It proceeds slowly, as it digresses into narratives about the life stories of the main divers: I liked that, but if you were impatient to know what happens next, you might find it irritating. "Fascinating account of the team who discovered a sunken Nazi U-boat. In 1997, when it all seemed in vain, the two divers came up with a final plan, so dangerous that the book ends with this last dive. During that time, three of their colleagues died exploring the wreck, including a father and son team. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all in an effort to identify this sunken U-boat and its crew. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat–complete with its crew of 60 men–not too far off the New Jersey coast.
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