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If this was in europe, this ship would probably be still registered and insured.

Not even to mention that shipwrecks with dead inside are commonly respected as cemeteries.

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I appreciate this truly educational post but I especially appreciate the use of the word 'festooned' which is a word that gets tragically little use of late

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“To figure out what was buried in the sand, archaeologists dug a hole and looked closer at it.” Genius idea

I'm from Daytona Beach! I may actually return to FL to see this thing

Lol. She's a Floridian. Flops are acceptable wear for literally any occasion. Church, even on Easter or Christmas (as a kid, we had a new priest come down from NY one year and try to tell the altar boys that they werent allowed to wear sandals... the Pastor gave him a little talk and explained that he's in Florida now). Weddings. Funerals. Jobsite. Surgical operating room. Meeting with the President. All flops-appropriate. Digging up pirate treasure... on the BEACH?!?!?! I'd be offended if she WASN'T in flops.

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Slave ship or not, there's a good chance the crew was able to make it off the boat, even if they didn't make it all the way to shore.

But if it was a slave ship, they probably left the "cargo" chained up below deck.

Vlad "the Impaler's" father was called Vlad Dracul. "Dracul" means dragon in Romanian. He was a member of the knightly "Order of the Dragon," and his family was known as the "House of Draculesti."

Vlad "Tepes" was known as Vlad Dracula - "Dracula" means "son of Dracul."

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That's asinine. I want to believe that you're saying it out of respect for the dead, recognizing that they died there specifically for a reason, etc. But is exhuming bodies that are a few hundred years old for examination, with the unlikely expectation of identification, and (presumably?) later reburial more respectful than than, you know, actually letting them rest in peace? All because of a western concept of what a "proper burial" is defined as?

Yup. That's what they said

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The French got off an walked.
It was not the first time they had faced english archers.

But if it’s not a slave ship the crew aren’t worth a proper burial?

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i'm thinking it's more likely that it was an intentional grounding. everything was probably stripped out and the hull left abandoned.