Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...

Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for ...

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 ...

This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...

The ships were found in the early 1800s, but scientists have only recently pieced together their history. Researchers have ...