Details of exploring the sunken ship on St. Mary's island

The depth of the sunken ship, the direction of the sunken ship on the island, how many meters away from the island, and the latitude and longitude of the sunken ship on the map.

Please. Kidd's treasure hasn't been dug up yet Can this kind of thing let you and I know? Can be published online? Then everyone can dig! ! ! It's not your turn. .

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According to relevant media reports, at the beginning of 2000, an expedition team, led by underwater explorer Barry Clifford, went to the legendary treasure island of Madagascar on the east coast of Africa to explore St. Mary's Island. Clifford is the most famous expert in the history of shipwreck and navigation. He firmly believes that/KLOC-Captain Kidd's pirate ship "Adventure" is still buried under the harbor of St. Mary's Island in the 0/7th century. The expedition was fully funded by Discovery Channel. The whole world was shocked when the expedition team found the wreckage of the expedition accurately.

Even readers who know a little about the great pirates in history, as long as they see the name of Captain Kidd, their first reaction will be to ask themselves: Is this news true?

Why do you know "Captain Kidd" as long as you know a little about pirates? This is because he is the most striking pirate captain in English history, and he is famous all over the world in terms of fame.

Captain Kidd kept fighting against his fate, but he never had good luck. He finally got a chance to work in the British Imperial Navy, but he didn't want fate to tie the knot for Captain Kidd here.

From 65438 to 0645, Captain Kidd was born into a devout Christian family in the Scottish port city of greenock. His father was a pastor of the local Presbyterian church. Kidd was born in an era when Britain played an important role on the world stage. At that time, because Britain and the Netherlands were full of conflicts on fishing in the North Atlantic, commercial wars in the East, American colonies and slave trade in Africa and the West Indies, this dispute eventually led to the outbreak of war. In the war, Britain defeated the Netherlands and replaced the Netherlands as the maritime hegemon, and gradually became stronger.

Kidd immigrated to America at the age of 20. At that time, Kidd was already an excellent sailor who drifted at sea all the year round, and he was well informed.

1689, Britain and France went to war. The two countries fought off and on for nearly 100 years, and finally Britain won.

After the Anglo-French War, Kidd was drafted into the army and became the captain of the British pirate ship Blessing William. He fought against France in the West Indies and the Caribbean, and made many remarkable achievements.

169 1 May, Kidd married a rich widow, bought a luxurious house in the south of Manhattan Island, and then had children and lived a quiet life (Manhattan still has Captain Kidd's former residence).

Kidd became a successful businessman in Manhattan. However, he grew up at sea, at home all over the world, and soon got tired of the unchanging life on land. He is used to drifting at sea, and he is also used to the generosity and chivalry of sailors. Now, he is tired of being surrounded by businessmen and politicians all day. 1695, Kidd passed by London on his business trip and met Lord Belomont by chance. The Lord gave him a "good" suggestion, and Kidd accepted it at once. Unexpectedly, his life changed completely, and his head fell to the ground four years later.

What's going on here? What advice did Lord Belomont give Kidd?

It turned out that Belomont told Kidd that the British government was worried about pirates in the Indian Ocean. Although the East India Company repeatedly urged the Royal Navy to encircle and suppress pirates, the Royal Navy could not free its hands to deal with the increasingly rampant pirate ships because of the war between Britain and France. Lord Belomont suggested to Kidd that several British nobles could be called to invest and operate an armed ship, and Kidd could be entrusted as the captain. The task of the ship is to attack those elusive pirate ships and recapture the robbed property. This will not only ensure the maritime trade between Britain and combat the arrogance of those pirates, but also make the government profit. For those who invest in armed ships, this is a good thing, and they can easily get a lot of trophies from pirates.

Let's start with the East India Company at that time.

When the Mughal Empire was very powerful, European businessmen who wanted to do business in India had to get permission from the Mughal Emperor to live and do business in India. However, with the decline of the Mughal Empire, European businessmen gradually became invaders who controlled the whole region of India.

The East India Company was established on 1600. At first, the British mainly used the East India Company to do business. 16 13, Britain set up the earliest British trading post in Sutela on the west coast of India, and soon set up a business hall in Madras on the east coast of India. 1698, the East India Company bought Kolkata on the east coast from the Mughal government of India. The village in Calcutta is small, but it plays a very important role. The East India Company has set up a trade headquarters here, and has been continuously transporting Indian grain and industrial raw materials back to Britain, from which it has made great profits.

