There is a great meeting for this Friday, January 29, 2016 at 6 pm. The guest speaker is John Chatterton of the book "Shadow Divers"
and German Wold Pack Submarine U-869 fame. He will be presenting a video about this dramatic discovery and a great deal of even
more recent work. He has also worked on submerged endeavors on Oak Island, the Titanic, the Lusitania, the Golden Fleece
pirate ship, Japanese subs in Pearl Harbor, deep wall diving in Cay Sal Banks and still more.
John Chatterton
https://www.facebook.com/john.chatterton/
This appears on John's website: "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, and has worked as a consultant to 20th
Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and CBS. Prior to his career in television, John spent twenty years working
as a commercial diver in and around New York City, and on September 11, 2001, was actually working on a project in the water
underneath the World Financial Center, across the street from the Tower #1."
http://www.johnchatterton.com/
http://www.johnchatterton.com/john-chatterton-blog/
"In 1991, a group of divers, including Richie Kohler and John Chatterton, set out on Seeker to explore an unknown object lying 230 feet (70 m)
below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and discover an apparent historical impossibility: a World War II German U-boat off the coast of
New Jersey. Amazed at this discovery, Chatterton and his fellow divers make a pact to keep the U-Boat a secret until they can discover
its identity and claim credit for its discovery. This is to prevent "wreck-jumping" (wherein another person claims credit and/or removes
objects from the wreck). Unfortunately, this pact is broken almost immediately by a couple of members of the team who decide to tell
close friends, and the secret is let out. Consulting both the United States Navy and the German Navy yields denials of the possibility
of a World War II-era U-boat wreck in that area. Historical records claim the closest U-boat wreck to be hundreds of miles away.
The book chronicles the seven year quest to learn the identity of the mysterious wreck, dubbed U-Who by the dive team, the identities
of the men aboard her, and how she came to rest on the ocean floor near New Jersey. Over the length of the quest several members
of the original dive team quit, either because their lives lead them elsewhere or over concerns for their safety. Several new members
were brought in, including Richie Kohler, a member of the notorious "Atlantic Wreck Divers" club that had the reputation of being
pirate-like and reckless in their diving philosophy. This philosophy is the complete opposite of Chatterton's, and Chatterton initially dislikes
Kohler. However, during the course of the quest the two men discover qualities in each other they both admire and respect. Kohler
himself is driven not by monetary desires but the history behind the wreck, and the personal connection he feels as his family
is of German descent. He and Chatterton ultimately become close friends."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Divers
You can read the final report on the discovery of the U Boat at
http://www.johnchatterton.com/projec...eport-on-u869/
A shot from his 2009 expedition to Cay Sal Banks. I can recall deep scenes from the wall there like this diving it at 16 back in the day.
http://www.johnchatterton.com/
John teaches tech and wreck diving classes these days at in SE Florida at times. More at
http://www.johnchatterton.com/training/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n84MwdWXHAQ
http://mvvelkommen.com/books/shadow-divers/
A contemporary rendering of the U-869 with tiburons in residence.
It happens this Friday, January 29, 2016 at 6 pm in the 8th Floor conference room of Ft. Lauderdale City Hall.
Meeting of the Broward Maritime Museum
Ft Lauderdale City Hall
100 N Andrews Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
.