User blog comment:Cpt. Jack/Black pearl crew survived?/@comment-1771352-20110523201612

I find it hard to believe that they would kill off the more important crew members (Pintel, Ragetti, Mullroy, Murtogg, Cotton, and Marty), so I think they probably either escaped with Barbossa, are stuck in the bottle, or jumped ship when they discovered that they didn't have the charts. It would be stupid of Disney to make up an excuse by saying "they are all dead" just because they couldn't hire the other actors.