Pirate skeletons found in 1717 shipwreck off Cape Cod

[JMCx4]

From: WHDH-TV News 7 Boston

Pirate skeletons found in 1717 shipwreck off coast of Cape Cod

Brooke Coupal (February 10, 2021)

YARMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) - At least six more pirate skeletons have been discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod, investigators announced Wednesday.

The remains were unearthed from the wreck site of the legendary pirate ship, The Whydah, which went down off of Wellfleet in 1717, according to the investigative team from the Whydah Pirate Museum.

They were identified in several large concretions and are currently being examined by renowned underwater explorer Barry Clifford and his team of archeologists, including son Brandon Clifford, longtime Whydah diver & historian Chris Macort, and New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman.

“We hope that modern, cutting-edge technology will help us identify these pirates and reunite them with any descendants who could be out there,” said Clifford, who discovered the Whydah Galley, the only world’s only authenticated pirate wreck in 1984 . “This shipwreck is very sacred ground. We know a third of the crew was of African origin and the fact they had robbed the Whydah, which was a slave ship, presents them in a whole new light. Their benevolent captain, the legendary Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy and crew were experimenting in democracy long before the so-called civilized societies had considered such a thing.” ...

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[kingsholygrail]

Pretty amazing the skeletons survived.

 

[82Ninety42011]

Pretty wild stuff the Captain himself the most famous Pirate of them all maybe.

Samuel Bellamy - Wikipedia

 

[tarheelhockey]

Pretty amazing the skeletons survived.

That was my first thought. Skeletons don’t do well in the sea... that’s why so body parts wash up on distant shores. Once they get cleaned by animals, they fall apart and disintegrate. These must have been inside the ship, and then buried in sand before animals and tides could destroy them.

Apparently one of them (per x-rays of the concretetion) is still holding a pistol. Which is both wildly unlikely, and quite grim when you consider why someone’s last act would have involved a pistol as the ship foundered.

 

[S E P H]

That was my first thought. Skeletons don’t do well in the sea... that’s why so body parts wash up on distant shores. Once they get cleaned by animals, they fall apart and disintegrate. These must have been inside the ship, and then buried in sand before animals and tides could destroy them.

Apparently one of them (per x-rays of the concretetion) is still holding a pistol. Which is both wildly unlikely, and quite grim when you consider why someone’s last act would have involved a pistol as the ship foundered.

Most interesting one is what happened to the people during the Titanic? I've watch some docs on it and I never seem to find skellys in any of the shots.

 

[JMCx4]

Most interesting one is what happened to the people during the Titanic? I've watch some docs on it and I never seem to find skellys in any of the shots.

They were beamed up by aliens before they perished, to colonize a new planet ... OOPS, sorry, thought we were posting in @Stylizer1 's Lost human civilizations? thread.

 

[RandV]

Most interesting one is what happened to the people during the Titanic? I've watch some docs on it and I never seem to find skellys in any of the shots.

From watching various nature documentaries when a whale dies in the ocean it sinks to the bottom and a there's a scavengers boom creating a little ecosystem around it. Now little people in a big ship is a bit trickier but I'm sure the scavengers found a way.

Let's let Sir David Attenborough describe it: