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HPER Researchers Discover 1699 Captain Kidd Shipwreck

Charles Beeker examines wreckage from Captain Kidd's Quedagh Merchant

HPER professor Charles Beeker examines possible wreckage from Capt. Kidd's Quedagh Merchant

Resting in less than 10 feet of Caribbean seawater, the wreckage of Quedagh Merchant, the ship abandoned by the scandalous 17th century pirate Captain William Kidd as he raced to New York in an ill-fated attempt to clear his name, has escaped discovery -- until now.

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Media coverage of HPER's Captain Kidd discovery:

WISH TV

Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071214/LOCAL/712140454

National Geographic News
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071214-AP-caribbean-c.html

Chicago Sun-Times (AP)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/697231,CST-NWS-kidd14.article

Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213162036.htm

Associated Press
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9DCxgqGqPI9v9ZK7XMT4rK4m0xAD8TGTI5O0

CNN international (AP)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/13/shipwreck.kidd.ap/?iref=mpstoryview

NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17209739

Live Science (this article appeared widely)
http://www.livescience.com/history/071213-capt-kidd-ship.html

Yahoo News (live science)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071213/sc_livescience/captainkiddshipfound