“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
Shipwrecks of Palau
The islands of Palau are exactly what you would expect of a tropical island paradise; exotic smells waft on warm breezes through a lush green jungle that blankets each island while thriving coral reefs explode with every imaginable color in the surrounding crystal clear water. Most divers trek here to explore phenomenal dives site like Blue Corners where sharks, turtles and other big ocean pelagic’s mix with schools of reef fish that move in the current along living canyons of coral, or German Corner where Mantas often fly by like a formations of fighter planes. But hidden underneath all the…
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