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Deep-water wreck diving is the world's deadliest sport, and John Chatterton and Richie Kohler pushed its limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a beautifully written, dramatic book about one of the greatest of human traits—the resolve people find in moments of deepest peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45958301122796,"sku":"9780340837566","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780340837566.jpg?v=1733165094"},{"product_id":"rocket-men-the-daring-odyssey-of-apollo-8-and-the-astronauts-who-made-mans-first-journey-to-the-moon-by-robert-kurson-9781925322880","title":"Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. \u003cem\u003eRocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e tells the inside story of that epic journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn early 1968, the Apollo programme was on shaky footing. 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But in 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid waters of the Atlantic: a Second World War German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires and human bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo identifying marks were visible. No historian, expert or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found, and the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest of increasingly perilous diving and painstaking archival research to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. 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