Sebl is an island that moves. Volcanic Puma - Drifting Island

Isle of Sebl. For many centuries, only the name of this island instilled in the heart of navigators genuine horror. This is really a very mysterious island. Of course this is not a Bermuda triangle, but Isle of Cecl It is one of the most famous abnormal zones of our planet.

Island island, a cemetery of thousands of dead ships.

Isle of Cecl He gained such a bad fame that he began to call the "eater of ships", "cemetery of ships", "deadly saber" or simply the "island of shipwrecks". This island is located 110 miles southeast of Halifax. Material Oven, where the Cold Labrador Code occurs with the warm flow of Gulf Stream. As if the gigantic tentacle Seb stretches from the west to the east of 24 miles. This is a gloomy, mysterious and mysterious place the experienced sailors called the tomb of the Atlantic.

The mysterious island has long been interested in scientists. It has been established that the coast of the Western tip of the island is methodically blurred, thanks to the strong sea flow. Not stopped for a minute, resembling wind waves, monotonous powerful blows, methodically blur the western tip of the island. The most amazing thing is that, contrary to the laws of physics and the logic of things, the western tip of the island is constantly becoming new sandy nanos. These sandy nanos are constantly growing, as if live fabric. And they are just nowhere to take! However, they grow!

For scientists, it remains a mystery that as a result of such processes, the length of this island is practically not changing throughout the hundreds of years! Isle of CeclAs a terrible sandy slug, slowly, but surely moves, and constantly, in the eastern direction. During the last two hundred years, as researchers found out, the island of bad luck "Propolz", quietly and imperceptibly, on the rapid expanses of the ocean of more than 10 maritime miles. Island moves with an average speed of about 200 meters per year! For scientists, this is a mystery.

The mystery of the wandering island.

It is known that any island is a vertex of the underwater mountain, and the mountain is located on a tectonic plate. Tectonic plates, like pieces of mosaic cover the entire planet. No exception and island of Seb. So, this island must "drift" with the same speed, with which the tectonic stove is moving on which it is worth it. But, the speed of its movement is a few millimeters per year (sometimes more). Another fact is surprising that the height of the island above the sea level does not change and is very insignificant. Seb is absolutely impaired for past ships, especially with the waves. Absolutely mysterious and incomprehensible natural phenomenon. This piece of sushi, with its minimum height, rapid movement, permanent fogs, as be it created for the death of navigators, gained a rather dark glory, spread through all the oceans, seas and ports of the world. This is not a complete set of all the "charms". It is clear why sailors are silent even at the mention of this island.

For centuries, nauticals are trying to bypass this wandering island. But it is not possible to do this. Almost all year here, there is a terrible bad weather here, and only on someone's unknown team, in July, the sea suddenly becomes affectionate, making an affordable disembarkation on the island from the boats. Despite the quiet weather, the disembarkation can be made only on the north side of the island. Those who wish to visit this island have always been a bit. Cunning trouble for passing by vessels - sharp reefs and rhea surrounding island, having a unique property - they take the color of sea water, and remain absolutely inconspicuous, for inanimate nature is absolutely not characteristic of mimicry. One can only guess how many ships found their inglorious end near this island. The island of Seblast keeps a lot of intimate secrets.

Before the beginning of World War II, the world was dealt with a sensation. The spring, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe island of Seb, raged the storm of unusual power. Giant waterways, like tremendous pumps or earthamov, removed with the mysterious island hundreds of tons of sand. The island formed a huge depth of the pit. Everything was aimed at the fact that the sea itself decided to open the curtain of the mystery, which envelops this island of bad luck. The expedition landed on the seboard found the remains of eight ships. And the main thing is that under the wreckage of the schooner "Holy Louise" was discovered the core of the Roman antique gallele! And this is in some hundred miles from the coast of Canada?! While scientists argue, how could it happen, a terrible storm broke out, which raged several days. After that, as a storm dying, the supported tomb of ships was listed with tons of dirty raw sand, wash with waves.

In the late 70s of the 20th century, after the next storm, the nose of the American ship was visible from the sand, which disappeared even in the 19th century, along with the cargo and with the whole team. The coziness of the ship, for several days, was clearly visible from the vessels passing by. As he was heard, after the next strongest storm, the sand rejoided in its thicker it is a vessel.

The island of Seb has repeatedly visited scientific expeditions. Not so simple. The "Tomb of Atlantic" can keep their secrets. Attempts to start excavations on the island ended in failure. The yams died on the island immediately filled the marine water. Where did the water in the center of the island - the riddle!

At the end of the 20th century, researchers of abnormal phenomena, a rather original and bold hypothesis was put forward. According to this hypothesis, the island of Seb - nothing else, as an alien living organism, which operates on incomprehensible and unknown earthly science laws. The basis of the vital activity of this body is silicon, and not as we have carbon. And silicon is sand! The main danger that lifters the undergoing vessels is the volatile sands of shames, the so-called "ocean bog". Zybun Islands literally absorb the ships in them. It is known to reliably that ships 100 - 120 meters long, and with a displacement of 5 thousand tons, for 2-3 months completely disappeared from the eyes.

