aue-mike
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For those further south that can't make the WPB show, don't forget about the free Saturday event at the Ft. Lauderdale library...
Florida Center for the Book, the Association of Underwater Explorers and Bluewater Books & Charts present
Bluewater Adventures: Shadow Divers
Saturday, December 3
Broward County Main Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
Join us for an afternoon of lively discussions and presentations on the exciting field of underwater exploration.
1:00pm - Forrest Young of Dynasty Marine
2:00pm - Tane Casserley, NOAA Maritime Archaeologist
3:00pm - John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, the History Channel's "Deep Sea Detectives" and the subjects of the best-selling book, Shadow Divers
Bluewater Books & Charts will have books available for sale and signing
Call (954) 357-7401 for more details
Forrest Young is Director of Dynasty Marine located in Marathon, Florida. Dynasty Marine is the largest (in terms of volume of sales) and most comprehensive supply of public aquarium display animals in the world. In addition to supplying animals for public display Dynasty Marine also provides animals for all kinds of primary research. They are currently part of an international team that is studying the coelacanth for eventual public display. For this project over the course of 10 years, Dynasty built their own in-house closed circuit diving team and have run operations to 500' in the sea. Dynasty Marine has been involved with numerous film and video projects and are well known in their field around the world. Forrest will be giving a presentation on his most recent expedition as well as showing a brief video.
Tane Casserley is a NOAA Maritime Archaeologist based in Virginia. Tane will be discussing NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program. This program, created in 2002, is an initiative of the National Marine Sanctuaries Program (NMSP). The program focuses on maritime heritage resources within the thirteen designated National Marine Sanctuaries, and also promotes maritime heritage appreciation throughout the entire nation. This presentation will highlight some of the most recent projects from Florida, the Great Lakes, and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
John Chatterton spent more than 20 years working as a commercial diver in and around New York City. His passion however, has been researching and diving the deep shipwrecks of New Jersey, and the world. Since 1991, John and Richie's discovery and subsequent identification of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, has been the subject of several television documentaries and the best-selling book Shadow Divers by Rob Kurson. John was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the RMS Lusitania in 1994 and in 1995 he discovered and identified the World War I passenger freighter SS Carolina of the New Jersey coast.
Richie Kohler is an experienced technical diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring shipwrecks since 1980. At present he co-hosts the History Channel television series Deep Sea Detectives with John Chatterton. Since identifying the German submarine U-869, Kohler has worked on projects to identify other historically significant shipwrecks, including the USS Murphy, a World War II American destroyer and the German U-boat U-215, located 150 miles south of Nova Scotia. In 2005 Kohler and his partners mounted an expedition to the RMS Titanic. The teams work and exciting findings will be featured in an upcoming special on the History Channel.
Florida Center for the Book, the Association of Underwater Explorers and Bluewater Books & Charts present
Bluewater Adventures: Shadow Divers
Saturday, December 3
Broward County Main Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
Join us for an afternoon of lively discussions and presentations on the exciting field of underwater exploration.
1:00pm - Forrest Young of Dynasty Marine
2:00pm - Tane Casserley, NOAA Maritime Archaeologist
3:00pm - John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, the History Channel's "Deep Sea Detectives" and the subjects of the best-selling book, Shadow Divers
Bluewater Books & Charts will have books available for sale and signing
Call (954) 357-7401 for more details
Forrest Young is Director of Dynasty Marine located in Marathon, Florida. Dynasty Marine is the largest (in terms of volume of sales) and most comprehensive supply of public aquarium display animals in the world. In addition to supplying animals for public display Dynasty Marine also provides animals for all kinds of primary research. They are currently part of an international team that is studying the coelacanth for eventual public display. For this project over the course of 10 years, Dynasty built their own in-house closed circuit diving team and have run operations to 500' in the sea. Dynasty Marine has been involved with numerous film and video projects and are well known in their field around the world. Forrest will be giving a presentation on his most recent expedition as well as showing a brief video.
Tane Casserley is a NOAA Maritime Archaeologist based in Virginia. Tane will be discussing NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program. This program, created in 2002, is an initiative of the National Marine Sanctuaries Program (NMSP). The program focuses on maritime heritage resources within the thirteen designated National Marine Sanctuaries, and also promotes maritime heritage appreciation throughout the entire nation. This presentation will highlight some of the most recent projects from Florida, the Great Lakes, and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
John Chatterton spent more than 20 years working as a commercial diver in and around New York City. His passion however, has been researching and diving the deep shipwrecks of New Jersey, and the world. Since 1991, John and Richie's discovery and subsequent identification of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, has been the subject of several television documentaries and the best-selling book Shadow Divers by Rob Kurson. John was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the RMS Lusitania in 1994 and in 1995 he discovered and identified the World War I passenger freighter SS Carolina of the New Jersey coast.
Richie Kohler is an experienced technical diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring shipwrecks since 1980. At present he co-hosts the History Channel television series Deep Sea Detectives with John Chatterton. Since identifying the German submarine U-869, Kohler has worked on projects to identify other historically significant shipwrecks, including the USS Murphy, a World War II American destroyer and the German U-boat U-215, located 150 miles south of Nova Scotia. In 2005 Kohler and his partners mounted an expedition to the RMS Titanic. The teams work and exciting findings will be featured in an upcoming special on the History Channel.
