Pirates and the loot they plundered have long fascinated us. Stories like "Treasure Island" and movies like "Pirates of the ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Pirate shipwrecks off Costa Rica, long shrouded in mystery, have been revealed to hide a dramatic 1710 maritime story lost to history.

on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, several groups of marine archaeologists have identified the remains of two shipwrecks that belonged to two missing Danish slave ships: the Fridericus ...

København - Recent archaeological findings off the coast of Costa Rica have uncovered the wrecks of two Danish slave ships that sank in 1710. These vessels, which were originally tasked with ...

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.

RASCOE: Do we know if there are any descendants from the ship still living in Costa Rica? BLOCH: So there are people there who has a direct line. Also with the Danish sailors, there's also a direct ...

RASCOE: Do we know if there are any descendants from the ship still living in Costa Rica? BLOCH: So there are people there who has a direct line. Also with the Danish sailors, there's also a ...