Why MAST Matters
Webinar
Background:
MAST is the UK’s leading charity in maritime archaeology in the country, the only organisation that conducts seabed to museum operations and has sufficient resources that enabled it to mount several large maritime archaeological rescue missions. It fills a void where the Government seems unable to fulfil its moral obligations to protect naval war graves and protect the UK’s unique underwater heritage.
Speaker:
Jessica Berry FSA FRGS is founder and CEO of MAST. She is a Visiting Fellow of Bournemouth University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She is an author and maritime archaeologist MA (Hons) MA ACIfA. She is a former journalist with UK broadsheets. After completing a Masters at Flinders University in Australia, she worked internationally as a maritime archaeologist, first in Australia and then in the UK. She cut her teeth in underwater excavation as part of the team excavating the Fame from 2010-2012, a 17th century Dutch armed merchantman off Poole in Dorset. She has since led MAST on to significant success not only in creating the first seabed to museum facility in the UK but also saving priceless maritime artefacts for the Nation. In the water she is an HSE Scuba and HSE SSDE, a PADI Open Water Instructor and an SSI Instructor and holds a commercially endorsed Advanced Powerboat licence.
Chairman:
Dr Giles Richardson is a maritime archaeologist, MA (Hons) PCIfA and an Invincible Project team diver. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bath’s History of Technology Research Unit, and completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Maritime Archaeology. His research focuses on the archaeology of the Victorian Royal Navy. He continues to work on projects across Europe, notably the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology’s excavations at the sunken Ptolemaic city of Heracleion-Thonis in Egypt. He holds HSE Surface Supply (Offshore Top-Up) and Professional SCUBA qualifications, and is a BSAC Advanced Diver and Open Water Instructor and a PADI Open Water Instructor.
Speaker(s):
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Jessica Berry
Founder & CEO
Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust
Chairman:
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Dr Giles Richardson
Senior Archaeologist
Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust