Filipe Vieira de Castro is an assistant professor of nautical archaeology at Texas A&M University in College Station. Before studying nautical archaeology, he worked as a civil engineer and as a manager. His published works include discussions of the Tantura F and Pepper wrecks and on the history of Portuguese Indiamen.
"The Pepper Wreck (1606): the underwater excavation of this portuguese Indiaman nau, wrecked at the Mouth of the Tagus River, was directed by Luis Filipe Castro. It was also the subject of his Ph. D. in anthropology (TAMU nautical program). Thanks to his remarkable knowledge of the manuscript written sources on Iberian shipbuilding of the XVIth and XVIIth C., Luis Filipe Castro, as nautical archaeologist, has analysed and interpreted with great accuracy, singular caution and perfect methodology, the archaeological remains to reconstruct the architectural history of an Indiaman nau. The Pepper Wreck: this book marks a new step in post medieval nautical archaeology. In the future, it will be impossible to study an Iberian wreck of this period without reference to this book henceforth classical."--Dr. Eric Rieth
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