Wandering isle of Ceclis undoubtedly a mystery. Perhaps someday we will learn all his secrets.

There are North Atlantic, an amazing island of Seb. You can meet him in a hundred miles to South-Southeast from the Canadian port Halifax. But the meeting with an abnormal drift island often ends tragically. So meetings with the wonder is better to avoid. The mystery of a small / 44 x 1, 5 km / island is that in the North Atlantic he leads a nomadic lifestyle. This is an island that is not sitting in one place.

In addition, the specified sizes of the island are not quite correct. For example, on the maps of navigators from the XVI century, the size of the island was different. As indicated by Italian, French and English cards of that time, the size of the island ranged within 280 -370 km. The island of the sea of \u200b\u200bthe sea is the sandstanding of sandy sanding from the east. Which for millennia, with its wandering on the Atlantic imposed on this region a rugged "Dangerous for navigation".

Speed drifting Island Sebl towards the East is 200m / year. And then, reaching some visible point to him, returns. And I must say that with your nomadic life, the island brought a lot of disasters to Morelodam. After all, each meeting with a floating island meant whose death. As expected in the XIX century, the island of shortness should disappear under water. Since moving to the east, he went to great depths - at the same time, herself, plunging more and more under the water.

However, the island of the legend has not disappeared in the seabed. In addition, remaining afloat, the nomad even gained somewhat in size. As they talk about the island of navigas, it is very difficult to notice from the ocean, even in the very clear weather and the calm - almost impossible to appear on it. The reason for this is the almost flat surface of the island. Yes, and a height of 34 meters, hides it from the eyes of the sailors. Moreover, in these places, during the autumn and winter storms, the wave of the height of meters 15 ordinary things.

There are the sands of the island of saibl and another abnormal feature. According to sailors, the sand of the island knows how to get painted in the color of washing his water, and often enveloped fog. What makes the nomadic island invisible for sailors. So see the island in advance, so that you have time to avoid a collision, it remains too little time.

But that's not all that came to the cunning island of sailors was waiting for another attack. Smear sand sands. As legends tell, the island swallowed a considerable number of victims. Navigas, hazardy to the isleas, inevitably sat down. And to help the ship I got into trouble already no one was unable.

As legends tell, the island swallowed not one hundred ships, and thousands of sailors found death in the sands of Sybla. It did not pass three months as the ship captured by the island captured, disappeared in the sands. And on the surface of the island, in the form of a crescent, the grass and low-spirited shrubs still cripped. And calmly ran the wild horses. The island could calmly drag into his maging "Sands of oblivion" ships with a length of 120 meters and a displacement of 5 thousand tons. For what among the sailors, Seibls otherwise as a "ships" and no name.

The last sacrifice of Secl took in 1947. It was the American steamer "Manhassent", with a carriage who we went to the ocean, who knows that these places are considered dangerous for navigation. And yet hitting the deadly embracing of the drifting sailing. It was the last dinner of the "Eater Ship". Before that, he managed to arrange about 360 shipwrecks, thorough thousands of lives. For what and gained fame as the "Cemetery of the Atlantic", and acquired popularity as another " Cemetery of the Atlantic", Lying in the area of \u200b\u200bCape Hatteras.

Immediately after the feast of the steamer "Manhassent", on the island installed Lighthouse, and one radiomayak. And the serving equipment and studying is the island, a team from 15 to 25 people in the sailing. From this time, the drifting island of Seb is no longer devouring the ships.

Such anomalous behavior of the island of the Sebl, is explained by the influence of the continental sand with the warm waters of the Golf Stream, and the cold Labrador current occurring in these places. Joint actions of flows, form enormous waterways and complicate navigation in these places, they did the sebal such an ominous place. And there is no abnormal in the behavior of the island at all. But …..

The islands staff living in specially trained in the sands of the sands of the houses tells terrible stories about this drifting in the ocean cemetery. Often, the islands are seen in the night wanderings on the island of ghosts. And 50 years old, one of the caretakers had to urgently evacuate from the island, his mental state was deplorable. It was often at night at night visited sailors from the deceased "Silvia Mosher" who begged them to save them ....

On that day, 1926, the island thugged two American schooners at once, one of them "Sadi Nicl", and the other was Silvia Mosher. The first schooner powerful waves easily spread through the Spit "Eater Ship" on the one hand to another, where he was destroyed by the sands securable. And Silvia Mosher Schoon, the waves overturned the island's ships, and she replenished the "Atlantic Cemetery".

Sable island today.

In our time, there are only a few families on the island of Seb, - an unusual fact in the dramatic history of the island, but since 1920, two people were born. From old buildings, only the oldest stationery station has been preserved on the island, which has become a rarity here. She was built, that was, from fragments of victims shipwreck Ships whose remains threw aside by the waves.

