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Dr Mark Breach
MA MSc PhD FRICS FInstCES FRAS AFRIN
Mark Breach is a Principal
Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, England. He lectures in
Mathematics, Geodesy and Navigation. He holds master's degrees from
Cambridge and Oxford; his PhD was concerned with astronomical positioning.
He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institution of Navigation and a Fellow of
the Royal Astronomical Society, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and
the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.
Born and brought up in
Falmouth, England, he has been around boats since a boy. From an Atlantic
crossing under sail in his teens (long before the luxury of GPS) he has crewed,
skippered and navigated thousands of nautical miles. With his yacht,
SunArise kept on the River Humber; the East coasts of England and Scotland are
his current cruising grounds.