New Jersey's Lost U-Boat
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Kurson is an excitable writer. He huffs and puffs mightily to add drama and suspense to scenes that don't really need it, and he has the divers deliver direct-to-the-camera rhetorical questions like "What will it mean if life tests me and I do not try to strike a blow?" But when he found the New Jersey U-boat, Kurson found an irresistible sea yarn that even his overwriting can't sink. Sometimes writers, like divers, stumble on treasure.
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