John Chatterton
Wreck Explorer / Producer
New York - USA
John Chatterton is a former commercial diver and wreck diver who has made an incredible transition to the swmall screen. He is currently one of the co-hosts for the Deep Sea Detectives television program where he has completed work on an amazing 57 episodes of the successful series. He is also a consultant to the film and television industries. Prior to his career in television, John spent twenty years working as a commercial diver in and around New York City, and was actually working in the water underneath the World Financial Center, across the street from the Tower #1, on 9/11/01.

His passion however, has always been researching and diving the deep shipwrecks of the world. 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. This same story is now a bestselling book by Rob Kurson, called Shadow Divers. The movie rights to the international bestseller have been purchased by 20th Century Fox and shooting is planned for some time in 2006.

John was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the legendary RMS Lusitania, 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. Shortly after that, he was the sole American on a British expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Holocost Museum, looking for the historic shipwreck Struma in the Black Sea near Istanbul. These dives in Turkey were chronicled on the HBO documentary Struma. Despite his busy schedule, John has managed to make over 160 dives to the infamous wreck of the Andrea Doria.

However, in August of 2005, John and his partners put together an expedition to the most famous shipwreck in the world, RMS Titanic. They dove the wreck to a depth of 3,786 meters in the MIR submersibles from the Russian Research Ship, Keldysh. Their exploration was featured on the History Channel special, Titanic’s Final Moments – Missing Pieces. This project was a first for John and his long time dive partner Richie Kohler. They produced the program along with their close friend, Emmy Award winner Kirk Wolfinger.

The trio have also embarked on another new venture. A DVD video magazine for divers, called Dive Portal. The premier issue, Volume 1, will hit the streets June1, 2006.

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