Nearly 20 years ago, a team from the Florida-based company Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME) was searching for the wreckage of an English Navy vessel that sank in the Strait of Gibraltar in 1694 ...

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Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water between Spain and Morocco. The wreck is "the first Algiers corsair found in ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The pirates who hijacked a Chinese-owned ... The hijackers also shared photos on social media of their captives surrounded by armed men on the ship's deck.