Shipwrecked: Diving with a Purpose with Dr. Sean Kinglsey

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Today on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon welcomes Marine Archeologist Dr. Sean Kinglsey. Learn about how marine archeology is carried out, what the divers look for when they dive and explore shipwrecks, and how the information is pieced together to fill in gaps of the history of human migration--specifically, the transatlantic slave trade, in which 12.5 million Africans were transported around the world against their will. Dr. Kingsley's latest book is Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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0:00.0	Welcome.
0:05.0	Today I'm speaking with marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley.
0:09.9	And we are talking about a new book that he was a part of, perhaps you recognize the accompanying
0:14.6	TV show that had Samuel L. Jackson attached to it called And Slaived.
0:20.3	And this conversation is all about the incredibly fascinating field of diving on sunken slave
0:28.1	ships and what that can tell us about the past.
0:31.4	So let's literally dive in.
0:35.8	I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.
0:41.6	I could not wait to get here this morning to record this podcast episode because this
0:47.8	topic is so unbelievably fascinating.
0:51.5	Thank you so much for being here today Sean.
0:53.4	Oh Sharon, it's a pleasure to be here.
0:55.1	Thanks for having me on your show.
0:56.7	And when I saw just like the cover of your new book and slave the sunken history of
1:05.6	the transatlantic slave trade, all the little receptors in my brain were like, well,
1:11.1	we need to read that.
1:13.7	And I did and it was absolutely fascinating because it had never really even this concept
1:18.7	of underwater archaeology of things like exploring sunken slave ships had never even
1:26.6	entered my mind as like something that anybody was doing or that we should do.
1:32.2	So first of all, absolutely fascinating.
1:34.8	Secondly, how did you get involved in doing this?
1:37.7	Well, yes, we are a referee.
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