When you go to a beach, all you see is the golden sand and
the sparkly waters. But as you go further, the sea gets deeper and it hides
many secrets beneath it. From lost ships to airplanes, there are a lot of
things that the sea is able to hide. While we as humans do not have the power
to uncover all the mysteries, some of them have been uncovered over the years.
Here are some of the bizarre sea
mysteries:
1. The disappearance of the USS Scorpion
In the February of 1968, a submarine called USS Scorpion
carrying 99 men departed from Virginia and headed towards the Mediterranean
Sea. The submarine was supposed to complete its journey in three months, but it
never made it.
The wreckage of the submarine was finally found in October
and the experts discovered that all the 99 men had died. While the
investigation was just starting over the case, the Titanic sank and all the attention
got diverted there.
There have been theories that some Soviet spies sank the
ship or there was some malfunction in the submarine, but it’s difficult to
imagine how everyone in it died. And how none of the bodies were never found.
2. The cell phone footage of murder at sea
In Fiji in 2014, an abandoned phone was found by someone in
a taxi. When he tried to look inside the phone to find clues about the phone’s
owner, he found a chilling footage on the phone and put it online.
The video showed four men barely clinging to a small boat
and several people around them standing on tuna long liners. Each of those men
on the small boat was shot in the head one by one, and none of the witnesses
objected or said anything. After the video went viral online, authorities got
hold of that and tried to search the people in the video. Even with so many
witnesses, none had reported anything and even now the authorities haven’t
found any clues.
3. The existence of Barmeja islands
Bermeja Island was a part of Mexico. These islands were
supposedly part of Mexico’s economic zone, had major oil resources and housed
many important treaty documents of the country. But this was all in the 1970s,
the island suddenly disappeared 20 years later.
A book was written about the same matter and Mexico started
a search for the island in 2009 but it was nowhere to be found. Of course, the
conspiracy theorists started pointing this to the CIA. According to them, the
CIA might have blown up the island to increase uss nautical zone.
But here is where things get even more interesting – The Barmeja
Island was found on maps between 1535 and 1775 but after that the island
disappeared from all the maps and finally resurfaced back in 1857, only to
disappear again. The island still hasn’t been found, but who knows, it might just
come back again.
4. The disappearance of SS Edmund Fitzgerald
In November of 1965, SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with another
ship carrier, Anderson, departed from Detroit. Just around the same time a very
bad storm hit Lake Superior, which is almost like an inland sea.
Because of the storm, both the ships had to change their
course towards the Whitefish Bay. Fitzgerald’s captain McSorley had contacted
the Coast Guard and updated them that the ship was in difficulty, but that was
all he had said. After one hour the ship lost contact with the Coast Guard.
Anderson made its way back safely to Whitefish the next day.
When Anderson’s captain went back in the bad storm to look
for Fitzgerald, all he found was an empty life boat and a floating life jacket.
After the storm calmed down, search parties were sent to look for the ship and
eventually its debris was found 150 meters below the sea level. But here is the
confusing part – none of the bodies of the 40 people on the ship were ever
found and nobody knows what actually happened.
5. The message in a bottle
In Australia in 1988, two friends John Blissett and Michael
Calvin had just bought a luxury boat called Patanela. They started to take a
trip by themselves before starting their very own luxury sail business.
On their journey, John wrote a letter to his sister telling
her their travel plans and his location. He also mentioned that he is keeping a
letter in a bottle and throwing it into the sea. Whoever finds that letter
would get a free trip on their boat. A few weeks later, John posted the letter,
their ship completely disappeared from the coast and it was never found.
In 2007, the letter John put in a bottle was discovered by a
girl, but sadly no one knows what actually happened to Patanela.
