Publication: Publication Date: 1 May 2012Testing Method: This paper appeared as a feature in the biannual NDTMarketplace product guide insert.
Blackbeard’s Flagship Still Causing Trouble 300 Years Later: Using X-ray Imaging to Examine a Shipwreck
This paper describes the rediscovery of Blackbeard the Pirate’s concretion encrusted flagship and how digital X-ray imaging has been used to locate some of the more interesting artifacts that have been entombed there.
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Lawrence, R. and M. Wilde-Ramsing, “In Search of Blackbeard: Historical and Archeological Research at Shipwreck Site 003BUI,” Southeastern Geology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2001, pp. 1–9. Lusardi, W., “Do the Artifacts Identify the Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck as the Pirate Blackbeard’s Flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge?” Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, 1999, pp. 123–132. Mango, S. and J. Roussilhe, “Myths Versus Reality in Computer Radiography Image Quality,” Carestream Health, 2008.
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