The story of the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship that brings misfortune to sailors who meet it on its way, did not arise from scratch. Stumbling into the sea on a half-submerged, abandoned by the crew, but never sunk ship is deadly.
Many believe that ghost ships are something from past centuries. In fact, even today, ships abandoned by the crew are drifting in the oceans, causing a lot of trouble for both cargo ships and passenger liners.
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"Baichimo": "Flying Dutchman" in the ice of the Arctic
The merchant ship Baichimo was built in 1911 in Sweden by order of Germany. The ship was intended to transport the skins of game animals. After the First World War, the ship passed under the flag of Great Britain and cruised along the polar coasts of Canada and the United States.
In the autumn of 1931, Baichimo, with a load of fur, fell into an ice trap off the coast of Alaska. In anticipation of a thaw and the release of the ship from captivity, the team went ashore. Then a snowstorm broke out, and the sailors, who returned to the place where they left the Baichimo, found that it was gone. The crew thought the ship had sunk.
However, some time later, information came that the ship was again jammed with ice and was about 45 miles from the team's camp.
They got to Baichimo, but the owners of the ship considered that its damage was so serious that it would inevitably sink. The ship was left in place, but, having freed itself from ice captivity, it set off for free navigation.
Over the next 40 years, information regularly came that the Baichimo continued its endless journey through the ice.
The last such information is dated 1969. In 2006, the Alaskan government launched an operation to search for Baichimo, but it was unsuccessful. Most likely, the ship still sank, but there is no reliable information about this. So it is possible that the northern "Flying Dutchman" will still remind of itself.
"Reuun Maru": the trawler that did not want to die
The Japanese fishing trawler Reuun Maru was assigned to the port of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. The usual history of the ship ended on March 11, 2011, when during a powerful tsunami the ship was blown out to sea.
The owners thought the ship had sunk. However, a year later, in March 2012, the trawler was spotted off the coast of British Columbia in Canada. The Reuun Maru was rusty, but it held itself quite confidently on the water.
On April 1, 2012, the ship crossed the US waterfront. The Coast Guard concluded that the trawler posed a potential threat to shipping. Since the Japanese owners showed no interest in its fate, it was decided to destroy the Reuun Maru.
On April 5, a Coast Guard ship shot at the trawler. "Reuun Maru" showed great survivability: despite a large number of damage, the ghost ship went to the bottom only after four hours. The trawler rests at a depth of 305 meters, 240 kilometers from the coast of Alaska.
Kaz-II: the mystery of the Australian catamaran
Yacht Kaz-II. A photo: Frame youtube.com
The Australian catamaran Kaz-II was in the status of a ghost ship for only a few days, but this does not make her story any less interesting.
On April 18, 2007, the yacht was accidentally spotted from a helicopter free-floating in the Bolshoy barrier reef. Two days later, a maritime patrol boarded the yacht, who found the vessel in perfect working order: the engine was working, there was no damage, untouched food was found on the table and a laptop turned on. But there were no people on board.
On April 15, Kaz-II is known to have departed Airlie Beach for Townsville. On board were 3 people: 56-year-old yacht owner Derek Batten and brothers Peter And James Tunstead, 69 and 63 years respectively. There were no signs of an accident or murder.
The ship was towed to the Port of Townsville for further investigation. It was not possible to find the missing people or establish reliably what exactly happened.
The most likely version is that one of the brothers jumped into the water, trying to free a stuck fishing line, the second brother hurried to help a relative, and the owner of the yacht, trying to turn the catamaran closer to his friends, was hit by a sail into the ocean. As a result, all three drowned, and Kaz-II continued its voyage without people.
High Aim 6: Ship Mutiny
High Aim 6. Photo: Flickr.com / Ben Jensz
On January 8, 2003, the Taiwanese vessel High Aim 6 was discovered off the northwestern coast of Australia.
The fishing vessel departed a Taiwanese port on October 31, 2002 under the flag of Indonesia. The last communication between the owner and the captain took place in December 2002.
By the time High Aim 6 was discovered, it was drifting in calm waters. The ship was not seriously damaged, the crew's belongings remained on board, the holds were full of tuna, which had already begun to deteriorate, but there were no people on board.
The assumption that people could be washed overboard was rejected by meteorologists: in the High Aim 6 navigation area, there were almost perfect weather. The version about the capture of the ship by pirates also did not look convincing, due to the fact that both the cargo and the valuables of the crew members remained intact.
The 14 people on board disappeared without a trace. During the investigation, testimony was obtained from an Indonesian who claimed that a crew mutiny broke out on board High Aim 6, during which the captain and his assistant were killed. After that, the Indonesians who made up the team boarded the boat and left the ship, and then returned home.
However, reliable confirmation of this version was not received.
The double-deck cruise ship, built in 1976 in Yugoslavia by order of the USSR, served faithfully for more than 20 years as part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company.After that, Lyubov Orlova was sold to a company registered in Malta, seriously rebuilt, and used in Arctic sea cruises.
However, the new owners ultimately failed, and in 2010 the ship was arrested for debts in one of the Canadian ports.
There "Lyubov Orlova" stood for two years, after which the ship was sold for scrap.
