Where Divers Dare, Randall Peffer
Where Divers Dare, Randall Peffer
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Where Divers Dare
The Hunt for the Last U-Boat

Author: Randall Peffer

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/03/2016

Synopsis

In the tradition of Shadow Divers, the story of the courageous men who dived on the last sunken U-Boat off the Eastern Seaboard. On April 16, 1944, the tanker SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedud and sunk by the U-550. In return the sub was sent to the bottom by three destroyer escorts which were guarding the convoy. For more than sixty years the location of the u-boat's wreck eluded divers. In 2012, a team found it. This was the last undiscovered U-boat in diveable waters off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, more than three hundred feet below the surface, nearly one hundred feet deeper than the sub in Shadow Divers. This is the story of their twenty year quest to find the "Holy Grail" of deep sea diving and the tenacious efforts to dive on this treacherous wreck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leslie

Great book. Some diver overlap from Shadow Divers... but different author. Differs from Shadow Divers in that the divers were searching for this specific U boat, U-550, that was known to have sunk off of Nantucket in 1944. There is a great discussion of the history involved and some ethical question......more

Goodreads review by Candice

If you like military puzzles and history stories, this will be right up your alley. A little dry at times, the story was still incredibly interesting. I only wish the author had spent more time on the section related to diving the wreck and uncovering the mystery of its sinking. I also would have li......more

Goodreads review by Jeff Simonsen

Enthralling and Fascinating More than just a book on diving wreck diving (which was what I was expecting) the book delves deeply into the lives of the men who undertook the task and the lives of the men who fought in the battle, on both sides, and the interactions between the divers and the survivors......more

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