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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Nothing and Sebastian Junger’s An Ideal Storm comes a genuine tale of riveting adventure by which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to resolve an excellent historical mystery–and create background themselves.For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was greater than a game. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves with their limits and beyond, brushing against death more often than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.But in nov 1991, not really these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the top, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of Nj: a Global War II German u boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under years of accumulated sediment.No Distinguishing marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts delivered to the top. No historian, expert, or government had a clue regarding which u boat the men had found. Actually, the state records all agreed that there simply couldn't be considered a sunken u boat and crew at that location.Over the following six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a mission to resolve the puzzle.