Terror echoed across the waves in Florida’s Biscayne Bay. The slave ship Guerrero had just run aground on a nearly invisible reef, unable to move, its splintered hull quickly filling with saltwater. Others heard the cries and attempted a rescue, but so many could not be saved. The disaster remains a testament to both the cruelty of slavery and the power of Mother Nature’s oceans, and for two centuries, the information about that fateful night still held by the wreckage of the ship remained a mystery. Now, archeologists at Biscayne National Park are determined to find it.

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