Fotogrametry is my latest learned skill and I am using it to contribute to make history buried under the ocean



I have proudly become a photogrammetrist with youth form my community that are in the Diving Center, looking for sunken ships that are part of stories that have not been known.  The three dimensional modeling allows us to understand where artifacts belonging to old ships might come from. 



For example, the brick I am photographing now might be from Denmark, which would mean that the ships sunken there might be Danish. And we also know that archaeologists in the past found a manilla slave bracelet, which would mean that the ships might have been slave ships.  Add the two together, link it with a story in the National Archives and there were two ships, the Fredericus IV and the Chistianus V that came to Costa Rica by mistake in 1710 and released 650  Africans in the shores eve though they han been brought to be enslaved.



That is one way how we as a collective are making history. Look at the video of what I am contributing to such process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVkdjDq76Q



(Photos by Fabian H. Mena, Néstor Baltodado Colectivo KAMUK y María Suárez Toro in the video)



 




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVkdjDq76Q

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