THE LOST BOAT OF BLACK BARBE

NEWS TV - ARTE broadcasts, Saturday May 1, 2010 at 20:40 pm, the documentary directed by David Johnson “The lost boat of Blackbeard”.
“Could we have found the ship of the cruel English pirate that scoured the Caribbean at the beginning of the XNUMXth century?
The legend of Blackbeard, the famous English pirate who roamed the Caribbean between 1716 and 1718, was largely fueled by the mysterious disappearance of his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. However, a few years ago, a wreck which could correspond to it was discovered off the coast of North Carolina. In the fall of 2008, specialists in underwater archeology set out to explore it. The first objects brought to the surface (cannons, syringes intended to treat syphilis, etc.) seem to confirm the hypothesis according to which it would be Blackbeard's ship. Researchers hope to understand how and why this precious and feared ship sank to the bottom: could the pirate have deliberately wrecked it, in order to get rid of an increasingly less docile crew? The documentary follows the work of archaeologists, as they remove from the wreck the treasures that have been lying there for three centuries. At the same time, historians and reconstructed scenes recall how the terrible captain of Queen Anne's revenge lived. ”

repeats:
Sunday 02 May 2010 to 14 hours 55

Saturday 08 May 2010 to 05 hours 10