Captain Morgan Rewards Archaeologists With Rum For Ocean Floor Find
You don't hear about liquor brands getting involved in archaeology too often but the team of archaeologists has recovered six cannons from the site where "infamous privateer" Captain Henry Morgan's ships wrecked in the 1600s is being rewarded with rum. Morgan is the namesake of Captain Morgan spiced rum. The ships crashed into a reef while carrying Morgan and a group of his men to raid Castillo de San Lorenzo el Real de Chagres, a fort that guarded the capital of Panama City. Morgan and his men were sailing up the river when his flagship, the Satisfaction, and multiple other vessels crashed into a reef and sank. The Captain Morgan Rum Company has offered each adult member of the expedition team a barrel of their very own blend of rum, and plans to immortalize the team by renaming a section of the Captain Morgan distillery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in their honor.
"We cannot thank these brave archaeologists enough for recovering Captain Morgan's lost cannons and returning them to us, as we all feared they were lost to the seven seas forever," said a spokesperson for the Captain Morgan Society for the Preservation of Life, Love & Loot.
The company believes that there may be bottles of Morgan's spiced rum that were aboard the Satisfaction and his other ships off the coast of Panama remain on the ocean's floor waiting to be recovered. It has offered a reward as well as a role in a future advertising campaign to whoever who recovers them with the proviso that they do so responsibly and without damaging anything natural to environment.
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