ar. The Dei Gratia sighted the ship sailing erratically. When the Captain went to investigate, he found that the only lifeboat had been launched. This story also might be not true because the lifeboat of the Mary Celeste was also missing; it is most probable that they abandoned the Mary Celeste during a storm that they wrongly guessed the ship could not weather. The ship itself was actually nowhere near the triangle.The most shocking news about Bermuda Triangle was SS Marine Sulphur Queen’s disappearance. “[T]he tanker was last heard from on Feb. 3, 1963, when she routinely radioed her position. The message placed her near Key West in the Florida Straits. Three days later, Coast Guard searchers found a solitary life jacket bobbing in a calm sea 40 miles southwest of the tanker’s last known position. No other sign of the missing tanker or her 39-man crew has ever been found.” (Kusche L. D. 284) As I figure out what was happen to SS Marine Sulphur Queen, I could see the absence of bodies might be explained by the fact that the waters are infested with sharks and barracuda. As for the tanker, she was carrying 15,000 long tons of molten sulphur contained in four metal tanks; each heated to 275 degrees Fahrenheit by a network of coils connected to two boilers. No one knows for sure whether she blew up, but it is a possibility. If gas escaped from the tanks and poisoned the crew, the radio officer may have not had time to send a distress call before being overcome. The slightest spark could have set the leaking sulphur afire in an instant. At the time of this happening officers on a Honduras flag banana boat reported to the Coast Guard that their freighter ran into a strong odor 15 miles off Cape San Antonio, the western tip of Cuba, The western tip of Cuba, just before dawn on February 3. They stated that the odor was acrid. People whose living near the Bermuda Triangle they are living in the safe life...
