The Weight That Sank to the Bottom

In 1956, a fishing trawler called the Doris Jean went down in a storm off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. For decades, the wreck sat undisturbed on the ocean floor, buried under silt and sand at a depth of nearly six hundred feet. Marine archaeologists who finally located it in 2003 reported that the Atlantic had done its quiet, relentless work.…