Anglo~Danish Maritime Archaeological Team

The Team

Florence Prudhomme,   A Short Biography

Florence Prudhomme, is the Secrétaire Générale for ADMAT-FRANCE. She organises all the French divers as well as promoting ADMAT's educational work in France. Florence was part of the research team headed by Dr. François Gendron, who successfully interpreted the archaeological data and wrecking processes calculated by Dr. Simon Spooner on The Perfume Wreck. Florence and Dr. François Gendron then successfully found all the archives into the sinking of the Perfume Wreck, which was actually called Le Casimir. The archival story and testimonials from the survivors of the sinking of Le Casimir, confirmed Dr. Spooner’s wrecking process 97%.

Florence is one of the main contacts with the French National museums. She is a trilingual (English & German) postgraduate in international relations at the University La Sorbonne (Paris). Florence followed a 3-years training with the conservation, restoration and preservation, works of art.

As a 3-stars CMAS diver and having the French equivalent of HSE Scuba (certificat d’aptitude à l’hyperbarie, classe I, mention B), Florence has dived all over the world and has successfully achieved the ADMAT’s Underwater Survey Diver certificate. She is also an advanced Nitrox Diver and qualified at the level of Inspiration Rebreather.

She was invited to give lectures at the castle of Vincennes presenting ADMAT's activities and the British archives. She`s conducting many researches in the French archives and especially in the Archives Nationales on the area of Monte Cristi Bay in the Dominican Republic. She has found many documents relating to the wrecking of French ships and old maps of the French navigators revealing the common mistakes of the mapping at this time period.