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Blackbeard’s Presumed Ship Gets New Layer

by Pat Coate | February 28, 2006

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - Authorities are resorting to a risky new method aimed at helping preserve what is believed to be the sunken flagship of the pirate Blackbeard.

The Army Corps of Engineers is creating an underwater sand dune to shelter the Queen Anne's Revenge, which sits about 26 feet underwater off the North Carolina coast.

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