TORTUGA CUFFFIRE IN THE HOLE Pirate Collection "More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep the sweet, proliferous bouquet that is Tortuga, savvy?." The Island of Tortuga was an island located in the Caribbean. Of all the pirate islands in the Caribbean, none was the equal of Tortuga. Dangerous, boisterous, drunken, and bawdy, Tortuga was pirate heaven. Around the Golden Age of Piracy, Tortuga became a major center of piracy in the 17th