“Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution”
– Kptlt. Erich Topp, famed U-Boat Commander
About Richie Kohler
Richie Kohler’s passion for technical scuba diving and maritime history has led him to explore some of the most challenging shipwrecks in the world, including the Andrea Doria and HMHS Britannic. Searching for lost ships has led him to locate and help identify numerous lost vessels, including the U-215, a German mine laying submarine on the Georges Banks off Nova Scotia, USS Murphy, a WWII destroyer that was crushed and forgotten in the New York approaches, and others. But it would be the identification of a German U-Boat, the U-869 that would catapult his diving career into the world of television and documentary filmmaking.
Richie’s Project Files
Mikhail Lermontov
In 1986, the United States and the USSR were at still very much head to toe in the Cold War, each vying to show the world the technological superiority of their respective country and political systems. Before the year ended, each would capture the world’s attention, but with horrifying disasters of technology gone terribly wrong. In January the pride of NASA, the space shuttle Challenger, exploded shortly after launch killing her entire crew, and in August the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred when the Chernobyl nuclear power station blew up, spreading deadly radiation across the Russian landscape. Not nearly as…
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