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National Geographic : 1977 Dec
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CAPT.BOBKLEINCOLLECTION,KEY LARGO,FLORIDA of line around my waist I moored myself to the bottom. In like manner I was joined by my old friend Teddy Tucker. The weeks of diving that followed pro duced a fascinating profile of the ship and her possible cause of death. Her lead cannonballs and her cannons-all of them wrought-iron breechloaders rather than the later type made of cast iron-placed the ship at no later than the mid-16th century. Two long-barreled FANCIFUL AMULETS made of clay by skilled Indian hands must have delighted Spanish youngsters, just as they fascinate 7-year-old Alyssa Bantle today. Many crossed the Atlantic; these sank with a Spanish fleet in 1733 off Florida. Reach for the New World 743
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