Bernard Hovestadt: 2 books

In the time of the Vietnam War, if you were a young man coming of age, you had two choices: Be drafted to Vietnam, or join a department that Vietnam had no use of. I chose the latter, and joined the Navy. It'll be fun, they said. See the world, they said. Well, it wasn't all fun and games....

In the summer of 1998 the Phoenix, a research vessel out of Woods Hole, disappeared while investigating an oceanic phenomenon. Like so many sea-faring vessels and aircraft, it had simply vanished. What actually happened remained a mystery...until a young boy fished a log book out of the ocean in 1958....