Where Divers Dare by Randall Peffer

Where Divers Dare by Randall Peffer

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.

Watermen, Logs of the Dead Pirates Society, and six travel guides are among Randall Peffer's works. Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune, and a variety of other periodicals have published his work. At Phillips Academy/Andover, he teaches literature and writing. It's his debut novel, and it's a good one.

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ISBN 13	9780425276365
ISBN 10	0425276368
Title	Where Divers Dare
Author	Randall Peffer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2016-04-05
Number of pages	320
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