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Wine that had just been recovered after being aged in Charleston Harbor for six months is loaded into a box on a dock in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, The Mira Winery is conducting an ongoing experiment to gauge the effect of ocean aging on wine. Other cases of wine had been aged in the harbor last year for three months. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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In this March 20, 2014 photo, Scott Harris, center, an associate professor in the department of geology and environmental geosciences at the College of Charleston, deploys a sidescan sonar unit with two students from the college from the back of the research vessel Savannah in Charleston Harbor in Charleston, S.C. Students aboard the vessel completed several days of mapping the mid-intercontinental shelf off South Carolina. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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In this March 20, 2014 photo, a map of the ocean floor along the mid-continental shelf off South Carolina is displayed on a computer aboard the research vessel Savannah in Charleston Harbor in Charleston, S.C. College of Charleston students aboard the vessel completed several days of mapping the ocean bottom off South Carolina. The winding areas on the map that resemble rivers are channels carved in prehistoric times when sea level was lower and the coastline farther east than it is now. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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In this March 20, 2014 photo, Leslie Sautter, an associate professor in the department of geology and environmental geosciences at the College of Charleston shows a map of the waters off South Carolina aboard the Research Vessel Savannah in Charleston Harbor in Charleston, S.C. Students aboard the vessel completed several days of mapping the mid-intercontinental shelf off South Carolina. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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Ernest Parks, a re-enactor from Company I, Massachusetts 54th Regiment, salutes after tossing a wreath into Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter (in background) on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, during the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. (AP Photo/Post and Courier, Wade Spees)

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Cannon blasts from Fort Johnson across Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter at daybreak on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Charleston, S.C., signal the commemoration of the start of the Civil War 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Post and Courier, Wade Spees)