Kramer Wimberley is Diving with a Purpose

This week, David Helvarg sits down with Kramer Wimberley — lead dive instructor and board member of DWP, Diving With a Purpose — a man who has made the ocean floor both a classroom and a reckoning. Through the discipline of citizen science, DWP has become a leading force in locating, surveying, and documenting the shipwrecks of the Atlantic Slave Trade, pulling history up from the dark water and honoring the lives swallowed by it. But Wimberley's work doesn't stop at the past. He also helms DWP's youth program along the coral reefs of Florida, where a new generation of Black and other young divers are learning that the fight for the sea and the fight for a better future are, at their core, the same fight.