There’s something uniquely appealing about the prospect of a lost city at the bottom of the sea. Port Royal, JamaicaOnce nicknamed “the Sodom of the New World”, Port Royal was as close as there has ever been to a genuine pirate city. Awash with privateers and prostitutes – and an infamously potent strain of rum – the city’s reputation for wickedness was known throughout the Caribbean, and notorious buccaneer Henry Morgan called Port Royal his home. Today Port Royal is one of the world’s most important underwater sites, and the ruins have sat undisturbed for centuries beneath the sea. Eventually the city went the same way as Port Royal, though its fate was much less abrupt.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 26, 2020 08:37 UTC