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January 13 - January 19, 2023
In July 2003, he began hosting Deepsea Detectives, a program about shipwrecks, for the History Channel. Kohler even cohosted on several episodes.
Kohler remains a voracious reader of history, though he says he reads differently since his quest to identify U-869. “In the back of my mind I question a little of everything,” Kohler says. “To me, that makes history even more interesting.”
No one should lie anonymous at the bottom of the ocean. A person’s family needs to know where their loved one lies.
The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths, from HarperCollins, which recounts the Rouse tragedy and is a very good account of the dangers of deep diving.
uboat.net—the best Internet resource for information on U-boat history, commanders, the fates of various submarines, and much more.
Driving to the airport that night, I could scarcely believe my luck. In Chatterton and Kohler, I had found two ordinary men who had confronted an extraordinarily dangerous world and solved a historical mystery that even governments had not been able to budge. Any one of the elements of their story raised intriguing possibilities. Taken together, they made for a once-in-a-lifetime writing opportunity. I could no more turn my back on a chance to write the divers’ story than they could have turned their backs on the chance to identify the mystery U-boat. In that sense, Chatterton, Kohler, and I
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The book is rooted in hundreds of hours of interviews with Chatterton and Kohler, plus countless more hours with divers, historians, experts, relatives, and other witnesses to the events described herein. Dialogue—even that from World War II—is taken directly from interviews I conducted with people who were there and witnessed the events. Everything was checked against multiple sources whenever possible.
