Shipwreck Hunter: Deep, Dark & Deadly in the Great Lakes
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587264307 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Year after year, this group of men regularly discovered and dove on more lost ships than almost any team anywhere. Danny Fader was called "the human fish," one of the best wreck divers in the Great Lakes and a member of David Trotter's crack team of wreck hunters-one of the world's best. It turned out to be the last wreck dive of his life. What followed was a remarkable story of courage, a stubborn refusal to accept what seemed to be an inevitable tragedy, and the stunning power of his profound faith.. The down side was that all these wrecks lay in the nightmarish waters of the Great Lakes-some of the deepest, darkest, coldest, and most dangerous waters in the world. That was the up side. In just a few desperate minutes, everything went wrong. He hoped to secure what he thought might be a lost treasure. On October 16, 1994, Danny Fader, at the age 48, bubbled down so deep into Lake Huron that almost no light penetrated from above. What he needed was a miracle
The passion, science and dangers of shipwreck hunting in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Hunter -- Deep, Dark & Deadly In The Great Lakes is about just that, hunting for shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. It's about the dangerous passion of a small, dedicated and very competitive community of divers who search for some of the most famous, and often most remote, wrecks. There are as many as 10,000 of them in the Great Lakes, many beyond reach, but a good number accessible to daring divers willing to brave depth, icy cold water, poor visibility and occasionally rough seas.Au. SCUBA DUDE said A bit one sided and book jumps around,. It was a OK book about the same one sided as you get from some Andrea Doria Diver books. Why dose He try to glamorize these old men as historians and hero's of the deep when most are not! Most all are just plain salvors and looters of the deep. The book states that one main character in one sentence takes only pictures and in the next breath they are prying a strong box open.And in another Bio he states correctly that one divers problems with the local government (Law) and writes about the o. D. A. Biermann said Great adventure, gripping drama. A real page-turner.. To be honest, I was a fan of Mr. Volgenau when he was a writer for the Detroit Free Press, but this book is really something else entirely. A little bit of fascinating history, lots of drama and a compelling human story as well. I had a hard time putting it down. Definitely recommended for those interested in diving, as well as fans of the maritime history of the Great Lakes. Mr. Volgenau's background as a journalist really shines in this brutally honest look at the dangerous world of deep d