Wild Care of Cape Cod Shared Its Passion at the CCTC Winter Brunch Gallery
About 200 years ago, in April 1717, the pirate ship Whydah floundered off the East Coast of Cape Cod, broke apart and sank, drowning Captain Samuel Bellamy and all its crew, save two, and scattering a cargo that included 180 bags of silver, gold and jewels.

The recent April 2019 luncheon for the Cape Cod Tufts Club, held almost to the anniversary day of that tragedy, included an entertaining talk by Chris Macort. Chris, who has explored the Whydah wreckage for the last twenty years, is presently Salvage Diver and Whydah Museum Exhibit Director for the Whydah Pirate Museum in West Yarmouth. The discovery of the Pirate Ship Whydah by Barry Clifford in 1984 and the recovery of actual pirate treasure was the first known successful finding of a wrecked pirate ship with all its bounty.

A capacity attendance of eighty-seven members of the Cape Cod Tufts Club attending the Annual Spring Luncheon filled the Swan River Restaurant in Dennis Port and generously contributed $435 for the Cape Cod Tufts Club Scholarship Fund through the raffle basket ticket sales.