Mensun Bound is a leading marine archaeologist who has discovered many of the world’s most famous shipwrecks. He has lectured widely for the British Council and a range of museums, universities, learned societies, archaeological organizations and cruise ships. From 1994 to 2013, he was Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford University. He was Director of Exploration on the two expeditions of 2019 and 2022 to find Shackleton’s Endurance, as well as a Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust that organized and oversaw the hunt.

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