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Associated Press
25-06-2025
- Health
- Associated Press
BlueCrest Health Group Rebrands QuickSilver Counseling Center as BlueCrest Counseling Center
06/25/2025, New Providence, NJ // KISS PR Brand Story PressWire // BlueCrest Health Group, the parent company of the acclaimed BlueCrest Recovery Center and BlueCrest Detox in New Jersey, is proud to announce that QuickSilver Counseling Center has officially rebranded as BlueCrest Counseling Center. This rebranding reflects BlueCrest Health Group's commitment to delivering consistent, high-quality outpatient services under a unified name that aligns with the group's mission to provide compassionate, evidence-based care. BlueCrest Counseling Center continues to offer the same comprehensive outpatient programs, including intensive outpatient programs (IOP), gender-specific rehab programs, and specialized addiction therapy services, now under the BlueCrest brand that clients trust. 'Our counseling center reflects our commitment to empowering individuals on their path to recovery. We're honored to provide accessible, compassionate care that helps clients build lasting wellness and reclaim their lives.' - Richard Hession, Chief Executive Officer, BlueCrest Health Group Located at 571 Central Ave, Suite 108, New Providence, NJ 07974, BlueCrest Counseling Center remains a safe and supportive environment where clients can work toward long-term recovery while developing the skills and resilience needed to thrive. The center's multidisciplinary team offers personalized therapy options such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), trauma therapy, and family therapy, tailored to each client's unique needs and goals. For more information about BlueCrest Counseling Center's services or to inquire about admissions, please call (888) 477-8941 or email [email protected]. About BlueCrest Health Group BlueCrest Health Group provides individualized, evidence-based care for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Known for its deeply compassionate, client-centered approach, the group operates BlueCrest Recovery Center, BlueCrest Counseling Center, and BlueCrest Detox in New Jersey. ### Media Contact Devon Zanaras (973) 298-5776 newsroom: Source published by Submit Press Release >> BlueCrest Health Group Rebrands QuickSilver Counseling Center as BlueCrest Counseling Center
The Guardian
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean' hopes to unearth ships and treasure
The Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have captured imaginations over the centuries. But almost nothing is known about the life and times of actual pirates. Now a leading British marine archaeologist is co-directing an expedition that has been allowed for the first time to search for pirate ships off Nassau on the island of New Providence, a notorious pirate hideout 300 years ago. No one has until now explored the seabed for their ships and treasure, let alone everyday belongings that could be as valuable to historical research as a stash of emeralds, Dr Sean Kingsley said. 'The potential is enormous,' he added. 'We are expecting to find some really cool stuff because this is the real home of the pirates of the Caribbean. 'Pirates didn't keep journals listing their lawlessness. What happened in Nassau stayed in Nassau. If we want to discover the truth, we're going to have to dive for it.' The Bahamas was a major crossroads for trade and more than 500 ships have been wrecked off New Providence since the 1680s, according to historical sources. But there may be dozens more, with pirate ships among them. In 1718, when Woodes Rogers sailed to Nassau to become its governor, he noted 40 seized ships on the shore that had been 'either burnt or sunk' to destroy evidence and 'about 700 pirates'. In 1696, the privateer Henry Avery sailed to Nassau in his ship, the Fancy, laden with loot. He used some of the treasure to bribe the governor of the Bahamas, establishing Nassau as a base for fellow pirates. Top of the most-wanted hitlist of shipwrecks is the Fancy, a 46-gun flagship. Kingsley said: 'Avery of Plymouth lit the fuse and threw the grenade that started the golden age of piracy after looting a Mughal treasure ship of $108m off India. He then sailed to Nassau in 1696 to lie low, party and for the crew to break up with their cut of the booty. Avery scuttled the Fancy in Nassau. It's the crown jewels of pirate ships. If we were to find anything associated with it, it would be spectacular. Its plunder was the greatest and most successful pirate heist on the high seas.' The New Providence Pirates Expedition – which is dedicated to science, education, entertainment and tourism in the Bahamas – is drawing on historical and archaeological evidence to conduct the first underwater survey, which begins in September. The project has secured the first-ever agreement with the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation of the Bahamas, a partner collaborator. Kingsley has explored more than 350 shipwrecks in the last 30 years and is the founding editor of Wreckwatch, the world's only magazine dedicated to the sunken past. The affiliated Wreckwatch TV is collaborating with the New Providence Pirates Expedition to bring 'the history, ruined landscape and sea dogs of the golden age of piracy between 1696 and 1730 back to life' through a documentary film, The Mystery of the Pirate King's Treasure. The film's co-director, Chris Atkins, said: 'The Bahamas, with its azure waters and crystal-clear underwater visibility, is a film-maker's dream. For the first time in history, viewers are going to see with their own eyes the places where Blackbeard and gang terrorised the Americas. Somewhere out there are the wine bottles they partied with, the tobacco pipes they smoked, the pieces of eight carelessly lost and so much more. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get up close and personal with the real pirates of the Caribbean.' Asked how they will identify pirate shipwrecks, Kingsley said: 'Generally, if you find a Dutch, English or French shipwreck, it has a very specific type of material culture on it. If it's Spanish, it will have olive jars, a good marker. If it's British, it may have Bristol or London tobacco pipes, for instance. On a pirate wreck, you will find French, English and Dutch ceramics and a mix of coins, anything from Arabian to British, and weapons such as stinkpots, explosive weapons used by pirates.' Dr Michael Pateman, the expedition's co-director and the ambassador for history, culture and museology in the Bahamas, said: 'This is the first project to reconstruct the port and landscape where Blackbeard, Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and the rest of the notorious Flying Gang were based. Anything could still be down there.'
