Who Are We?
NAS Staff
Mark Beattie Edwards - Programme Director
Mark joined the Nautical Archaeology Society in 2001 as a Training Officer teaching the NAS parts I, II and III certifications to hundreds of keen students. Mark has been involved in underwater archaeological projects in the Channel Islands, the Baltic, Caribbean and throughout the UK. He is now the NAS Programme Director responsible for the day to day operation of NAS including overall supervision of training and project opportunities.
Mark is currently the licencee of the Holland 5 protected wreck site and nominated archaeologist for the Norman’s Bay protected wreck and has appeared on Radio4 and the 2009 series Coast on the BBC.
Mary Harvey - Training Manager
Mary joined the NAS in 2007 as an Assistant Training and Publications Officer, through the IFA Workplace Learning Bursary Scheme, working on delivering NAS training courses and updating the NAS training materials to co-incide with the release of the NAS Handbook. Mary became a full time member of the NAS Staff in September 2008 as Training and Publications Officer. Mary has continued to build experience with the NAS Training Programme and in 2010 became NAS Training Manager taking on responsibility for the UK training programme as well as liaison with our many international training partners offering NAS courses and projects overseas. Mary also runs the Sound of Mull Underwater Archaeology Fieldschool in Scotland.
Rachel Quick - Training Officer
One of the newest recruits, Rachel is stepping into Mary Harvey's shoes as the Training officer, taking over some of Mary's tasks in administration and development of the training programme. A graduate in Archaeology and Anthropology from Bristol University, Rachel also has a Masters in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton. A keen PADI Divemaster and also Young Archaeologist Club Assistant Leader, Rachel hopes to open the training program to younger participants and broaden the ages of those involved.
Michelle Thurgood – Office Administrator
Michelle joined the NAS Office as a part time administrator in January 2010
Paula Martin - IJNA Editor
Paula read Latin with Greek at Bristol, but got sidetracked into archaeology. She started as a
research assistant to Colin Martin, and joined him and Keith Muckelroy
for summer seasons on HMS Dartmouth in the Sound of Mull, La Trinidad
Valencera in Donegal, and El Gran Grifon on Fair Isle. Colin and Paula were married in 1976.
Paula took up local history, ending up with a PhD from the University of
Dundee in 2000 and continued to help Colin with fieldwork, being Finds Manager and Deputy
Director of the Duart Point Shipwreck Project for several years.
Paula now works for the NAS as the Editor of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (IJNA) as well as teaching with the Open University and undertaking freelance research.
For more information on the Journal and submitting an article please visit the IJNA pages of the website. She can be contacted on paula@arnydie.demon.co.uk
Angela Croome - IJNA Book Reviews Editor
Angela is the Book Reviews Editor and the Deputy Editor of the IJNA. Angela works from home and does not use email. If you wish to get in touch with Angela please email Paula Martin, who will ensure that emails reach Angela.
Chris Underwood - International Development officer
Chris has been associated with the Society’s training programme since 1986, and is currently expanding it through developing international partnerships. He has a Masters degree in Maritime Archaeology, as well as professional diving qualifications. He first became involved in maritime archaeology in 1978 as a volunteer with the Mary Rose diving team, subsequently becoming the project’s Diving Officer and one of the Superintendents of the Trust’s ship’s recovery diving team in 1982. After the Mary Rose he combined professional diving in the oil and civil engineering industries with accumulating a broad range of archaeological experience on sites around the UK, Baltic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Caribbean, After more than a decade as NAS Training Officer and then Project Director, in 2005 he became a member of Argentina’s National Institute of Anthropology’s underwater research programme working on projects in the South Atlantic, including the excavation and research of HMS Swift, 1770. He continues to run NAS courses in Latin America and academic courses for students at the University of Buenos Aires. His particular archaeological interests are focused on developing archaeological training and historical archaeology.
Gerald Grainge - NAS Monograph Series Editor
Gerald graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Modern Languages and served in the RAF in the 1950s. After service as a teacher, he worked local government, retiring in 1992. He completed a research degree in Maritime Archaeology at Southampton in 2001. His thesis on the Roman invasion of Britain of AD 43 was published in 2002 and a further book on all the Roman invasions of Britain followed in 2005. Gerald became the editor of the NAS Monograph series some five years ago.
