Peter Faulding: What Lies Beneath

Danielle Newnham Podcast

Today’s guest is Peter Faulding - a world-leading confined space rescue and forensic search specialist. He has pioneered the use of side-scan sonar in forensic searches for missing persons underwater in the UK and is a world leader in underwater search techniques. He has assisted in the search in many cold cases and has located human remains and evidence that had gone undetected for years, in some of the most remote locations on land and underwater. Peter is a qualified commercial diver, helicopter and fixed-wing pilot, and holds both a UK and United States FAA pilot's licence.

His first book which we discuss in this conversation is What Lies Beneath - a memoir on his life and career journey from caving with his father aged five to the many rescue and murder cases he has been involved with.

Peter has had such a varied and fascinating career - from his time in the caves and mines aged 5, to six years spent in the 10th Volunteer Battalion, Parachute Regiment where he passed the gruelling training to earning the coveted Maroon Beret and qualified as a military parachutist. To setting up his company Specialist Group International and his work in forensic search and confined space rescue, advising top police and military both here in the UK and in the USA, as a guest of the American Secret Service, presenting to their specialist teams and the FBI.

Peter has lived an extraordinary life – and it’s that I am sure will inspire you.

Here is my conversation with Peter Faulding.

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Peter on Twitter / Website / Specialist Group International

Buy Peter's book here What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert

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