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At least six pirate skeletons were recently discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. The remains were unearthed from the wreck site of the Whydah, which sank near the town of Wellfleet in 1717, according to The Boston Globe. Investigators at the Whydah Pirate Museum said the skeletons were identified in several large concretions, or hard masses of minerals, from the wreck site. They are now being examined by a team of archeologists led by underwater explorer Barry Clifford, who discovered the Whydah in 1984, the museum said.

Aye maties, 'tis the day we've all been waiting for: International Talk Like a Pirate Day. But avast! Before you grab your grog and parrot, let's get ye educated! The idea for the day was born in 1995 on a YMCA racquetball court in Albany, Oregon. John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and his friend Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers began throwing around insults, just like pirates. They selected Sept. 19, simply because Summers had recently divorced, it was his ex-wife's birthday, and he figured "the date was stuck in my head, and I wasn't going to do anything with it anymore," he...

Ahoy, mateys! Aye...it be that day once more. The day when ye can hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail for adventure (or mystify your co-workers & friends by how you are speaking). September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Given the seriousness of all the crap going on around us, it's nice...even for a little bit...to be silly and have a little fun.

Pirates beware -- Blackwater Worldwide may be looking for you, and soon. That prospect certainly would shiver Bartholomew Roberts, better known as "Black Bart," down to his timbers if the infamous pirate hadn't been dead for the past 285 years. The North Carolina-based security firm, which came under fire from Congress over a shooting incident in Baghdad last year that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, announced in October that its 183-foot ship, the McArthur, stands ready to assist the shipping industry as it struggles with the increasing problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and elsewhere. "Billions of dollars...

VENTURE capitalists in New York and London are pumping millions of dollars into Somalia's booming pirate sector. The sharp-eyed investors say Indian Ocean piracy has replaced Bangladeshi t-shirt factories as the developing world's strongest source of high-growth revenue streams. Julian Cook, head of strategy at Porter, Pinkney and Turner (PPT), said: "The margins are very impressive. These guys can board a Chinese freighter or Saudi oil tanker and turn it around in less than a week. Usually without killing anyone. "The staff are well-trained and they operate a structured bonus system involving the daughters of nomadic tribal chiefs and as...

Welcome to the one and only, official, accept-no-substitutes Talk Like A Pirate Day Web site. In the seven years since Dave Barry mentioned us in his nationally syndicated newspaper column, what once was a goofy idea celebrated by a handful of friends has turned into an international phenomenon that shows no sign of letting up. Maybe you read about us on line.. Maybe you caught one of our radio or TV interviews. Or maybe you just stumbled on to our site while googling around for sites your mother probably wouldn't approve of. Or perhaps you're one of the millions of...

September 19th (every year) is International Talk Like A Pirate Day Tell us how ye plan t'celebrate! [All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here]   New for Talk Like A Pirate Day 2007: A Li'l Pirate's ABSeas by Ol' Chumbucket, Cap'n Slappy and Jonathan "Pilferin' Pooter" Cooke A piratical romp through the alphabet - with all that impliesRead more, and order the book!... and visit our on-line store for new T-shirt designs for 2007! Got Pirattitude? Order your copy nowFrom the Pirate Guys and Penguin's New American Library  

Pirates, just like land-lubbing bank-robbers and jewel thieves, probably will always be with us. The question is how to counter them and their increasing sophistication, and how to prevent them from coordinating efforts with terrorist networks like Al Qaeda. The answer to the latter is simply good intelligence: human, signals, open-source, and otherwise. In terms of shipboard counter-pirate operations, the answers lie in effective training of security personnel and high-tech ingenuity.

"Pirate Party" targets Swedish election Published: 3rd January 2006 20:01 CET A new political party focused on decriminalizing so-called Internet piracy and making copyrighted material free for all is planning to run in Sweden's next general elections, the head of the party said on Tuesday. "We will participate in the general elections in the autumn," head of the new "Pirate Party" Rickard Falkvinge told AFP. On the party web site, which went online on January 1, it states that its one campaign issue will be "abolishing intellectual property" and decriminalizing Internet file-sharing. The move comes just seven months after Sweden...

Reports from the Bahamas where the filming is taking place say that cast members have been forced to abandon the set due to the thieves. Four robberies have taken place in the last month, during the last incident thieves made off with $20,000 in cash and equipment. Head of location production on the film, Jason Kabebeen has said: "We've had a slew of robberies on the actors who are working for Pirates of the Caribbean over at the Port Lucaya resort. "They (the robbers) were able to get into the room with a key and stole everything from laptops, passports,...

A spate of pirate raids on ships in the Malacca Strait could tempt terrorists to stage a seaborne attack, the vice-commandant of the US Coast Guard said Friday. We have some concerns that what the pirates might be doing is showing the terrorists where opportunities exist," Vice-Admiral Terry Cross told reporters. Cross, who is on a tour of Asia to bolster maritime cooperation and port security, was speaking against the background of five pirate attacks on ships in the Malacca and Singapore straits in the past six weeks. The Malacca Strait is used by about 50,000 ships a year carrying...