Hidden Secrets of the Caribbean Unveiled: Divers Discover Sunken Danish Slave Ships Lost to a 1710 Mutiny
For years, these murky shipwrecks resting near Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park had everyone whispering about pirates—swashbuckling rogues, cursed treasure, the whole nine yards. But no, turns out the story’s way darker and way more complicated. Recent sleuthing by marine archaeologists has nailed down that these aren’t pirate ghost ships—but the long-lost Danish slave vessels Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, engulfed in flames and chaos after a brutal mutiny back in 1710. I mean, talk about mistaken identities! Who knew that what looked like pirate relics were actually remnants of a tragic chapter in history? So here’s the kicker: while historians always knew what went down aboard these doomed ships, no one really knew where exactly—until now. It’s like finally finding the smoking cannon ball that solves a three-century-old mystery. Curious how forgotten timbers and a bunch of old bricks could rewrite history? Yeah, me too. LEARN MORE
Though they were long thought to be pirate ships, recent analysis has confirmed that the sunken vessels near Cahuita National Park are the Danish slave ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, destroyed during a mutiny in 1710.
John Fhær Engedal Nissen, The National Museum of DenmarkMarine archeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch from the National Museum of Denmark explores the Danish shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica.
For years, many assumed that the shipwrecks in the shallow waters of Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park were pirate ships. But a recent study has found that they were actually two Danish slave ships, the Fridericus Quartus and the Christianus Quintus, which were destroyed in dramatic fashion after their crews mutinied in 1710.
Historians have long known what happened aboard the two doomed ships, but this recent discovery has finally answered the question of where exactly it all took place.
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