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Shadow Divers 4 stars

Deep Wreck Diving is one of the most dangerous sports you can do. Thus, not many are able or willing to do it. So dangerous, that those who do it know it is how they will most likely die.

In the Fall of 1991 Bill Nagle, a legend in deep diving, sat with a friend at a bar socializing. This friend, a fisherman, began to tell Bill about an area he had found that was supplying him and his charters with huge numbers of fish. This could only mean one thing-something was at the bottom, forming an artificial reef for the sea life. Bill had never heard of there being any wrecks in this area of the Atlantic, off the coast of New Jersey. His curiosity peaked, Bill knew he had to go see what it was. The fisherman warned him, the depth was beyond 200 feet.

Nagle, due to alcoholism, had stopped diving at this point in his life. He captained his charter boat with an assembled crew of some of the best divers that he knew. His curiosity paid off when they discovered a German U boat (submarine) from WWII. The wreck was not giving up anymore information than that. It took 7 years and the deaths of numerous divers for the sub to be identified.

This was an engrossing read that kept me awake, reading late, more nights than any book I have read in awhile. Fast paced, filled with history and excellent research.