Aye, a boat can't go very far from shore, not the way a ship can.

[There's a pause.]

That does happen, though, I've found some buried treasure that way. [So it's not all completely false!] But by and large, if you wanted treasure and didn't wish to try a violent action, your best bet was to find a shipwreck and see if what it had been carrying hadn't all rotted away. And you'd have to dive deep, so—best be good at swimming.

[He huffs out a breath. It would be a laugh, if it didn't sound just a little bit tired.]

I've seen worse ways for a pirate to die than walking off a plank. [Like hanging and being stuck in a gibbet while on death's door and decapitation and fever in a Jamaican prison just inches from freedom and—]

What else has Hollywood said about pirates, anyway?