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The gripping memoir of the world´s foremost marine geologist, and an enthralling blend of maritime history, popular science and Clive Cussler-style adventure.

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Winner of the Mountbatten Award for Best Book, 2018

David Mearns has discovered some of the world´s most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama´s 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken vessels in every ocean of the world.

The Shipwreck Hunter is an account of David´s most intriguing and fascinating finds. It details both the meticulous research and the mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck miles beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies.

Combining the derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a surgeon, in The Shipwreck Hunter David Mearns opens a porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.

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The most satisfying aspect of the book, and what gives it its compelling drive, is the author´s commitment to each project, embodied in the relationships he develops with the people who have nurtured each ship´s memory. Times Literary Supplement

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US-born marine scientist, researcher and deep-sea shipwreck hunter David Mearns OAM has found and filmed some of the world´s most famous and controversial shipwrecks; notoriously difficult wrecks that others predicted would never be found or their mysteries solved. Over his 30-year career he has led the research and discovery of 24 major shipwrecks achieving an overall success rate of 89%, and his company Blue Water Recoveries has been awarded three Guinness World Records, including one for the deepest shipwreck ever found at 5,762 metres. David is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.

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