Currently, the island of Sebl is declared a protected area, and without special degree access to the island is prohibited.

And the waves often happen here and reach a considerable height. Very rarely, the weather allows the locals to swim, and warm up in the sun. On the contrary, hurricane winds are raging very often on the island, and storm waves rumble. At such moments, residents do not leave the house, in order not to tempt fate sometimes, after a strong storm, the island changes its outlines. And on the Saturday Day, adhering to the graphics of the order, they are going to the family of whose queue went, and establish radiotelephone Communication with relatives on the mainland.

It is now " Eater ships"And" Cemetery of the Atlantic"Introduces yourself calmly, and not looking for new victims - he is kept in the hands of stationary beacons. But living around the ownership of the island on the tamed ponies, the caretakers check that they bring the waves to them, whether there are no traces from the dead ships. And it is very hard work, including, in the sense of psychological Load.

After all, those who live on the island know that there are tens of thousands of people in these places. Tens of thousands of people found their last. And very often, inspecting the sands of the saibl, people find ancient gold coins, other old things. Many have already gathered an extensive similar collection. But at the same time, cautors are very, very often found in the sands of the saibl of human remains ... ..

A very small land plot in the Atlantic Ocean will attract mysteriousness and uniqueness. Free and beautiful wild horses are quietly fit and look into the eyes, as if they understand what a man thinks about. Only here you can iron wild horses and think about what you had to experience the captives of this island.

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Sabele Island is a secret from the moment of opening to this day. Even his name and opening history still do not have a clear definition. Scientists disagree in opinions on the plates of the island. The word Sabeleb in different interpretations means sand, both black, and a saber, and sands. Even your own translation. Most likely, it is black sand, but not in the color of the latter, but according to the properties that are attributed to the miracle island.

At the junction of two elements

The world's map indicates the flows of warm and cold, which for some reason appeared in these endless waters. Gulf Stream, for example, begins his warm run from the Mexican Gulf, and Labrador Cold Stream - near Ice Greenland - the Motherland of the Snow Queen Mr. Andersen. And here, where these ice and the flame come into contact, the island of Sabeleb.

There are many legends about it. In addition to the official name, he also has others. For example, "ships", or "the grave of the Atlantic". These names are given island for the fact that in his coastal zybuchi sands found many of the ships, starting from time immemorial.

Sabeleb Island belongs to Canada, but its geographical location is so uncertain that in a few years he may have reached the shores of Portugal. Such a flying Dutchman. The unique ability of the island for the year to move on two hundred more than meters to the east, does not precisely determine its coordinates.

And all because two currents argue among themselves. And at the place of their discord, this sandbag appeared, where almost always a storm.

Clear sky at sunrise, bright warm sun and the cloudless sky suddenly replace the clouds and wind.

Courts walking past this little monster, do not know about the fate of them. The sand, from which the Sabeleb consists, has the property to take shades of the sea, and the island behind the huge waves becomes completely imperceptible. The captain leads his ship directly in the arms of the Sybuchi sands of this island. And it is not terrible that the ship is stranded, but the fact that it is impossible to get out of here. Dumpless sands gradually take the ship and the whole crew.

The first fixed shipwreck and the death of the vessel in the sands of the island was recorded in 1583. It was the British ship "Delight".

The last victim of Sabel became the passenger ship "Manhasset" in 1947. All passengers and crew of this vessel were driven by a rescue team, which was constantly living on the island specially for this.

Over the years, the island took about five hundred vessels into his deadly arms. How many people really were, no one knows. Once, after a very long storm, the sands spread and showed their treasures. The remains of eight vessels were found in this huge pit, including the Roman Game.

In 1802, after a few disasters, in which England lost three beautiful vessels for the year and a large number of values \u200b\u200btransported on them was decided to put a lighthouse on the island and settle the rescue team. From this point on, the island has been constantly inhabit.

National Park

It seems that this strip of sushi does not inspire concerns. Wild horses will be frolic on it, probably, who saved from some vehicle and those who lived here are not one hundred years. The animals adapted to their new homeland and feel it quite comfortable here. Lush grass and flowers will not name meekly vegetation, so this cute animal is quite freely. This island, the island chose long-edged seals, conducted here for the marriage period. In coastal waters, ordinary seals were settled, ringed nerves, Greenland seals, Hochlachi.

About 350 types of fleeting birds use this land as a temporary refuge. And some of them leave their offspring here. The rooted birds are oatmeal savanna and pink colt. The only land mammal except a person on this island is wild horses of a special breed. According to the latest data here are about 300 individuals.

All this variety of Nature inspired in 2010 the authorities of Canada on the organization of the National Park here, which is called Sable Island National Park.

How to get yourself

Now the island is almost safe for ships passing by, thanks to the 24-hour work of the beacon and the radio beacon. You are not easy to get here. Be sure to resolve the authorities. But all the efforts will pay off with interest, only you step on the Earth of this mysterious piece of sushi.

