Dispatches from the Field, a new digital program designed to bring The Explorers Club community closer—wherever you are.
Each session kicks off with a 10-minute talk from a Featured Speaker, streamed live to the public on explorers.org and our YouTube channel.
This will be followed by Campfire sessions—intimate, Members-Only breakout groups where you can connect, share ideas, and build relationships.
This edition features Yuri Sanada, FI’19, to present Documenting a Slave Shipwreck off Mozambique: A Crime Against Humanity:
For 350 years, approximately 15 million Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic Ocean aboard 12,000 slave ships. Until recently, this chapter of history was considered taboo, and to date, only a handful of slave shipwrecks have been located — with just six ever studied in depth. Join Yuri Sanada, from the field in Mozambique, in the middle of the Slave Wrecks Project underwater archaeological campaign, as he participates in the investigation of a shipwreck believed to be the French slave ship L’Aurore, which sank in 1790 off the coast of Mozambique Island, East Africa, while carrying 600 enslaved individuals. These slave shipwrecks are the first material proof of one of the greatest crimes against humanity, and their research can contribute to local communities in countries in Africa and the Americas to achieve racial and social justice.
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Yuri Sanada
Yuri Sanada is a Brazilian writer, filmmaker, explorer, and Fellow of The Explorers Club. An award-winning producer with two Lumière Awards, he has led expeditions across six continents and directed Brazil’s first IMAX film, Amazon Adventure 3D. A NAUI scuba instructor and environmental advocate, Yuri began filming underwater in Japan and has since produced a range of films and series from his sustainable studio in Brazil. He co-founded Earth Odyssey and AfrOrigens, which located the 1852 wreck of the Brig Camargo. Yuri also sailed ancient routes aboard a Phoenician replica ship, proving early transoceanic navigation was possible.