Panagiota Markoulaki
Panagiota is currently a PhD candidate in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Dr Mark Pearce. She has been a fieldwork archaeologist in England for a number of years and has participated in numerous archaeological research projects both underwater and on land in the United Kingdom and Greece. Panagiota has always been passionate about nautical archaeology with a particular interest in prehistoric logboats. Since 2006 Panagiota has been the News Editor for the Sparta Journal and she is currently filled with great enthusiasm for being the new NAS Newsletter editor.
NAS President
Phil Harding
NAS Executive Committee
Mike Williams - Secretary
Mike Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published extensively on the law relating to the foreshore and seabed and underwater cultural heritage. He advises government departments and agencies both in the UK and abroad and is retained as an advisor to the Crown Estate on foreshore and seabed matters. Mike has commercial and recreational diving qualifications and dives with the South West Maritime Archaeological Group and the HMS Coronation team. He sits on the Joint Nautical Archaeological Policy Committee, is Honorary Secretary of the Nautical Archaeology Society and is a trustee of the Resurgam Trust.
Clare Robinson - Treasurer
Jessica Berry
Jessica Berry has been a print journalist most of her life and recently undertook as masters degree in maritime archaeology at Flinders University in South Australia. She is currently a freelance journalist and freelance maritime archaeologist, thereby trying to have a foot in both camps.
David Carter
A retired Engineer and BSAC Advanced Diver who started diving in 1970 and quickly developed an interest in maritime archaeology. A member of NAS since 1988 he was the surveyor and team member with Weymouth Underwater Archaeology Group/Chelmsford Underwater Archaeology Unit before co-founding Weymouth LUNAR (Land & Underwater Nautical Archaeological Research) Society. Under the ‘Adopt-A-Wreck’ Scheme they adopted the East Indiaman ‘Earl of Abergavenny’ which sank in 1805 and the Portland Stone Sailing Barge, circa 1740, as well as creating exhibitions and maritime galleries in Weymouth and Portland. As a member of the ‘Earl of Abergavenny’ team since 1979 he has helped them win the Duke of Edinburgh’s BSAC Gold Award in 1996 and the NAS ‘Adopt-A-Wreck’ Award in 2005.
Annalisa Christie
Annalisa Christie is an archaeology graduate from UCL specialising in African and maritime archaeology. She is currently in her final year as a PhD research student at University of York under Dr Paul Lane investigating the Maritime Cultural Landscapes in the Mafia Archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. She has been involved various research projects in Madagascar, South Africa and Peru, as well as several projects throughout East Africa. Annalisa is a keen scuba diver and a PADI IDC Staff Instructor. She joined NAS in 2004 and has undertaken several of the NAS training courses offered.
Simon Draper
Simon Draper is a Trustee Director of NAS and Chairman of the Funding Group. After a period as a university lecturer and research scientist he was responsible for marketing and business development at a privatised research institute. He then set up a small consultancy company which delivered business advice and undertook underwater photography for media publication. He became interested in nautical archaeology through diving on wrecks in the Philippines, the Red Sea, the Caribbean and Malta. This interest led to participation in NAS training and to setting up the Sheraton project in the inter-tidal zone at Hunstanton. Other interests include sailing in the UK and the Caribbean. His main ambition with NAS is to help achieve good financial support for the valuable work which the Society undertakes.
Jon Henderson
Dr Jon Henderson is an Associate Professor in underwater archaeology based at the University of Nottingham with specific research interests in submerged prehistoric settlements. He joined the University of Nottingham in 2000 straight from completing his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford and his MA studies at the University of Edinburgh. Jon has supervised and directed underwater projects in the UK, Poland, Greece and Malaysia. His work on the investigation and excavation of lake dwellings in Scotland, funded by Historic Scotland, led to the formation of the Underwater Archaeology Research Centre at the University in 2004. The application of computers, acoustics and laser scanning in survey on land and underwater forms a further interest and he was recently awarded a major Knowledge Transfer Project working closely with commercial archaeological units to develop operating standards for digital archaeological survey. Jon has published over twenty academic papers, one single authored book and edited three academic volumes. He is the British Director of the Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project which is investigating the oldest submerged city in the world through detailed digital underwater archaeological survey (2009-2010) and targeted underwater excavations (2011-2013). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Member of the Institute for Archaeologists.
