Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge

International Talk Like A Pirate Day!     Arrrgh! We may not all talk like pirates matey's but we can explore the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne' Revenge ! From the Nautilus Productions stock footage collection.   #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #history #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Blackbeard300 #OuterBanks #ourflagmeansdeath

450,000 Views of Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge! Blackbeard the pirate's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was discovered in 1996 by Intersal, Inc. Join Nautilus Productions & underwater archaeologists from the Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project as they explore the 300 year old wreck site near Beaufort Inlet, NC. Blackbeard/Queen Anne's Revenge (QAR) stock footage can be licensed from Nautilus Productions.  MORE #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #history #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Blackbeard300 #IntellectualProperty #lawsuit #SovereignImmunity #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

When the State Becomes the Pirate! The real story of modern-day piracy on Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge you may not know. READ MORE #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Privateer #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #history #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Blackbeard300 #IntellectualProperty #lawsuit #SovereignImmunity #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #longwayaround

Battle of Cape Fear River! September 26-27, 1718: Stede Bonnet, 46 pirates, his sloop the Royal James , and two others were attacked by two eight-gun sloops, the Henry with 8 guns and 70 men captained by John Masters and the Sea Nymph , with 8 Guns and 60 men captained by Fayrer Hall, sent by governor Robert Johnson of South Carolina. The Battle of Cape Fear River , which occurred just South of Wilmington, NC at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, lasted nearly six hours and ended when the rising tide allowed the government troops to refloat their vessels while Bonnet was still hard aground. Bonnet and his pirates surrendered and were later taken to Charleston, SC on October 3, 1718.  READ MORE #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Privateer #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw ...

Blackbeard Just Broke Copyright Law, and Now States Are the Pirates Copyright law has a huge blind spot — a blind spot that only came to light because of Blackbeard . There is no honor among thieves pirates states, and about a year after North Carolina promised not to infringe Allen’s copyrights, the state passed “ Blackbeard’s Law ,” which stated that “all photographs, video recordings, or other documentary materials of a derelict vessel … shall be a public record,” and that Allen’s agreement with the state was “void and unenforceable.” READ MORE #artsandentertainment #piracy #northcarolina #shipwreck #shipwrecklaw #maritimeheritage #Pirates #NautilusProductions #Blackbeard #Documentary #StockFootage #Privateer #Archaeology #EdwardThache #copyright #QueenAnnesRevenge #McCrory #FriendsofQAR #NCDNCR #BlackbeardsLaw #NCFilm #Blackbeard300 #IntellectualProperty #lawsuit #SovereignImmunity #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #NPPA #asmp #CopyrightAlliance #OuterBanks #o...

Israel Hands Testifies! May 27, 1719: Following his capture, Blackbeard's first mate and fifteen others were taken to Williamsburg, Virginia, to stand trial. In exchange for a pardon, Hands testified against corrupt North Carolina officials, including North Carolina Secretary Tobias Knight, with whom Thache had consorted. The minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council for May 27, 1719 state: "Hesikia Hands[,] master of Capt Thaches Sloop Adventure [,] seems to sweare possitively in his Depossition that the sd [said] Thache went from Ocacoch Inlet at his returne into this Country from his last voyage with a present to the sd Tobias Knights house [,] when by the same deposition [Hands] acknowledgth that to be out of the reach of his knoledge[,] he being all the time at the sd Inlet which lyes at above thirty leagues distance from [Knight’s] house and further the [said] Tobias Knight doth pray your Honours to observe that the aforsd Hesikias Hands was ......

DAN Member Profile: Rick Allen Rick Allen strapped on his scuba gear and peered over the edge of the barge. He’d made this same dive to Blackbeard’s infamous shipwreck, the  Queen Anne’s Revenge , more than 200 times before — but not like this, not since his life-altering accident on Jan. 3, 2011.  READ THE STORY