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Titanics Forgotten Sister
History Channel Britannic 2006 Expedition Presentation
By History Channel presenter Richie Kohler & Deep Wreck Cameraman Leigh Bishop.

Falmouth Maritime Museum, Cornwall, England
Wed June 6th 2007

Leigh Bishop & Richie Kohler

During Sept of 2006 Shadow Divers and Deep Sea Detective presenters John Chatterton and Richie Kohler from the History Channel led an expedition to film and document Britannic for a special documentary to be screened later this year.

The team was made up of an international line up of deep wreck divers from around the world and set about diving deep inside the wreck using the very latest High Definition studio TV cameras. Richie will for one occasion only join forces with deep wreck diver and cameraman for the project Leigh Bishop to talk about the expedition giving the audience a look behind the scenes of what really goes on and the logistics behind assembling a major undertaking of a expedition of this scale.

Britannic is the largest Ocean liner on the seabed in the world, sister to Titanic and bigger than Titanic in size she really is the forgotten sister ship. Both Richie and Leigh have been on expeditions to Titanic, Richie leading and producing the recent 'Missing Peice's' Titanic documentary for the History Channel using MIR submersibles to explore sections of Titanic that had never been seen before 2.5 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Now both men have come to Britannic to uncover some of the secrets of the bigger sister ship and film the wreck for the first time using massive studio HDTV cameras and monster lighting systems manned and operated by the divers themselves.

This is the only chance to see a first hand preview of what to expect from the full Britannic documentary (to be screened this year) and editors at the History Channel have put together a special short preview of what the divers were tasked with in Greece which will be seen during this presentation.

Not everything goes to plan as Leigh & Richie will explain, but when it does and the team all pull together they get the results they went to Athens, Greece for.

For this project High Definition studio TV cameras from the Woods Hole Institute in the USA were used and were so expensive not to mention large they had to be lifted into the water for the cameramen via high abb lifts on the mother ship.

Several of these cameras were tethered to the surface with fibre optic cable which allowed the woods hole technicians to monitor what was being shot in real time from the surface.

This presentation is a one off special and the only place you can see it is at the Falmouth Museum on wed 6th June, with only 100 seats available please be advised to book your ticket with Milly Newman ASAP.

Cameraman Evan Kovacs about to dive with his High Def camera being lifted into the water

Museum Direct link to website :- http://www.nmmc.co.uk/

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