Aruba's underwater cultural heritage — submerged sites spanning the Archaic, Ceramic, and Historic periods — is largely unmapped and under threat from mechanical, biological, chemical, and human factors; the thesis inventories known and expected archaeological resources and weighs in-situ against ex-situ preservation to argue for a managed framework for the island's submerged heritage.

— In our words · Source: The Island that broke the ocean's surface and what it left behind (Gendra Lacle)