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At a Glance The NOAA voyage was intended to test new equipment. The shipwreck was discovered by accident.The vessel may have burned before it sank. A team of NOAA researchers were conducting routine tests on a new underwater remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico on May 16. Not only did the new vehicle perform as expected, it made a startling discovery: The ruins of a previously unknown 19th-century ship, lying in the sand some 1,460 feet below the...