Barry Clifford

In 2024, Barry Clifford had continued his work with Expedition Whydah. Clifford returned to the wreck site of the pirate ship Whydah Gally off of the coast of Cape Cod. This expedition was featured on the Discovery Channel series Expedition Unknown. Host Josh gates joins Clifford and underwater field archeologist Brandon Clifford in an investigation of the wreck to find artifacts from the sunken ship. This episode highlights the ongoing archeological search of the site more that three centuries after it had sank in 1717.

Barry Clifford is an American underwater archaeological explorer.

Around 1982, Clifford began discovering the remains of the Whydah Gally, a former slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy which sunk in 1717, during the Golden Age of Piracy. In 1988, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that 100% of the Whydah rightfully belonged to Clifford Clifford opened his Whydah Pirate Museum in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts. A smaller selection of artifacts was previously on an international touring exhibition through a National Geographic/Premier Exhibitions joint venture, called Real Pirates. In 2022, a permanent museum named Real Pirates was opened in Salem, Massachusetts displaying more artifacts from the shipwreck.