In celebration of Juneteenth, we revisit the final episode of Into the Depths with National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts. Tara... more

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts is inspired by the stories of the Clotilda, a ship that illegally arrived in Mobile,... more

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts begins to understand the healing power of diving for shipwrecks from the slave trade when she... more

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts heads to Africa, her ancestral homeland. She visits Doors of No Return, walks the slave... more

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts witnesses a new type of maritime archaeology under way in Costa Rica, one with a... more

When National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts meets Ken Stewart, the co-founder of Diving With a Purpose (DWP), she’s moved by... more

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts upends her life—including leaving her job—to join a group of Black scuba divers searching for... more

Black scuba divers across the world are searching for buried shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of enslaved... more