Gaelen Frink
Author: Robert Kurson
Book: Shadow Divers
Genre: Fiction
Shadow Divers has two main characters, Richie Kholer and John Chatterton. John Chatterton was in the book from the start he was on the first dive of the sub. However he had been diving off the Seeker, Bill Nagle’s boat who received the coordinates of this mystery wreck. Richie Kholer would have been invited to the first dive of the submarine if not for the bad blood between John Chatterton and himself. This bad blood was from the time the Seeker dove the Doria, another deep wreck. John Chatterton went into the 2nd class area where no one had ever been before. Only Chatterton had been able to get tinto that area because he squeezed under a steel bar. So john and Nagle formulated a plan to cut this bar so everyone could get into the 2nd class section. When Richie and his friends the Atlantic Wreck Divers found out about this they were going to go into 2nd class and take tons of dishes. When John finds out about this he and a friend make a gat that looks weak but is very strong and can only be opened with a special wrench. The bad blood dissolves between them as they research and dive more together.
Shadow Divers starts out by a trade of coordinates a thing that rarely happens. This trade is between Bill Nagle, captain of Seeker a dive boat, and Skeets, a local fishing captain. Bill Nagle was once one of the greatest deep wreck divers, but he could no longer dive because he was in such bad shape from excessive drinking. So Bill Nagle and his friend John Chatterton each invite 7 people on this mystery deal. Many people decline because some captains have these mystery deals and it is a garbage barge. When john returns to his hme he goes to D.C. to go into the captured U-505 to memorize the layout of a submarine. The divers hoped to identify the wreck on the second dive which they don’t it is 1991and the in 2000 they identify the boat as U-869.
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