![]() We came to a cylindrical object that appeared to be about 10 feet long, and in a moment I realized what it was: a cannon. Then, for one of our last dives, we went to a very shallow site, no more than 18 feet deep, sandy and with poor visibility. We spent a week doing some diving and technical dive training in and around Samaná, during which time I concluded the diving there was terrible. One year after we met, Chatterton invited me to come to Samaná, in the Dominican Republic, where he and his business partner, John Mattera, had a dive shop called Pirate’s Cove Dive Center. Not only is Chatterton one of the few men to have visited the RMS Titanic in its final resting place, but he also helped identify the U-869 and found treasure on the SS Carolina, among a great many other feats. We fast became friends, and I enjoyed learning of his adventures. ![]() At the time I didn’t know about his many accomplishments: I had never seen an episode of Deep Sea Detectives or read Shadow Divers, although I had heard his name mentioned on ScubaBoard once or twice. I first met John Chatterton in the summer of 2007. Sometimes daydreams become reality: I spent roughly four years living and working in the Dominican Republic in search of some of the oldest shipwrecks in the Americas. John Chatterton uses a dredge to search for silver coins at a wreck site.
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