Pirate ship found.(DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

0 Comments | Caribbean Update, February, 2008

A US underwater archaeology team announced it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island, reports AP (Dec. 15, 2007). The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University.

Beeker said the wreckage has been aggressively sought by treasure hunters, including a group with a permit from the government to scour Catalina for remnants of the ship, which historians believe was scavenged of treasure and burned...