Rod's diving career started a very long time ago in the early 1980's - before even Wham were popular. Within a few years he had developed a particular interest in shipwrecks which was to take him all over the world from Scapa Flow to Truk Lagoon to the South China Seas.
The paucity of information for divers about the scuttled German WW I High Seas Fleet wrecks lying at the bottom of Scapa Flow led to the publication of his first book, Dive Scapa Flow in 1990. This book has been updated and expanded over the years as the wrecks decay and fall apart and a Centenary edition was published in 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet.
Rod has written for most dive magazines and has been involved in several TV productions such as Drain the Oceans, Wolrd's Greatest Shipwrecks, Timewatch:The Death of the Battleship and Equinox: Lethal Seas.
He is a keen sailor and lives in Stonehaven, a small historic fishing town just to the south of Aberdeen where he served as lifeboat crew and then as RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager of the Stonehaven Lifeboat service.
Rod was inducted into The Explorers Club of New York in 2015 as a result of his exploratory work with shipwrecks and in 2016 after receiving a Licence from the UK MoD was Flag 192 Expedition Leader of a specialist international team of divers to survey and record the wreck of HMS Hampshire off Orkney. He is a Patron of the GB & Ireland Chapter of The Explorers Club.
