Description
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II is a 2004 non-fiction book by Robert Kurson. It tells the true story of two deep-wreck divers, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, who in 1991 discovered a sunken World War II German U-boat 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. The discovery was a mystery because official records indicated there should not have been a sunken U-boat at that location. Over the next six years, the divers undertook a dangerous quest to identify the submarine and its crew, a journey that involved life-threatening risks and resulted in the deaths of three divers. The book details their meticulous research, perilous dives, and the friendship that developed between the two men as they worked to solve one of the last mysteries of the Second World War. The book was a New York Times bestseller and received the American Booksellers Association’s 2005 “Book of the Year Award”.
