January 11, 1958 -
American maritime archaeologist, historian, author, television host and explorer
Author of more than 200 academic articles and 33 books including "Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage", "Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet" and "War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century"
Named a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Society
Was an Officer in Spain's Order of Civil Merit