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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said Friday.
"That's really our target," Steve Claggett, the state archaeologist, said while discussing 10 years of research that has been conducted since the shipwreck was found just off Atlantic Beach.
The ship ran aground in 1718, and some researchers believe it was the French slave ship Blackbeard captured in 1717 and renamed Queen Anne's Revenge.
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