The airport of the capital of New Scotia Galifax (Halifax) named after Robert Stanfield adopts international flights from many airports in the world. From the airport to the city there is a regular bus, on which half an hour you will get to the center. From Quebec or Montreal runs the train to Halifax.

Before your travel is the mysterious island, helicopter or water options are offered.

Good luck!

In Canada, there are still many interesting places to be attributed

As soon as the vessel is touched by Kiell Zybuchi Saven Siebla, it is doomed to death.

David Johnson, Lighthouse Lighthouse

Sable, saber or sand?

It happened by chance, when in the summer I flew from Murmansk to Cuba. Our Tu-114, bypassing the southern coast of Greenland, was to fly over the sailing, then go to the track, going along the eastern coast of North American mainland - to Havana. I asked the pilots to show me the island, which many years collected information in the lodys and old maps, in geographic books and travel notes. There was a clear sunny day, and there were no clouds under the plane. Through the wide portholes of the cabin from a height of eight thousand meters - in the onboard binoculars, which I was allowed to take advantage of the pilots - I saw a narrow curved strip in the frozen ocean. Along the southern shore of the island clearly visited the wide white border of the surf.

An oblong lake, metal roofs of five-six buildings and a dozen aluminum houses similar to hangars flashed in the sun. It was possible to distinguish between radio and two openwork lighthouses and a fixed helicopter. So, "at a high level", my full-time acquaintance with the island of Sebl.

For almost five centuries, the name of the island was instilled horror in the hearts of the navigators, and, finally, he gained so dark fame that he was called the "island of shipwrecks", the "shrill island", the "deadly saber", the "island of ghosts", "the cemetery of thousands dead ships. "

Until now, no one knows who discovered this ill-fated piece of sushi, damned by many generations of seaworthy. Norwegians argue that Vikings stumbled upon him first, even before Columbus, who we went to North America. The French consider the fishermen of Normandy and Brittany, which, at the very beginning of the XVI century, have already produced a cod and halight on Newfoundland shallows at the very beginning of the XVI century. Finally, the British, who, after the French, fisulled the island to their once extensive possessions, say that the island has opened their kitobi, those who have seen on the shores of New Scotia and Newfoundland.

Some British geographers, speaking of this, refer to the name of the island itself: the first meaning of the word "Sable" in English is "Sable". Strange, isn't it? After all, Soboli on this island has never been found. Maybe the fact is that the image of the island on the map reminds the bouncing animal? Some etymologists tend to see in the title of the island of a kind of historical incident. They believe that earlier the island was marked in English maps with the word "Sabre" and that some kind of cartographer by mistake replaced the "R" letter "L". By the way, "Sabre", which means a "saber", as it is impossible to suit the island really similar to Yatagan. The second meaning of the word "Sable" (with a poetic tint) is black, gloomy, sad, terrible - in the application to the "island of shipwrecks" is also quite explained and logical.

Most of modern geographers and historians, however, converges that the Seb opened the French traveler Lerie, who made swimming from Europe in 1508 to the "Earth of Bretons" - the peninsula, which later the British were made by Akadia and later - New Scotland. It is possible that the right of the supporters of this particular version, claiming that the navigator Lerry gave the New Island of the French name "Sable". After all, in French, this means "sand", and the island is actually only the sand and consists.

On the XVI century cards published in France, England and Italy, the length of the island is estimated at 150-200 miles, and already in 1633 Dutch geographer Johann Last, describing the secl, reports: "... Island has in a circle around forty miles, the sea Here is stormy and shallow way, no harbores, the island got bad glory as a place of permanent shipwrecks. "

Seblit is located 110 miles southeast of Halifax, near Mainland Shameli - just in the area where warm Gulf Stream meets with a cold Labrador current. It was this circumstance that led to the formation of a giant sandy sickle embankment here, which once stretched to Cape Code. Geologists believe that the secl - nothing else, as the peak of this sickle from under the water.

In its current state, the island has stretched from the east to the west of 24 miles. The prevailing relief is dunes and sandy hills. In places there are areas of grassy vegetation. The highest here "Mountain" - Riggin Hill Hill, 34 meters high. In four miles from the western tip of the island there is a semi-salted lake Wallace not more than four meters deep. Although it is not reported to the ocean, the waves still fall into it, rolling through the dunes.

The Western Taste of the Island under the continuous action of currents and the waves of the Atlantic is gradually blurred and disappears, and the eastern one is embedded, lengthens, and thus the island is continuously moving to the east, gradually removing from the shores of New Scotia. It is estimated that over the past two hundred years, Sabl "walked" in the ocean of almost ten nautical miles. The current speed of its movement is also known - about 230 meters per year.

The height of the saibl over the ocean, as we already know, is small, and therefore it is almost not impressed from the sea. Only in very well the days from the deck of the vessel can be distinguished on the horizon a narrow sand strip.

