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John Odin Jensen

John Odin Jensen, author of Stories from the Wreckage: A Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks, has studied North American maritime frontier shipwrecks from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to the edges of the Bering Sea. Born into a Norwegian-American seafaring family in Alaska, he began his maritime career working alongside his father and brother in the commercial fisheries. As a former crab boat captain and a shipwreck survivor, Jensen brings deep professional experience and personal sympathy to the study of the North American mariners, ships, and shipwrecks. His more than thirty years of Great Lakes experience began with a position as an engineer/deckhand aboard the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee research vessel Neeskay and continued surveying shipwrecks as a professional underwater archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Jensen earned a BA in history from Lawrence University, an MA in maritime history and underwater archaeology from East Carolina University, and MS and PhD degrees in history from Carnegie Mellon University. He is on the faculty of the department of history at the University of West Florida. Note: John lives in Pensacola, Florida, and is available for virtual programs only.

Topics:

• Maritime History
• Shipwrecks

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