The Importance of Understanding Your Family's History

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As a child she'd read books about folks immigrating to the United States before her family who traveled by boat. She notes that not asking about your family's history is very different than being robbed of that knowledge by forced migration. Her grandfather was on the open ocean a lot though traversing the seas to Venezuela for work six months at a time. So Chanel feels like she has a seafaring constitution. Does she though do you get seasick? "I've been seasick. Like twice and once I'm pretty sure what speed poisoning"

Shipwrecks. Treasure. Sunken planes. Scuttled submarines. New life forming around old machinery. There’s an -ology for that -- just ask Maritime Archaeologist and wreck nerd Chanelle Zaphiropoulos. This absolutely charming and passionate scuba diver, history buff and antiquities scholar dishes about pirates, warships, admirals worth admiring, and ships ranging in size from water taxis to the Costa Concordia and Titanic. Also world record diving stats, war graves, how owning a fountain pen can be egregious and why a Midwestern coal barge from the 1970’s is worthy of weeping over. Ahoy!

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