SPEAKERS

Leigh Bishop

Leigh Bishop is a world-renowned deep shipwreck explorer. His specialist deepwater photography alongside his own research has led to the documentation and discovery of many famous shipwrecks.

He has been a member of many significant deep shipwreck expeditions over the last decade which include the Britannic her sister Titanic, Lusitania, Egypt, Transylvania the Nazi Liner Wilhelm Gustloff and many more Ocean liners. He has also explored more than 400 virgin wrecks off England and been the first to dive many U-boats. In recent times he joined an Australian led team to photograph the deep Gold ship Niagara off New Zealand and is making plans to explore more deep wrecks in the Pacific. He has also been a photographer on the expeditions to the Arctic in search of the lost British Submarine X5. He was the first to photograph & explore other famous lost British submarines such as HMS Vandal HMS Affray & HMS M1 all in deep water.

Leigh is recognized as an innovator of black & White time exposure photography underwater, using a tripod he has used this method to capture many inspiring shipwreck images like the famous bow of the massive liner Justica and the huge guns of HMS Audacious.

Leigh has been a prolific speaker and writer on the subject for over a decade and has published shipwreck articles in just about every diving magazine around the world.

As a previous OZTeK speaker he returns to Sydney with more visual shipwreck and underwater photography presentations and workshops.

His website is www.deepimage.co.uk