John Chatterton is one of the world's most accomplished and well-known wreck divers. He was the co-host for 57 episodes of the popular History Channel series "Deep Sea Detectives". Prior to his career in television, John spent twenty years working as a commercial diver, mostly in and around New York City, and was working underneath the World Financial Center, directly across the street from the World Trade Center Tower 1, on September 11, 2001.

His passion has always been researching, finding, and diving new and challenging shipwrecks. The 1991 discovery and subsequent identification of the German submarine U-869 off the coast of New Jersey has been the subject of several television documentaries, including Hitler's Lost Sub, a two-hour special for the popular NOVA series on PBS. In 2004, this same story also became the subject of a New York Times bestselling book published by Random House and written by Rob Kurson, titled Shadow Divers. It was also published in 22 foreign language versions. The movie rights to the international bestseller have been purchased by 20th Century Fox.

In 1994, John was a member of the first technical diving expedition to Ireland and the legendary RMS Lusitania. A few years later, at a depth of 400 feet, he was the first diver to use rebreather diving technology on the wreck of HMHS Britannic, near the island of Kea, Greece. He was also the sole American on another British expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum,and looking for the historic shipwreck Struma in the Black Sea near Istanbul. These dives in Turkey were chronicled in the HBO documentary "Struma". Closer to home, and over almost 25 years, John has managed to complete more than 160 dives to the well known North Atlantic wreck of the Andrea Doria. More....