Thread:Uskok/@comment-4133106-20161020092419/@comment-996391-20161020123529

Contrary to what the official synopsis says, Salazar and his men are not pirates at all. They're all members of the Spanish Royal Navy, and this scene shows Salazar's ship (I believe it's name is the Silent Mary) chasing the Black Pearl, probably at the beginning of Jack Sparrow's pirate career. Jack deliberately sailed the Pearl through the Devil's Triangle, where Salazar and his men fell victims to whatever supernatural forces rule that place, while the Pearl managed to slip away. Approximately fifteen years later, this British warship sails into the Triangle, where its crew is slaughtered by Salazar's men, who are now ghosts trapped between life and death. The only survivor is the young sailor Henry who is recruited by Salazar to find Sparrow.