Video interview: Shipwreck hunter David Mearns, OBE

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Video interview: Shipwreck hunter David Mearns, OBE

Oceanographer David Mearns, an American scientist who has lived and worked in Great Britain since the mid 1990s, is the world’s most successful shipwreck hunter. His company, Blue Water Recoveries Ltd., specializes in deep ocean search operations. He received a Master’s in Marine Geology from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science in 1986, and spent much of the subsequent decade surveying and mapping the topographies and geolo…