Some of them would not live to see its end. Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface.
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.īut 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. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm 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.įor John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport.
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