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Barry Clifford and the Whydah Discovery
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"The trick to staying healthy on an expedition? Pepto-Bismol. I swear by it. An old explorer in South America told me about it. It coats the stomach. As long as I've been traveling, the first thing I always do when I get off the plane is drink a bottle of it. I tell my younger guys to do it, and they kind of scoff, and of course they're the ones going Ehhhhhhhh in a couple of days.
"The bonus to me is to have been able to meet the people I've met because of what I do. I was in Scotland for three years, and I worked with Prince Andrew -- he served me my dinner and washed my plate. A kid from the cranberry bogs -- here I am onboard his ship."
See pirate treasure and ship's artifacts at the "Expedition Whydah" Sea Lab & Learning Center, Macmillan Wharf, Provincetown, Massachusetts (508-487-8899; open May-October). For details, go to: whydah.com
Read a 1984 "Yankee Classic" story on Barry Clifford and his quest at: Barry Clifford Discovers Buried Treasure.
Whydah Artifacts in Exhibit
In the summer of 2007, Barry Clifford and his divers brought up 25,000 pounds of artifacts from the Whydah: "more than ever before," he says. To date the team has retrieved more than 200,000 objects, including the ship's bell. Some of these items are included in a roving National Geographic exhibit called "Real Pirates," currently at The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (215-448-1200; fi.edu) through November 2.
For more information, go to:
nationalgeographic.com/mission/real-pirates
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