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Diving with a Purpose and the Hunt for Sunken Slave Ships

12.01.2020 - By Ocean Science RadioPlay

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Of the over 12,000 ships making more than 40,000 voyages over 250 years of slave trade, hundreds sunk to the bottom of the ocean but barely a handful have been explored and cataloged. The Ocean Science Radio team sits down with members of Diving with a Purpose who are tasked with training volunteers and scientists to do underwater archeology to rectify this.

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