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Graham Jessop (5 June 1957 – 1 November 2012) was a British commercial diver and
marine archaeologist Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, lakes and rivers through the study of associated physical remains, be they vessels, sh ...
who has taken part in a number of important expeditions such as the 1999 discovery of the remains of the off the coast of
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. Jessop subsequently purchased the ''Carpathia'', so as to control access and protect it from private scavengers.


Diving career

Along with his father,
Keith Jessop Keith Jessop (10 May 1933 – 22 May 2010) was a British salvage diver and successful marine treasure hunter. History Early life Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, as the son of a penniless Yorkshire mill-worker. Jessop learned to dee ...
, he recovered the approximately $85,000,000 of gold bullion from in 1981. In 2000, RMS Titanic Inc. named Jessop as the recovery manager of the wreck of the ''
Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers a ...
''.


Personal life

He was born in
Keighley Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second-largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford. Keighley is north-west of Bradford, n ...
,
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in 1957, and died from cancer on 1 November 2012."Shipwreck diver Graham Jessop dies aged 55"
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1957 births 2012 deaths English archaeologists English underwater divers Professional divers People from Keighley {{UK-archaeologist-stub