Clotilda: Last US slave ship discovered among gators, snakes
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

The old wooden ship hull didn`t look like much when researchers first saw it: just broken, waterlogged boards and a few pieces of rusted metal, all stuck in the muddy bottom of a bug-infested Alabama bayou where an alligator and poisonous water moccasins swam nearby.