The Beep Goes On
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- Jan 11, 2006
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Captain Kidd Wreck "Discovered"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/13/shipwreck.kidd.ap/index.html
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A U.S. underwater archaeology team on Thursday announced it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny island belonging to the Dominican Republic.
Barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet (3 meters) of crystalline coastal water off Catalina Island is believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.
To the archaeologists' delight, the Dominican government has licensed the U.S. university to study the wreckage and to convert the sea floor where the cannons and anchors are marooned into an underwater preserve, where it will be accessible to divers and snorkelers.
HH!
TBGO
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/13/shipwreck.kidd.ap/index.html
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A U.S. underwater archaeology team on Thursday announced it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny island belonging to the Dominican Republic.
Barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet (3 meters) of crystalline coastal water off Catalina Island is believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.
To the archaeologists' delight, the Dominican government has licensed the U.S. university to study the wreckage and to convert the sea floor where the cannons and anchors are marooned into an underwater preserve, where it will be accessible to divers and snorkelers.
HH!
TBGO