JD Hill
JD Hill is Head of Research for the British Museum. A prehistoric archaeologist by training, he has a wide range of experience in different areas of Museums, Heritage, the Media and Higher Education. A diver since 1982, he usually dives to get away from archaeology, but his own research has increasingly focused on maritime archaeology and long term histories. He jointly organised work on the Pudding Pan Roman site off Herne Bay, Kent and regularly teaches on the University of Southampton's MA course in Maritime Archaeology.
Peter Holt
Peter is based in Plymouth where he currently runs maritime archaeology projects for the US charity foundation ProMare. He spent 20 years in the oil industry with Sonardyne designing underwater positioning systems for ROVs and divers. Peter has worked on maritime archaeology projects since 1989 in many countries and in water depths down to 1200m. In 1998 Peter started 3H Consulting Ltd., a maritime archaeology consultancy company whose most notable product so far has been the Site Recorder software. He has written a number of papers on surveying, geophysics and data management. Peter is now managing The SHIPS Project for ProMare with the aim of recording and investigating the maritime history of Plymouth.
David Johnston
Dave Johnston is a sports diver (PADI dive master, BSAC instructor) and avocational maritime archaeologist, who funds his passion for underwater archaeology with a day job running microscopes for the University of Southampton. He joined the NAS in the late 1990s, shortly after qualifying as a diver, in order to participate in WreckMap projects as a means to get more diving experience. Having worked his way through the NAS training syllabus to Part 3 level, he is now a NAS tutor, sits on the NAS Executive and Management Committees and chairs the Outreach sub committee. He also runs the ongoing Stourhead Gardens project for the Society. Outside of NAS he is a regular member of the license team for the Warship Hazardous Prize site and volunteers with the Hants and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. His current Society aims are to increase the “value” of membership for members and to use outreach activities as a means to increase the size and diversity of the membership base, thereby building a stronger and more active society in which all members both feel that they have a stake and derive real benefit from belonging to.
Alison Kentuck
Alison Kentuck has been involved in archaeology since the age of 16 when Indiana Jones inspired some work experience with MoLAS. Excavating Victorian rubbish dumps in the grounds of an abandoned hospital wasn't quite what she had in mind, but the experience was a good one. Alison went on to study Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool and then on to Southampton University for an MA in Maritime Archaeology. Alison has been a diver since the mid 1990s and first joined the NAS as a student in 1999. She has worked on archaeological sites all over the country and abroad, and has put her experiences to good use in her current role as the Receiver of Wreck
Courtney Nimura
Courtney Nimura is a PhD Candidate at the University of Reading studying prehistoric maritime rock art in Scandinavia. She previously worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA) in Conservation and Collections Management before returning to university in the UK. Courtney has a BA and MFA in photography / museum studies from the United States, and an MA in Maritime Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. Alongside her work with NAS, she volunteers with the Thames Discovery Programme and studies Danish language in London.
Ian Oxley
Dan Pascoe
 Dan is a maritime archaeologist and diver having graduated from Southampton University with a BA in Archaeology, MA in Maritime Archaeology and a commercial diver from Fort William. He has since worked for a number of organisations including the Mary Rose Trust, HWTMA, and at present Wessex Archaeology. He has been fortunate to be involved in a variety of projects, of which there have been many highlights including the excavation of the bow of the Mary Rose, excavation of a submerged Mesolithic landscape at Bouldnor Cliff and underwater investigations of the wrecks of the Great Storm on the Goodwin Sands. These projects ignited his passion for underwater discovery, exploration and reuniting the past with the present. As a new member of the committee he hopes to bring new ideas for projects and increase the opportunity for members to practice the skills they acquired from NAS courses.
Robert Peacock
 Bob started diving in 1976 with the Thanet British Sub Aqua Club (106 branch) progressing through the ranks and developing a passion for wrecks, which has seen bob diving all over the world. However he still gets excited about diving in the UK, particularly on the greatest shipwreck graveyard of them all off the Kent coast, the Goodwin Sands. It is diving the historic shipwrecks of this great ship swallower that ignited his lifelong interest in Nautical Archaeology.
In 1991 Bob became the licensee for the three protected sites on the Goodwin Sands, the Stirling Castle, Restoration and Northumberland. He is still the licensee for these sites and continues to prioritise their investigation along with helping to organise three international maritime conferences, all held in Kent.
