Frank Pope

Who is Frank Pope?

Frank Pope is the author of two books and presenter of two BBC television series. After running shipwreck excavations for Oxford University Maritime Archaeological Research & Excavation he wrote Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archaeology & Greed. For four years from 2008 he was the world's only Ocean Correspondent, working for The Times newspaper of London, during which time he wrote 72 Hours: The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine and presented Thames Shipwrecks: A Race Against Time and Britain's Secret Seas for the BBC. In 2012 he joined Save the Elephants in Kenya.