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Dive signals more treasure at US pirate ship wreck
« on: September 07, 2013, 2311 UTC »

Dive signals more treasure at US pirate ship wreck

The Associated Press

Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 | 8:24 a.m.

A recent dive at the site of the only authenticated pirate ship wreck in U.S. waters has signaled the possible location of even greater treasures.

Already 200,000 artifacts, from gold to guns, have been documented from the site of the Whydah, which sank during a ferocious storm off Cape Cod in 1717.

Undersea explorer Barry Clifford located the wreck site in 1984. But he only recently learned that 400,000 coins were stolen from two boats the Whydah raided in the weeks before it sank.

The final dive Sept. 1 at the end of a three-day trip found an area heavy with metal, including what appears to be coins, some stacked.

Now, Clifford plans to return to the site as soon as weather permits.

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Re: Dive signals more treasure at US pirate ship wreck
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2013, 0202 UTC »
Read the headline & the first part and thought they found a pirate radio ship. Was wondering what treasures could be on that thing- transmitters, large cache of tubes, unreleased or lost music? Only to find out its just coins, gold, and guns.

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« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2013, 2240 UTC »
LOL!!
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Re: Dive signals more treasure at US pirate ship wreck
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2013, 0031 UTC »
Read the headline & the first part and thought they found a pirate radio ship. Was wondering what treasures could be on that thing- transmitters, large cache of tubes, unreleased or lost music? Only to find out its just coins, gold, and guns.



I agree. Would be a real let down ;D
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