Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast

[Fenway]

Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast - Yahoo! News

 

[KG1]

"The recovery coincides with the release this month of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." The movie features both Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge" hmmm...What an interesting coincedence..

 

[RelicHound]

Thousands of ship wrecks off the coast....how do they know this is black beards? so can I go recover some big ass hunk of metal from the ocean and claim its from the mayflower?

 

[starbreather]

So this particular anchor is black beards, amazing I bet in hid free time he just scribed his name on it, much like a 13 year old girl over & over again.

 

[RelicHound]

So this particular anchor is black beards, amazing I bet in hid free time he just scribed his name on it, much like a 13 year old girl over & over again.

I bet is says something like "BB hearts back street boys"

 

[VaGriller]

Thousands of ship wrecks off the coast....how do they know this is black beards? so can I go recover some big ass hunk of metal from the ocean and claim its from the mayflower?

I grew up an hour away from the Outer banks. There are actually pretty good records going back to the 1700s on the ship wrecks off the coast. Queen Anns revenge is a long documented wreck with tons of other artifacts pulled up over the years. Check out The Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project - Archaeological Investigations of Blackbeard's Flagship for more details.

Another shipwreck was recently unearthed from the storms last year which is supposily one of the oldest wrecks ever found. Beachcomber stumbles upon historic shipwreck - CNN