William Hugh Edwards OAM (29 July 1933 – 10 May 2024) was a Western Australian journalist, author and marine photographer who wrote numerous books on maritime, local and natural history and diving.
[1] Edwards played a major part in the exploration of Dutch East India Company shipwrecks of the 17th and 18th centuries on the Western Australia coast.
It covers the loss of the Dutch East Indiaman, the mutiny and massacre on the island, and the retributions.
Wreck on the Half Moon Reef is another of Edwards' books, on the loss of Zeewyk in 1727.
Edwards' autobiography Dead Men's Silver detailing 60 years of diving, shipwreck discovery and salvage, was published in 2011.