Jim, the team at SEARCH Inc, along with the Alabama Historical Commission and the Slave Wrecks Project of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture have worked on this wreck site along the Mobile River in Alabama, for more than a year. And more work is still ahead.
A tantalizing question is can the Clotilda be raised?
“We don’t know the answer to that question yet. Because we don’t have the data,” replied Delgado. “It would, not only need to be supported by the engineering and the science, but it would require, I think, a great deal of public support, because you’re talking now in terms of tens of millions of dollars to recover a ship like that.”