Fred Lockwood
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Fred Lockwood
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Book Review: The Ship Beneath The Ice by Mensun Bound
Review by Professor Fred Lockwood There are thousands of ship wrecks around the world. Many are associated with both dramatic and tragic events. Some have...
Book Review: Overboard!
Overboard (2010), by Michael J. Tougias is a true story. It brings together interviews and statements of those involved and weaves them into a compelling...
Book Review: The Boys in the Cave
Review of The Boys in the Cave: Deep inside the impossible rescue in Thailand (2018) On the 23rd June 2018 twelve members of the Thai Wild...
Book Review: The Explosion of the SS Sultana
If you were asked to list two or three major maritime disasters, where many lost their life, I guess you would mention the sinking of...
Book Review: Pirate Hunters (2015)
It sounds like the stuff of children’s story books: Caribbean pirates fighting a pitched battle with the Royal Navy in the seventeenth century, modern day...
Book Review: Dead Mountain: The untold story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (2014)
The front cover of Dead Mountain (2014), by Donnie Eichar, encapsulates the essence of the whole book; a group of cross country skiers disappearing into...
Book Review: Last Man Off (2014)
It was his first job after graduating as a Marine Biologist. Matt Lewis joined a deep sea fishing trawler, the MFV Sudurhavid, in Cape Town...
Book Review –Adrift: Seventy-six days lost at sea (1986)
A lone sailor is battling an Atlantic storm in a twenty-one foot long sailboat. It is dark, approaching midnight, when a massive crash rips away...
Book Review – The Final Dive: The Life and Death of ‘Buster’ Crabbe (2007)
It was the height of the Cold War. The Soviet Cruiser Ordzhonikidz, supported by two destroyers, had brought Soviet leaders Khruschev and Bulganin to Britain...
Book Review: Dragon Sea (2007) by Frank Pope
Dragon Sea, by Frank Pope, tells the true story of the location, combined archaeological survey of a large, five-hundred year old wreck and salvage of...
