Wreckless Marine: Wreck Mapping Project

Name: Wreckless Marine: Wreck Mapping Project
Start: 2025-01-29T19:00:00+02:00
Location: 32 Belper Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Schedule

Wed, 29 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

32 Belper Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa | Cape Town, WC

What to expect
Bruce Henderson & Kelly Graham of Wreckless Marine will be discussing the two-year seafloor mapping project that culminated in Wood, Iron and Steel. Using advanced multibeam sonar technology, they mapped 60 shipwrecks, revealing their details as never seen before. This project combined technical diving with meticulous research to uncover each wreck's story. The process involved mapping the wreck, diving to explore and document its features, researching the vessel’s history, and conducting follow-up dives to confirm its identity. They will also highlight new wrecks discovered during the project, many of which are now accessible to the technical diving community.
Bruce Henderson has been diving and sailing since the 1980s. At the end of 2021, he retired from his position as CEO of a large South African food business and took on a full-time role at his marine research company, Wreckless Marine. Bruce is a licensed PADI divemaster, an IANTD technical dive instructor with trimix certifications for open and closed-circuit diving, a SAMSA Category (Offshore) skipper for vessels over 9 m, and an SAS Yacht Master. He holds a BA LLB from the University of Natal, and an MBA from the University of Cape Town.
Kelly Graham is an IANTD-qualified technical diver. To pursue her passion for local shipwrecks, she joined the Wreckless Marine team as a researcher. She is particularly interested in the use of digitisation technologies, and intellectual property for heritage research and dissemination. She holds a SAMSA Category C (Inshore) skipper’s certification. After graduating with an LLM from the University of Cape Town, she entered private practice before becoming a legal consultant.