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John Chatterton, Richie Kohler, my wonderful wife Gena and myself at the California Wreck Divers 36th Annual Banquet 2007
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John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, co-hosts for the History Channel's "Deep Sea Detectives" where they have completed work on an amazing 57 episodes of the successful series. In 1991, the discovery and subsequent identification of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, has been the subject of several television documentaries including "Hitler's Lost Sub", a two-hour special for the popular NOVA series on PBS. In August 2005, John and Richie put together an expedition to the most famous shipwreck in the world, RMS Titanic. They dove the wreck to a depth of approximately 12,500 feet in the MIR submersibles from the Russian Research Ship, Keldysh.
John Chatterton is one of the world's most accomplished and well know wreck divers. His passion has always been researching and diving the deep shipwrecks of the world. John was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the legendary RMS Luisitania, in 1994. A few years later, at a depth of 400 feet, he was the first diver to use rebreather diving technology on the wreck of HMHS Britannic, near the island of Kea in Greece. He was also the sole American on a British expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, looking for the historic shipwreck Struma in the Black Sea near Istanbul.
Richie Kohler is an experienced technical wreck diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring since 1980. Richie has worked on projects to identify other historically significant shipwrecks, including the USS Murphy, a World War II American destroyer, located 90 miles off the New York coast and the German U-boat U-215, located and identified 150 miles south of Nova Scotia. To learn more about Richie Kohler and his exciting career, be sure to check out the following links: www.U869.com, www.richiekohler.com, and www.diveportaldvd.com. |
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