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Ladataan... Descent into darkness : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1996; vuoden 1996 painos)– tekijä: Edward C. Raymer
Teoksen tarkat tiedotDescent into darkness : Pearl Harbor, 1941: a Navy diver's memoir (tekijä: Edward C Raymer) (1996)
   - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book was lent to me by a work colleague who was a deep sea diver for the U.S. Navy. I found it to be an earnestly and sobering written memoir that I am the better for having read it. It describes how incredibly brave and inventive Navy deep sea divers were immediatley following the attacks on Pearl Harbor. The grave yet vitally important job of salvaging dangerously and unstable sunken ships littered with the remains of sailors and unexploded ordinance. (  ) Blooshirt | Jan 16, 2015 |  I bought this book at Pearl Harbor in 1998 and have read it cover to cover many times. I learned many things about those days after the bombings that I had never given much thought about. These divers were brave beyond the pale. No doubt about it. A book very much worth the reading. (  ) RicTresa | Jan 11, 2010 | Good account of some very harrowing experiences. This man dove on the sunken and capsized ships in Pearl Harbor. They developed techniques on the job and spent more time than any human ought to swimming in bunker fuel and dead bodies. Worthwhile reading. ( ) Whiskey3pa | May 3, 2009 | näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, Utah, and several others lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers is hurriedly flown to the island of Oahu. The divers have been given a Herculean task: rescue the sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific fleet." "Now for the first time, the chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations, Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer, USN (Ret.), tells the whole story of the desperate attempts to save crewmembers caught inside their sinking ships. Descent Into Darkness is the only book available that describes the raising and salvage operations of sunken battleships following the December 7th attack." "Once Raymer and his crew of divers entered the interiors of the sunken shipwrecks - attempting untested and potentially deadly diving techniques - they experienced a world of total blackness, unable to see even the faceplates in their helmets. By memorizing the ships' blueprints and using their sense of touch, the divers groped their way hundreds of feet inside the sunken vessels to make repairs and salvage vital war materiel. The divers learned how to cope with such unseen dangers as falling objects, sharks, the eerie presence of floating human bodies, and the constant threat of Japanese attacks from above."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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