Hundreds of miles east of Florida, on a ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, Ryan Marr squinted at his computer as sonar data streamed in. A master’s student in maritime history at East Carolina University, Marr typically used sonar as a tool to locate shipwrecks and other underwater areas of potential ethnographic interest. This time, though, he was learning how to use sonar to map a key deepwater area southeast of Bermuda.
![Standing Watch: Explorers-in-Training Laura Almodovar, Victoria Dickey, and Kelsey Lane standing mapping watch at the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping) Standing Watch: Explorers-in-Training Laura Almodovar, Victoria Dickey, and Kelsey Lane standing mapping watch at the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Dec/img1-hires.jpg?itok=RV16ua5o)
Standing Watch: Explorers-in-Training Laura Almodovar, Victoria Dickey, and Kelsey Lane standing mapping watch at the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping)