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Dr Lucy Blue is one of the world's leading maritime archaeologists, a senior lecturer at Southampton University and a specialist in maritime ethonography and harbours.

Interviews

Lucy Blue talks about the motivations and inspirations behind her life's work, the highs of a year spent filming Oceans and the underwater animal and superpower she would choose, if given the chance.

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The archaeologist

Lucy talks about the motivations and inspirations behind her life's work.
Filming Oceans

Lucy describes a year spent filming the Oceans series.
My animal

Lucy escapes from the world of adults and dreams of play.
My superpower

Lucy's new power could uncover the lost secrets of the deep.

Biography

Lucy Blue is a graduate of Manchester and Oxford Universities and has extensive archaeological knowledge and skills. She has several publications under her belt and a host of field work trips, both underwater and on land.

Her specialist areas of interest include ancient trade routes, submerged coastal landscapes and ports and Graeco-Roman seafaring.

Lucy currently co-directs an archaeology project near Alexandria in Egypt and before this a project in Adulis, Eritrea. In the past she has worked on the Roman and Islamic Red Sea harbour site of Quseir Al-Qadim. She has also spent many hours excavating the eastern Mediterranean shipwrecks.