SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A U.S. underwater archaeology
team on Thursday announced it has likely discovered the shattered
remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William
Kidd off a tiny island belonging to the Dominican Republic.
Student Fritz Hanselmann documents one of the cannons found in the shallow waters off Catalina Island,
Barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet (3
meters) of crystalline coastal water off Catalina Island is believed to
be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the
Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.
To the archaeologists' delight, the Dominican government has licensed
the U.S. university to study the wreckage and to convert the sea floor
where the cannons and anchors are marooned into an underwater preserve,
where it will be accessible to divers and snorkelers. E-mail to a friend 
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