The vessel was towed for disposal in Dominican Republic, but a storm began, the ropes burst, and "Lyubov Orlova" went into free navigation in neutral waters.
They did not search for the ship, believing that it would soon sink.
The Lyubov Orlova was considered sunken until the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency spotted the ship from a satellite 1,700 kilometers off the coast of Ireland in February 2013.
In January 2014, The Mirror reported that the coastal services of Great Britain and Ireland were on high alert due to the fact that a former Soviet aircraft was approaching the territorial waters of these countries from the depths of the Atlantic. cruise ship"Love Orlova". The information, however, has not been confirmed.
Experts believe that Lyubov Orlova was supposed to sink back in 2013 due to severe storms. However, there is still no confirmation of the death of the ghost ship.
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He plunged the dagger into the filibuster's neck.
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And from the wound, instead of blood, strong rum poured out ...
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The world is full of secrets and anomalous places. Hundreds of people go missing every day. Particularly "dangerous" in this matter are the seas and oceans, which have been attracting travelers for many centuries. They have been little studied so far, and no one knows what is on large ocean depths under a thick ball of water. What are the most famous mysterious areas of the seas and oceans where people disappear?
Bermuda Triangle
This area in Atlantic Ocean is the most famous and most dangerous. It is located in the Bermuda region, from which it got its name. Scientists suggest that this place is dangerous not so much because of mysticism as because it has many shoals and underwater rocks that can be fatal for ships. The Bermuda region also has an unstable atmospheric front, with frequent storms and cyclones.
Among the hypotheses of the anomaly of this region, there are many different ideas. Some scientists believe that not far from Bermuda there is a base of aliens who steal people. Others tend to reason that there are portals to Parallel Worlds or the "time loops" that hapless travelers get caught in when they can't go back. The third hypothesis is that the sunken Atlantis is in this place, which leads to the disappearance of people. However, none of the above theories has received any scientific confirmation so far.
Sea Devil
This place with a terrible name is located off the coast of Japan, the Philippines and the American island of Guam. The strange thing is that researchers cannot name the exact coordinates of the Devil's Sea. The Japanese claim that it is located near Miyake Island. This area is called the Pacific Triangle by analogy with its Bermuda "colleague". He has other nicknames - the Pacific cemetery, for example.
Scientists say that this unsafe area, in which they try not to swim sea vessels, because there is a fickle meteorological situation, strong hurricanes and frequent storms, as well as huge "rogue waves". An interesting fact is that, according to the stories of sailors, whales, dolphins and other marine animals are not seen in the Devil's Sea, seagulls or albatrosses rarely fly. In addition, the pond often changes its color - from brown to green. No one knows what fate awaits those who go where no one has yet returned.
Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea is another strange zone in the vastness of the oceans. Some called it a biological desert (after all, there is a lot of stagnant water, but there are also clear currents in it), others - a place where ships get entangled in algae and die in the depths of the sea. It is located near Bermuda and the Leeward Islands.
There are also legends according to which whirlpools often appear in the Sargasso Sea, which “twist” the ships and pull them to the bottom. It is noteworthy that the eels that swim in it warm waters, lay eggs here and die, falling into algae - sargasso, after which this sea was named.
Barsakelmes Island
Barsakelmes Island, discovered in 1848 by geographer Butakov, was located in the Aral Sea. In 2000, the reservoir became shallow, and it became a piece of land. On the territory of the island there was a "closed nature reserve" in Soviet time, on the territory of which ground squirrels were bred. But that was the official version. There were rumors that scientists were developing secret weapons here. However, among the locals former island enjoys a bad reputation. Many say that people disappear here, sometimes even entire groups of them. There is an assumption that in this area there are "time loops" or other violations of physical time. locals it is also said that people who believed that they had been on Barsakelmes for several years returned home after decades.
Meli Goodwin
This place is sometimes called the "devourer of ships" or the "graveyard of ships." The shallows are located off the coast of Great Britain. There is a constant sprinkling of sand masses that fall to the seabed during low tides. With the arrival of the tides, at about 8 miles per hour, the sands begin to move, changing shape and color.
Scientists think that the Goodwin shoals were formed as a result of a well-known geological process - erosion of the seabed. The biggest danger of this area is that it cannot be accurately marked on the map, equipped with lighthouses, buoys or anything else, because it often changes.
The history of the name of the anomalous region is associated with the name of Earl Goodwin, who lived on the island of Lomea. At the beginning of the 11th century, the island sank into the sea and was completely flooded due to the bloodthirstiness of its owner, who committed terrible sins. Another, more realistic version says that Earl Goodwin died, and then the church took possession of the island, which failed to build a dam that would protect it from sea currents and wash it away. Then, in his revenge, shallows formed, like quicksand that occur in deserts.
The number of ships sunk in this place is huge. Among them were English frigates, and cargo ships, and passenger ships, and Belgian mail ships, and German submarines during the Second World War. Experts cite the destruction of lighthouses that were constantly installed, the frequent fogs characteristic of Britain, and the mistakes of the crews of ships as the causes of death.
Since ancient times about the aforementioned anomalous places there are legends, and sailors prefer to bypass them so that they do not have to face the fate of their dead and missing colleagues. Perhaps we and future generations will be able to unravel at least one of the mysteries that hide the seas and oceans.
