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Old 10-19-2011, 10:05 PM   #1
Marin
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Great book to read on board

I'm just finishing the book "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson.* It's the story of a pair of divers who were instrumental in discovering and identifying a WWII U-Boat off the New Jersey coast.* Until these divers found it, nothing was known in the US, Germany, or anywhere else of the wreck, nor did anyone know which U-Boat it was when they discovered it.

It's a remarkable tale on several levels. The dangers of deep-water wreck diving are made painfully clear, the research the pair conducted to determine the idenfication of the wreck was amazing, and the story of how the U-Boat came to be there is equally fascinating.

And Kurson's writing is outstanding.

Well worth reading even if you aren't interested in diving, as I am not.* I read it on a Kindle but I'm sure it's available for Nook, iPad or--- the horror--- as a Jurassic-era printed document thing all bound together with glue.
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