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Captain Bradley Williamson was the President and owner of several highly successful treasure recovery companies and is currently the President of Treasure Expeditions Corporation and Oceanic Exploration and Discovery LLC. He received his Bachelor of Arts and his areas of study were Military Science, Business and Language and Linguistics. Bradley Williamson studied French, German, Spanish and Japanese with a background in Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. He has also traveled extensively, from the Great Wall of China and Forbidden City in China to the Sphinx and Pyramids in Egypt. This background allows him to oversee expeditions and projects in any country or culture. Also, Brad Williamson has been certified and diving for over 25 years and recovering treasure from shipwrecks for over twenty years. Brad Williamson currently holds dive certifications with the following dive agencies: PADI, NAUI, PDIC which include Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver, Dive Master and Supervisor and Instructor. He is also certified in Nitrox through PADI, NAUI, PDIC and SDI. Brad Williamson is also a Master Diver with specialty ratings in: Night Diving, Wreck Diving, Deep Diving, Equipment Specialist and Search and Recovery. He is currently training in extreme deep water diving, up to 1,000 feet, using Trimix, Heliox and Saturation Diving.

Brad Williamson was trained in diving and certified by John Fine who is recognized by all the certifying agencies as the top instructor in the US and one of the best in the world. Bradley Williamson is also a US Coast Guard Certified Captain and holds a six pack OUPV license and his Master Captain's license. Brad Williamson apprenticed under Bob "Frogfoot" Weller who is recognized as one of the highest regarded and most successful treasure hunters; Bradley Williamson worked with Bob Weller for over 15 years on many projects and recovered a multitude of treasure and valuable artifacts. Brad Williamson has also appeared in several of Bob Weller's books on sunken treasure. Brad Williamson has dove and recovered treasure from all the wrecks of the 1715 Fleet, the 1733 Fleet, and has also worked the 1600's Almiranta. Brad Williamson has even dove and penetrated a vast amount of sunken intact modern vessels. Included with many of his underwater projects Brad has also been involved or led expeditions on land, including the search for pirate treasure on remote islands, working with an expedition to locate the tomb of Genghis Kahn in China, did research work in Egypt regarding a lost gold sarcophagi in route to the British Museum, worked in the Superstition Mountains regarding the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, etc. These are just a few of his expeditions and adventures. During these expeditions he has recovered Gold Doubloons, Silver Pieces of Eight, Jewelry, K'ang Hsi Porcelain and numerous other precious artifacts.

Bradley Williamson is well trained in all the current diving equipment and has tested some of the newest and experimental diving gear for Oceanic. He is also trained in the use of multiple remote sensing magnetometers, side scan sonar and sub-bottom profilers and every metal detector. He is the owner and captain of on of the most successful treasure recovery boats, the Pandion, for over 8 years and is now used as one of the vessels in his salvage fleet consisting of five different salvage vessels. Brad Williamson has been involved as an advisor for movies on treasure hunting including the recent major motion picture "Fool's Gold" which included the cast of Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson and Donald Sutherland. In the movie Fool's Gold Bradley Williamson worked with Debra Padrick from Warner Brothers and provided the production team with the information about the Queen's Jewels that the characters in the movie Fool's Gold were trying to locate. Brad Williamson has also been the subject of various books and magazine articles and news reports on diving and treasure hunting and has also been filmed for two TV series about diving and treasure recovery and these are the first TV series about diving and treasure hunting to be filmed in high definition for TV and IMAX theaters.