And the clear weather happens here only in July, when the ocean frenzy eats, and to the island from the north side can be approached on the boat.

The storm on the sailing is usually preceded by an unusually dazzling sunrise. It would seem that a wonderful morning should end as a beautiful sunset. But the god of the news from where the shovel of the lead clouds, the sun covers the sun, the sky draws, and now the wind whistles thinly. He strongly, howls, breaks down from the tops of the dunes and drives him through the island in the ocean ... because of this securing sand on the island there is not a single tree, even bushes. Only in the valley between two dunes, a chuck grass and wild peas are growing.

The main danger that lifts the court from the saibl is the random sands of the sands, a kind of "ocean bog". Sailors and fishermen seriously say they have a property to take the color of the ocean water. Zybune of the insidious island literally absorb the ships that fell into them. It is reliably aware that the steamboats of five thousand tons on the fears of sails, 100-120 meters long completely disappeared from the eyes for two to three months.

The well-known American scientist Alexander Graham Bell hurried to the rescue of the French ship "La Burgon", who endured disaster on July 4, 1898 near Seibl. The scientist was confident that some of the people from the steamer got to the saibl, expects help there. Bell for his personal money organized a rescue expedition, arrived on the island and examined it carefully. Alas who saved after the catastrophe there was not. In anticipation of the steamer Bell lived on the island for several weeks, settling in the house of Lighthouse Lighthouse Butille and Rescuer Smolcomba. In July 1898, Bell wrote: "Barc" Krafton Hall "was stranded in April of this year. The magnificent ship seemed unhappy, except that his body in the middle cracked. Today, the fishing line up the victim completely. "

According to the documents preserved on the rescue station, Documents Lighthouse Johnson inflicted on a sailing card and dates of the death of ships since 1800. And it turned out that every two years there were three vessels in the middle of the day.

And what was until 1800?

The moving and changing secl since the times of ancient Vikings was constant only in one: in his irreconcilable enmity to the courts passing by the courts.

Historical documents - for example, numerous volumes of the "chronicle of shipwrecks", maritime chronicles and other sources - allow you to judge that in the distant century, the Sebant served as a giant ship cemetery of the North Atlantic. Here, under the multi-meter strata sand, the Ostrodnye Chelny brave Vikings, the clumsy drags and the Galends of the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the puzzles of the Brittany fishermen, durable pine ships of Nantactet Kitoboev, English Smecks, Huil Courts, heavy three-person ships of the West India company, elegant American clips. .. And this rushing in the summer of Armada Sailboats is pressed by heavy hulls of sunken steamboats that floated under the flags of all countries of the world. Some stumbled upon him, loudly in the fog and the rain veins, others carried the flow of others, and most of the ships found here the last refinement during the storms.

After each storm, the Sebl does not change the relief of its coastline. About a hundred years ago, the storms were washed in the northern part of the saiblus of the duoka: a large harbor was formed inside the island, which for many years served as a refuge fishermen. But once the next strong storm closed the entrance to the bay, and two American schunifices remained in this trap. Over time, the former harbor turned into an internal fresh-salty reservoir in seven miles. Now Lake Wallace serves as a landing site for seaplates, which are delivered to the island of mail and products.

Sometimes sandy bells and dunes of the island, moving under the action of ocean waves, open the remains of ships that disappeared a long time ago. So, a quarter of a century ago from Zybuchi Leskov "Risen" a durable teak body of an American clipper, which was missing in the past century. And three months later, the dunes of 30 meters high rose again ... From time to time broken masts and rei sailing ships, shipping pipes, boilers, pieces of rusty ocean liners and even submarines are exposed.

SABL is one of the most conscientious and generous suppliers of unique exhibits in a non-existent Museum of the romantic relics of the past. The current inhabitants of the island are found in the dunes rusty anchors, muskets, sabers, boarding hooks and in huge quantities of vintage coins ... In 1963, the Lighthouse Lighthouse has discovered in the sand of a human skeleton, a bronze buckle from the boot, the trunk of the aggregate, several bullets and a dozen of golden dangles of chasing 1760. Later in the dunes found a thick bundle of banknotes - English pounds of the middle of the last century - in the amount of ten thousand.

Some calculations show that the value of the valuables resting in the sands is almost two million pounds of sterling at the modern course. This is just if you take into account the courts that the information has been preserved that at the time of the death they carried the valuable cargo on board.

Robinsons-religious rescuers and riders

The first shipwreck settlers were the victims of the shipwreck: for them, this meager piece of sushi, causing the cause of misfortune, served as a shelter. From the fragments of ships scattered through the cemetery of ships, unfortunate built housing. To his surprise, the first robinsons saw in the valley of the island of cows. These animals were left by the Frenchman Lerie, when he first visited the secl. Animals were dispersed and wild. The victims of the fishermen could be eaten by marine quotes for whom local sandy sandwiches still beloved. The tragedy of the seban fell on the sebel was exacerbated by the fact that they had nowhere to wait for help: the ships were avoided to approach a terrible island, even when the smoke of the signal bonfire was seen. What could they still count on? On someone else's tragedy? That the next doomed ship will bring them with fragments of essentials and is the main thing! - Several pounds of cook salt? Yes, it is probably for it.

