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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9780595142125
ISBN: 0595142125
Label: IUniverse
Manufacturer: IUniverse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: October 19, 2000
Publisher: IUniverse
Studio: IUniverse
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Few master divers survive to tell their stories. Here is one who did. "A true, bang-up, suspenseful adventure from beginning to end."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times. "As suspenseful as an Eric Ambler espionage novel."—APFS Weekly Feature. Account of entrapment under barage as tide goes out won Readers Digest First Person Award. Dramatized by BBC.
Average Rating: 
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I happened onto this obscure and long out of print autobiographical piece and wasn't even sure I wanted to invest the time to read it but, as an old Navy vet and submariner, I thought it might be interesting. I read it. WOW!!
This guy (author Joseph Karneke) seems to have no ego, and has courage of biblical proportions (in Navy vernacular: His must be brass and the size of grapefruits).
Among his various military and career accomplishments, Karneke was a career U.S. ... Read More
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It's been a while since I read this book, but remember details as if was yesterday. It didn't inspire me to be a hardhat diver, cutting away anti-submarine nets in the Golden Gate, spending hours in a de-compression chamber, or talking like Donald Duck in a heliox atmosphere, but the events related by Joe Karneke stimulated me to learn more about them in the years to come. I read this book around 35 years ago, providing a young teenager a view on a world under the sea that was real, immediate, and ... Read More
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