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June 02, 1998 at 19:27:35
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There's just one thing Kiesling neglected to share with his readers in the book or with the academic archeologists.
Two years before he wrote ''Walking The Plank,'' he had participated with Robert McClung, a West Palm Beach treasure hunter and his collaborator on the book, in ransacking the Baltic, an intact 1866 cargo ship off Ridley Point in Spanish Wells, Bahamas. They were looking for gold, but as one Bahamian official put it, ''they found and destroyed a
history capsule, leaving behind pain.''
''God, it was a blast,'' Kiesling recalled in a telephone interview last week. ''We called it the K-Mart because this ship had so much different [material] aboard. We pretty much destroyed it, we blew the heck out of it'' using a device that deflects propeller wash down to clear away sand.
''We had made a video tape to show the local officials what a good archeology job we were doing. But it was nothing more than a tape measure stretc
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