Shadow Divers -- The Movie

[pilot fish]

There is a book just on that subject called the last dive,
the author also publishes a magazine;

http://www.immersed.com/bookstore.php

Is it as good as Shadow Divers?

 

[pilot fish]

the son got tangled in the wreck, the father went in to save him, they overstayed their limits, when they came out they turned the wrong way and missed their deco gas which they had left outside..and running out of air they went to the surface

Ara musha, now I remember. They were real close to the deco tanks if they had gone the other way.

 

[JeffG]

Is it as good as Shadow Divers?

Its different. I liked it. (but there are some errors. The part where the helicopter comes to pick up the father and son is the exact opposite of Shadow divers)

 

[mossym]

it's a good read too...more a biography of their diving than a story like shadow divers, but i liked it too

 

[DiveGolfSki]

Is it as good as Shadow Divers?

Hey, PF a thread we can agree on.

I read The Last Dive first and now I'm into Shadow. They're both very interesting (to date). They're kinda like Part I and Part II for the U-Who but the Last Dive really goes into the relationship between father and son and how that contributed to the accident. Further, Bernie Chowdhury is writer and writes from a diver's perspective.

 

[pilot fish]

Its different. I liked it. (but there are some errors. The part where the helicopter comes to pick up the father and son is the exact opposite of Shadow divers)

Not as well written or the same level of tension and mystery? Helicopter took a long time to pick up the son, who was writhing in pain but still alive. The dad was dead at the surface, or shortly afterwards, right?

 

[pilot fish]

it's a good read too...more a biography of their diving than a story like shadow divers, but i liked it too

They were daft as buggers, as I recall. Not like Chatterton, who is very good for diving. They were a bad example for divers, always pushing the limits, I heard.

 

[pilot fish]

Hey, PF a thread we can agree on.

I read The Last Dive first and now I'm into Shadow. They're both very interesting (to date). They're kinda like Part I and Part II for the U-Who but the Last Dive really goes into the relationship between father and son and how that contributed to the accident. Further, Bernie Chowdhury is writer and writes from a diver's perspective.

If we ever disagreed, I don't recall it? You don't use a snorkel and I do?

Anyway, you think it's a good read? Wait till the end of Shadow Divers and Chatterton is in the sub alone, running low on air, stuff falling, 230 ft below for the final proof and you might get anxieties like I did reading it.

 

[Sean326]

They were daft as buggers, as I recall. Not like Chatterton, who is very good for diving. They were a bad example for divers, always pushing the limits, I heard.

Your right... around here (northern suburbs of Philly) they are ingrained in local diving lore. To try to impress newbies old timers will throw out comments like: "Yeah I used to dive with the rouses"
Their local dive shop is right down the street from me (Underwater world).

It's been 2 or 3 years since I read the last Dive but as i recall they had logged something like 700 dives but only been diving for 3 or 4 years...

They even tried to dive in a local well (lahaska) looking for caves but had to quit because the restaurant that drew water from the well complained about the water turning muddy.

 

[Diesel298]

Its different. I liked it. (but there are some errors. The part where the helicopter comes to pick up the father and son is the exact opposite of Shadow divers)

yeah, i noticed that.
i wnder what one is correct