Captain Kidd Wreck Discovered
The shattered remnants of a ship believed to have been captured by the 17th-century pirate Captain William Kidd have been discovered in just 10 feet of water off Catalina Island in the Dominican Republic. The discovery of the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, abandoned by Kidd in 1699 as he made his way to New York in an ill-fated attempt to clear his name, was announced in December 2007 by an underwater archaeology team from Indiana University (IU).