Because the East India Company became more and more powerful, it gradually occupied Madras, Calcutta and Mumbai, another city mentioned above. They established three districts here, each under the jurisdiction of a governor, and turned these places into bases for further occupation of other parts of India.

With the continuous dispatch of merchant ships by the East India Company to Britain, it not only brought endless disasters to Indians, but also aroused their great dissatisfaction and attracted a large number of pirates. It is in this situation that Lord Belomon suggested that Kidd participate in the operation of armed ships supporting democracy.

Kidd, 50, is tired of the comfortable, quiet but mediocre life in the country. He agreed without hesitation and volunteered to serve the London authorities.

Adventures of Captain Kidd

1696 In April, four dignitaries, including the Minister of the Navy, jointly launched this operation. Entrusted by them, Kidd built a 38-meter-long "Adventure" three-masted sailboat with 36 guns. Lord Belomon recruited 150 sailors for him in new york.

Lord Belomont signed an agreement with Kidd, stipulating that 65% of Kidd's "income" would go to investors, Kidd himself would get 15%, and the rest would go to sailors. Kidd also received a charter signed by the Prime Minister Lord Zomos, authorizing him to rest assured.

Boldly attack and confiscate the enemy's merchant ships.

1696 65438+In February, Kidd, as the captain of an armed civilian ship, set out to take risks. With years of sailing experience, he thinks that with such strong backing, he will succeed. But a series of events that happened later were completely beyond his original expectation.

After a short rest in Madeira, Turea and Madagascar, Adventure sailed for Comer and Mohyla. During this period, 30 sailors on board died tragically of tropical diseases. It turned out that there were only 100 people. After 30 sailors died at the same time, Kidd had to re-hire sailors locally. Unexpectedly, many of the re-employed sailors were pirates, which left them with future troubles.

Maybe Kidd was unlucky. For nine months, they have been wandering at sea all day, with nothing, but they have not met a cargo ship that can be looted. The sailors began to complain. They complained loudly that they went to sea with Captain Kidd because they wanted to do something big. They also have families, and they need to go home with wealth, so they don't want to wander around the sea all the year round. Later hired sailors, because they were pirates, took the opportunity to confuse people and incite them to become pirates.

In fact, Kidd was a little anxious when he thought of the dignitaries who sponsored him. In order to stabilize the situation, Kidd was forced to sail to the Red Sea. 1697, Kidd asked his men to hang a red pirate flag on the top of his fleet mast, first attacked a fleet from Merka in the Red Sea, and then robbed a trading ship sailing with the British flag from Aden, taking all the materials on board. His men hung the prisoners with ropes and forced them to tell where the till was. Then Kidd distributed the stolen property to the sailors.

This attack and robbery, whether he volunteered or not, in fact, he must have violated the first agreement with his sponsor. Legally speaking, he committed the crime of piracy.

Later, Kidd began his most desperate pirate career. His "adventure" first destroyed the main mast of a merchant ship, and then fought against the oncoming escort. At this time, he suddenly found that the other party had raised the M flag, and Kidd suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out that he attacked the fleet of the British East India Company, and it was the Royal Navy that fought with him on the spot! Kidd quickly retreated, but the adventure was recognized by the other side.

Kidd made another big taboo this time, because he knew very well that he was holding a privateering permit for armed civilian ships. In any case, this kind of privateering permit can only attack non-domestic ships, but not rob domestic ships.

The East India Company and the Royal Navy immediately submitted a report to the government, and the British government did not hesitate to announce that the British captain was not protected by law and cancelled the "special permit for confiscation of enemy merchant ships" originally issued to him.

At this time, Captain Kidd was hard to argue and was labeled as a "pirate". From then on, he was listed as the top two pirates together with the notorious pirate leader Heng Ebri, who was hunted by him in those years.

Later people couldn't guess what Kidd was thinking at that time, except that soon, he not only really became a pirate, but also took risks and robbed the priceless treasure of the Mughal Empire, committing the most unforgivable piracy crime.

