“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
Gulf Of Thailand Wrecks
In our ever shrinking world the opportunity for divers to explore virgin territory, whether it’s a cave system, reef formation or shipwrecks, grows smaller with each passing year. In the last decade, open circuit tri-mix and closed circuit rebreather’shave dramatically expanded the range of the technical wreck diver, and those with the explorer bug are no longer content with the “been there, seen that” sites, so they push further afield in pursuit of diver nirvana, the virgin shipwreck. Putting their money where their mouth is, they motor past the sure thing, the known wrecks, eager to invest the time and…
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