300 Years After The Death Of Blackbeard, Divers Off Carolina’s Coast Made An Astonishing Discovery

Few pirates have looked as fearsome as Blackbeard, the Atlantic terror who prowled the waters off the Carolinas in the early 1700s. Three centuries after his death in battle, a shipwreck found in shallow water off North Carolina’s coast sparked fresh interest in his legend. The video follows how that 1996 discovery unfolded and what divers pulled from the sea floor. Could a sunken vessel finally connect a notorious name to physical evidence, and what might it reveal about the man behind the myth? Press play to find out.

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