The incredible scene on the water Bashny.Net

Many of the sailors still have long loved to invent on their voyage the most incredible stories. However, what sometimes is really happening in the seas and oceans, sometimes surpasses the most fantastic imagination.





The man in the stomachs of sperm whales ...

"This incredible event occurred in 1891 when the British ship" Star of the East "was engaged in whaling near the Falkland Islands. One day a vessel noticed a huge sperm whale, aimed shot struck the animal in the head. Injured sperm whale dived into the depths, and the ship was lowered two boats

"For the sailors it was a complete surprise when suddenly vynyrnuvshy sperm whale suddenly showed unprecedented activity for your injuries. A powerful blow huge tail he literally smashed to pieces one of the boats

Despite the production, the mood of the whalers was worse than ever, because the team has missed the boat whale smashed two people. Rather, stunned his tail mortally wounded giant, they choked and drowned. Captain made in the logbook recording the deaths of two sailors, whalers commemorated their fallen comrades, drinking whiskey at Charco. Is engaged in mining had neither the strength nor the mood. Cutting sperm whale weighing 40 tons engaged in just 15 hours.

Procedure butchering suddenly interrupted when the whalers came to the stomach of the giant. It clearly someone move! Stomach gently opened, and suddenly saw a crooked, slimy human body. It was James Bartley, one of the two whalers, who disappeared during a battle with the whale. Accident whose pulse barely palpable, quickly washed from the slime rubbed alcohol and wrapped up with blankets. Just three weeks later, James, that 15 hours has been recorded in the dead finally came to his senses.

Fully grown gray Bartley said that he did not understand how, after the collapse of the boat he was in the throat of a sperm whale. Just suddenly felt terribly dark, and his body goes down for some pulsating slippery tube. A terrible stench and lack of air literally crazy. His desperate attempts to get out were not successful, he lost consciousness. From time to time, James came to himself, but then again fell into oblivion.

When Bartley woke up in the cabin, he could not figure out what had happened to him - he went to hell and the nightmare he had just dreamed. 15 hours in the belly of a sperm whale, fortunately, there were no bad consequences for his health. James for many years sailed the seas safely went through the First World War, raised a lot of children.
It should be noted that the case of the broken boat, "Star of the East" is not exclusive. Injured sperm whales often show great aggressiveness, they killed many sailors and whalers even sunk several whaling ships.

And the sea may burn ...
The terrible earthquake in the Crimea during the night of 11 to 12 September 1927 was remembered by some witnesses not only the terrible pictures of terrible destruction and hundreds of victims, but also the incredible incident - caught fire ... Sea. This seems fantastic fiction, but the sea is actually burning, and the reason was the gas escaped from its depths.

During an earthquake in the Crimea was a thunderstorm, lightning struck one after the other in the sea, they set fire to break the surface of the gas. Witnesses saw columns of flame that rose from the sea to a height of several hundred meters. Fire in the Black Sea have been recorded near Yalta and Sevastopol. Some write that erupted erupting from the bowels of methane, while others believe that burning hydrogen sulfide, which, according to scientists in the Black Sea more than enough.
It is known that the Black Sea has a layer of hydrogen sulfide, which arose due to the decomposition of organic substances in a lack of oxygen. From a depth of 125 meters sulfide fills the water column, and in recent decades the level of hydrogen sulfide layer has been steadily rising.

In some places, it was the rise of dozens of meters. Fortunately, there have been recorded cases where hydrogen sulfide was pulled to the surface without any external influence, or live on the coast of the Black Sea would be downright dangerous. The fact that this problem is serious, evidenced by the tragedy in Cameroon, where in 1986, poison gas, suddenly got up from the bottom of Lake Nyos, killing 1746 people.

Sometimes the same is!

When the December 5, 1664 off the coast of Wales sank a passenger ship of all the members of the crew and passengers managed to escape only one person, this name was Lucky, Hugh Williams. It took more than a hundred years, and at the same place again on December 5, but in 1785, another ship was wrecked.

Amazingly, but again I was lucky to survive just one person by the name of ... Hugh Williams. It would seem, has only these two cases are incredible, fantastic coincidence, but Providence has been pleased to add another one - December 5, 1860 at the same place sunk fishing boat, and again in live there was only one person ... You probably have guessed that this fisherman also named Hugh Williams!

With the sea connected two just incredible coincidence. Involved in them turned out to writers and sailors. The famous writer Edgar Allan Poe has repeatedly addressed the topic of the sea he once wrote a story about a shipwreck, which survived several passengers and crew members. Very long bore the unfortunate frail little boat on the boundless ocean.

Exhausted by hunger the people went to the extreme step - they killed and ate one of his companions - the cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, several years after the works of this story, we picked up on the high seas skiff with the three survivors of the wreck of the ship sailors.

Suddenly it became clear that the first in the skiff were four of them, but, maddened by hunger, they chose the weakest and the young, killed him and ate. This accident was the cabin boy named Richard Parker ... The choice of the victim's story by Edgar Allan Poe had no effect, become cannibals sailors simply have not read.

No less incredible story took place in May 1897. A team of Brazilian patrol ship "Araguara" incidental catch in the ocean a bottle with a note reading: "On board the schooner" Sea Hero "riot broke out. The captain was killed, the first mate thrown overboard. I, the second mate, forcibly put in charge of the wheel. They make me steer the boat at the mouth of the Amazon (28 degrees of longitude, latitude 22 degrees, the rate of 3, 5 knots). Save! »

Guard-captain immediately check availability of this ship on the book by Lloyd's Register and actually found a British ship "Sea Hero", assigned to the port of Hull. Brazilian ship changed course and immediately rushed to help. After a short time the rebels captured the ship appeared on the horizon, the military quickly captured and disarmed the rebels.

It was possible to save the second mate hedgers and two men who refused to join the rebels. Hedger was very surprised when I learned that the help has come so quickly thanks to a note in a bottle, which he threw into the sea. It turned out that no note he did not write and did not even have the opportunity to do it.

Even in England, where the rebels with the "Sea Hero" was tried, finally solve the mystery of this mystical story of Brazilians caught the note. It turned out that even 16 years before launching the "Sea Hero" writer John Permington published the novel "Sea Hero", where he wrote about the revolt on the same ship.

By promoting his novel, the writer threw into the sea five thousand. Bottles with a fragment of a novel about the mutiny on the ship. It is such a bottle in 32 years (!) Caught the Brazilians ... Providence would have it, all in the note coincide with the real situation, which at the time was developing at the present, not a fantasy writer ship.