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Last Dive

by - Chowdhury, Bernie
A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
2000, Harpercollins
ISBN 0060194626
Hardcover, 356 pages

Descripton: The story of the death of two divers while diving on a sunken German U-boat (U-869) off the US east coast. The U-boat is almost incidental, but readers may be interested in the pictures, diagrams and descriptions accompanying the main story.

From the uboat.net review: The "last dive" of this book’s title refers to a 1992 incident in which two divers exploring the wreck of U-Who (later identified as U-869) died of decompression sickness. The title itself is somewhat ...
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