Fred Hocker

Fred Hocker is the Director of Research at the Vasa Museum, responsible for historical and archaeological research concerning Vasa, the ship, and its contents. He is formerly the Yamini Associate Professor of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A & M University and worked as a wooden shipwright and shipkeeper at Mystic Seaport Museum before entering the academic world. He is also an active crew volunteer on Kalmar Nyckel, a sailing recreation of a full-rigged ship of the 1620s–1640s.