Has ship SS Cotopaxi reappeared after going missing in Bermuda Triangle? Fact Check

ByCraig Haley

Rumours on the Internet claim a ship called the SS Cotopaxi has reappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, 90 years after going missing.

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, which has long been associated with large numbers of maritime and aviation disasters, with many claiming the area has supernatural powers that result in such disasters.

While the “curse of the Bermuda Triangle” has largely been dismissed by sceptics, the area is still famous and many still refuse to sail through it.

Rumours that a ship has reappeared 90 years after going missing in the Bermuda Triangle were originally started on the website WorldNewsDailyReport.com, which claimed in part –

Havana| The Cuban Coast Guard announced this morning, that they had intercepted an unmanned ship heading for the island, which is presumed to be the SS Cotopaxi, a tramp steamer which vanished in December 1925 and has since been connected to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
The Cuban authorities spotted the ship for the first time on May 16, near a restricted military zone, west of Havana. They made many unsuccessful attempts to communicate with the crew and finally mobilized three patrol boats to intercept it.
When they reached it, they were surprised to find that the ship was actually a nearly 100-year old steamer identified as the Cotopaxi, a name famously associated with the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.

While the SS Cotopaxi is indeed a real ship that went missing in 1925 in the area of the Bermuda Triangle, news that it has suddenly reappeared are totally fake. The ship is still missing.

The story by WorldNewsDailyReport.com has been spreading online for a number of years, occasionally itself disappearing and reappearing on social media. The article fails to provide any sources or links to reputable media outlets to support its claim that the ship has been found.


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But the final nail in the coffin for this tale is that WorldNewsDailyReport.com is a well-known spoof news website that regularly publishes such nonsense headlines designed to fool the reader. It even has a disclaimer –

WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.

As such, the article is fake, and we certainly don’t recommend believing it.

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