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If you have a chance, please read Robert Kurson's book, Shadow Divers. I see too many similarities of personal awareness, development and attitude of John Chatterton. Achieving the best score possible for us is similar to us as a group of people who spent many hours of training, advanced education, personal time, money and equipment to find their own shipwreck (U869 German submarine). There are no monetary benefits of diving in the Atlantic Ocean, no gold or treasures, but pure obsession of the personal discovery, shift of personal limits to the next level and the chance to make an impact on history.

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Brielle, New Jersey, September 1991.
Deep diving data in 1991:
Only a few can dive at the level below 220 feet without risking to surface again.

Russ wrote:If you have a chance, please read Robert Kurson's book, Shadow Divers. I see too many similarities of personal awareness, development and attitude of John Chatterton. Achieving the best score possible for us is similar to us as a group of people who spent many hours of training, advanced education, personal time, money and equipment to find their own shipwreck (U869 German submarine). There are no monetary benefits of diving in the Atlantic Ocean, no gold or treasures, but pure obsession of the personal discovery, shift of personal limits to the next level and the chance to make an impact on history.

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/08/mo ... ff-boston/

Shadow Divers sounds like an interesting read Russ:

BTW, we have plenty of gold & treasures here in our Atlantic Ocean, but it takes time, energy, and funds to seek it and once found then the fun begins.

Interesting(Published February 08, 2012)."Modern treasure hunters claim they've found billions in sunken ship off Boston".
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/08/mo ... z25A3Ryiz1


Deep diving data in 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving

1,083 feet (330 m)
World record for deepest dive on SCUBA.[nb 4]

This is why should visit Boston more often and do diving more often. :))

A Few Nice Days in Boston in 2012.
http://midwestacademyconsulting.wordpre ... in-boston/

I am still enjoying my short vacation in Boston.
http://midwestacademyconsulting.wordpre ... in-boston/

If you're still in town be sure to visit historic North End, lots of festivities and of coruse the Itallian delights on every street. Mmmmm

USS Constitution a must see! ... A tour on board of course


Jacob Wirth: http://www.jacobwirth.com/

Faneuil Hall:
http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/tickets/tours.html

Enjoy your vist & safe travels!

Mass Shooter

I don't want to ruin the book for anyone so don't read any farther if you don't want to know more.




But is this the book where the two buddies find the wreck and dive on it for years trying to find out what U-boat it is and one of them dies inside the wreck and the other has to go down and retrieve the body?

Scott

In general, you are probably right. A few people died pursuing their lifetime goal. Sometimes it happens in other sports, such as mountain climbing, nascar driving, parachuting, and etc. In my knowledge, a few people have died in Olympic style target shooting as well because of unsafe gun handling and safety rule disobedience.

The main reason why I tried to point attention to this book is to show similarities of pursuing lifetime goals, despite the fear of losing your life. Furthermore, I would like to point your attention to the huge difference between scuba diving from 1991 to 2012. This difference comes not only in technical advantages and development of hardware (regulators, tanks, BCDs, and etc), but in knowledge itself (additional training requirements for deep diving below recreational level). In 1991, everyone was considered a scuba diver who has equipment and passed a minimal certification level. Nowadays, if you would like to go below the recreational level (160 ft), you have to learn more, practice more with supervised mentorship. Otherwise, your life and health will be in danger. So, my final advice for someone who would like to perform in Olympic style target shooting must seek knowledge besides technical improvements. Life is progressing in different areas to come up with a new level of performance which we see in international matches. We have to do more than we have done before. Otherwise, we will have what we always had. I hope I did not hurt anyone's feelings.

Mass Shooter....

Being a guinea this sounds great to me:

"Italian delights on every street."

But we're not talking about women here.

It didn't hurt my feelings, I was just trying to figure out if the book I read was the book you had mentioned. It sounded like it was. And yes there was a lot of advancement in technology even from the start of the book to the end because it took them quite a long time to finally identify the boat. It also shows the dedication it takes to achieve a goal and the sacrifices one has to sometimes make to get to that goal.

Scott

What I like about this book:

"When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. ...
It's what a person DOES at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows who he really is. ...
Some people never get that moment."
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