Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba team, hoped to attain widespread recognition for his or her outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they searched for to solve the secrets of the mysterious, undocumented Globe Battle II German U-boat that place under 230 foot of water, only a half-day’s mission from New York Harbor. In doing this, they paid the best price in their quest for fame.

Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver and a close friend from the Rouses’, explores the thrill-seeking globe of deep-sea diving, including its legendary numbers, most celebrated triumphs, and gruesome tragedies. By examining the diver’s psychology through the complicated father-and-son powerful, Chowdhury illuminates the extreme sport diver’s drive toward-and occasionally beyond-the limitations of human endurance.