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.
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 known as 'The Indiana Jones of the deep'.
Read more about Mensun Bound: Elizabethan Maritime Trust
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