Deep Sea Detectives

[OBXDIVEGUY]

I have to say, I had one of the coolest dives of my life last week! John Chatterton and Ritchie Kohler were here on the Outer Banks doing a show on two of my favorite dive sites. I had the opportunity to work with their crew and dive with them as well.

What a neat experience! Everything seemed to line up great. Even the typical currents and ocean swells died down to lake-like conditions out there for us. Two beautiful days!

The Deep Sea Detectives were great to meet and work with. Ritchie was doing his first rebreather dives after his training and it was real neat to see someone with so much experience, be so excited about something new. They were both real pleasant and fun to be on the boat with.

Hopefully, I'll be able to dive with them again someday!

 

[Tx_Jeff]

Sounds like a great time. What wrecks did you all dive on? I dove with some divers from Long Island a couple of weeks ago that had dove with Richie up in their area. They had said what a great person he was and that he would answer any questions that they had.

 

[ScubaThor]

I have to say, I had one of the coolest dives of my life last week! John Chatterton and Ritchie Kohler were here on the Outer Banks doing a show on two of my favorite dive sites. I had the opportunity to work with their crew and dive with them as well.

What a neat experience! Everything seemed to line up great. Even the typical currents and ocean swells died down to lake-like conditions out there for us. Two beautiful days!

The Deep Sea Detectives were great to meet and work with. Ritchie was doing his first rebreather dives after his training and it was real neat to see someone with so much experience, be so excited about something new. They were both real pleasant and fun to be on the boat with.

Hopefully, I'll be able to dive with them again someday!

Which sites? I'm guessing this is for a future show? Reading "Shadow Divers" and watching that show played a big part in making me take up this (expensive) hobby. Must have been cool to meet them.

 

[BrianS]

That's a great show.

 

[OBXDIVEGUY]

The show is scheduled to air sometime in January. We dove on two Coast Guard Cutters that sank during WWII, the Bedloe and Jackson. My involvement was as a CG liaison with the film crew and assist them. The CG has an obvious interest in these cutters and are working to protect them from looting. Even though they are sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic, everyting on them is still considered Government property. Hopefully, when the show airs, word will spread of our efforts to protect these ships.

 

[ScubaThor]

The show is scheduled to air sometime in January. We dove on two Coast Guard Cutters that sank during WWII, the Bedloe and Jackson. My involvement was as a CG liaison with the film crew and assist them. The CG has an obvious interest in these cutters and are working to protect them from looting. Even though they are sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic, everyting on them is still considered Government property. Hopefully, when the show airs, word will spread of our efforts to protect these ships.

What's the dive like?

 

[H2Andy]

(ScubaThor, that's a sweet dive knife your avatar has, dude... )


gotta love this sort of stuff... i'll keep an eye out for that show

 

[MEL-DC Diver]

Anybody else see the irony in 'protecting the CG Cutters from looting' and the presence of Kohler and Chatterton?

 

[H2Andy]

no... just like i don't see a contradiction between protecting Florida panthers
and yet having a deer hunting season in Florida

a lot of shipwrecks are not protected by law. some of them are, including
US Government property such as Navy and CG vessels

 

[StSomewhere]

Anybody else see the irony in 'protecting the CG Cutters from looting' and the presence of Kohler and Chatterton?

As opposed to what? Having seawater and the gulf stream currents destroy the wrecks? Its not like those ships are going to somehow forever be preserved, its the friggin' Atlantic Ocean fergawdzsakes!

If there is something worth salvaging on those boats then salvage it. If they need to be preserved them raise them and put them in museum (but hopefully without raiding public tax money).

My two cents...