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Video: Confederacy's Secret Weapon

September 13, 1864. A crafty Confederate blockade runner, the Mary Celestia, ran aground on the "blind breakers" off Bermuda's southern coast and struck bottom. All but one of the crew survived, yet the whereabouts of her cargo remain unknown. One of Bermuda's most baffling shipwrecks, events surrounding the sinking of the side paddlewheel steamer are shrouded in mystery. Now, Deep Sea Detectives John Chatterton and Melanie Paul, nautical archaeologists, and the Bermuda Maritime Museum try to dredge up the truth about her fate.

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