#122: Pirate Hunters With Robert Kurson

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A sunken pirate ship is one of the hardest things to find in the world. But two treasure hunters risked their lives and fortune to find one. In the process, the uncovered the story of one of the greatest pirates to ever live during the Golden Age of Piracy. My guest today wrote a book about the search of this pirate ship. His name is Robert Kurson and he's the author of the book Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship. In today's show Robert and I discuss why pirates are so appealing, why two guys would risk millions of dollar to find a pirate ship, and the legendary story of the pirate who captained this sunken ship. You're not going to want to miss this.

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0:00.0	music
0:15.0	Barrett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.8	So pirates have fascinated boys and men for centuries.
0:22.4	Countless books have been written about them, movies, they got the Pirates of the Caribbean,
0:26.8	Disney Land, People Go, Kids Dress Up, Pyruses for Halloween.
0:31.2	People just, there's something about pirates that people are drawn to.
0:34.7	But here's the thing I just found out that finding a pirate ship, an actual pirate ship
0:39.9	from the Golden Age of Piracy, which was the 16th century, is one of the hardest things
0:45.2	to do.
0:46.2	It's harder than finding sunken treasure.
0:48.0	And that's because, first, there's not a lot of pirate ships out there.
0:50.9	And second, just because the nature of piracy, they didn't put any identifying markers
0:54.9	of the ship, so it's hard to identify a ship as a pirate ship once you find it.
0:59.3	Despite all this, these two men, their treasure hunters, they got a lead on a possible sunken
1:04.4	pirate ship in the Caribbean.
1:06.5	And they risked pretty much everything to go find it.
1:10.1	Money, their livelihood, their personal lives, just to find this pirate ship, and also
1:14.9	in the process to discover and learn more about the pirate that captained this ship.
1:20.1	His name's Joseph Bannister, one of the greatest pirates we ever lived, but very few
1:24.6	people know about.
1:25.6	Anyways, today on the show, I have the author of a book that just came about about the finding
1:30.2	of this pirate ship.
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