You have reached Chris Michael's pages about diving, shipwrecks, marine research, books and boating [click underlined text to learn more]:
• For information on diving: Liverpool Bay and Anecdotes;   History of dive tables;   Salvage diving - history.     Diving from MARLIN;   recent trips;   possible next MARLIN trip.
• 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 (2022);   Early SS (2022);   Emigrant ships(2022);   Liverpool Sailing Packets(2022);   Lots more wrecks(2022).

• Search these pages for shipwrecks [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,   Post Office Steam Packets,   Early Mersey Ferries,   Innovative vessels.     Liverpool involvement in the American Civil War: Building BlockadeRunners and CSS Florida.
• Information on Cubbin's Green (part of Wirral Country Park close to sea-shore South of West Kirby) (or here).