Editing William Kidd (section)

==''Quedagh Merchant'' found==
For years, people and treasure hunters tried to locate ''[[Quedagh Merchant]]''.<ref>{{cite web| title =Captain Kidd (1645–1701)| publisher =PortCities London| url =http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConFactFile.3/Captain-Kidd.html| access-date =13 December 2007| archive-date =25 October 2007| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071025045410/http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConFactFile.3/Captain-Kidd.html| url-status =dead}}</ref> It was reported on 13 December 2007 that "wreckage of a pirate ship abandoned by Captain Kidd in the 17th century has been found by divers in shallow waters off the [[Dominican Republic]]".<ref name="yahoo"/> The waters in which the ship was found were less than ten feet deep and were only {{convert|70|ft|m}} off [[Catalina Island, Dominican Republic|Catalina Island]], just to the south of [[La Romana, Dominican Republic|La Romana]] on the Dominican coast. The ship is believed to be "the remains of the  ''Quedagh Merchant''".<ref name="yahoo">{{cite web| date =13 December 2007| title =Captain Kidd Ship Found| publisher =Yahoo News| url =https://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071213/sc_livescience/captainkiddshipfound| access-date =13 December 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071215091704/http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071213/sc_livescience/captainkiddshipfound <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 15 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| date =13 December 2007| title =Captain Kidd's Shipwreck Of 1699 Discovered| website =Science Daily| url =https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213162036.htm| access-date =13 December 2007}}</ref> Charles Beeker, the director of Academic Diving and Underwater Science Programs in [[Indiana University (Bloomington)]]'s School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, was one of the experts leading the [[Indiana University]] diving team. He said that it was "remarkable that the wreck has remained undiscovered all these years given its location", and that the ship had been the subject of so many prior failed searches.<ref>{{cite web|date=13 December 2007 |title=IU team finds fabled pirate ship |publisher=INDYSTAR.COM |url=http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/LOCAL/712130548 |access-date=13 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217202520/http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071213%2FLOCAL%2F712130548 |archive-date=17 December 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Captain Kidd's cannon]], an artifact from the shipwreck, was added to a permanent exhibit at [[The Children's Museum of Indianapolis]] in 2011.<ref name="TCMPR">{{cite news|last=Falkenstein|first=Jaclyn|title=Children's Museum Reveals First Major Component of National Geographic Treasures of the Earth|url=http://www.childrensmuseum.org/node/34902|access-date=13 May 2011|newspaper=The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Press Release|date=16 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928224450/http://www.childrensmuseum.org/node/34902|archive-date=28 September 2011}}</ref>