The Cuban authorities spotted the ship for the first time on May
16, near a restricted military zone, west of Havana. They made many
unsuccessful attempts to communicate with the crew, and
finally mobilized three patrol boats to intercept it.
When they reached it, they were surprised to find that the ship was
actually a nearly 100-year old steamer identified as the Cotopaxi, a
name famously associated with the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. There
was no one on board and the ship seemed to have been abandoned for
decades, suggesting that this could actually be the tramp freighter that
disappeared in 1925.
An exhaustive search of the ship led to the discovery of the captain’s
logbook. It was, indeed, associated with the Clinchfield Navigation
Company, the owners of the SS Cotopaxi, but hasn’t brought any
clue concerning what happened to the ship over the last 90 years.
Cuban expert, Rodolfo Salvador Cruz, believes that the captain’s logbook
is authentic. This document is full of precious information concerning
the life of the crew before the ship’s disappearance, but the entries
stop suddenly on December 1, 1925.
On 29 November 1925, the SS Cotopaxi departed Charleston, South
Carolina, and headed towards Havana, Cuba. The ship had a crew of 32
men, under the command of Captain W. J. Meyer, and was carrying a cargo
of 2340 tons of coal. It was reported missing two days later, and was
unheard of for almost 90 years.
The Vice President of Council of Ministers, General Abelardo Colomé,
announced that the Cuban authorities were going to conduct a thorough
investigation to elucidate the mystery of the ship’s disappearance and
reappearance.
“It is very important for us to understand what happened” says General
Colomé. “Such incidents could be really bad for our economy, so want to
make sure that this kind of disappearance doesn’t happen again. The
time has come to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, once and for
all.”
The Bermuda Triangle is a loosely defined region covering the area between Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, where dozens of ships and planes have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Popular culture has attributed many of the disappearances to
paranormal and supernatural phenomena, or to the activity of
extraterrestrial beings. One explanation, even pins the blame on
leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.
Despite the popularity of all these strange theories, most scientists
don’t even recognize the existence of the Bermuda Triangle, and blame
human mistakes and natural phenomena for the disappearances.
The mysterious reappearance of the SS Cotopaxi has, however, already
generated a lot of interest in the scientific community and could push
some experts to change their mind on the subject.
Source: worldnewsdailyreport
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