Why MAST Matters
Webinar
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Background:
MAST is one of the leading charities in maritime archaeology in the country, the only organisation in recent years to conduct major seabed to museum exactions, most recently with HMS Invincible in the Solent. It fills a void where the Government seems unable to fulfil its moral obligations to protect naval war graves and protect the UK’s unique underwater heritage.
Speaker:
Jessica Berry FSA FRGS is founder and CEO of MAST. She is a Visiting Fellow of Bournemouth University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She is an author and maritime archaeologist MA (Hons) MA ACIfA. She is a former journalist with UK broadsheets. After completing a Masters at Flinders University in Australia, she worked internationally as a maritime archaeologist, first in Australia and then in the UK. She cut her teeth in underwater excavation as part of the team excavating the Fame from 2010-2012, a 17th century Dutch armed merchantman off Poole in Dorset. She has since led MAST on to significant success not only in creating the first seabed to museum facility in the UK but also saving priceless maritime artefacts for the Nation. In the water she is an HSE Scuba and HSE SSDE, a PADI Open Water Instructor and an SSI Instructor and holds a commercially endorsed Advanced Powerboat licence.
Chairman:
Giles Richardson MA (Hons) PCIfA, joined MAST in 2018 as an Invincible Project diver. He is now Chief Operating Officer, and the Maritime Observatory’s senior analyst. He has been instrumental in developing MAST’s capacity to monitor and report on the indiscriminate looting of warship wrecks and underwater archaeological sites across the world. Holding qualifications in Archaeology and Ancient History from Durham, Southampton and Oxford, he has 25 years field experience on projects on land and underwater across Europe, the Mediterranean and SE Asia. Notably the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology’s excavations at the sunken Ptolemaic city of Heracleion-Thonis in Egypt.
Speaker(s):
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Jessica Berry
Founder & CEO
Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust
Chairman:
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Giles Richardson
Senior Archaeologist
Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust