NAS Wales
Regional Co-Ordinator
Ian Cundy BSc MA
 After leaving school at 16, Ian worked through a five year apprenticeship as a draughtsman, based in London, but with a year spent working in an iron foundry in Derbyshire and a spell spent working on an on shore gas terminal in Norfolk.
In 1969 he attended Queen Mary College London, graduating with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering.
In 1972 Ian worked for two years in the copper mines of Zambia, before returning to the UK to take up a post with Taylor Woodrow as a Mechanical Engineer. This job involved working both in the UK and Jordan, with time spent in Canada and East Germany.
In 1980, Ian and his wife Pauline took over a narrow boat holiday hire company based in Worcestershire. Over the next 30 years they built 66 boats, both for introduction into the company’s hire fleet, but also for private customers, developing a specialty for designing and building both wide and narrow beam canal boats for disabled people.
In 1994 an accident caused the company’s floating workshop to founder, and overnight Ian took up diving and underwater salvage. Having joined the Tewkesbury Underwater Group (TUG), it was a natural progression from raising a workshop for Ian to attended a NAS Course in Underwater Archaeology, and he subsequently progressed through the training structure to become a NAS tutor in 1998.
In 1997 Ian and his diving partner Bill Turner founded the Malvern Archaeological Diving Unit (MADU). Over the years MADU have run numerous projects including the hunt for the Silver Grey, a spitfire lost off the coast of Bexhill during World War II, and on the protected wreck sites of the Iona II off of Lundy Island, and the (not the) Diamond in Cardigan Bay. Over the years Ian has been the designated licensee for both these wreck sites.
In 2004 Ian was awarded the Sub Aqua Association’s “George Arnold Trophy” for contributions to maritime archaeology, and in 2007 he attended University College London, graduating with an MA in Maritime Archaeology.
Training
Ian works within wales, offering training courses, outreach presentations and is looking at project opportunities.
For more information on NAS Training in Wales, please contact Ian at diving@madu.freeserve.co.uk
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