Using advanced technology and tools to document, share and explore surrounding waters, the Bermuda 100 Challenge aims to create a marine heritage science and engineering methodology combining data acquisition, curation, analysis and dissemination. In doing so, the project will also construct the foundations of an ecosystem to enable continuous innovation. The reefs surrounding Bermuda are home to well over 100 shipwrecks in relatively shallow waters. Many surrounded by mystery and myth (think Bermuda Triangle), these sites are integral to the cultural heritage of this Atlantic outpost. Over the centuries, shipwrecks have become naturalized components of the benthic ecology – located on the bottom of the ocean – and these unique biological communities function as time capsules for the study of natural systems. Their stories tell of human ambition and courage as well as misadventure and tragedy, and they offer marine scientists new worlds of discovery.