The City Under the Sea

The classical world of Greece and Rome is rife with stories of destruction and of great cities like Atlantis being lost and swallowed up by the sea. But one of the greatest sunken cities lies not in the Mediterranean, but across the Atlantic, in the New World. Port Royal, Jamaica, was the centre for buccaneers who raided Spanish galleons laden with treasure. Under the leadership of the famous pirate Captain Morgan, Port Royal came to be known as the Sodom and Gomorrah of the New World, the wickedest city on earth. But in June 1692, an earthquake devastated the town. Over 3,000 people were killed or drowned, as the city slipped beneath the sea. Today, a team of divers led by Dr Donny Hamilton from Texas A and M University is uncovering the town.