The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent Into the Ocean's Depths - Bernie Chowdhury

Descriere The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent Into the Ocean's Depths - Bernie Chowdhury

In this gripping recounting of their diving tragedy, author Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver, explores the thrill-seeking, high-risk world of deep sea diving, its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and notorious tragedies. photo insert. \n \nSuperbly written and action-packed, The Last Dive ranks with such adventure classics as The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air.--Tampa Tribune\n \nSpurred on by a fatal combination of obsession and ambition, Chris and Chrisy Rouse, an experienced father-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve wide-spread recognition for their outstanding and controversial diving skills by solving the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented, World War II German U-boat that lay only a half day's mission from New York Harbor.\n \nThe Rouses found the ultimate cost of chasing their personal challenge: death from what divers dread the most--decompression sickness, or the bends. In this gripping recounting of their tragedy, author Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver, explores the thrill-seeking, high-risk world of deep sea diving, its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and notorious tragedies.\n

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HARPER PERENNIAL

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9780060932596

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