Pirates of the Gulf of Mexico?
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 05:10 PM
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 05:10 PM
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, working with the University of Texas, has launched an effort to explore a shipwreck lying in 4,000 feet of water 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. That makes it the "deepest shipwreck in the world ever to be scientifically excavated for a non-commercial purpose," MMS says. Very little is known about the ship, which sank between 1780 and 1820, but archaeologists speculate it might be a merchant ship or privateer. Meaning that it just might contain some very interesting "minerals," no?
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The question mark in your headline indicates that you have forgotten Jean Laffite, the famous pirate based in New Orleans and later Galveston. Lafitte is famous for lending vital support to Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans that capped the War of 1812. The Gulf of Mexico was a hotbed of pirate activity in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century period.
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