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In 1986, Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff; 36 years later, a TV dive team found a shuttle artifact with 8-inch tiles off Florida

In March 2022, a dive team began searching Florida's coastal waters for a lost rescue plane from the World War II era. The crew was filming a History Channel series about the Bermuda Triangle when they discovered something unexpected: debris that, as NASA later confirmed, actually sat well outside the area popularly associated with that name, a large, man-made object, partially buried in sand on the sea floor, according to a NASA statement. It didn't look like wreckage from the 1940s; instead, it seemed a lot more modern. That one detail ultimately linked a routine dive to one of the most painful days in American space history.

What the divers really saw

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