Patrick Keenan

Patrick Keenan served in the United States Navy for thirty years as a diver, salvor, and engineer. At sea, he held deck and engineering officer positions aboard ATF and ARS class salvage ships and was the Seventh Fleet Salvage Officer based in Singapore. Shore assignments included hyperbaric maintenance superintendent at a diving research facility, drydocking and diving officer in a naval shipyard, Officer in Charge of the Ship Repair Unit Bahrain, Commanding Officer of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit, and Director of the Naval Construction and Engineering Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His final tour of duty was as U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving and Director of Ocean Engineering. After leaving the Navy in 2012, Patrick served as Global Director of Operations for TITAN Salvage through 2014 during TITAN’s successful removal of M/V Costa Concordia from Giglio, Italy. He then joined Phoenix International Holdings where he managed the commercial underwater ship repair service line until his appointment as President in November 2016.

A registered professional engineer and marine surveyor, Patrick received a BA in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Materials Engineering, and a Naval Engineer Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research relating to waterborne ship repair was published in the Naval Engineers Journal and he holds a U.S. patent for his invention, Method and Apparatus for Thermal Insulation of Wet Shielded Metal Arc Welds. For leading the salvage and heavy lift operation that returned USS Cole from Aden, Yemen to the United States, Patrick received the American Society of Naval Engineers Claude A. Jones Award for excellence in the field of Naval Engineering.