Sometimes they burned their treasures "Gentlemen of Good luck". They burned on the dunes false lights to lure traps of merchants ships.

How many crimes were committed here and how much the secl covered criminals, will forever remain a secret. Until now, many superstitious residents of Newfoundland and New Scotland consider the seboard the damned God's place and the inhabitants of evil spirits and ghosts. They are so called it: "The Ghost Island" - "Ghost Island".

In 1598, the secl unexpectedly turned into ... Katorga. Here landed from the French ship Marquis de la Rosh 48 criminals. Marquis actually intended to establish a colony in New Scotland, but after a long storm, his ship gave to flow. So without coming to the goal, De La Roche turned back to the shores of Europe. Seeing the island, Marquis did not come up with anything else, how to plant "extra cargo" on the sailing, and so that the religion does not die with the famine immediately, left them fifty sheep. We remembered only seven years later about the exiles, and the king of France signed them a pardon. In the summer of 1605, the sent to the seblit ship delivered eleven overgrown in Cherbourg, who lost the human appearance, dressed in the sheep's sheep's skins. The rest, without bringing heavy adversity, died. Surprisingly, the five of those who returned to their homeland asked the king to allow them to return to the secl. Heinrich IV not only agreed, but also ordered them to provide them with everything necessary. So formed a small French colony. And when in 1635 the ship returned from Connecticut to England suffered a wreck on the sailing, his crew was saved and delivered to the American Mainland with these French Robinsons.

Years passed. Each more often began to go around the shipwrecks near the island of Seb. Marineners demanded that their governments build on the island of the beacon and rescue station. But neither France, which at that time, the two ships of the D "Anville, Nor England," Lady of the Seas ", Nor England, did not want to mess around with such a tiny territory in 1746.

At the beginning of 1800, the fishermen who lived on the shores of New Scotia, the British authorities found the wrong values: gold coins, decorations, geographical maps with the emblem of the Duke York, books from his personal library and even furniture with the same coat of arms. Simple fishermen called these things with "pieces from the sailing." It turned out that they received them in exchange for fish at the Island settlers. This alerted the British. In addition, the Francis ship did not come from the new Scotland to London, and after all, the personal things of the Duke Yorksky were transported on it!

The English admiralty has come to the conclusion that after the death of Francis, the crew was safely reached by saibl, but he was interrupted by Robinsons. And here the island was equipped with a punitive expedition, the settlers learned the interrogation. However, it turned out that no one killed people from the deceased ship. They all disappeared in the marine underworld, and the islanders were not able to help them, for they had no rescue boat in their presence.

The English Ship "Princess Amelia" died in the Siebeci sands of the saibl. From more than two hundred people, no one escaped. Another English ship approached the aid to the rescue again in the sands of the island, and everyone who was on it was also died. Three shippeds on the sailed ship and decided the case: the British finally removed to put a lighthouse on a dangerous island and create a rescue station. Her servants were charged with the charges of shipwreck and save property from marine robbers. And in England itself, announcements were posted at this time, under the fear of death forbidden to someone, except rescuers, settle on the island without government permission.

The fact that in 1802 wore a loud name "Rescue Station", was a firmly shot down shed meters away from one and a gun from the coast. In it, the ordinary whaling velobot was resting on wooden polishes. Nearby - stable. No, the champs were not attributed here. Horses lived here for a long time, although no one knows anything from where they appeared on the sailing. According to one version, these are descendants of cavalry horses that sailed to the island with a certain French ship who deceased once on the shallows. According to another version, they brought them to the island of Thomas Hancock - uncle of the famous John Hancock, a famous American patriot of the time of war for the independence of the sailor of the sailing rather resemble large ponies. They are very hardy, they live with herd, eat more, wild peas and some colors that grow only on the sailing.

Daily, four rescuers riding came around along the band of the surf, following the pairs towards each other. They were looking for in the fog of sails, looked, did not throw the ocean of the wreckage of the ship. Here is noticed by the vessel near the island ... a sentiment of a gallop is rushing to the shed and sound alarm. Duty rowers are injected into the harness of four ponies, those wolf dramatically to the water. Skirfully overcoming the first three waves of the surf, the rows rushes to where the ship suffers. In the meantime, the rest of the rescuers, including a lighthouse caretaker, will already jump to the scene of the incident. Then the rope is transferred from the dying ship: just so it was possible to snatch from the mouth of the sebel in the trouble of people.

