Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

Fisherpeople who established themselves in the area in 1826 thought this because the ships’ remains were dispersed ... ending up at Costa Rica on March 2. Fear of pirates and the natives led ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit the boat off the coast of Cape Cod. The ship was commissioned in 1715 ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...

However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release. Fisherpeople who established themselves in the area in 1826 thought this because the ships’ remains ...