Excerpt from Gary Gentile's latest e-mail circular:
"To Chuck Wine goes the credit for making the discovery dive on the U-869 - a full three years prior to the events that are related in the greatest literary hoax of the century: Shadow Divers. Bill Nagle, owner and skipper of the Seeker, put Chuck and Bart Malone on a "hang" in order to confirm its existence. Bart got entangled in monofilament on the way down the anchor line, but Chuck continued to the seabed alone, where he became the first person in history to see the lost U-boat since its untimely demise.
It is all part of a story that will be told in full in Shipwreck Heresies.
Stay tuned, folks . . ."
I don't know the personalities in the various stories (although I am sure others on the board do) - are Chuck and Bart Malone still alive?
"To Chuck Wine goes the credit for making the discovery dive on the U-869 - a full three years prior to the events that are related in the greatest literary hoax of the century: Shadow Divers. Bill Nagle, owner and skipper of the Seeker, put Chuck and Bart Malone on a "hang" in order to confirm its existence. Bart got entangled in monofilament on the way down the anchor line, but Chuck continued to the seabed alone, where he became the first person in history to see the lost U-boat since its untimely demise.
It is all part of a story that will be told in full in Shipwreck Heresies.
Stay tuned, folks . . ."
I don't know the personalities in the various stories (although I am sure others on the board do) - are Chuck and Bart Malone still alive?