Hitler’s lost sub – Shadow Divers

A FANTASTIC story, as dramatic and compelling as any high altitude mountaineering epic.

I had no idea deep wreck diving was so thrilling.

Hitler’s Lost Sub was a NOVA TV special first aired in 2000:

In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II, lying undetected only 60 miles off the New Jersey shore, its unexploded torpedoes and the bodies of its crew still aboard. This two-hour special follows Chatterton and his dive partners in their dangerous quest to identify the missing U-boat, a pursuit that takes six years and costs three lives. The U-boat’s history involves unusual coincidences and a startling twist of fate. …

NOVA

Of course Hitler lost hundreds and hundreds of submarines, but this one has a particularly compelling story.

Highly recommended too is this book on the adventure:

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

Actually, there is a follow-up book contesting the book I read: Shadow Divers Exposed: the Real Saga of the U-869 by Gary Gentile. I will not read that one. Sounds to me it is dull, badly written and perhaps a work motivated by jealousy.

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