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Locals Thought These Shipwrecks Had Belonged to Pirates. They Turned Out to Be 300-Year-Old Danish Slave Ships
Marine archeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch documents the shipwreck. John Fhær Engedal Nissen / The National Museum of Denmark Archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica are the remains of the Fridericus Quartus and …