User blog comment:Cpt. Jack/Black pearl crew survived?/@comment-3427324-20110526100858/@comment-4898132-20110527023554

For now, that may be the case. Though since no one blurted out "the Pearl's crew were killed"(or something like that)...then it is possible that Barbossa may have thought he survived after escaping the QAR, but not seen what happened to the crew.