2025

The winners of the Maritime Media Awards 2025

Maritime Media Awards 2025

Six Park Place, London
Thursday, 20 November 2025

The Desmond Wettern Award for Best Writer

Pete Sandeman
Editor
Navy Lookout

The Desmond Wettern Award for Best Writer

Tom Sharpe OBE
Columnist
The Telegraph

The Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book

Helen Sampson
Sea-Time: An Ethnographic Adventure
Routledge

The Maritime Foundation Award for Best Illustrated Book

Nicholas Nugent
Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
British Library Publishing

The Donald Gosling Award for Best Audio-Visual Production

Mark Monroe
Titan: The OceanGate Disaster
Diamond Docs & Story Syndicate/Netflix

The Maritime Foundation Award for the Most Influential Use of Social and Immersive Media

Joe Furness
Joe the Sailor
tiktok.com/@joethesailor

The Special Recognition Award for Dedication Beyond a Single Challenge

Blue Marine Foundation

The Special Recognition Award for Dedication Beyond a Single Challenge

N. A. M. Rodger

The Special Recognition Award for Dedication Beyond a Single Challenge

The Desmond Wettern Fleet Award

HMS Iron Duke