Book

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

by John Chatterton

(9 total)

Characters

Robert Kurson (8)John Chatterton (1)

“Deal with this problem. Guys die because they don't take care of the first problem. Don't let the snowball roll.”

— John Chatterton, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy

“Always answer the first problem immediately and fully, or you're fucking dead.”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy

“As weeks turned to months and Chatterton continued to distinguish himself, he studied himself and others in action, watched soldiers live and die and show courage and break down, paid careful attention to the behavior of men around him, all to divine further insight into the right way to live. Gradu…”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“Here is what happens to a panicked diver in trouble inside a shipwreck: His heart and respiratory rates jump. At 200 feet, when every lungful of air requires seven times the volume as that on the surface, a panicked diver can breathe down his tanks so quickly that the needles on his gauges begin to…”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“A diver lost or tangled inside a shipwreck has come face-to-face with his maker. Corpses have been recovered inside wrecks–eyes and mouths agape in terror, the poor diver still lost, still blinded, still snagged, still pinned. Yet a curious truth pertains to these perils: rarely does the problem its…”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“For four months, Chatterton thought about the right way and the wrong way to live, and he continued to contemplate his principles. As one patrol bled into another and men died, his thinking solidified, and he began to consider that it might have been for these insights that he had come to Vietnam, t…”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“The guy who gets kill is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said, 'I'm already dead–the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself,' is the most formidable force in the world...The worst possible deci…”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“Not all divers succumb to panic as Drozd did. A great diver learns to stand down his emotions. A the moment he becomes lost or blinded or tangled or trapped, that instant when millions of years of evolution demand fight or flight and narcosis carves order from his brain, he dials down his fear and c…”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“It's what a person does at the moment of greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people get that moment. This is my moment. What I do now is what I am.”

— Robert Kurson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life