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Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat Hardcover – Illustrated, April 5, 2016
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On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-550 off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In return the sub was driven to the surface with depth charges, and then sent to the bottom of the ocean by three destroyer escorts that were guarding the naval convoy. For more than sixty years the location of the U-boat’s wreck eluded divers.
In 2012, a team found it—the last undiscovered U-boat in dive-able waters off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, more than three hundred feet below the surface.
This is the story of their twenty-year quest to find this "Holy Grail" of deep-sea diving and their tenacious efforts to dive on this treacherous wreck—and of the stunning clash at sea that sealed its doom and brought the Battle of the Atlantic to America’s doorstep.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDutton Caliber
- Publication dateApril 5, 2016
- Dimensions6.31 x 1.06 x 9.31 inches
- ISBN-100425276368
- ISBN-13978-0425276365
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“In this well-told tale of real adventure at sea, Peffer…deftly combines WWII military history with an exciting account of a group of deep wreck divers searching for one of the most elusive and sought-after prizes: the sunken remains of the German submarine U-550…[A] true story of bravery [and] compassion.”—Publishers Weekly
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- Publisher : Dutton Caliber; Illustrated edition (April 5, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0425276368
- ISBN-13 : 978-0425276365
- Item Weight : 1.18 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.31 x 1.06 x 9.31 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #662,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,487 in German History (Books)
- #5,901 in World War II History (Books)
- #10,402 in U.S. State & Local History
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About the author
Randall Peffer is the author of twelve nonfiction books and ten romantic suspense novels. His book Watermen (Johns Hopkins) is a documentary of the lives of the Chesapeake’s fishermen. It won the Baltimore Sun’s Critic’s Choice award and was Maryland Book of the Year. His novel Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues was a Lambda Award finalist. His recent book Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-boat (Penguin Random House) debuted as one of Amazon’s “Hot New Reads.”
Peffer's latest novel (2023) Forever Barcelona is a love story set against a season of bullfighting in Barcelona and Pamplona. The novel is an out growth of his award-winning National Geographic feature "Catalonia: Spain's Country Within a Country."
In 2023 he also published Windward Passage with photographer Steve Jost and designer Ron Geisman, The book is a large-format history and tribute to the legendary maxi racing yacht of the same name.
Peffer’s nonfiction narrative Never to Return co-authored with Robert Nersasian (Lyons Press) launched in the fall of 2017 and has a perfect five-star rating on Amazon. Never to Return is the harrowing tale of the torpedoing and sinking of a Coast Guard destroyer escort and the loss of 171 Coast Guardsmen off the coast of Iceland during WWII—the worst wartime disaster in U.S. Coast Guard history. Lyons Press launched Dangerous Shallows: In Search of the Ghost Ships of Cape Cod in 2020, a book Peffer co-authored with the highly-respected deep-wreck diver Eric Takakjian.
Peffer has published over 350 travel/lifestyle features for magazines like National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, Travel Holiday, Islands, Yankee, Sail, and Wooden Boat. His travel features have appeared in most U.S. major metro dailies, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, San Francisco Examiner, and Los Angeles Times.
The son of a career naval officer, Peffer holds a 100-ton master’s license and has logged over 100,000 miles at sea, mostly in traditional working vessels. He has been the captain of the research schooner Sarah Abbot for thirty-eight years.
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The first third of the book is the recreation of events in 1944 that led to the battle at sea which ultimately claimed an oil tanker, the U-550 and 65 soles. The account draws on a great deal of research including interviews with survivors on both sides of the battle. A good noveller in its own right.
The last two thirds is the story of the divers that sought to find U-550 almost 70 years later. Their back-stories and experiences that enabled these divers to be capable of diving on her are entertaining, sobering and enlightening as is the account of their dives down to and into U-550 where they were able to help piece together what happened in her final minutes before being consumed by the Atlantic. The account of their meetings with the last survivors of the U-550 is particularly memorable.
Highly recommended.
We learn the dangers encountered in diving through the background stories of the divers whose relentless sense of adventure and search for the truth led them on this journey.
The author did an impeccable job in his research and, although I knew the ending, I was overwhelmed by the vivid details and the accounts of the unlikely friendships and the bonding that occurs in wartime and peace.
It is a remarkable read and, once started, a book that can not be put down. I highly recommend it.
Peffer sets the story line by introducing us to the unique skills and passion of a small group of divers who pursue ship wrecks along the Atlantic coast. Peffer skillfully positions these men of adventure. We see their appetites for; extreme risk, need for new discoveries and the discipline to create and exhibit skills necessary to go where few would dare. More so, Peffer, through skillful literary device, elevates the story by bringing forth the men manning two war ships that have inflicted mortal harm on each others fellow sailors. This is the real story, man's struggle to serve his nation and brotherhood but not lose his soul and his need to be a part of something more transcendental.
This is a book that will sate your need to learn more about several dimensions of our world you're not likely to encounter; the horror of war and man's ability to rise above the base rules of warring nations. The liberal dose of facts about the challenges of deep sea diving and details of WW ll instruments of war give you a feeling of being there. The skill of the great writer or actor is to have you feel what the protagonist represents....Peffer does it!