An area of ​​the Atlantic with the imaginary shape of a triangle. Yes, just the one from Bermuda. The northern summit consists of the southernmost point of the main island of the homonymous archipelago. The southern summit, on the other hand, is the easternmost part of Puerto Rico. The western one, the southernmost point in Florida. In the second half of the last century, legends, beliefs and rich tales built the belief that that large slice of sea is one of the most dangerous on the planet: a cursed or even diabolical triangle where too many disappearances of ships and planes would have occurred.
The load was then placed there by suggestive articles such as that of September 30, 1950, signed by Edward Van Winkle Jones for the Associated Press , the report two years later appeared in Fate , which listed all the disasters in the area, or a another similar piece by Vincent Gaddis from 1964. Or books like “The Bermuda Triangle” from 1974 by Charles Bertlitz (to understand, the same as the Roswell aliens) which mixed ideas that pass from ufo and paranormal to the already widespread beliefs. In addition to much talked about stories just like that of the SS Cotopaxi, now apparently really identified, but the protagonist in recent years of a sensational hoax also denied by the site specialized in refuting urban legends Snopes – it was said that she had returned to the surface alone – and in 1977 even ended up in the film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” by Steven Spielberg, where she is placed in the Gobi desert.
Let’s start from the triangle. There is, of course, nothing that corroborates those beliefs: for the majority of scholars, accidents in those parts would not be significantly higher than average, considering the dense traffic of vehicles and the vastness of the surface, on whose exact location we have discussed at length. Thus, for example, the Australian science journalist Karl Kruszelnicki had sentenced after a long research work, definitively retiring every legend.
Not only that: part of the manipulation of what happened would be linked to the reports of the incidents, often reported in a partial way or distorted so as to make them appear inexplicable. Even if it remains a base of experts convinced of the opposite, or at least of the specificity of that huge area. For one thing, some simulations of the University of Southampton would have provided a possible explanation for the numerous shipwrecks a couple of years ago: the “wild waves” of short duration but also up to 30 meters high, generated in that area by a series of periodic storms that occurred they collide from North and South to which, “if there are more arriving from Florida – the words conveyed in a documentary about that one million and 100 thousand square km area – it can be a perfect combination for the birth of these waves” .
The fact is that there were not many boats swallowed in that stretch and found again. The context is, moreover, essential to understanding: the myth was born basically between the first and second world wars, when several military ships sank in these parts with their load of lives without, in fact, never be found. As usual, according to the skeptics without particular statistical discrepancies considering the type of boats, for others with a few too many enigmas. On the other hand, given the depth of the seas, launching into research is complicated even with today’s technological means, let alone at the time.
Now it seems that a boat that disappeared more or less in that area and precisely in those years, that is, at the end of November 1925, came back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador). She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal. according to the skeptics without particular statistical discrepancies considering the type of boats, for others with a few too many enigmas. On the other hand, given the depth of the seas, launching into research is complicated even with today’s technological means, let alone at the time.
Now it seems that a boat that disappeared more or less in that area and precisely in those years, that is, at the end of November 1925, came back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador). She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal. according to the skeptics without particular statistical discrepancies considering the type of boats, for others with a few too many enigmas. On the other hand, given the depth of the seas, launching into research is complicated even with today’s technological means, let alone at the time. Now it seems that a boat that disappeared more or less in that area and precisely in those years, that is, at the end of November 1925, came back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador). She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal. given the depth of the seas, launching a search is complicated even with today’s technological means, let alone at the time.
Now it seems that a boat that disappeared more or less in that area and precisely in those years, that is, at the end of November 1925, came back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador). She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal. given the depth of the seas, launching a search is complicated even with today’s technological means, let alone at the time. Now it seems that a boat that disappeared more or less in that area and precisely in those years, that is, at the end of November 1925, came back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador).
She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal. has come back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador). She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal. has come back to light, exhuming with it the history of the triangle: it is precisely the infamous SS Cotopaxi (from the name of a volcano in Ecuador). She launched in 1918, at that time she was bound for Havana, Cuba, from the port of Charleston, South Carolina with her cargo of coal.
Within two days of departure, the steamship encountered a violent tropical storm 35 miles off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida – a point actually outside the triangle – and sank taking the 32 members of the ship with it. ‘crew. The wreck had never been identified. Until the recent work of the famous marine biologist, photographer and diver Michael C. Barnette who, together with the British historian Guy Walters, would finally solve the mystery, telling it in a new series of TV documentaries entitled “Shipwreck Secretcs”. But adding a layer of adrenaline to an already intricate enough story.
The story is in fact complex: in reality, on 1 December 1925, just two days after departure, the boat would have sent a danger signal with its position, collected from a Jacksonville station in Florida. From that faint trace, obtained only recently from the archives of Lloyd’s of London, which at the time insured the vehicle, the two experts set out again. As well as from another well known wreck in the area for some years, nicknamed “Bear Wreck”.
The theory the couple believe they have tried would be shocking: the “Bear Wreck” would correspond to none other than the SS Cotopaxi, according to the advice of the local maritime museum, the St. Augustine lighthouse and the diver Al Perkins, an expert in the area. Analyzing the dimensions and the “orientation of the machines”, as well as a series of other clues and underwater measurements, the biologist is confident that the wreck identified 35 years earlier but remained until today without a name and the coal boat mysteriously sunk 94 years ago, of which it was thought to have lost all traces and on which it was speculated for years, would be the same thing. A ghost ship hunt that will be reported on February 9 on Science Channel. “After discussing and evaluating all the evidence, the team is quite certain that Bear Wreck is actually what remains of the lost Cotopaxi,” explains the broadcaster. Captain William J. Myers’ grandson, Douglas Myers, would also seem to have found solace over his grandfather’s sad fate. But the mystery continues: “What people assume actually happened sometimes doesn’t,” said Barnette, for whom the whole epic of the triangle is “just folklore.”
