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West Caicos Dive Sites

P irates and privateers have also had a lingering history with on to their final destination. The Turks and Caicos is located in this
West Caicos. Because of the Atlantic North Equatorial Current, area, so pirates based in the islands had many opportunities to
ships in the 1500s and 1600s when sailing to the newly discov- prey on ships. Modern popular culture presents an idea of pirates
ered lands of the Americas and Caribbean would often first ap- of the period sailing in large ships, but the reality is the opposite.
proach land in the region north of Hispaniola before continuing