Diving into the Wreck

Diving into the Wreck Character List

The speaker

The speaker narrates her experience diving into the ocean in order to investigate a shipwreck. As the poem progresses, she shifts from the pronoun “I” to the pronoun “we” as she begins to identify all those who have been left behind or forgotten by history.

Jacques Cousteau

Cousteau was a 20th-century scientist and explorer best known for his invention of scuba diving gear and his underwater documentaries.