It all started back in 1996 when a company named Intersal, Inc., established a few years earlier to “increase knowledge and awareness of America’s rich maritime heritage by researching, locating and excavating valuable historic shipwrecks”, found the remains of Blackbeard’s ship off the North...
Battle Over Shipwreck Photos Brews in N.C.
"The amendment to G.S. 121-25, if enacted, constitutes a violation of the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution, for starters. 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 (attorney's fees) would also be implicated."
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Controversy Over Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Continues
Controversy Over Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Continues
“The Friends of the Queen Anne’s Revenge entered into a contract with an independent media company and as part of this contract the spouse of the treasurer of the Friends...
Lawmakers enter legal battle over Blackbeard's ship
With the legal battle over the rights to images of Blackbeard's sunken flagship intensifying, lawmakers waded into the fray by taking up legislation aimed at a shipwreck-exploration company suing the state for $8 million. "In Intersal's...
Discoverers of Blackbeard's flagship sue NC for $8M
Discoverers of Blackbeard's flagship sue state for $8M
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