Graeme Henderson AM is a maritime archaeologist, former museum director and the 2002 Western Australian Citizen of the Year.

His discovery at age 16 of the wreck of the seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company vessel, Vergulde Draeck, sparked a life-long interest in shipwrecks.

He went on to develop the colonial shipwrecks program at the Western Australian Museum, to contribute to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and to serve as director of the Western Australian Maritime Museum for 13 years.

Graeme has published widely on individual shipwrecks and those found off the coast of Western Australia; Swallowed by the Sea is his first book on shipwrecks that occurred Australia-wide