1698,65438+1October 30th, he attacked a three-masted sailboat commanded by the captain of England. When Kidd and all his sailors killed the ship, which weighed 500 tons, was equipped with 10 cannons and was full of rich booty brought from Bangladesh, they realized that it was loaded with the treasure of the Mughal Empire. Later, the pirates sold most of their trophies because Kidd needed cash to pay his sailors.

Kidd's attack aroused the anger of India and Britain at the same time, and the rulers of Mughal Empire threatened the British to retaliate against their branches abroad. At this time, Kidd, in desperation, not only hid diamonds, gold and valuable property, but also simply stole the beautiful three-masted sailboat for himself. The crazy robbery alarmed the king of England.

In the next two years, Kidd became a "sea monster" between Madagascar and Malaba coastline. He robbed a large number of merchant ships and accumulated great wealth in a short time. In later historical materials, it was even said that he had accumulated billions of treasures. Of course, all the figures are just guesses until his treasure is found.

1699, Kidd stopped at Hispaniola Island in Latin America after leaving home for three years. After arriving in Boston Harbor in July of the same year, he wrote a letter to Lord Belomont in Boston, hoping to get his support and promised to pay Lord Belomont 400,000 pounds for it. Lord Belomon verbally promised Kidd complete freedom in the British North American colony, but Kidd and his sailors were arrested and imprisoned as soon as they set foot on land. People immediately found a bag of gold powder worth about 1000 pounds, as well as silver coins and some other gold products in his residence.

1700 On February 6th, Captain Kidd was taken back to London as a prisoner of His Majesty the King of Great Britain. He spent nearly a year in a British prison and was finally sentenced to hang for piracy and murder. The authorities allowed his wife to say goodbye to her husband in prison. During the dinner, Kidd gave his wife a small piece of parchment, and then whispered something. The guards observing outside immediately noticed the secret transfer between their husband and wife and confiscated the little parchment. Take a look, there are only four groups of numbers written on the paper ball: 44- 10-66- 18.

1701On May 23rd, Kidd was taken to the gallows, and seven other people were sentenced to hang with him. When it was Kidd's turn to be punished, the rope on the gallows suddenly broke Taking this opportunity, Kidd even shouted injustice. He also proposed to the judge who was enforcing the law that he was willing to exchange countless treasures for life. This proposal was rejected, and Kidd was hanged with a thick rope for the second time. In order to warn other pirates, his body was tarred, fixed with iron rings and tied to a post by the Thames. This relationship lasted for several years. Seagulls came soon and pecked at his eyes mercilessly. Wild dogs always lingered under his rotting body, hoping that he would fall down and join in the fun. In the end, people crossing the Thames can only see a horrible skeleton every day, because the birds have pecked all his carrion.

Although many people are too scared to open their eyes in front of this skeleton, they even make a detour, but for some people, they are obsessed with Captain Kidd. As time goes by, more and more people are chanting about him.

Why is this?

Of course, this is because of the confusing numbers and legendary treasures on his paper.

Soon, someone cracked the number he had written down, thinking that it implied 44 degrees west longitude 10 minute and 66 degrees north latitude 18 minute. According to this coordinate, an island called Gardiner can be found at the eastern end of Long Island not far from new york. As a result, Gardner Island suddenly became lively. Treasure hunters came to this little-known island. After many twists and turns, people finally figured it out.

Kidd was arrested after he left the island. And before he was arrested, he visited the island owner and bought a lot of food from the island owner. Kidd did not pay cash, but gave the island owner a box of gold, some precious stones and silk.

It is said that in 1699, Kidd wrote to Lord Belomont and gave him 1 1 a bag of gold and silver through secret channels.

Later, it was discovered that Captain Kidd did not trust God completely, even though God gave him a lot of money. Before he landed, he quietly came to this "Gardner" island. At that time, the residents of the island saw Captain Kidd coming to the island from San Antonio every day. After landing on the island, he moved down some big wooden barrels, wooden boxes and bags and transported them to the lonely swamp covered with reeds in the depths of the island.

As for what was in those big wooden barrels and boxes, people on the island at that time were definitely afraid to ask.

In modern times, with some modern tools, many treasure hunters came to this island and drilled around in the swamp with long wooden poles, but they never found anything. Gradually, the island was neglected.