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John Chatterton (born 1951) is an American wreck diver. Together with Richie Kohler, he was one of the co-hosts for the History Channel’s ''Deep Sea Detectives'', for 57 episodes of the series. He is also a consultant to the film and television industries and has worked with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and CBS. Before to his career in television, Chatterton spent twenty years working as a commercial diver in and around New York City. His first co-host and diving partner from ''Deep Sea Detectives'', Michael Norwood, died in a diving accident during an expedition to Palau in December 2003. ==Career== The 1991 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. The same story was the subject of a book by Robert Kurson, called ''Shadow Divers''. The movie rights have been purchased by 20th Century Fox. Chatterton was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and RMS ''Lusitania'', in 1994. A few years later, at a depth of , he was the first diver to use rebreather diving technology on the wreck of , near the island of Kea in Greece. In 2006, Chatterton re-visited the wreck of ''Britannic'' in the History Channel documentary ''Titanic's Tragic Sister'', to try to find out what sank the third Olympic-class ocean liner. He was also the sole American on a British expedition, sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, seeking the historic shipwreck in the Black Sea off Istanbul. These dives in Turkey were chronicled on the HBO documentary ''Struma''. In addition, Chatterton has managed to make over 160 dives to the wreck of the . In August 2005, Chatterton and his partners put together an expedition to the wreck of . They dove the wreck to a depth of approximately in the MIR submersible from the Russian research ship ''Akademik Mstislav Keldysh''. Their exploration was featured on the History Channel special, ''Titanic’s Final Moments – Missing Pieces''. For the first time Chatterton and Kohler were both in front of, and behind the camera, and produced the program with Kirk Wolfinger. In 2008 Chatterton and his partner John Mattera discovered and identified the wreck of the Golden Fleece off of the North coast of the Dominican Republic. The fabled ship of Captain Joseph Banister, one of the most elusive pirates in history. Chronicled by two time New York Times bestselling writer Robert Kurson in his book "Pirate Hunters." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Chatterton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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