Always been partial to black, myself. [And such was the color of his sails.] The Jolly Roger is quite appropriate for a man of me profession, I feel.

[Quite appropriately, it caused fright to some, and brought about respect from others.]

It's very interesting ye haven't heard of the Queen Anne's Revenge, Captain Marco, though that only proves that perhaps ye do hail from a different world than mine, I would guess.

[A smile crept up on his face as he went on to explain.]

The frigate used to be Blackbeard's, but unfortunately for him, I took it for me own after he regrettably perished. She's got an array of forty cannons and a speed of mighty twenty knots.

[Perhaps it was unwise sharing all of that information with a fellow pirate captain, but he still went on and did it - refraining from proudly talking about his current ship was never easy.

As for the mention of the ocean that was apparently closed off, that only made Barbossa sigh with exasperation.]

At least there is a bloody ocean... perhaps it can be regained with time.