Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Author: Kurson, Robert
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.1
Points
21.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
121627
Points per Word
0.000173
Page Count
375
Points per Page
0.056
Description
This is the story of the discovery in 1991 of a WWII German U-boat, sunk sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey, by deep sea divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, and their six-year obsession with identifying the submarine that sank with its crew.