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A five-year scientific investigation of a site on the North Atlantic seafloor, 270 km off Cape Fear, NC, at a depth of 2200 m, was undertaken in conjunction with recovery operations on a nineteenth-century steamship (SS Central America). The study included field observations at the site, examination of hundreds of deep-ocean specimens and artifacts, and analysis of several experiments deployed on...