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On Sept. 11, declared the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks in its 567-page report, the "United States became a nation transformed." From the shipyards of Seattle to the conventioneer-stuffed ballrooms of Boston, the scramble to prepare for the possibility of another attack offered a panorama last week of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting the Next 9/11 | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

The heroes of Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers (Random House; 375 pages) go to very great lengths, and even greater depths, to do precisely that. Their story began in 1991 when Bill Nagle, captain of a charter boat catering to scuba divers, got wind of an unexplored shipwreck 60 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Jersey's Lost U-Boat | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

The submarine lay in 230 ft. of water, which is about as deep as a very experienced shipwreck diver can safely go. But when shipwreck divers say safe, they mean what other people mean when they say insanely dangerous. Drowning is the least of it; many divers are found dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Jersey's Lost U-Boat | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

The team, led by the intrepid Chatterton, began to explore the mystery U-boat. At that depth they could stay down for just minutes at a time, so they had to work methodically, room by room, dive by dive. The wreck began gobbling them up just as methodically: the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Jersey's Lost U-Boat | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

Shadow Divers becomes an underwater detective story. The divers go to excruciating lengths to recover any artifact--a shoe, a plaque, a table knife with a name scratched in it--that might yield the secret of the sub's demise. It's also a midlife-crisis fable about a bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Jersey's Lost U-Boat | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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