The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...

Somali pirates hijacked a U.S. cargo ship—what followed was a daring five-day hostage crisis that ended with three perfect ...

Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were ...