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Shadow Divers

Disciplines:
narrative nonfiction
wwii
fiction/adventure
diving

Summary

Robert Kurson's 2004 account of two New Jersey divers who discovered a WWII German U-boat 60 miles off the American coast in 1991 — their obsessive quest to identify it — one of the most gripping narrative nonfiction books.

Core Contribution

Creates the definitive amateur deep-sea discovery narrative — Shadow Divers interweaves the divers' dangerous technical diving obsession with WWII history to produce the most compelling unknown-submarine narrative in print.

Historical Influences

Technical diving culture WWII history

Intellectual Lineage

Robert Kurson Random House

Allied Works

The Lost City of ZPirate Hunters

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Narrative nonfiction adventure

Intellectual Posterity

Shadow Divers U-869 identification

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