Pirates Hunting Sunken Treasure

Pirates Hunting Sunken Treasure: How a Florida Shipwreck Sparked the Golden Age of Piracy, a free Palm Coast Historical Society lecture, 10 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The golden age of piracy—the time when notorious cutthroats like Blackbeard, Sam Bellamy, and Bartholomew Roberts sailed—began in Florida with a shipwreck. Caught by a hurricane, the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet sank in the Florida Straits. When a salvage operation began, British pirates from Jamaica swooped in and robbed the Spanish on the beach. This program examines the wave of piracy that followed and how it provided inspiration for countless works of fiction and shaped modern days ideas of pirates.