by Salvador Van Dyke Salvador Van Dyke participates in Youth Diving With a Purpose. Extraordinary youth doing extraordinary things. Those are the words that represent Youth Diving With a Purpose (YDWP). From all the instructors and students to the National Park Service and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
by Harrison Dutton Harrison Dutton learns how to plant corals for Youth Diving With a Purpose. Planting corals is by far my favorite part of the entire Youth Diving with a Purpose (YDWP) program. Actually, I don’t think there is a single part of the coral restoration...
by Maura Richardson Maura Richardson participates in Youth Diving With a Purpose. Youth Diving With a Purpose (YDWP) is an amazing program that I had the opportunity to be a part of this year. YDWP is no summer camp or like any other summer program - this...
by Gabrielle Miller This is my second year as a returning advocate with DWP. Participating in activities this year reminds me why I wanted to do archaeology in the first place. Archaeology, to many, is a topic of fascination, an opportunity to be an outsider observing...
Celso, Cezar and Chafim - the 3Cs - young Mozambican archaeologists on the #slavewrecks project team, working to preserve the sunken slave ship heritage of Mozambique Island. How ironic that these men, roughly the same age - 26, 26 and 27 - coming from various communities...
I spent an evening last week with Albie Sachs, a former South African Constitutional Court Justice and revered anti-apartheid activist ...
Her name is Gaia, and she is the mother.Her name is Yara, and she is the daughter. Mother and daughter have a symbiotic, close, complicated relationship. Their love for the ocean is one of the things that binds them together. The mother wanted to be a marine biologist...
Gisela, pronounced the French way: Geez-zella, and Samira, pronounced the sweet way: with a smile, graduated this past December as the first female PADI-certified divers on Mozambique Island. One worldly - Gee-zella is the kind of woman who haunts dreams, I think - everybody kinda falls...
You have to love Yolanda and Ricardo Duarte. Ricardo I know we Americans bandy this word ‘love’ about recklessly, easily “loving” anything from commodities as banal as minty dental floss (the waxed version, please) or Ciara’s Level Up video (I would “love” to pop my bootie like...
I arrived on Ilha de Moçambique (the island of Mozambique) twelve days ago. Today, as I sit in the Nampula airport on the way to the next port on my journey, I travel backwards in time … remembering a whirlwind of passionate and thoughtful conversations—on roofs...