User blog comment:Captain Jake Smith/Black Pearl out of the bottle./@comment-4693709-20120506170109/@comment-1984959-20120507044725

In On Stranger Tides, they kind of made it ambiguous on the fate of the crew of the Black Pearl. The way Barbossa told his tale of Blackbeard's attack on the Pearl, he seemed to have implied of being the only survivor(I did what needed done. I survived.). However, with the fact that Jack the Monkey(even though he's immortal), and Cotton's Parrot were still on the Pearl, there is a slight chance of that the crew is alive. But for now, as far as official information goes, their fate is uncertain.

Me personally, I will say that I agree in hoping that the crew is alive.