DRAIN THE SUNKEN PIRATE CITY
Draining a sinful city.
Mapping the Pirate City
Experts use the latest high tech scientific survey to reveal the full extent of the 33 acre sunken city for the first time. It will offer a new visual of Port Royal and its devastating end.
Hidden beneath the waters of Jamaica’s Kingston Harbour lie the ruins of the biggest pirate city of all time, Port Royal. With its reputation for extravagance, liquor and crime it was known as the “wickedest city on earth”.
On June 7th 1692 an earthquake followed by a tsunami destroyed the city; two thirds sank in minutes beneath the sea and 5,000 people died in the catastrophe and its aftermath. Since Port Royal’s rediscovery in the19th century, numerous excavations of the site uncovered ruined buildings and pirate treasure. We are taking our investigation one step further, and revealing for the first time the sunken pirate city in all it’s glory.
Bring it back to life
We virtually drain the city and rebuild it in CGI to solve some of its long-standing mysteries. How did the home of the original pirates of Caribbean become the mercantile capital of the New World? Where do its sunken C17th forts now lie? And how the sand, on which Port Royal was built, was a geological catastrophe waiting to happen.
Clips and Images
A Sinking City
Port Royal Drained
