Blimey! Researchers at East Carolina University (home of PeeDee the Pirate) fittingly discovered four shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina.
The ECU marine archaeologists stumbled upon the booty in Brunswick County. It was all hands on deck when a graduate student discovered what researchers believe are the remains of a Spanish privateer ship called La Fortuna that sank nearly 300 years ago.
Fair winds to ye all as the academic year begins!
—Erin Gretzinger […]
Matt Hartman is a higher education reporter for The Assembly and co-anchor of our weekly higher education newsletter, The Quad. He was previously a longtime freelance journalist and spent nearly a decade working in higher ed communications before joining The Assembly in 2024.
More by Matt HartmanErin Gretzinger is a former higher education reporter at The Assembly and co-anchor of our weekly higher education newsletter, The Quad. She was previously a reporting fellow at The Chronicle of Higher Education and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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