Peter Christopher (author)

This article is about the author of books about shipwrecks and riverboats. For the author and academic, see Peter Christopher.
Peter Christopher
Born 1948
Cyprus
Language English
Nationality Australian
South Australian and Sunderland delegates on board the City of Adelaide during the conference convened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (Peter Christopher is standing on the right hand side)

Peter Christopher (born 1948, Cyprus) is an Australian author and photographer who writes about shipwrecks and riverboats. He is also a Director of the not for profit organisation, Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ltd (CSCOAL), set up to save the 1864 clipper ship, City of Adelaide.[1]

Peter is the author of seven books, and co-editor of another. Australia’s large collection of original operating paddle steamers has been the subject of three decades of research by Peter, and hence the subject of two of his seven books.[2][3]

Since 1967, Peter has been an active scuba diver and volunteer maritime archaeologist who has visited and documented wrecks in South Australia (SA) in particular, but also around Australia. Peter's contribution to maritime archaeology was recognised by an Award presented to him by the Australian Government in 1982 and by the award of a life membership by the Society for Underwater Historical Research in 2000.[4][5]

In 1973, Peter was a member of the South Australian Government's inquiry into scuba diving deaths in fresh water sink-holes and underwater caves in the south east of SA. The Report of the Committee "appointed to investigate safety precautions for Scuba Divers in Fresh Water Sink Holes and Underwater Caves" which was presented to the Government in January 1974 essentially recommended non-legislative response to the problem. The subsequent voluntary program of regulation via diver training and certification has been carried out by the Cave Divers Association of Australia. The success of the program is evident with nearly four decades of low fatality cave diving following the implementation of the Report's recommendations.[6]

Peter is not a full-time author; he works as a senior Trade Union official, with his current role being the Chief Industrial Officer of the Public Service Association of South Australia.[7][8]

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  1. ↑ 'Who are we' at http://cityofadelaide.org.au/who-we-are.html, retrieved 20 May 2012
  2. ↑ Brice, Rebecca (14 April 2008). "Dry Murray reveals past secrets". Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC News. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  3. ↑ Kemp, Miles (26 September 2009). "Crusade to solve maritime mystery". The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia). Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  4. ↑ 'Editorial', Soundings, October 2000, pp.2 , in Cowan, David (editor), (2007), The Society for Underwater Historical Research – Publications 1974-2004, Port Adelaide, SA, Society for Underwater Historical Research, (ISBN 978 0 9588006 6 2)
  5. ↑ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1765498?lookfor=subject:%22Australia%20-%20Dept.%20of%20Home%20Affairs.%22&offset=12&max=16
  6. ↑ South Australia. Committee Appointed to Investigate Safety Precautions for Scuba Divers in Fresh Water Sink-Holes and Underwater Caves; Draper, Laurence D. (Laurence Desmond), 1923- (1973), Report, [The Committee]
  7. ↑ ‘New book by passionate PSA veteran’, Public Sector Review February/March 07, pp.6 at http://cpsu.asn.au/review/Public_Serv_A__s_Review_2699.pdf, retrieved 24/05/2012.
  8. ↑ ‘Overcrowding crisis forces prisoners to be held in court cells’ at http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/full-house-sign-at-jails/story-e6freol3-1111117749440, retrieved 24/05/2012.

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