Brian was born in the West Country and is now retired after spending his working life as a mechanical engineer from technical apprentice, to graduate, to manufacturer, to contractor, to consultant, ending his career as an equity partner in one of the UK’s leading building engineering consultancies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and spent 10 years in the Middle East working for local Arab companies, UK companies, and Governments where he met his wife of 47 years in Qatar, through diving. He has led an adventurous life which included 158 caving expeditions to 42 caves in the UK and France in his twenties, where he took part in an expedition to the then deepest cave in the World. He took up cave diving for a short time but defected to diving in oceans after an involvement with the failed rescue of a fatal accident. With his wife, he has dived over 1,300 times since 1977 in 32 countries ranging from the UK to the South Pacific and Antarctica, diving on 142 wrecks and with all manner of marine creatures from sharks to leopard Seals. He is a keen underwater photographer and has written four books describing his expeditions and has had articles published in the diving press. He is one of less than 250 people in history who have actually dived to the Titanic wreck site in 2005 in a Russian MIR submersible from the support ship RV Mstislav Akademik Keldysh as starred in James Cameron’s film TITANIC. He has a unique personal perspective on the expedition with his photographs, and with video captured by his wife, which is the subject of two of his books. A ‘petrol head,’ he has rebuilt two classic cars, and he has ridden motorcycles and driven racing cars on track days, eventually crashing at Brands Hatch, his son’s claim to his father’s fame. He spent 40 years as a semi-professional bass player and played in over 300 gigs all over Wales and the West Midlands from rough pubs and clubs to major corporate events, backing famous bands on two occasions. Tricked into it by his band mates into playing when the first practice turned out to be a gig, he enjoyed playing for many years until the volume caught up with his hearing. He has taken part in ‘open mike’ nights which scared his wife more than it did him. He made literally hundreds of presentations during his working life on finance, health and safety, quality management and design but started presenting to the outside world with ‘Touching Titanic’ given at the International Wreck Conference in Plymouth in 2006, to 350 people in the University’s main lecture theatre. This cured him of any fear of public speaking.