In the 17th century the cays' hidden inlets, coves and limestone caverns were the favorite haunts of such pirates and privateers as Blackbeard, who plundered Spanish galleons leaving the New World.
Marine archaeologists working on a wreck off the coast of Sicily have discovered five large cannon from a British ship, believed to have sunk in a major battle with Spanish galleons.
He's invested in Visa Gold Resources, a private company incorporated in the Turks and Caicos Islands that acquired the rights to hunt for sunken Spanish galleons in two areas off Cuba's coast.