-the-true-adventure-of-two-americans-who-risked-everything-to-solve-one-of-the-last-mysteries-of-world-war-ii-9780375508585","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}