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| Author | Bernie Chowdhury |
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| Cover artist | Wes Skiles/Karst Productions, Bradford Foltz |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fictionadventure |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers,Harper Perennial |
Publication date | 2000, 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback &Paperback) |
| Pages | 356 pp (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-06-019462-6 (hardback),ISBN 0-06-093259-7 (paperback) |
| 363.14, 797.23 | |
| LC Class | 00-033426 |
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths (2000)[1] is anon-fiction book written bydiverBernie Chowdhury and published byHarperCollins. It documents the fatal dive of Chris Rouse, Sr. and Chris "Chrissy" Rouse, Jr., a father-son team who perished off the New Jersey coast in 1992. The author is a dive expert and was a friend of the Rouses.[2]
The divers were exploring a German U-boat in 230 feet (70 m) of water off the coast of New Jersey. Although experienced in usingtechnical diving gas mixtures such as "trimix" (adding helium gas to the nitrogen and oxygen found in air), they were diving on just compressed air.[2] The pair had set out to retrieve thecaptain's log book from the so-calledU-Who to "fulfill their dream of diving into fame."[3] The U-boat was subsequently identified asU-869.
Chowdhury is a technical diver who, according to writer Neal Matthews' review ofRobert Kurson's bookShadow Divers (2004), "was among the first to adapt cave-diving principles to deep-water wrecks".[4] Also according to Matthews, "His book documents how the clashes of equipment philosophy between cave divers and wreck divers mirrored the clash of diving subcultures."[4]
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