In 1719, even Benjamin Franklin was writing poetry about Blackbeard’s final stand - proof that pirates were already larger than life. We trace the rise of Edward Teach and Charles Vane, two captains ...

All SINKEXs are intended to terminate in water at least 6,000 feet and also at least 50 nautical miles offshore. It is that ...

The last slave ship, Clotilda, resurfaces in 3D in New York after more than a century sunk and hidden underwater.

The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its ...