Diving With a Purpose (DWP) is an American non-profit organization aimed at locating and documenting shipwrecks, predominantly those related to the Atlantic slave trade.

[14] An offshoot program directed at a younger audience entitled Youth Diving With a Purpose (YDWP) was introduced in 2011.

[1][15] The group has been involved with the discovery or documentation of numerous[a] shipwrecks, including the São José Paquete Africa[17][18] and the Clotilda.

[1][19] Other activities of the organization have included the location and mapping of plane wrecks related to the Tuskegee Airmen in the Great Lakes.

[22][23] Diving With a Purpose has worked or is working with groups and federal agencies including NOAA,[24] the National Park Service (NPS),[25][26] the Society of Black Archaeologists,[27][28] and the Slave Wrecks Project, a collaboration between DWP, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the NPS, George Washington University, Iziko South African Museum, and the South African Heritage Resources Agency.