Santo Domingo. – A team will converge eight feet beneath Dominican waters Saturday to clean the wreckage of the ship of the legendary and feared privateer captain William Kidd, found in 2007 near the shore of Catalina island (east), to mark the World Beach Cleanup Day, local media report.

The La Romana Tourism Cluster, U.S. Peace Corps volunteers, the U.S. Embassy and the Dominican Navy organize the initiative, reports listin.com.do, quoting Charles Beeker, archaeologist and researcher  of Indiana University (UI), which will also participate in the activity.

Captain Kidd’s ship forms part of the "Living seas museums" ecotourism route that includes other boats sunk in the bay at Bayahibe (east), inaugurated in May to mark the 310th anniversary of his death. He was known as the "terror of the seas" and was sent to the gallows for killing one of his crew members.