90 years later, the mystical ship was discovered near Havana. There were no traces of the crew on board. Cuban experts have established the name of the vessel discovered by the coast guard in the Caribbean. The rusty steamer drifting without a command turned out to be the American merchant ship SS Cotopaxi, which disappeared without a trace in December 1926 in the Bermuda Triangle, reports Segodnya.
The Cuban Coast Guard found an unidentified object in the coastal waters west of Havana in a closed area to navigation that did not respond to radio inquiries. Patrol boats sent to intercept the intruder reported that a vessel was drifting without a crew in the restricted area. On board, the border guards found the diary of Captain Meyer, who served in the Clinchfield Navigation Company in the 1920s. The document made it possible to establish the name of the vessel, but did not clarify the reason for its disappearance. There were no traces of the crew on board.
On November 29, 1926, the freighter SS Cotopaxi, commanded by Meyer, sailed from the port of Charleston, South Carolina to Havana with a cargo of coal.
On December 1, ships in the Caribbean received a distress signal: the captain of Cotopaxi radioed that the hull was leaking and water was entering the hold. Then the connection was interrupted, the search for the ship and the crew did not give any result.
On December 31, the ship was officially declared missing. Since then, SS Cotopaxi has been on the list of victims of the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle is the section of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida. According to popular belief, in this difficult area for navigation (numerous shoals, cyclones and storms), under unknown circumstances, more than 100 ships and planes disappeared. Rare and paranormal phenomena are blamed for their disappearance: underwater volcanoes, wandering killer waves, infrasound, forcing crews to leave ships in panic, and aliens abducting sailors for their own purposes.
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