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With the evidence uncovered by Walters, Barnette and his dive partner Joe Citelli decided to conduct a series of dives at the Bear Wreck in order to look for an artifact that could link it to the Cotopaxi. The ship's real name and the reason it sank have long remained a mystery. Firstly, it appears to be from the late 19th or early 20th century, and is located much further off the coast than most of the other older shipwrecks. The Bear Wreck, however, stands out from these in a number of ways. Augustine-a thriving port in colonial times-are filled with 16th and 17th century shipwrecks. Augustine-which has baffled experts for decades. "A lot of times, it's more important to spend more time in the archives researching than it is on the water, because that's when you will make the discoveries in all these articles for insurance or things of that nature," he told Newsweek.Īccording to the documents he uncovered, the distress signals were picked up in Jacksonville, Florida, placing the ship in the vicinity of the so-called Bear Wreck-located off the coast of St. Barnette contacted British historian Guy Walters and asked him to dig through the archives of Lloyd's of London, which contains insurance documents related to the ship's fateful voyage.ĭuring his search, Walters managed to uncover evidence that the Cotopaxi had sent out a distress signal on December 1, 1925-a key piece of information that historians had not previously known about. The search for the wreck began thousands of miles away from the Bermuda Triangle in London, England. I like going out and trying to identify wrecks because every one has a fascinating story. "I've always been fascinated by history," Barnette, who has discovered the wrecks of numerous lost ships over the course of his career, said. The discovery is revealed in an episode of Shipwreck Secrets, a new Science Channel series that starts next month. Barnette and colleagues say they have located the wreck around 35 miles off the coast of St.
Now, after almost a century of uncertainty and speculation, a more realistic explanation has emerged. All have been dismissed as hoaxes, however. Various versions of this story emerged in the years that followed. In 2015, a news report said the ship had reappeared near a restricted military zone off the coast of Cuba. Film director Steven Spielberg included the vessel in his sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which it was discovered in the Gobi Desert, having apparently been placed there by extraterrestrials. The story of the disappearance of the Cotopaxi has had a colorful past. So we've been trying to determine what happened." The vessel just disappeared after that point. They never found any lifeboats, bodies or anything. We know that on that voyage something happened because she delivered a mayday message early December saying she's in distress. "She was employed in the coal trade and so this was just another trip at the end of November of 1925.
"The Cotopaxi was on a routine voyage," marine biologist and underwater explorer Michael Barnette told Newsweek. Underwater Archaeologists Discover Huge Shipwreck Dating Back Centuries.Ancient Greek Shipwreck With Stone Pyramid Anchors Discovered.'Significant' Ancient Roman Shipwreck Discovered With Thousands of Amphorae.
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