Real Life Pirates of The Caribbean!

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Well not quite lol. But what has happened is that underwater archaeologists, whom dive down to find remains of old sunken ships and such under the ocean, they believe they have found a sunken ship which could have belonged to Captain Henry Morgan, who was literally a pirate of the Caribbean, and one of the most notorious ones at that too. He died in 1688 and was known to loose as many as five ships in the area this ship has been found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan

Now these pirates, are the OLD style pirates, that actually had swords and stuff, not your modern day "pirates" who now use weapons that almost rival an army (thins like an AK74 and knives). These were the true old school pirates, as they are portrayed in the PotC films, and as such the ship also has chests of real treasure inside it too! Not like your modern pirates with their unspeakable crimes, but these were actual treasure hunting pirates XD For someone like me who loves this sort of stuff, it is interesting.

One more thing, when dealing with material this old you have to be careful when digging up stuff, but I am super exited to see what the dig up, and what is in the chests! Which they will be soon hopefully, as Morgan rum are funding the next expedition (rum company named after Morgan) And maybe they can actually restore the ship to some degree in a museum? Seeing a real pirate ship? Yes please!

I love these kinds of stories! I love the idea of hidden buried treasure, remember that back in 2007, Andreas K found a chest of treasure while he was digging in his backyard, http://gizmodo.com/5795087/austrian-man ... s-backyard

TL - DR, here is the link to the original story complete with video.
http://gizmodo.com/5828429/archaeologis ... -shipwreck

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Henry Morgan? Wow. I remember reading about him a few years back when I was researching pirates for a story I was writing, he WAS quite a well-known pirate wasn't he? It would be so cool of that really did turn out to be one of his old ships.

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Yeah, and I mean even if it is not strictly one of his, it is still a pretty cool find to uncover a pirate ship with actual treasure chests XD that is so dayumn cool! And since the found it at an area where there is known to be at least five ships of his, it points to it being one if his ^^.
I wish they found some old pirate weaponry too XD

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OMG yes! Treasure chests and weapons would be so awesome! This kind of stuff is so exciting

[Arani]

0_o wow that would be amazing to see in person! I love old fasion pirates!