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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...
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...
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...
Despite winning just two individual titles at the Ivy Championships, the Crimson, down just 89.5 points headed into the penultimate event thanks to a host of top-eight showings, stood on the cusp of denying the Tigers their fifth straight title. With three divers in the three-meter dive finals?...
For all their newfound freedom, however, Guo and Tian are still the property of the Chinese state. Unlike Western athletes, they cannot fire their coaches, who have been assigned to them by local sports authorities. A big chunk of their endorsement earnings must be donated to the national swimming and...