I’ve been very pleased to contribute a number of articles to Wreckwatch magazine since its foundation in 2020, allowing me to write about some of my current projects off Cornwall in England and to look back on my career as an archaeologist and writer. Wreckwatch is an exciting innovation conceived and edited by Dr Sean Kingsley …
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Diving the wreck of the James C. King (1867), Tobermory, Canada, September 2015
Another highlight of our recent expedition to film the wrecks of Fathom Five National Marine Park was the James C. King, a schooner built in East Saginaw, Michigan, in 1867 …
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Diving the wreck of the Wetmore (1871), Tobermory, Canada, September 2015
I took these photos in September 2015 on the wreck of the W.L. Wetmore during a trip with my brother Alan (seen here and below with video camera) …
Read MoreFree-diving on wrecks at Tobermory, Lake Huron, Canada, August 2015
For the third year running my daughter and I have had a couple of days free-diving on the shipwrecks of Tobermory, in Fathom Five Provincial Park, Lake Huron, Canada …
Read MorePYRAMID: excerpt from the novel (the wreck of the Beatrice)
In my novel Pyramid, Jack and Costas revisit the wreck of the Beatrice - discovered in my previous novel, Pharaoh - in order to examine the ancient Egyptian sarcophagus of Menkaure for further clues to Akhenaten's lost 'City of Light'. To find out more about the real-life wreck and the sarcophagus, click here. After a horrifying accident with Costas' submersible, Jack has to make a snap decision ...
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Diving on the wreck of the Charles P. Minch (1898), Tobermory, Canada
These pictures show my daughter in August 2014 on the wreck of the Charles P. Minch, a wooden schooner that went down in 1898 …
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Tobermory: diving the wreck of the Alice G
I took these pictures yesterday of my daughter free-diving on the wreck of the Alice G at Tobermory in Canada, during a few days spent exploring the pristine waters …
Read MoreNATIONAL POST: The deep →
My final post as guest-editor of 'The Afterword' on Canada's National Post newspaper:
This unusual author portrait was taken by my brother Alan near Tobermory in Lake Huron, one day in spring as the ice was breaking up. I’ve been passionate about diving since boyhood, and in my career as an underwater archaeologist I’ve dived all over the world. But I’ve always loved returning to Tobermory, the place where I did my first open-water dive in 1978. It isn’t just the extraordinarily well-preserved shipwrecks that draws me back ...
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Diving under ice
This film of me underwater was taken by my brother Alan one day in April as the ice was breaking up on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada …
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