Famous Pirate Ships Uncovered

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Tons of Silver Discovered by Odyssey Marine

Read more about the latest shipwreck discovery, code-named "Black Swan", reported May 18. It's a colonial era ship and was found somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean (details very hush hush).



A King's messenger ship laden with gold & silver treasures from the new world hither too lost, is now being recovered in just 10 feet of gin clear water right in front of a public beach - just south of Jupiter Inlet in Florida! But, "Just Where is the Rest of the Ship?"
For more info See www.jupitercoins.com
or www.Adventureof10lifetimes.com

Odyssey Marine Exploration

Seventeen tons (500,000 coins) of silver were recently found in the Atlantic Ocean at a shipwreck site codenamed the "Black Swan." Go to www.shipwreck.net find out more.


Queen Anne's Revenge:
Believed to be discovered 1996 off the coast of North Carolina (Beaufort Inlet). Blackbeard's ship ran aground in 1717.

Read more about the archeological project to recover the ship at The Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project.


Whydah:
Pirate Samuel Bellamy's wreck was discovered off the coast of Cape Cod in 1984 by Barry Clifford, who recovered many artifacts from the wreck, such as coins, weapons and the ships bell. The archeological treasures are on display at the Expedition Whydah Sea Lab and Learning Center in Providence, Massachusetts.

• The Providence Museum information
• More on the Whydah from National Geographic