Career
Bennett founded Atlantis Technical at the Atlantis Dive Resort in the Philippines. In the early 2000s, Bennett and Ron Loos made the first dives to the Move Files Princess of the Orient wreck site in Manila Bay. In 2001 located the wreck of the Imperial Japanese battleship Yamashiro through sound scans but could not confirm before his death.
Confirmation wasn"t made until 2006.
John Bennett was missing, presumed dead on 15 March 2004 in a commercial diving incident in of Korea. He was declared legally dead in 2006, but the body has never been recovered.