Diving With a Purpose

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Diving With a Purpose is a collective of Black scuba divers who search for long-lost slave wrecks. They are on a mission to raise the silent voices of the captive Africans who went down with those vessels and bring them back into our collective memory. We join their youth diving program - YDWP - in Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys, as they head out onto the ocean in search of the Guerrero. The Guerrero was a pirate ship being chased by a British ship HMS Nimble when it ran aground in 1827. It had 561 captive Africans on board, of which 41 drowned.

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0:00.0	Hi Namalanta Combo here with some very exciting news.
0:04.0	Dear Daughter is back for a new series.
0:07.0	I'm putting together a handbook to life for daughters everywhere
0:10.0	full of stories and advice to help navigate life.
0:13.0	That's Dear Daughter from the BBC World Service.
0:16.0	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcast. How deep is this is?
0:25.0	30 feet.
0:26.0	Same depth.
0:29.0	This is the documentary from the BBC World Service. My name is Kennedy Lucas. I'm 18 years old and
0:37.0	I'm a member of Diving with a Purpose. We invite you to join us on a special mission searching for the slave shipwreck Guerrero.
0:46.0	Diving with the purpose or DWP is a non-profit which focuses on the protection, documentation, and interpretation of African slave trade shipwrecks and the maritime history and culture of African Americans.
1:04.0	I've been scuba diving ever since I was 14,
1:07.0	so about four years, but I've been doing archaeological,
1:10.0	like maritime archaeology for about two years, so I'm still pretty new to it but it's a lot of fun and really important and special work.
1:18.4	I'm here in Biscayne National Park Florida with DWP's underwater archaeology training program for young people,
1:26.4	youth diving with a purpose.
1:28.8	Our anomaly investigation form, it says anomaly number 5.213. The divers are Greg Brana and Kennedy. Our bottom time was 32 minutes.
1:38.0	The materials we found one was...
1:40.0	It was founded by Mr. Ken Stewart.
1:43.0	I was in South Africa in 2010.
1:45.0	I was on a boat on a slave wreck actually called the San Jose.
1:50.0	And I was sitting on the boat and I had another one of my epiphanies and I said,
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