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NAS South West

Regional Co-Ordinator

Peter HoltPeter 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 and has contributed to a number of books on maritime archaeology and wrecks.  Peter is a visiting research fellow at the University of Plymouth and is undertaking research work in the use of marine magnetometers for archaeology.

Peter has worked on many sites and projects, the most notable being the Cattewater wreck, the Roman wrecks off Capraia in Italy, HMS Colossus (1798), Coronation (1691), Erme Estuary, Firebrand (1707), Hazardous Prize (1706), Mardi Gras deep wreck excavation, Mary Rose, USS Monitor (1862), Kizilburun Roman wreck, Resurgam submarine (1880), Vliegent Hart (1721), HMS Whiting (1815)

Peter is now managing The SHIPS Project for ProMare with the aim of recording and investigating the maritime history of Plymouth.

pete@3HConsulting.com
www.3HConsulting.com
www.promare.co.uk/ships

Training

Peter works with other NAS Tutors in the South West to offer NAS Training at Introduction, Part I and Part III levels. Look out for courses in the South West in the training timetable or if you would be interested in organising a course for your group please contact Peter

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