User blog comment:Zwhit3/Groves and Gillete/@comment-3331718-20120116160045/@comment-4898132-20120118211111

There wasn't much "official word" on what happened. My guess is that they would be like Norrington in DMC "One of the ships picked up a man adrift at sea"...unlikely, but that's my weird imagination.

But as the film nor its related material revealed anything, their fate is uncertain.