Centuries-old Danish slave shipwrecks discovered off Costa Rica’s coast

Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast are the remains of long-lost Danish slave ships — a discovery that restores a key chapter in Afro-Costa Rican heritage more than 300 years after the ships’ arrival. That, combined with historical records of two Danish slave ships wrecked in Central America in 1710 — the Fridericus Quartus, which was burned, and the Christianus Quintus, which broke anchor and drifted away — prompted a new investigation. “The bricks, the timber, the fire damage — it all aligns with the historical accounts.”

Author: BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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