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1) The book introduces Bill Nagle, a renowned wreck diver who started his own charter boat company called the Seeker. However, he began struggling with alcoholism. 2) A fisherman named Skeets told Nagle about an undiscovered wreck site deep underwater that was attracting many fish. Nagle assembled a team to explore the site, discovering it was a sunken German U-boat from World War II. 3) Over numerous dives to explore the wreck and identify which specific U-boat it was, the team faced many dangers. They lost one crew member and Nagle ultimately drank himself to death. After years of research and close calls, the team finally identified the wreck as U

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Shadow Divers Summary

1) The book introduces Bill Nagle, a renowned wreck diver who started his own charter boat company called the Seeker. However, he began struggling with alcoholism. 2) A fisherman named Skeets told Nagle about an undiscovered wreck site deep underwater that was attracting many fish. Nagle assembled a team to explore the site, discovering it was a sunken German U-boat from World War II. 3) Over numerous dives to explore the wreck and identify which specific U-boat it was, the team faced many dangers. They lost one crew member and Nagle ultimately drank himself to death. After years of research and close calls, the team finally identified the wreck as U

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Nick Resnick

Period 1
3/16/16

Shadow Divers Summary

The book begins by giving some background information on Bill Nagle, his
wreck diving achievements, and why they make him one of the greats. One of Nagles
most important accomplishments was the recovery of the Andrea Dorias bell. After years
of working on others charter boats, boats whose captains are paid by people to take them
out somewhere, Nagle started one himself, called the Seeker. Over time, he developed a
drinking problem and began to lose customers as he yelled at them that they should be
diving wrecks that were deeper and more dangerous, often more dangerous than his
customers could handle. One night at the bar, a fishing boat captain that everyone knew
as Skeets walked up to Nagle. Fishermen always found shipwrecks to be the best
fishing spots because they became great places for marine wildlife to call home. Skeets
had recently seen a friend at a spot, got close enough for coordinates, and realized it was
the biggest underwater formation he had seen in a long time, attracting many fish.
Knowing how low on adventure Nagle had been, Skeets decided to ask him to see what
was down there attracting all the fish. Nagle happily accepted and began thinking of who
to bring along as the dive would be much more difficult than normal at 230 feet below.
After gathering a team of divers with the help of John Chatterton, they began to dive the
wreck discovering it to be a German U-Boat. Each member of the crew was sworn to

secrecy, but a few, even Nagle, told someone who told someone else and so on. People all
throughout the sport knew they were diving a U-boat, but didnt raid it yet as they had no
clue where. The team dropped significantly in numbers after one of their crewmembers
panicked and got lost at sea, presumably dead. He was later found dead and the team had
still not achieved its true goal for the U-Boat, to identify which U-boat it was. The crew
was much more nervous, but Chatterton was much more determined after several failed
attempts to find an identifying tag. Chatterton and Richie Kholer devoted much of their
off-season time to research on which U-Boats it could possibly be and where to find
identification. After discovering several possibilities and finding many of them to be not
possible afterward, the crew was losing its motivation. Nagle eventually drank himself to
death, even after a doctors warning. The crew took to some mourning then kept
searching. The crew had found many conceivable options, but had yet to find direct
identification. Chatterton was never happy with a probably. He wanted to be sure so
they kept searching until, through many hardships, they found something in the heavily
blocked electric motor room: many spare parts boxes and one light enough to carry out.
That box bared an identifying tag to their final possible U-Boat for this wreck to be, U869. It was a long journey with three deaths during dives and many near death
experiences.

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