{"name": "Kevin Patience", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "source_records": ["ia:shipwreckssalvag0000kevi"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Early life in Kenya. Twelve years in the Royal Air Force. Twenty five years in commercial diving and ship salvage. Author of seventeen books, numerous articles for historical, military and transport journals and editor of a number of East African reference books. Organised steam train and battlefield safaris in East Africa, and an experienced speaker on a number of well known subjects."}, "personal_name": "Kevin Patience", "photos": [14418289, 7317987], "key": "/authors/OL214787A", "alternate_names": ["kevin patience"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-04T08:48:50.963700"}}