In modern logs, an important note is maintained: "If the ship is on the meli near the island of Seb, the team should remain on board until the rescue station has help. Practice shows that all attempts to escape on the boats of the vessel invariably ended with human victims. "

Only eight cases are registered when the courts managed to get out of the chain of the island's chain hugs and avoid death. The English three-person Myrtle, which was distinguished by a very durable building, was found in the fall of 1840 near the Azor Islands without any signs of the team. The investigation has shown that Mirrtle in January of the same year was thrown by a storm at the sebala sand. The team apparently died when I was trying to land ashore. For two months, the ship remained in captivity of the sands until the next storm made him from the grieces on clean water. This "Flying Dutchman" looked in the ocean for several months, until it was near the Azores.

American fishing schooner "Arno" under the command of Captain Higgins industrially near Islands in 1846. A squall, unexpectedly having flown at night, threw most of the sails and almost overturned the ship. At dawn, the captain realized that the flow and wind were "Arno" on the sands of the Seibl. Hope remained only by anchor. They gave them, careating from each cluster 100 sage of rope. By noon, Nord-West moved to a nine ball storm. The ocean boil over shallows like water in the boiler. Schuuna carried to the deadly drum. Higgis, not counting on the dormant and the vigilance of sailing rescuers, decided to experience fate. So that a panic appears on the vessel, he locked the team in the trum. Two grave sailors put on a tank at each side and so that they do not wash the wave, tied to handrails. Himself clung to the steering wheel. Schooner with incredible speed rushed to the shore. Tied sailors Lily from barrels to fish fishe. The wind drove it in front of the ship's nose towards the island. This ancient and reliable way to smooth out fat, burst or oil crests of waves often and now apply sailors when you need to confuse excitement. The Burunas moved the schoon through the sandy bar of the island, and it was safe, at the foot of the dunes opened. Although all the people were saved, Schuna died - the next day she broke her storm, and the debris "Arno" disappeared into the sandy ward of the Seibl.

And it was the only case when the team did not need islanders' help.

Perhaps, the saibl's dramatic shipwreel was the death of American passenger vapor "Virginia" on July 15, 1879. This steamer is a register capacity of 2500 tons, a length of 110 meters came from New York to Glasgow, having on board 129 passengers and a team. During the thick fog, the steamer was on shames from the south side of the island. 120 passengers and the team were saved by an island service. To the names of the smallest saved girl, happy parents added the fourth - Nelli Sebli Chouri Sebli.

In the middle of the XIX century, a new station building was built on the island, the wooden knobot was replaced with iron. In 1893, an even more solid room for rescuers was erected, but a strong storm destroyed it in one night to the ground.

With lighthouses on the sailing, it was much worse. At first, the wooden structure of the only lighthouse tower was elevated in the middle part of the island. In 1873, when, despite numerous repairs, the tower finally dreamed, the lighthouse was replaced by two new - metal, openwork structures. The eastern lighthouse safely served about a hundred years, but the West had to change repeatedly: an insatiable secl "swallowed" ... six of their lighthouses!

Seb Today

In the "newest" stories of an insatiable womb, there was a very sorrowful year of 1926. In August of this year, Seibla died in one day two American schunifications - Silvia Mosher and Sadi Nicl. The first overturned on shames, the crew died. The second waves were transferred through the islands of the islands from one edge to another, where she also overturned and was later listed. In the annual menu of Seybla, in addition to the other Schun, two steamers were hit: Canadian Labrador and English "Harold Casper".

Still past the island every day ships pass - hundreds of merchant ships under the flags of the entire planet. Captains, making a course on the maps, try to break up with an island at a considerable distance. And although in our days the secl no longer represents such a danger, as before, sailors do not like to approach him. What if? .. God knows them, these daily changing shape of the shallow ...

Two lighthouses send warning rays on the night. Their light with clear weather is visible for 16 nautical miles. Clear warning radio signals are heard on the air on the air. Thanks to them, shipwrecks off the coast of the island actually stopped. The last sacrifice is a large American steamer called "Manhassent" - the island of Uporotil in 1947.

Now Seb is owned by Canada. He is still inhabit: here are usually 15-25 people. These are specialists and workers of the Canadian Department of Transportation, serving the Hydrometeo Center of the Island, Radio Station and Lighthouses. Their responsibilities also include the salvation of people in the case of shipwreck and assistance. To do this, they have passed a special training in their disposal there are the most advanced rescue. Canadian specialists live on the island of families.

Here are only two real houses - for the control of the island and the head of the radio beacon. The rest are placed in the "caravans" - car traits. These dwellings were specially designed with such a calculation to resist the destructive action of the secing sand. Works and a small power plant.

A few years ago, a warehouse, forge, a carpentry workshop, a hostel for the victims of the shipwreck (in case such a trouble occurs) and hangar, where metal spines are standing on the rails, at any moment ready to descend into water. The inhabitants of the island believe that no waves are scared with these amazing ships, they are unspecified and so lowered that they practically cannot overthrow.

