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Pieces of a Pirate Ship

July 15, 2006

Mary Lardie prepares samples from the 18th century pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge for carbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility. Remains of Blackbeard’s flagship were found in 2001 near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)