LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A social media post on Saturday might lead you to believe that cyber-pirates are wreaking havoc on the Las Vegas Strip.

“The hackers have drained Treasure Island,” Las Vegas blogger Jacob Orth posted on X along with a video pan showing a dry lagoon outside the Strip resort. It’s as if the pirate ships are in dry dock.

But resort officials said Monday it’s routine maintenance. On Tuesday, Treasure Island put out this statement: “Siren’s Cove is scheduled for its annual maintenance, which cleans and maintains all the pipes in the fountain. This process will take about four to six weeks.”

There aren’t pirate battles anymore. Those ended in 2003, when MGM acquired Mirage Resorts and revamped “The Battle of Buccaneer Bay” into “Sirens of TI,” as Treasure Island was rebranded on its Strip marquee. But everybody still calls it Treasure Island.

After buying the resort from MGM in 2009 for $775 million, Phil Ruffin was in charge.

Sirens of TI was meant to appeal to a more mature crowd, but that free show also walked the plank, meeting its demise in 2013. The show was costing an estimated $5 million per year. It was quite a spectacle, running four times a night with pyrotechnics and pirates diving into the lagoon.

Like The Mirage’s volcano and the Bellagio fountains which would come later, the free pirate shows drew crowds on the Strip. Treasure Island’s boardwalk along the Strip would fill up as show times approached.

Now, Siren’s Cove is the setting for a prime patio dining spot at Señor Frog’s and a Stripside entryway for country mainstay Gilley’s.

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