If you’ve been to Cocoa Beach recently you may have noticed some commotion offshore. What are they trying to recover from the ocean? Sadly, it’s not a sunken pirate ship loaded with treasure. It’s not ...

And while Disney has been one of the more instrumental companies to introduce and romanticize the buccaneer life in pop ...

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. In ...

NEW DELHI — The pirate “mother ship” sunk last week by the Indian navy was actually a Thai fishing trawler seized hours earlier by pirates, a maritime agency said Wednesday. The Indian navy defended ...

In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s. But ...