Uncovering a History Lost at Sea: The Slave Wrecks Project

Can you imagine being able to discover your own history? Black divers and maritime archaeologists are diving to the depths of shipwrecks to recover stories that had been missing from our world history, until now.

What if you could be one of the first people to touch a piece of your own history? Or even more incredibly, be the one to discover and write that history for future generations? For the first time ever, a generation of divers of African descent are telling the untold stories of their ancestors by becoming the maritime archeologists who are finding, identifying, and writing the history of shipwrecks long lost. Here’s why this is so awesome.

By Liesl Ulrich-Verderber