Chapter 519: The Voyager's Graveyard: Bermuda

Based on a mutilated and rusty Spanish peseta silver coin found on the shipwreck, it is speculated that the ship sank here in the mid-18th century. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Later, the experts found barrels of dye, Philippine mahogany, iron ploughwood, and some food items such as raisins, pudding, etc., on other ships.

As a result, it is thought that the ships may have come from Europe and were shipwrecked on their way back after coastal trade between Central or South America.

Countless scientists and historians have spent five years trying to figure out the provenance of the excavated weapons and pottery, but they have not been able to find out anything.

They found that several of the wooden plates had "L.B.D.G" written on them, which means "with the head of the French Delodia King Louis", indicating that the wrecks were French.

However, this assertion does not stand up to scrutiny, because ships in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were often loaded with imported goods, such as English guns, Spanish gold coins, French wine, Chinese porcelain, Danish stonework, and so on.

So, whose ships do they belong to, where do they come from, and where are they going? The shipwreck replied that the people were still silent.

On the reef of Bermuda, the capital letter "FT" is inscribed after the landing of the Spanish "Roque", dated 1543, which records the year of the unfortunate death of the reef and the death of the seabed. He is regarded as one of the first immigrants to the Americas.

Before the eighteenth century, before the advent of sextants and theodolites, it was impossible to accurately measure the position of latitude and longitude, so when people returned to Europe by boat from Cuba, Florida or Central America, they had to travel north from the Gulf of Mexico until they reached about 30° north latitude, and then turn eastward and sail to Spain, France and England by the southwest monsoon or northeast monsoon.

However, at about 32 "north latitude, some places on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico are the reef groups of the Bermuda Sea, through which ships can only enter the Atlantic Ocean.

The development of navigation technology since the twentieth century, especially the use of long-range radio navigation systems, has greatly reduced shipwrecks, but they cannot be completely avoided in the waters of Bermuda.

The ghost of Bermuda is seen as the nemesis of the voyagers. Some ghost-fearing people are shocked when they mention the Bermuda Triangle, and scientists believe that long-range radio navigation systems have been interfered with in Bermuda's waters, and that long-dead volcanoes on the ocean floor still retain a significant part of their magnetic properties, which can cause the compass to malfunction.

When Zheng Fei led the fleet to the Americas for the first time, it was due to weather and magnetic interference that caused him to lose his way at sea, if it wasn't for the half-guessing and half-trying sextant with the help of da Vinci, he might really die in the boundless Atlantic.

Magnetic interference has increased the shipwreck factor, and even the superior expedition ships have repeatedly fallen into this hole.

The people of Bermuda are very clever and they are well aware of the dangers of this sea, and it is this danger that makes their wallets gradually bulge.

The shipwreck brought untold wealth to Bermudians. The shipwreck rescue team squatted in the Rick Hills and the Gibbis Hills, waiting day and night for the distress signal to call for help, and once a ship hit the rocks, countless large ships would sail to the accident site like a lightning speed, rescue the crew who had escaped death, and receive a handsome reward from them.

There are so many secrets hidden under the Bermuda Sea that people have only figured out a small part of them...

Now, when he learned that the location of the ancient city of Crook was in the Bermuda Triangle, Zheng Fei unconsciously fell into deep thought.

He knew that Bermuda was the burial ground of seafarers, especially in the Middle Ages.

According to history, the first man to return alive from Bermuda was our great navigator Christopher Christopher Columbus.

Of course, the premise is that Zheng Fei has not crossed into this world.

In 1502, Columbus passed through the Bermuda Triangle on his fourth trip to the Americas.

On this day, Columbus stood on the bow of the ship, thousands of miles under the sky, and the sea was calm.

Almost suddenly, the wind suddenly rose and the sky was dark, and huge waves tens of meters high rushed towards the fleet like a wall.

The sailors tried to turn the course in unison, but all the navigation instruments on board failed, and the pointer on the magnetic compass did not point in the direction of due north, but pointed in a northwesterly direction, which deviated by 6 degrees, and there was no doubt that the ship was out of control, and was pushed by the wind and waves.

Columbus was fortunate that after a few days and nights of turbulence, the ship did not sink, and to his surprise, the storm that fell from the sky came to an abrupt end, and the wind and waves were said to be over, and they disappeared without a trace.

Christopher Columbus wrote all this in detail in his nautical diary, and in a letter to the King of Spain, he also spoke of this unforgettable experience:

[At that time, the waves were rolling, and for eight or nine days, we could not see the sun and the stars...... I've seen all kinds of storms in my life, but I've never seen a storm so long and so violent. 】

Columbus survived, and his experience was an encounter that could be explained in words, or more precisely, an adventure.

What about those who did not survive, what happened to them? It was an inexplicable experience that no one saw, and only they themselves in the moment before death had the opportunity to see, marvel and be shocked.

In August 1840, a French sailing ship, the Lochary, was sailing on the Bermuda Sea, and the sails were full and full, indicating that it was sailing calmly.

Puzzledly, it floated in the wind as if it had no purpose, and people passing by were surprised and rowed up.

The ship was silent, and when I got on deck, I found that the ship was empty, but the silk and other cargo in the hold were intact, and the fruit was still fresh and untouched.

But why all the sailors on board ran out? No one could answer the question of why the only living creature on board was a half-starved golden bird, which unfortunately could not speak.

What happened to this ship, no one knows, but everyone understands that something incredible must have happened on board.

In 1872, another strange thing happened in the sea.

The brig Maria Celeste, which was empty when it was found, and the delicious food on the table in the cabin, the unfinished coffee and water in the teacups, the normal movement of the clock on the wall, and the small bottles of engine oil on the sewing machine countertop, all this did not explain why its owner had abandoned the ship, except that the ship had not encountered wind and waves.

In 1944, the Cuban-flagged cargo ship "Rubican" also had a strange case of people going to empty ships in the same sea area, and when people boarded the floating ship, only one dog lay alone on the deck.

In 1963, the American tanker "Marin Keys" passed through this sea area, and the day after the voyage, the ship's operator also informed the shore: "The voyage is normal, the position is 26 degrees 4 minutes north latitude, 73 degrees west longitude." But this was the last message of the "Marin Keith" to the world, and since it has disappeared, no one can imagine that such an oil tanker, equipped with modern navigation and communication equipment, would disappear from this sea area without leaving even a single oil splash.

In March 1918, the giant American freighter "One-Eye" disappeared on its way back to Norfolk loaded with manganese ore in Brazil, and the weather was fine and there was no possibility of the ship being overturned by wind and waves.

Some speculated that it was during the First World War, and that the "One-Eye" was likely attacked by German submarines, but after the war, people checked the wartime records of the German Navy and found that not a single German submarine appeared on the "One-eye" route at that time. With such a huge ship and radio communication equipment, how could it disappear without even sending out an "SOS" signal?

In August 1935, the sailors of an Italian freighter saw the American schooner "Ladahoma" gradually swallowed up by the waves, and they desperately rescued the drowning sailors of the "Ladahoma" from the sea.

Five days later, however, the sailors were surprised to find that "Ladahoma" was floating on the sea, and how could a sunken ship be able to drift again?

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There are many more bizarre things to know about Bermuda, and the weirdest thing about them is...... Why are all the wrecked ships that have been found so good? The missing ones are just human beings.