Mensun Bound

Mensun Bound (born 4 February 1953) 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.^[1]

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 (MARE) unit in Oxford.

He has led a number of notable marine archaeology expeditions (of which some involved the sale of artifacts):

• 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 (1995), Lost Ships (1998) and A Ship Cast Away About Alderney (2001).

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

References

1. ^ http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/staff/69/Mensun_Bound.html?StaffID=29 St Peter's College, Oxford

Elizabethan Maritime Trust

Since 1992 Mensun Bound has been at the forefront of an archaeological research into a ship that sunk of the north west coast of Alderney in the Elizabethan times of 1592. In the course of this, Mensun Bound has found three cannons.^{[citation needed]} Cannons being made in Tudor times were of different sizes of bore, so finding the right cannon ball for the right cannon was time consuming during battle. In Elizabethan times the new threat from the Spanish made English naval supremacy lay with the new cannons having the same bore by proving that a ship with 10 cannons abreast on a ship and firing at the same time increase power and gunnery for the newly developed English navy.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Mensun Bound Dive Magazine profile
• Alderney Elizabethan Wreck

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