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The murky lagoon harbouringa centuries-old maritime mystery

The elusive Deadwater wreck is Western Australia's longest-running maritime mystery, encompassing colonial eyewitness accounts, artefacts tenuously linked to the wreck, and vivid folklore involving treasure, matricide and piracy.

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Australia — Jon Daly