Modern cargo ships face real threats from pirates, yet most sail unarmed — relying on bizarre but surprisingly effective ...

SALEM -- Buried treasure isn't always gold, sometimes it's discovering history. Archeologists working on a 300-year-old pirate shipwreck believe they may have made a new discovery off the coast of ...

Johnny Depp, it turns out, has led us astray. The real pirates of the Caribbean were actually bloodthirsty and terrifyingly violent, the Telegraph reports. Marine archeologists have been sifting ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit the boat off the coast of Cape Cod. The ship was commissioned in 1715 by ...