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Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were ...
Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.
Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for ...
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...
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, unlike aircraft carriers, cruise ships aren't armed to the teeth, which makes them giant targets for pirates, both figuratively and literally. As surprising as it sounds, pirates are ...