Meet Neil Cunningham DobsonPrincipal Marine Archaeologist
 About OdysseyMeet the CrewPopular with the crew, and a fixture at Odyssey for nearly a decade, Neil is a feisty Scot who is quick to laugh and keeps everyone on their toes with his keen Scottish wit. His passion for sharing the shipwrecks he investigates with the public has earned him the affectionate nickname, the People’s Archaeologist.
A self-acknowledged goofball, Neil has worked in the marine industry for over 30 years. At the age of 17 he was a junior deck officer in the Merchant Navy. He then served as a stability officer and barge engineer on offshore drilling installations in the North Sea and Irish Sea. A long spell ashore saw Neil as an offshore survival instructor/examiner. During this time he took up sport diving and gained commercial diving qualifications. After graduating from St. Andrews University with a master's in marine archaeology, Neil decided to test the theory that robots and manned-submersibles could be an archaeologist’s hands and eyes.
Neil’s worked with Odyssey on scores of shipwreck sites and supervised work on projects such as the SS Republic recovery as well as other projects in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. He is the company’s principal field archeologist and has more experience viewing shipwrecks through ROV cameras than any other archaeologist in the world.
Neil, who is single, has two sons and resides in St. Andrews, Scotland, where his ancestors have lived for a few hundred years. His hobbies include learning to play the didgeridoo, mastering simple magic tricks, drinking real ale and eating good food.
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