John has been involved in deep water search and salvage financing, management and operations for the last 30 years (his first wreck searches were in 1984 for the Ancona, located in 500m of water offshore Sardinia and the Laconia found offshore Ireland).

His background is in commercial saturation diving in the 1970s, project management and commercial management with Comex before co-founding Comex Deep Sea Salvage Ltd and later Subsea Resources PLC and Deep Ocean Search Ltd in 2010.

John has had the opportunity over his long career to be involved with all aspects of ultra-deep water work which gives him some knowledge and insight into this business.