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Treasure hunter finds "JFK Jr's" cannons off Cape Cod
From the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...9/treasure_hunter_finds_cannons_off_cape_cod/
Treasure hunter finds cannons off Cape Cod
August 19, 2009
PROVINCETOWN, Mass.—A treasure hunter on Cape Cod has brought ashore some more booty from a sunken pirate ship, including two 300-year-old cannons first identified by John F. Kennedy Jr.
Barry Clifford recently recovered new artifacts from the Whydah (WIH'-dah). Kennedy helped Clifford explore the wreck after it was located off Wellfleet in 1984.
Clifford says he first dove with the former president's son off Martha's Vineyard in 1979 and 1980, before the pair became interested in the Whydah.
Clifford tells The Cape Cod Times that Kennedy saw the cannons and drew pictures to prove it. Kennedy continued to dive on and off until his death in a plane crash in 1999.
Clifford said divers also discovered a compass with the initials "J.F.K." near the cannons in 2007.
Historians say the Whydah sank in a fierce storm in 1717.
From the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...9/treasure_hunter_finds_cannons_off_cape_cod/
Treasure hunter finds cannons off Cape Cod
August 19, 2009
PROVINCETOWN, Mass.—A treasure hunter on Cape Cod has brought ashore some more booty from a sunken pirate ship, including two 300-year-old cannons first identified by John F. Kennedy Jr.
Barry Clifford recently recovered new artifacts from the Whydah (WIH'-dah). Kennedy helped Clifford explore the wreck after it was located off Wellfleet in 1984.
Clifford says he first dove with the former president's son off Martha's Vineyard in 1979 and 1980, before the pair became interested in the Whydah.
Clifford tells The Cape Cod Times that Kennedy saw the cannons and drew pictures to prove it. Kennedy continued to dive on and off until his death in a plane crash in 1999.
Clifford said divers also discovered a compass with the initials "J.F.K." near the cannons in 2007.
Historians say the Whydah sank in a fierce storm in 1717.
