Graham Jessop (5 June 1957 – 1 November 2012) was a British

commercial diver Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. The procedures are often regulated by legislation and codes of practice as it is an inherently hazardous occupation and the diver works as a member of a team. Du ...

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, s ...

who has taken part in a number of important expeditions such as the 1999 discovery of the remains of the

RMS Carpathia RMS ''Carpathia'' was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Wallsend, England. The ''Carpathia'' made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston, and continued on ...

off the coast of

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. Jessop subsequently purchased the ''Carpathia'', so as to control access and protect it from private scavengers. 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 deep ...

, he recovered the approximately $85,000,000 of gold bullion from HMS ''Edinburgh'' in 1981. In 2000, RMS Titanic Inc. named Jessop as the recovery manager of the wreck of the ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United ...

''. He was born in

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and died from cancer."Shipwreck diver Graham Jessop dies aged 55"
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1957 births 2012 deaths English archaeologists English underwater divers Professional divers {{UK-archaeologist-stub