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Dr Maddy McAllister is a maritime archeologist who calls herself a shipwreck detective. She is Senior Curator in Maritime Archaeology at the Museum of Tropical Queensland, in Townsville, where she is responsible for managing some 8000 artefacts recovered from about 30 shipwrecks. Maddy began diving aged 14 in South West Australia where she grew up. And after attending a lecture on by the Australian Museum of Shipwrecks, she knew Marine Archeology was what she wanted to doShe has dived wrecks all around Australia, in the Indian Ocean and in Oman. She says she wants to find and document as many shipwrecks as possible before they're lost. She speaks with Kathryn Ryan from Townsville.