About the book: 1972 / The author’s collection of the Soviet marine painter Anatoly Sobolev includes two stories. “To the madness of the brave...” This story is about military divers. Yesterday's schoolchildren, they grew up and matured in a terrible time for the Motherland. The author was a diver for seven years, spent more than 2000 hours under water, knows the service of underwater masters well, and this gave him the opportunity to write a true story about unknown and courageous guys, their work at the bottom of the sea, where every minute requires courage and mental fortitude no less than than in battle. Many did not have the opportunity to meet Victory. "Silent fast" Feat is a moral category. And, perhaps, this manifests itself most clearly not in the world, where death is red, where a comrade’s shoulder is nearby, but when a person is left alone with the enemy, face to face with death. The winner is not the one who is physically strong, but the one who is spiritually, morally, and ideologically unshakable. In 1967, at the All-Union competition for the best military-patriotic work in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution, the story was awarded first prize. The story has been revised and expanded for this edition..