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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100425276368
ISBN-139780425276365
eBay Product ID (ePID)219204046
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhere Divers Dare : the Hunt for the Last U-Boat
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicArchaeology, Military / World War II, Water Sports, Military / Naval, Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Scuba & Snorkeling, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year2016
IllustratorYes
GenreTransportation, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
AuthorRandall Peffer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-028313
Reviews"Peffer ably conveys the lures and danger of the sport of deep-wreck diving...[and] tempers the excitement of coming upon a "virgin wreck" with the dreaded responsibility of learning what happened to the lost crewmen...A nicely handled work that moves back and forth between the two narratives and provides suspense and also a sense of compassion for the victims."-- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.54/293
SynopsisIn the tradition of Shadow Divers , this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550 , the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-550 off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In return the sub was driven to the surface with depth charges, and then sent to the bottom of the ocean by three destroyer escorts that were guarding the naval convoy. For more than sixty years the location of the U-boat's wreck eluded divers. In 2012, a team found it--the last undiscovered U-boat in dive-able waters off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, more than three hundred feet below the surface. This is the story of their twenty-year quest to find this "Holy Grail" of deep-sea diving and their tenacious efforts to dive on this treacherous wreck--and of the stunning clash at sea that sealed its doom and brought the Battle of the Atlantic to America's doorstep., In the tradition of Shadow Divers , this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550 , the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-550 off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In return the sub was driven to the surface with depth charges, and then sent to the bottom of the ocean by three destroyer escorts that were guarding the naval convoy. For more than sixty years the location of the U-boat's wreck eluded divers. In 2012, a team found it-the last undiscovered U-boat in dive-able waters off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, more than three hundred feet below the surface. This is the story of their twenty-year quest to find this "Holy Grail" of deep-sea diving and their tenacious efforts to dive on this treacherous wreck-and of the stunning clash at sea that sealed its doom and brought the Battle of the Atlantic to America's doorstep.
LC Classification NumberD782.U186P44 2016
