Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick found the wreck of the Africa while working on a documentary in Lake Huron – they didn’t realize the meaning of the discovery to relatives of the lost ship’s captain

Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick set out to make a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes. Along the way, they found the wreck of what is likely the steamship Africa, last seen on a stormy October night in 1895.

An underwater drone is helping reconstruct submerged landscapes inhabited by people in the early Holocene