The Shipwreck Hunter pwllheli – Lifeboat Magazine

– Lifeboat Magazine

Fought just five years after the US Navy's carrier-led forces swept into Tokyo Bay

Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin

Matthew Payne is a Paddle UK SUP instructor

with photographs

The Shipwreck Hunter pwllheli – Lifeboat MagazineDavid Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep water searches have solved the 66 year mystery of HMAS Sydney, discovered the final resting place of the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood and revealed the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur in the narrow underwater canyon that served as its grave. His painstaking historical detective work has led to the shallow reefs of a remote island that hid the crumbling wooden