Graeme Henderson AM is a maritime archaeologist, former museum director and the 2002 Western Australian Citizen of the Year.

His discovery at age 16 of the wreck of the seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company vessel, Vergulde Draeck, sparked a life-long interest in shipwrecks.

He went on to develop the colonial shipwrecks program at the Western Australian Museum, to contribute to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and to serve as director of the Western Australian Maritime Museum for 13 years.

Graeme has published widely on individual shipwrecks and those found off the coast of Western Australia; Swallowed by the Sea is his first book on shipwrecks that occurred Australia-wide

Robert de Hoop (RCE) is a maritime and underwater archaeologist working with the International Programme for Maritime Heritage at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), part of the Ministry of Education Culture and Science. The projects within this programme deal with Dutch maritime heritage overseas and shared cultural heritage.Robert completed a bachelor in Archaeology with Honours at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He comple ed his masters at the Maritime Archaeology Programme at the University of Southern Denmark.

Andrew Viduka (FSA M.ICOMOS-ICUCH) is a maritime archaeologist and conservator employed by the Australian Government as the Assistant Director, Maritime and Commonwealth Heritage. In this role, Andy administers Australia’s legislation which protects the underwater cultural heritage and coordinates the National Underwater Cultural Program. Andy co-led the drafting of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 and leads Australia’s consideration of ratification of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.