Rex Cowan

Rex Cowan is a former lawyer turned shipwreck hunter, author and broadcaster.  He served in the Royal Air Force, has a law degree from King’s College London and is a Fulbright scholar. He has since become Britain’s most successful shipwreck hunter, and he worked with John Le Carré on A Century of Images: Photographs by the Gibson Family and Castaway and Wrecked.

Some said the pirate king went to ground in London or Scotland, others that he died penniless and was buried in an unmarked grave in Devon. Or was he sipping fine French wine in the hills above Marseille?

The Notorious Pirate King Who Vanished With the Riches of a Mughal Treasure Ship

In the late 17th century, Henry Avery—the subject of the first global manhunt—bribed his way into the Bahamas

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