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Michael Cundiff
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Username: robin
Post Number: 1106
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 8:54 pm: | 
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After several sittings of the PBS special "Hitler's Lost Sub", and upon suggestions from ET members, I aquired "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson just yesterday. Upon completion of the first 2 chapters I find myself entirely immersed with the reading. However I pre-empted the completion of the book by furthur researching Andrea Doria's recovered bell and diver Bill Nagle. I sadly learned of Nagle's pre-mature death as a direct result of alcoholism and drug abuse, or as John Chatteron was heard to say that man inside the coffin was not his friend and associate..."It was the monstor who had killed Bill Nagle".
That same monstor that nearly killed me Feb. 16, '07 was released from prison Sept. 15, 2009.
Michael Cundiff
NV, USA |
Michael Cundiff
Member
Username: robin
Post Number: 1109
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 1:43 am: |
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Upon furthur reading, thus learning, the spark that garnered the initial interest in what deep-sea wreck lay 60 miles off the coast of Brielle, NJ? I sit in dismay upon, why absolutely no credit was acknowledged to Bill Nagle upon disclosing a secret, and upon six years of diving & research, teams were able to conclusively identify the lost U-Boat (SEE: "Hitlers Los Sub" NOVA's special per the PBS).
Albeit, Nagle died before the numerous expedition's climaxed in identifying the sub, why did'nt the television documentary channel special hail any recognition to Bill Nagle?
At least, in closing, the PBS episode, an in-memoriam to his earned due credit, should have acknowledged him as a primary source. For, it was a chance, HORRIBLE INN bar encounter, that a fisherman named SKEETS, alerted a wreck diver named NAGLE, to the cooridinates of a deep lying wreck off the coast of NJ. Subsequently, NAGLE contacted a deep-sea diving expert named CHATTERTON, thus, revealed with
his knowing and opportunity, the lat. & long, coupled with his ferrying CHATTERTON to the wrecksite, And so now...the rest is history.
Michael Cundiff
NV, USA |
