Biography

After graduating from Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado in 1988, Peter Hitchcock attended Colorado State University where he studied for two years before transferring to Texas A&M University. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Anthropology from A&M, focusing on nautical archaeology in his graduate work.

Peter’s love of history, the classics, travel, and adventure took him many places. He was part of excavations, study, and work all over the United States and abroad. Peter was an archaeologist on the La Belle excavation in Matagorda Bay, and at its completion followed the ship and its artifacts to the Conservation Research Laboratory on A&M’s Riverside Campus where he helped with its preservation for several years. Peter also worked on the deep-water Mardi Gras Wreck project in the Gulf of Mexico. Becoming more interested in deep-water projects and oceanography, Peter began working for TDI-Brooks International, Inc. in 2010 and retired in 2022 as a Senior Project Manager, appreciating the opportunities he had to travel, contribute, and get to know so many people around the world.