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Learn Advanced Wreck Diving from Legendary diver, John Chatterton!
[INLINE=right]http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/data/500/coming_in_4-small.jpg[/INLINE]Take your training to the next level while enjoying the beautiful wrecks in warm blue water of South Florida. During this course, John Chatterton will teach you the proper techniques for locating and planning a penetration dive. The course covers topics and skills such as:
Course prerequisite:
Cost: $900. Cost includes; book, classroom, certification card, 3 days of two-tank diving, and nitrox fills.
Date: Sept 14th - 16th.
Location: Force-E Dive Center, Pompano Beach, FL 954.943.3483
Required equipment: Contact Force-E for equipment requirements
About John Chatterton
John Chatterton is one of the world’s most accomplished and well known wreck divers. He was one of the co-hosts for 57 episodes of the History Channel’s Deep Sea Detectives television series. He is also a consultant to the film and television industries and has worked with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and CBS. 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 on a project in the water underneath the World Financial Center, across the street from the Tower #1, on September 11, 2001.
His passion has always been researching, locating, and diving the world’s shipwrecks. The discovery in 1991, and subsequent identification, of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, was the subject of a television documentary, Hitler’s Lost Sub, a two hour special for the popular NOVA series on PBS. This same story was the subject of a Random House bestselling book by Rob Kurson, Shadow Divers. It is currently published in more than 21 languages. The movie rights to the international bestseller have been purchased by 20th Century Fox.
Chatterton was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the legendary wreck of the 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. He was also the sole American on a British expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, looking for the historic shipwreck Struma, deep in the Black Sea near Istanbul. These dives in Turkey were chronicled on the HBO documentary Struma. Chatterton has also managed to make over 150 dives to the well known wreck of the Andrea Doria.
In August of 2005, John and his partners put together an expedition to the most famous shipwreck in the world, Titanic. They dived the wreck to a depth of approximately 12,500 feet in the MIR submersibles from the Russian Research Ship, Keldysh. Their Titanic exploration has been featured in two History Channel specials, Titanic’s Final Moments – Missing Pieces and Titanic’s Achilles Heel. The programs were produced by Chatterton, fellow Shadow Diver, Richie Kohler, and Emmy Award winner Kirk Wolfinger. Chatterton returned to Britannic in 2006 with his partners for another production, this time on Titanic’s sister ship. Author Brad Matsen brought the story of these expeditions to bookshelves with his bestseller, Titanic’s Last Secrets.
For another NOVA television project in 2009, John traveled to Hawaii where he participated in dives aboard the Pisces submersibles operated by Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. This project documented the Japanese Midget Submarine I-16tou, from the infamous December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor. These dives, well in excess of 1000 feet of seawater, were part of the NOVA program, Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor.
Chatterton has testified in court as an expert on two occasions. In 1995, he testified as a friend of the court in Admiralty Court in Norfolk, Virginia, in a case involving the arrest of the RMS Lusitania. Several years later he testified as an expert witness in a workman’s compensation case involving the Jones Act.
Currently Chatterton and his partners are working in an ongoing partnership with the government of the Dominican Republic, in a multi faceted commercial project that involves locating, documenting and salvaging colonial era wreck sites in the Dominican waters around Hispañola. At the same time, he is once again involved with Robert Kurson on a book project.
[INLINE=right]http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/data/500/coming_in_4-small.jpg[/INLINE]Take your training to the next level while enjoying the beautiful wrecks in warm blue water of South Florida. During this course, John Chatterton will teach you the proper techniques for locating and planning a penetration dive. The course covers topics and skills such as:
- Use of guidelines
- Overhead emergency procedures
- Redundant equipment requirements
- Locating and identifying wrecks
- Hazards of wreck diving
- Surveying of wrecks
Course prerequisite:
- Minimum age is 18
- Certified as an SDI Advanced Open Water or equivalent
- Provide proof of a minimum of 50 logged dives
- Be certified as SDI or PADI Basic Wreck or Cavern Diver or equivalent.
Cost: $900. Cost includes; book, classroom, certification card, 3 days of two-tank diving, and nitrox fills.
Date: Sept 14th - 16th.
Location: Force-E Dive Center, Pompano Beach, FL 954.943.3483
Required equipment: Contact Force-E for equipment requirements
About John Chatterton
John Chatterton is one of the world’s most accomplished and well known wreck divers. He was one of the co-hosts for 57 episodes of the History Channel’s Deep Sea Detectives television series. He is also a consultant to the film and television industries and has worked with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and CBS. 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 on a project in the water underneath the World Financial Center, across the street from the Tower #1, on September 11, 2001.
His passion has always been researching, locating, and diving the world’s shipwrecks. The discovery in 1991, and subsequent identification, of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, was the subject of a television documentary, Hitler’s Lost Sub, a two hour special for the popular NOVA series on PBS. This same story was the subject of a Random House bestselling book by Rob Kurson, Shadow Divers. It is currently published in more than 21 languages. The movie rights to the international bestseller have been purchased by 20th Century Fox.
Chatterton was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the legendary wreck of the 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. He was also the sole American on a British expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, looking for the historic shipwreck Struma, deep in the Black Sea near Istanbul. These dives in Turkey were chronicled on the HBO documentary Struma. Chatterton has also managed to make over 150 dives to the well known wreck of the Andrea Doria.
In August of 2005, John and his partners put together an expedition to the most famous shipwreck in the world, Titanic. They dived the wreck to a depth of approximately 12,500 feet in the MIR submersibles from the Russian Research Ship, Keldysh. Their Titanic exploration has been featured in two History Channel specials, Titanic’s Final Moments – Missing Pieces and Titanic’s Achilles Heel. The programs were produced by Chatterton, fellow Shadow Diver, Richie Kohler, and Emmy Award winner Kirk Wolfinger. Chatterton returned to Britannic in 2006 with his partners for another production, this time on Titanic’s sister ship. Author Brad Matsen brought the story of these expeditions to bookshelves with his bestseller, Titanic’s Last Secrets.
For another NOVA television project in 2009, John traveled to Hawaii where he participated in dives aboard the Pisces submersibles operated by Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. This project documented the Japanese Midget Submarine I-16tou, from the infamous December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor. These dives, well in excess of 1000 feet of seawater, were part of the NOVA program, Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor.
Chatterton has testified in court as an expert on two occasions. In 1995, he testified as a friend of the court in Admiralty Court in Norfolk, Virginia, in a case involving the arrest of the RMS Lusitania. Several years later he testified as an expert witness in a workman’s compensation case involving the Jones Act.
Currently Chatterton and his partners are working in an ongoing partnership with the government of the Dominican Republic, in a multi faceted commercial project that involves locating, documenting and salvaging colonial era wreck sites in the Dominican waters around Hispañola. At the same time, he is once again involved with Robert Kurson on a book project.
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