Specialties

• ​HSE part 1 Commercial diver, specializing in subsea inspection, photography, subsea lifting.
• Extensive experience in marine application of GIS, acoustic diver tracking systems.

Selected Publications

• The Wreck of an Elizabethan Merchantman from the Thames: A preliminary Fieldwork Report. / Auer, Jens ; Bangerter, Rex ; Mallon, Frank.
  I: Between the seas. Transfer and Exchange in Nautical Technology. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Mainz 2006, ISBSA 11. Vol. 3 Mainz : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2009. s. 79--88 (Tagungen RGZM).
• Maritime Archaeology SEA 6: Irish Sea. Mallon, Frank.
  Strategic Environmental Assessment, UK Department of Trade and Industry with Geotek Ltd and Hartley Anderson Ltd and Wessex Archaeology, 2005.
• Maritime Archaeology SEA 7: Irish Sea. Mallon, Frank; Paddenburg, Dietland.
  Strategic Environmental Assessment, UK Department of Trade and Industry with Geotek Ltd and Hartley Anderson Ltd and Wessex Archaeology, 2006.

Education Profile

• 2001: HSE Part 1 Offshore Commercial Diving, Bovisand, England.
• 1997: B.A in Archaeology, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland

Professional Profile

​Francis was involved in a number of governmental subsea search projects in England and Ireland and is specialised in underwater research techniques including diving and marine geophysics. Director of underwater surveys and excavations in the UK and Ireland, including survey work on the early submarines Resurgam, Holland V and A1. Participated in underwater excavations of medieval ships (Boyne wreck, Drogheda, and the Princes Channel Wreck, London).

Scientific and Professional Memberships

• ​Associate of the Institute of Field Archaeologists
• Member of the Institute of Archaeologist of Ireland