During the months of August and September, undersea explorer and specialist, Barry Clifford, announced some exciting details regarding an old pirate ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod, MA. According to the article, “Explorer is Sure He’s on the Path to Pirate Loot” from Gazette Net, specialists are calling the exploration site the “yellow brick road” because of the gold trail that runs along the Cape’s shifting seafloor.

Clifford estimates that the trail leads to a sunken ship called Wydah, where there might potentially be buried treasure. The Wydah sank back in 1717 during a terrible storm, and was not discovered again until Clifford came across it on a dive mission near Wellfleet in 1987, during which he uncovered over 200,000 artifacts. He found treasures and historical artifacts such as gold ornaments, sword handles, and even a boy’s leg. Evidence supports that, when the ship sank, it contained loot from fifty pirate ships from which Wydah’s crew had stolen.

In April 2013, two Colonial-era documents were found on board the ship. Collectively, they proved that the Wydah raided two massive ships the week before it sank and that there were over 400,000 gold coins on board from the incidents. In August of 2013, Clifford and his team of divers headed for the “yellow brick road,” the stretch of sea floor above the sunken ship, extending about seven hundred yards. During this excursion, Clifford uncovered evidence that he was near the coins.