1. The groups that work on the wreck sites are National Association of Black Scuba Divers
(NABS) & DWP (Diving With a Purpose). They are working at South of Miami, Biscayne
National Park.
2. They start out the first day with just a kind of overview of archeology artifacts and basic
principles of underwater or archaeology in general. And that afternoon, they do a mock wreck
site. Teach things that they will actually do in the water. So the first day is very intense & very
long. The next morning, the DWP-ers load up and head to Ledburry Reef, an unidentified
shipwreck for their training site. First day in the water, they do what they call a reconnaissance
dive, or just kind of get an overview of the size of the shipwreck. So they’ll run a baseline, which
is just basically a rope from one end to the other and they try to run it down the middle of where
all this debris field is. And they would split the wreck site up into 4 quadrants. And assign teams
to each one of those quadrants. DWP instructors with each team that would be leading and
teaching those students. Pin clips along the baseline. Once the baseline and quadrants have been
set up, the volunteers search the wreck site for objects that might be of historical significance.
Pin flags around a wreck/areas of interest. They have to know where those artifacts are in
relation to the wreck to the baseline. Trilateration measurements-you measure the distance from
that pin flag, where that artifact is located to a baseline clip, do 2 measurements and that will
triangulate and tell you exactly what that particular artifact is. After measurements are taken,
divers begin their underwater drawings of the objects they flagged. These drawings will later be
transferred to a large site map that illustrates the layout of the wreck site. After two days of
diving, the volunteers return to the classroom. They discuss their findings, refine their drawings,
and begin work on the site map, which depicts the entire wreck site. She learned how to put the
