Richie Kohler

Together with John Chatterton, Kohler was one of the co-hosts of the television series Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel and is also a consultant for the film and television industry on shipwreck and diving projects.

[1] Kohler has explored shipwrecks around the world, including the SS Andrea Doria and the RMS Titanic.

Kohler's work identifying a World War II German submarine, U-869, off the coast of New Jersey has been the subject of several television documentaries and a book by Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers.

This book is being developed as a motion picture by 20th Century Fox, directed and produced by Peter Weir.

[2] Kohler was part of a team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard which explored and mapped the wreck of the U-166 in the summer of 2014 with remotely operated vehicles and determined that the bow of the submarine was destroyed, apparently by a depth charge which caused an internal explosion of the submarine's own torpedoes.