Mensun Bound

Who is Mensun Bound?

Mensun Bound is a British marine archaeologist, based in Oxford. He is Triton Senior Research Fellow in Marine Archaeology at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.

He was born Michael Bound in 1953 in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands and educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Rutgers University.

In 1980, he established the Marine Archaeological Research unit in Oxford.

He has led a number of notable marine archaeology expeditions:

wreck of an Etruscan vessel, Giglio Island, Italy

Admiral Graf Spee off Montevideo

Fort San Sebastian wreck, off Mozambique

Alderney Tudor warship.

His publications include The Archaeology of Ships at War, Lost Ships and A Ship Cast Away About Alderney.

He is often known as 'The Indiana Jones of the deep'.

In 1992, he was awarded the Colin Mcleod Award for “Furthering international co-operation in diving” by the British Sub Aqua Club.