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Into the deep

Abstract:
Four thousand feet beneath Gulf Coast waters, buried under sediment and worn with time, lies a relic of the past: a 200-year-old ship with a mysterious identity and artifacts that have recently been excavated by a team of Texas A&M researchers....

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Jim McArthur

posted 7/01/07 @ 4:53 PM CST

I would like to hope that this vessel was part of the fleet of New Orleans' own buccaneering brothers, Jean and Pierre Laffite! The year (1810) sounds right, and they were heavily involved in privateering and gunrunning at that time.

Jim
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