A diver’s hunt for lost slave ships led to an incredible journey ... first Black female Explorer to be featured on the National Geographic cover.

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “People would come watch men tear apart ships with their bare hands. But they don’t let in outsiders anymore.” ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Its final feature, inaugurated in late 2016, is a new ship lift, a hydraulic seesaw that raises and lowers vessels ...