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).