Christian is a Maritime Archaeologist with a keen interest in the analysis and formation of historic graffiti. With a background in Physical Geography, he undertook a Masters in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Malta where he was introduced to historic graffiti research. He joined the Malta Ship Graffiti Project (MSGP), has discovered many previously unknown graffiti sites and created a methodology to record them. Since then, he has undertaken surveying projects on the wreck of RMS Lusitania and investigated almost a dozen shipwrecks on the UK Kent coastline. He has also presented his graffiti findings at several conferences including the “Making Your Mark Graffiti Symposium” at the University of Southampton and the University of Augsburg, and for the “Under the Mediterranean II Conference” in Malta. He also founded and leads his Maritime Archaeology consultancy, Wreckognition. He is currently a Marine Geophysicist at Wessex Archaeology.