IU to turn Kidd shipwreck into `living museum'
Chicago Tribune
Nov. 18, 2008
Indiana University archaeologists have won a $200,000 grant to turn the wreckage of a ship pirate Captain Kidd is believed to have commandeered and three other Caribbean sites into "living museums" that also preserve sensitive coral reefs. The funding comes two months after IU scientists announced that they had found evidence confirming that a shipwreck off the coast of a tiny Dominican Republic island is the ruins of a 17th century ship Kidd once captured.
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Learn more about IU's work in the Dominican Republic: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/9284.html
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