Bob first attended a NAS Training course in 1994 and went on to achieve his Part IV Diploma in 2009. He has a masters degree in maritime archaeology from Ulster University. Having risen through the ranks, and with a robust, pragmatic and realistic view of Maritime Archaeology in the UK he hopes to repay, through time on the Committee, some of the pleasure and unique life experiences given by the Maritime Archaeology community.
Eliott Wragg
 Eliott Wragg has a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Field Archaeology, both from Birmingham University and an MA in Maritime Archaeology from UCL. He worked as an Archaeological Site Assistant for the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit and Pre-Construct Archaeology before becoming a Senior Archaeologist for the latter and then going on to work as a freelance site supervisor and project manager on sites in the South-East of England. He is currently the Field Officer for the Thames Discovery Programme and has a particular interest in vessels and vessel fragments
NAS Sub Committees
John Cooper
John P. Cooper is chair of the NAS Publications Sub–committee, which oversees the Society’s paper and electronic publishing activities. Originally from Tyneside, John read Arabic at Durham after a gap year in Jordan introduced him to the wonders of the Arab world. Following a master’s degree in linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he went into business journalism, first as a reporter and then an editor, writing about energy and the economies of the Middle East. His subsequent return to academia began with a master’s degree in Maritime Archaeology at Southampton, where he went on to complete a Ph.D. investigating navigation on the Egyptian Nile in the medieval period. He is currently a post–doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, where he is a member of the MARES Project, a three–year programme investigating the maritime traditions of the Red Sea using archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic and historical data.
NAS Vice Presidents
David Blackman
David Blackman was a founder member of the Committee for Nautical Archaeology, predecessor of the NAS, in 1964, and its Chairman in 1975⁄6. He was active in the campaign for wreck protection legislation in UK waters, and then for an international agreement covering the underwater cultural heritage beyond national territorial limits. He taught Classics and Archaeology at Bristol University, 1964–75, where he organized the first international conference in Britain on Marine Archaeology in 1971. He then spent 20 years at the European Parliament, before going to Athens to direct the British School of Archaeology. Now living in Oxford, he continues his lifetime interest in ancient harbours, in particular naval dockyards. As an NAS Vice–President he is particularly involved in international relations, public policy matters and publications.
Lucy Blue
Chris Dobbs
Christopher Dobbs has been heavily involved with the NAS ever since attending the first meeting of the NAS Steering Committee in 1980. He was an archaeological Supervisor on the Mary Rose during the excavations from 1979 to 1982, where he did a lot of training of divers to work archaeologically underwater. This inspired him and others to create NAS Training and Chris devised the 4–Part scheme that won a Duke of Edinburgh Prize. Chris has a degree in Archaeology (MA Cantab) as well as a PGCE and MBA. 22 of his 31 years of experience as a maritime archaeologist have been with the Mary Rose Trust where he has been involved with all the major phases of diving, excavating, raising, restoring timbers into the hull and running the museum. Chris lectures on Maritime archaeology and Museology at a number of universities in the UK as well as internationally. His main work at present is with the designs and interpretation for the new Mary Rose Museum due to open in 2012, but he still dives on the Mary Rose site – see photo (2005). A Former Chairman of NAS, he is currently a Vice-President and is the UK Representative on the ICOMOS International Committee for the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Nic Flemming
Nic Flemming started surveying submerged classical Roman and Greek harbours and towns in the Mediterranean in 1958, and has been working on older and older submerged sites ever since. Bronze Age in the 1970s. Neolithic settlements in the 1980s. Palaeolithic in the 1990s. He is now co-ordinating multi-national projects to examine an approach to the prehistoric archaeology of the European continental shelf as a whole.
Colin Martin
Colin Martin ended his schooldays as an educational no-hoper, but thanks to an early interest in nautical archaeology he’s since obtained a PhD, become a full member of the IfA and Association of Archaeological Illustrators, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Royal Historical Society. Brief and undistinguished careers as a flying instructor, soldier, and freelance photo-journalist led (by devious routes) to archaeological work on shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada and an academic career at St Andrews University, from which he retired in 2001. He’s worked on several other historic shipwrecks, most recently the Duart Point wreck off Mull, and is interested in the frontier areas of Roman Britain and landscape archaeology. With Paula he’s currently working on a maritime landscape project in the west of Scotland, bringing together work underwater, on the foreshore, along the coast, and from the air. He’s a member of the Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites and a qualified NAS Tutor.
Bob Yorke
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