You have reached Chris Michael's pages about diving, shipwrecks, marine research, books and boating [click underlined text to learn more; here for Theoretical Physics]:
• For information on diving: Liverpool Bay and Anecdotes;   History of dive tables;   Salvage diving - history. Liverpool Bay dive trips;  
• For information on detecting shipwrecks: Interpreting magnetometer data to deduce properties of shipwrecks;   Use your mobile phone to detect a shipwreck;     Sonar surveying and Crowd-sourced Charting.
• For information on books about shipwrecks: overview or to ORDER,
  Wrecks of Liverpool Bay (1994) also Updated information
  Wrecks of Liverpool Bay Volume II (2008) also Updated information; Additional wrecks.
  Liverpool Hurricane of 1839 (2014) also Updated information
  Lelia (2004) (American Civil War blockade runner lost on maiden voyage in Liverpool Bay)
• Wreck Summaries (web - free): Dee Estuary (2025);   Early SS (2025);   Emigrant ships(2025);   Liverpool Sailing Packets(2025);   Lots more wrecks(2025).

• Search these pages for shipwrecks, etc [just skip the adverts in the results]:

• Information on navigation:   Cruising the Dee estuary;   Cruising the Mersey;   Cruising the Irish Sea;   MARLIN cruises in the Irish Sea area; Wildlife
  Boating Rants:   Not for navigation; Fishing floats; Firing Ranges; the Green Bits.
• Summaries of experience with boat equipment: Fuel tank level; Exhaust Alarm; Solar Panels; Electric cooking; Electric Capstan; Boat electrics; Boat networks; Sonar kit; Hot water on tap; Seagull Defence
• Some marine history:
The earliest detailed charts of Welsh ports and anchorages by Lewis Morris in 1748,
Early steam ships:   Post Office Packets,   Mersey Ferries and Tugs,   Mersey built,   Dee,   Dee built,   North Wales,   North West England;   North Wales and North West steam yachts,
Early sailing vessels built Mersey, Dee, Clwyd and Conwy and Ribble.
Liverpool involvement in the American Civil War: Building Blockade Runners and CSS Florida.
  Innovative vessels.
• Information on Cubbin's Green (part of Wirral Country Park close to sea-shore South of West Kirby) (or here).