 One such example is the "Queen Anne's Revenge" which is undergoing archaeological recovery by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NC DNCR) near Beaufort Inlet, NC.The infamous pirate Blackbeard's flagship was discovered by Intersal, Inc., a private research firm, in 1996.A systematic model for the characterisation and interpretation of the archaeology of shipwrecks was first proposed by Keith Muckelroy in 1976 in a paper on the "Kennemerland", which was wrecked in 1664 Muckelroy's system model describes the evolution of the material remains of the ship from the wrecking process, subsequent salvage operations and the disintegration and rearrangements of the remains from environmental factors.