{"product_id":"9780375760983","title":"Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s \u003cb\u003eInto Thin Air \u003c\/b\u003eand Sebastian Junger’s \u003cb\u003eThe Perfect   Storm\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eShadow Divers\u003c\/b\u003e often seems too amazing to   be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020556648688,"sku":"9780375760983","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375760983_p0.jpg?v=1763768152","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375760983","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}