The Sun: sailors found a yacht without people on board in the Bermuda Triangle
Sailors found a ghost ship without people on board in the Bermuda Triangle and tried to tow it to land. It is reported by The Sun.
Two sailors from the Ocean Exploration Project stumbled upon an abandoned yacht in the Atlantic Ocean. The explorers noticed that her sail was down, her motor wasn’t running, and there were no signs of life aboard. Concerned that there might be casualties on the vessel, the men decided to board it.
One of the crew members, Matt Rutherford, recorded what was happening on video.
“It’s a frighteningly abandoned sailboat called the Woolfhound. I don’t know what’s inside. Now I will go look and hopefully I will not find dead bodies or anything like that,” he said.
Once on the boat, Rutherford was at first afraid to open the doors and cabinets.
After looking around, he said: “No dead people, thank goodness. This is absolute madness. 1,200 miles from Bermuda, 2,400 miles from the United States, standing in the middle of the ocean on a Swan 48.”
The sailors decided to tow the yacht to shore.
“It’s funny, a 14-meter yacht and a 12-meter yacht. We’ll try to get her to Bermuda,” the explorer noted.
After 47 days in the ocean, the sailors began to run out of fuel, but they asked the crew of an encountered freighter to share fuel. Rutherford and his companion continued towing the mystery yacht, but eventually they had to cut the tow rope as it caught on the rudder of their vessel and nearly broke it.
Online sleuths determined that the yacht belonged to skipper Alan McGettingan of the Royal Irish Yacht Club. Two months prior to Rutherford’s discovery, the yacht had been severely damaged in a storm. McGettingan activated the emergency beacon, and the crew had to abandon the vessel. The yacht’s captain and his crew were rescued by a Greek cargo ship 100 kilometers off Bermuda.