In May 1993, the National Association of Black Scuba Divers placed a memorial plaque on the site of the "Henrietta Marie". The plaque faces the African shore thousands of miles away, and has the name of the slave ship and reads, “In memory and recognition of the courage, pain and suffering of enslaved African people. Speak her name and gently touch the souls of our ancestors." Dr. Colin Palmer stated, "the story ends in 1700 for this particular ship, but the story of what the ship represented continues today," he says. "The importance of the "Henrietta Marie" is that she is an essential part of recovering the black experience - symbolically, metaphorically and in reality".