The skeletal remains of six pirates who likely served under the legendary Capt. Samuel Black Sam Bellamy have been discovered off the coast of Massachusetts.

According to the Whydah Pirate Museum, one set may even be those of the famed pirate himself, one of the many who perished when his ship, the Whydah Gally, sank off Cape Cod in a storm in 1717.

We hope that modern, cutting-edge technology will help us identify these pirates and reunite them with any descendants who could be out there, explorer Barry Clifford, who found the wreck in 1984, told local media including Boston TV station WHDH .

The remains are encased inside concretions, or hard masses that form around remains and artifacts, such as this one from the same wreck: