ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Maricle

First-Time Novelist. Lifelong Maritime Adventurer.

After nearly 50 years in Sea Scouts, working with historic vessels and eventually becoming a Skipper, Michael Maricle finally tried writing the kind of maritime adventure he has enjoyed reading for years.

He joined Sea Scouts in 1977 after leaving Boy Scouts and looking for something new to do. The program's combination of boats, adventure, practical skills, and responsibility quickly became something much more than a hobby.

Over the decades, Michael worked with vessels ranging from former U.S. Navy utility boats to fiberglass workboats converted for Sea Scout service. He learned vessel operation and maintenance, diesel mechanics, construction skills, and eventually the teaching and leadership skills required of an adult leader. He became Skipper of Sea Wolf in 2020, continuing a maritime tradition that had begun decades earlier.

That experience became part of the foundation for Position Uncertain.

Michael had never written a novel before. He simply wanted to try. Inspired by the maritime adventure fiction he had enjoyed for years, he began developing a story about a long-lost shipwreck, a young woman who inherits her father's unfinished investigation, and the question of whether the only survivor of the wreck had been telling the truth.

The result is Position Uncertain, a modern maritime thriller centered on the 1641 wreck of the Dutch merchant ship Walburga.

The novel brings together many of the things that have fascinated Michael throughout his life: ships, maritime history, exploration, practical seamanship, the people who work around boats, and the mysteries that can survive for centuries beneath the surface.

Michael lives in California and remains involved in Sea Scouts and maritime activities. Position Uncertain is his first novel, and he hopes it will be the beginning of Mara Voss's adventures rather than the end.