Patrice Sandrin

29 March 1953, France

Has worked with Franck Goddio since 1992.

Patrice was educated in architecture and design, but has mainly worked as a diver in archaeology. He has worked for DRASM, in river archaeology. He was born on a boat… and loves everything about the water… especially discovering the past underwater. He’s at his happiest when he’s on a boat, working. He does all of our fine drawings and maps of the projects – a very important part of the process.

He particularly enjoys working on shipwrecks, where you have a concentrated view of life… a “time capsule”. He likes to study the wood structure of the boats.

His favorite discovery was the ring found on the shipwreck “San Diego”, sunk in 1600 in the Philippines… it was the personal ring of Antonio de Morga, and was used as his seal. He was also very touched by the finding of an infant’s bones on the shipwreck of “l’Orient”, which sank in 1798 at the Battle of the Nile.