Marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch from the National Museum of Denmark documents the excavation of the shipwreck in Costa Rica. SOURCE: John Fhær Engedal Nissen/The National Museum of Denmark

Ancient Wrecks off Costa Rica Revealed to Be Danish Slave Ships, Not Pirate Vessels

Two shipwrecks maintain their presence in Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park beneath its turquoise waters as coral reefs dance with tropical fish that have graced the ocean floor for more than three hundred years. For numerous decades fishers from the area shared stories about pirate galleons whose broken pieces suggested battles which occurred long ago.