William Kidd

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Ile Sainte-Marie (or St. Mary’s Island as it is known in English), a long, thin island off the eastern African coast, became a popular base for pirates. Up to 1,000 pirates reportedly called the rocky island home, including widely-feared brigands Adam Baldridge, William Kidd, Olivier Levasseur, Henry Every, Robert Culliford, Abraham Samuel and Thomas Tew.

Divers discovered a bar of silver, weighing in at 50kg, thought to belong to the legendary Scot William Kidd.

The bar of silver, according to news media from Madagascar were transported on the pirate’s ship, when it run sank in a cove near the island.