But there are times when "Shadow Divers" makes them seem that way.

"Shadow Divers" would work on those ingredients alone.

Some day "Shadow Divers" will make a terrific movie, especially if it loses that movie line.

On one level, "Shadow Divers" has to do with blue-collar resentment of the white-collar college boys who write history.

To the credit of all three, "Shadow Divers" never has the ring of a vanity project or authorized version.

And "Shadow Divers" switches gears to offer an idea of who went down on the fallen sub and what their last days were like.

He was also planning to direct two other films: War Magician and Shadow Divers.

"Shadow Divers" also had the human-interest elements of the divers' bravado and the sub disaster's casualties to explore.

Booknotes interview with Kurson on Shadow Divers, July 11, 2004.

This same story is now the subject of a New York Times best selling book by Robert Kurson, called Shadow Divers.