What do DWP divers learn?
DWP won’t get you a degree in archaeology, but it’ll give you some skills. The volunteers learn basic mapping and documenting–laying a baseline, measuring, and drawing artifacts. Then we map a site for the heritage trail. We’ve finished four of nine so far. Everybody who does it comes to love archaeology. Our people can then document any wreck, even Guerrero. We are also reaching out to other sites and countries. What would it be like to be among the first to dive Guerrero? A lot of history books don’t deal with slavery enough. Even African Americans say they don’t want to talk about it. We shouldn’t dwell on slavery, but I think many don’t understand it. The Guerrero wreck would help further that understanding. To be down there would be an awesome feeling. Some of my ancestors could have been on that boat. What did you learn about archaeology from DWP? It is painstaking. Nobody glorifies an archaeologist like Brenda, and everybody glorifies the treasure hunter. When we finish the her
