In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s. But ...

Yellow bricks The two wrecks off the coast of Costa Rica had long been known to locals, and were assumed to be pirate ships due to their broken-up state, suggesting that they may have sunk after ...

Thanks to LED lighting and digital cameras, sea life swimming around some of the world’s sunken ships ― including the RMS Titanic ― is so bright and clear that it feels like peeking into an aquarium ...

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden treasure trove beneath the waves—well, that’s exactly what archaeologists just did! They found 250 sunken ships packed with gold, silver, and other valuables, lost for ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch. In ...