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Archaeologists discover 4,400-year-old shipwreck off Turkey's coast

The wreck lies off Turkey's coast and is among the oldest ships of its kind discovered; the crew, sadly, could not be reached for comment.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorArchaeologists have found a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey that they say is four thousand four hundred years old.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFour thousand years on the bottom and nobody has called a hearing. I say the captain left late, and I say it with total certainty.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDale, the crew has no names, no logbook and no surviving witnesses. You are accusing a ghost of tardiness.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish. Every ship that sinks was running behind, and the ocean is just the world's slowest consequence.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the captain is guilty, and the cargo is the alibi.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe cargo is always the alibi. Somebody packed that boat in a rush and then blamed the weather, just like a modern airline.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have sat through hearings on ships from this century with living captains, and none of them ended this cleanly.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCleanly how?

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNobody sues, nobody resigns, and the only thing that surfaces after four thousand years is the pottery.

  10. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThen I am making the call. This wreck is cut from the final sixteen of history, effective immediately.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt has been cut for four thousand years, Dale. It is the longest benching on record. Brock, what does the sky have in store tonight?

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  7. Archaeologists discover 4,400-year-old shipwreck off Turkey's coast (this story)

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