Foreign Football David Mearns has become the face of the privézoektocht to the plane containing the Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson. And that is no surprise.

The Piper Malibu N264DB, on 21 January, on the road from Nantes to Cardiff from the radar disappeared, on Sunday, found at the bottom of the Channel. Scheepswrakjager David Mearns, whose company by the family of Sala via crowdfunding was enabled to board the aircraft to find, had already after a few hours of success. Thanks to the West-Flemish company GEOXYZ also. They identified the vliegtuigwrak with the help of a onderwaterrobot. But who is this famous scheepswrakjager?