Blackbeard- Edward Teach

Yo, ho, ho a Pirates life for me! Its always awesome to see pieces of history pulled from the bottom of the Atlantic. Underwater archaeologists continue to search for wreckage of Blackbeard’s famous ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge, believed to have run aground in the shallow waters of Beaufort, North Carolina over 300 years ago. Days ago in just 20 feet of water divers found the 3,000 pound anchor, belonging to the Queen Anne’s Revenge. The site has already yielded more than 250,000 artifacts, including cannons, gold, platters, glass, beads, shackles and rope, according to the state.

The ship is giving up more than just treasure, it is also revealing many of Blackbeard’s terrorizing tactics and arrays of improvised weapons. The wreckage has yielded multiple cannons believed to have shot canvas bags full of glass, nails, spikes and bolts. Blackbeard was believed to have tried to win battles without fighting at all. In true pirate fashion, he wanted to take over vessels by eliminating the crew while keeping the boat from being damaged.

Conservation of the anchor and other artifacts may take years but for now it is just a great day in history and hopefully there will be many more. We are excited about the discovery but we ran across theghostofblackbeard on twitter and he didn’t seem to happy about it. Funny, he has been running around the OBX lately.