In 1925, a merchant steam-powered ship left Charleston, South Carolina,
for Havana, Cuba with 32 passengers.
The vessel disappeared at the Bermuda Triangle and bodies of the
passengers were never recovered.
Archaeologists went through the ship’s records and realised the missing
ship was the one identified as the Bear Wreck A merchant ship that vanished in
the Bermuda Triangle in 1925 has been found.
The steam-powered SS Cotopaxi went missing on November 29, 1925, after it
left Charleston, South Carolina, for Havana, Cuba with 32 passengers. The ship
never reached its destination and all bodies of the passengers were never
found, Fox News reported.
Cotopaxi left Charleston, South Carolina, on November 29, 1925 and went
missing two days later never to be found, the wreckage was located about 35
nautical miles off the coast of St Augustine, Florida by a group of underwater
explorers and maritime archaeologists.
In a statement issued by a new Science Channel Series, marine biologist
and underwater explorer Michael Barnette contacted British historian Guy
Walters to help find the mysterious ship.
A marine biologist and underwater explorer when they located the ship that
went missing 100 years ago.,Walters combed through the records at the archives
of Lloyd’s of London who were the insurers of the vessel. “There he
discovered something previously unknown about the SS Cotopaxi’s voyage.
The ship had sent out wireless distress signals with a position on
December 1st, 1925, two days after it left Charleston,” read the statement.
Another ship that had been discovered at that position 35 years ago was
identified as the Bear Wreck. Upon further scrutiny, the researchers realised
that the Bear Wreck was actually the Cotopaxi.
The Bermuda Triangle stretches across a western part of the North
Atlantic between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. The area, also known as the
Devil’s Triangle, has claimed over 1,000 lives in the last 100 years. At least
75 planes and hundreds of ships have gone missing at the Triangle without
explanation.