NEVER FORGOTTEN

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NEVER FORGOTTEN

The Search for Israel's Lost Submarine DAKAR

by David W. Jourdan [4]

ISBN/SKU: 9781591144182
Binding: Hardcover
Era: Cold War
Number of Pages: 272
Subject: History
Date Available: May 2009

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Just after midnight on January 25, 1968, the Israeli Navy's newly commissioned submarine Dakar transmitted her last communication. Disappearing beneath the waves, she went down in the Mediterranean Sea without a trace. Israel spent the next thirty-one years searching for the massive 287-foot submarine and her crew of sixty-nine officers and seamen. After launching more than twenty-five expeditions of their own, the Israeli Navy, in 1996, invited the noted ocean explorer David Jourdan and his company Nauticos to conduct a search that led, three years later, to the Dakar's discovery. Assisting Jourdan in the search was Tom Dettweiller, who later went on to lead the team that discovered the HMS Victory in the English Channel in 2008.

Never Forgotten tells the story of the quest to locate the missing boat, ten thousand feet deep, and to determine the cause of the disaster. It is an exhilarating first-person account of Jourdan's deep-sea search and of the will, endurance, and technical know-how that made it successful. It is also the story of the extraordinary people who made up the lost submarine's crew and the impact they had on an entire nation.

Weaving history with modern-day discovery, the book traces the Dakar from its origins in the British Navy in World War II through its sale to Israel and fateful voyage across the Mediterranean toward its new homeport of Haifa. A dramatic final chapter imagines what the crew of the doomed submarine might have been doing in their final seconds. Throughout the book he follows the families of the lost crew, from their initial pride in the new addition to their country's submarine fleet to their horror at its mysterious loss at sea and to their eventual closure once the wreckage of the submarine had been found. A popular National Geographic documentary about the discovery of the lost submarine, first aired in 2003, has contributed to the public's curiosity about the Dakar and its location is featured on the new Google Ocean site. Now the man who found this long missing submarine provides all the details of its fascinating story.

David W. Jourdan, a 1976 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a submariner with a Master's degree in applied physics from Johns Hopkins University, is the founder and president of Nauticos, an ocean exploration company in Cape Porpoise, ME. He led many expeditions to discover historical shipwrecks and has appeared on the National Geographic and Discovery channels. He was a consultant on the Google Ocean project.

For additional information click here to visit the author's website: www.dakarneverforgotten.com [5]

Praise for Never Forgotten

“. . . .This book is well-written, has good pace and is well-illustrated.” — WARSHIP 2011’s “Naval Books of the Year”

"The disappearance of the Israeli submarine Dakar was one of the great sea mysteries of the twentieth century. Never Forgotten is epic story-telling by the man who made the incredible discovery possible. David Jourdan's account of the search is as interesting as it is intriguing." —Clive Cussler

"Reading Never Forgotten by undersea explorer David Jourdan brought back many old memories of the Cold War when I was serving in the U.S. Navy. The story surrounding the loss of the Israel submarine INS DAKAR, always fascinated me as a Naval Intelligence Officer. Its sinking led to all sorts of conspiracy theories so it was great to finally learn the truth!" —Robert D. Ballard

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