Sargasso Sea

The Lure of Atlantis by Joel Martin Nichols Jr.

There have been so many queer yarns in the newspapers about the sinking of the Nautilus that I, being skipper of the four-master schooner Brand, which picked up Professor Charles Randolph, her only survivor, had better set down what really did happen down there in the Sargasso Sea.

The Nautilus was a steam yacht owned by Professor Amos Tyrell, a wealthy English naturalist who had built a laboratory on the Cornish coast for the study of fish and seaweed.

He and Randolph, who had been his assistant for 20 years, sailed in the Nautilus on the 5th of last February to do some research work in the Sargasso.

When they finally had opportunity to attend to it, they found that they were anchored.

Think of it, Randolph.

Anchored out there in the Sargasso Sea where the Admiralty chart set the depth at nearly a mile.

And when they got the anchor up, they found this bit of bronze twisted about one of the flukes.

They're mighty bad They ain't really ships anymore.

They're solid bulks of wood I i suppose they are all destroyed sooner or later the little purser unconsciously struck an attitude a good deal later sometimes he qualified derelicts have been known to float for three years in the atlantic and to travel for thousands of miles generally however in the north atlantic they either break up in a storm within a few months or else they drift into the sargasso sea and stay there till they sink the sargasso sea where is that i suppose i used to know when i went to school but i've forgotten mr sprigg waved his hand toward the east and north yonder he generalized vaguely we are on the western edge of it now see the weed floating in the water there farther north and east it gets thicker until it collects into a solid mass that stretches five hundred miles in every direction Nobody knows just what it looks like in the middle for nobody has ever been there or rather Nobody has ever been there and come back to tell about it Old sailors say that there's thousands of derelicts collected there The Gulf stream encircles the whole ocean in a mighty whirlpool You know and sooner or later everything floating in the North Atlantic is caught in it they may be carried away up to the north pole but they're bound to come south again with the icebergs and back into the main stream and some day they get into the west wind drift and are carried down the canary current until the north equatorial current catches them and sweeps them into the sea over yonder for four hundred years and more ever since columbus derelicts must have been gathering there Millions of them must have sunk but thousands must have been washed into the center Once there they must float for a long time There are storms there of course, but there are only wind storms there can't be any waves the weed is too thick I Guess there are ships still afloat there that were built hundreds of years ago Maybe Columbus's lost caravels are there maybe people are imprisoned there.

I gee but it's fascinating miss fairfax stared at the little man in amazement he was the last person she would ever have suspected of imagination or romance and here he was with flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes declaiming away like one inspired most men can talk well on some one subject and this subject was mr spriggs own for years he had been reading and talking and thinking about it miss fairfax rose from her steamer chair and looked around her then paused awestruck down in the southeast a mass of black clouds darkened the day as they spread Puffs of wind ran before them, each carrying sheets of spray torn from the tops of the waves.

One, stronger than the rest, dashed its burden into Miss Fairfax's face with little stinging cuts.

"'Steady, steady,' he muttered.

"'If I toboggan down into that water, I shouldn't get up again in a hurry.' He held out his hand and noted its tremulousness.

by jove i'm weak as a cat rapidly his brain grew clearer ship and sea and sky ceased their momentary whirlings and settled into their proper places he looked up at the zenith to which the sun though still veiled had indubitably climbed six hours at least he soliloquized heavens i must have been pounded hard to lie unconscious for that long if the old tub was floated six hours she may float indefinitely but-he stared curiously around him as far as his eye could reach stretched the yellow gulf-weed blanketing the blue of the sea so thick was it that it held the queen comparatively stationary despite the strong breeze that pressed against her howard uttered a cry of dismay "'The Sargasso Sea,' he groaned.

"'We're inside it, far inside it.

Two constables, assisted by members of the household, guarded the house, but the windows continued to be broken both in front and behind the house.

Or the floating islands that are often stationary in the super-Sargasso Sea, and atmospheric disturbances that sometimes affect them and bring things down within small areas upon this earth from temporarily stationary sources.

Super-Sargasso Sea and the beaches of its floating islands from which I think, or at least accept, pebbles have fallen.

Wolverhampton, England, June 1860.

Violent storm.

A number of stones of peculiar formation and shapes unknown in this neighborhood fell in a tornado at Hillsboro, Illinois, May 18, 1883.

Monthly Weather Review, May 1883.

Pebbles from aerial beaches and terrestrial pebbles as products of whirlwinds so merge in these instances that, though it's interesting to hear of things of peculiar shape that have fallen from the sky, it seems best to pay little attention here and to find phenomena of the super-Sargasso Sea remote from the merger.

And, you know, the thing that's left out of this whole equation is, oh, a lot of people who upgrade their phone every year are going to buy the iPhone Duo.

So, you know, there's a month-long lag where it's like you're stuck in the Sargasso Sea.

Wait, you know, nothing's happening.

The 18 Pro came out.

Predictions dollars expire in one year.

One football boosts Sargasso Sea is renowned for its powerful undercurrents that deter many sailors.

It is also well known for phantom ships, with the Mary Celeste, a British merchant ship found adrift in the Sargasso Sea on December 5th, 1872, with no crew on board, being the most widely recognized.

Ocean currents surround this vast section of the North Atlantic Ocean, and it is well known for the floating Sargassum seaweed.

The Sargasso Sea is distinct because it is defined by ocean currents rather than land, resulting in a unique ecosystem home to a diverse range of plant and animal life.

Scientists have conducted extensive research and exploration on the Sargasso Sea to comprehend the intricate interactions among the ocean currents that converge in this region and the diverse marine life that inhabit it.

In 1969, a British businessman and amateur sailor, Donald Crowhurst, went missing when his yacht got stuck in the Sargasso Sea.

He participated in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a solo global sailing competition.