Wendy is an archaeologist with a special interest in shipwreck archaeology. She started her archaeological education in 1992 and began diving in Malaysia a year later. Since then she has participated in and co-directed multiple shipwreck excavations of high international standing in Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Sri Lanka. In 2000, she was awarded a Fulbright grant that enabled her to pursue her dreams as a Ph.D. student in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. Currently, Wendy is a senior lecturer in maritime archaeology at Flinders University. Her current research is focused primarily on maritime trade and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Wendy is an expert in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Dutch shipbuilding and her studies primarily focus on ships of exploration and Indiamen, and include the archaeological remains of Western Australia’s Dutch East Indiamen shipwrecks. An additional research interest comprises ancient ships’ fastenings and anchors. Wendy is also a specialist in the study of ships’ fastenings dating to the ancient Greek and Roman periods. She has conducted research on the metal fasteners and anchors excavated from ancient Mediterranean merchantmen such as the Tektaş Burnu (±440-425 B.C.) and Kyrenia (3rd century B.C.) shipwrecks. You can find out more about Wendy at Flinders University website: http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/wendy.vanduivenvoorde.