12 Facts About Mensun Bound

Mensun Bound was born on 4 February 1953 and is a British maritime archaeologist born in Stanley, Falkland Islands.

Mensun Bound is known for directing the excavation of an Etruscan 6th-century BC shipwreck off Giglio Island, Italy, the oldest known shipwreck of the Archaic era, and the Hoi An Cargo which revolutionized the understanding of Ming-Vietnamese porcelain from Vietnam's art-historical Golden Age.

Mensun Bound was born on 4 February 1953 in Stanley, Falkland Islands.

Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Islander whose great-great-grandfather, James Biggs, arrived with the first colonists to Port Louis on the brig Hebe in January 1842.

Mensun Bound retired from academic life in 2013 to pursue his interest in deep-ocean archaeology.

Mensun Bound has authored or edited over 100 articles and several books on archaeology.

Mensun Bound is a trustee of the Falkland Islands Foundation, the World Ship Trust, the Council of the Nautical Archaeology Society, the Alderney Maritime Trust, the Friends of the Falklands Museum and the Falkland Islands Maritime Heritage Trust.

Mensun Bound is a Fellow of the Explorers Club, New York.

Mensun Bound has lectured widely on maritime archaeology for the British Council, and a range of museums, universities, learned societies, archaeological organisations and cruise ships.

Mensun Bound's awards include 'Diver of the Year, Italy' 1985, and in 1992 he received the Colin McLeod medallion from the British Sub Aqua Club for 'Furthering international co-operation in diving'.

Mensun Bound's work has been the focus of many documentaries in England, Italy and the US, including an award-winning, four-part series entitled Lost Ships by the Discovery Channel, which covered the Agamemnon, the Hoi An wreck, the Graf Spee and the Mahdia ship.

The BBC has made several documentaries on Mensun Bound's work including Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns, about the recovery, replication and test-firing of an Elizabethan iron cannon from the Alderney wreck.