the ship reportedly held more than four and a half tons of gold and silver. But the treasure-filled Whydah would also be their undoing. For about a year, Samuel Bellamy and his pirates sailed ...

Wrecked off the coast of Wellfleet in 1717, the Whydah, a legendary pirate ship, was lost for centuries. In 1984, Barry Clifford and the Whydah Project team finally located the elusive wreck site ...