Many people know Captain Jack Sparrow from the franchise "Pirates of the Caribbean," but where did the inspiration for this ...

The Caribbean really was a hotbed of piracy at one time-especially during the 17th and 18th centuries, when Europe-bound ...

Join us as we spend the night on a real pirate ship in Aruba! This episode covers thrilling activities in some of the world's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Wreckwatch TV For the first time, researchers have identified and documented a series of shipwreck sites linked to ...

When you think of pirates, you might picture a life like that shown in "Pirates of the Caribbean," full of adventure and mischief. But what you may have never stopped to think about is what pirates ...

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 ...

When a teacher from Landstown Middle School in Virginia Beach invited me to join her sixth-graders on a scavenger hunt, how could I say no? I'd inadvertently crashed their class trip to a pirate ...