From the old buildings on the sailing, only one is the building of the former rescue station, a kind of local attraction. The station is built of shipped masts thrown on the island, Steng and Rey. For the walls of the building, "Named Boards" are nailed, on which the names of the courts are derived. It is like the remaining passports of the former victims of the "ships".

Until now, three hundred wild pony lives on the sailing. For those who are tamed, caretakers each day are circulating around the coast of the island. They pepper, whether the yacht or fishing vessel did not come to the shallows or a fishing vessel, whether the bottle or a plastic container with a note is allowed on the sand, which is allowed to study marine currents.

Modern robinsons have learned to breed gardens and even gardens on the sailing. The main problem is to protect the plants from the sands. If the weather is allowed, which is still rare, the inhabitants of the island bathe and go to the ocean in the ocean.

Although Canada's Transport Department, in whose management includes a secl, tried to create a maximum of household amenities for its inhabitants, their work is not easy and dangerous. Long-term storms of hurricane power often do not allow people to leave the dwellings for weeks, and even more. But this is not considered here the greatest. The question rests on another - rather psychological, and not physical tension. And indeed, live in a remote, ever-shrouded fog and terrible storms island is not easy. But it is even harder to get along with the thought that under you is the island cemetery, somewhere and the point come across in the sand of human skulls and bones. One of the Robinsons of the Seybla - the Laugo Career - had to withdraw from the service and send to the mainland. For many years during the watch, the ghosts of Silvia Mosher, the most that disappeared in the Buruns of the surf in August 1926 disappeared. Old caretaker turned out to be an eyewitness of this drama. Together with other inhabitants of the island, he did everything possible to save those people.

Nowadays, the help of perishing helicopter can be helped in the sea, and the great "ships" is practically neutralized. Over the past 30 years, not a single case of the death of a large vessel in his zybuchy sands has not been noted. But still viyko peer into the fog of the sailor, passing by the dangerous island. For a minute, the Terrible Warning of the Radiomaica does not make a minute: "You pass near the island of the Seb Cemetery of the North Atlantic."

It seems to be left forever while humanity holy trusted myths. To explain something incomprehensible, we have a science, thanks to which the place of the gods on heavenly chariots occupied aliens, and the pubs of shamans predicted by the weather were changed by meteorological satellites. But, despite all the achievements of progress, human nature, as before, entails incomprehensible and mystical.

On the verge of fiction

2012 - the film "Life Pi" came out into a wide range, which was removed from the name of Nognan Yanne Martel. In this adventure drama (which, by the way, received, four Oscar premiums) show a mysterious carnivorous island, which is somewhere in the midst of the Pacific Ocean. According to the story of the book, during the day, this island was a paradise place, and at night turns into a trap for all living things. After sunset, the algae, of which the island consisted, begin to distinguish the acid, and the lake located here becomes an acid chhan, digesting everything alive. Only one salvation was in the crowns of trees, on which the night could be waited until the island surface expired with gastric juice.

Fortunately, Kamenostrov-Predator is a fiction, but, as you know, there is some truth in every fairy tale. For example, in a thousand miles from Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean located, which at first glance is a tropical paradise with brown vegetation, picturesque lagunies, reefs, white sand and everything else that trusts tourists. Nevertheless, this island is uninhabited, and among those who visited him, there is an opinion that Palmyra has a living and, beyond any doubt, a black aura. The external well-being is very deceptive: the weather changes instantly, calm lagoons are sicked by sharks, algae is distinguished toxic substances, and on the surface of the island are full of poisonous insects. Even the fish, which is found in the planes and lakes of the island, is inedible, and the feeling of strange longing and hopelessness is hanging in the air.

During World War II, the Americans used Palmyra as a bridgehead for attacking Japan, but, from the words of military personnel who stayed there for several months, an island life seemed to them hell. An landing pursued a series of mysterious suicides. The psychologically exhausted division turned into a gang of deserters, which was hanged on the island and soldered the hell knows what. The reason for unexpected soldier's madness remained a mystery.

Devouring ships

In North Atlantic, one hundred and ten miles southeast of the Canadian port of Halifax is the island of Seb, which is deservedly considered the most dangerous of the islands ever applied to navigation maps. The peculiarity of the saibl is that it is a sandy sandpaper, which, as a result of a warm golfstrum meeting and a cold Labrador current moves at a speed of 200-230 meters per year! Over the past two hundred years, Sebl "sailed" from Canada for forty kilometers, although, of course, this "swimming" should not be understood literally. The fact is that the western part of the island is constantly blurred by the waves, and the eastern, on the contrary, becomes sand, like a lively cloth. In fact, these are the sands in the ocean, and any ship-thrown to the shore disappears without a trace after 2-3 months. The exact number of ships that put on the damned shreds of sushi is unknown, but definitely exceeded the hundred.

The main murderous weapon is the fact that he has almost a flat surface, and it is almost impossible to see it from the sea, especially during the seasons of storms with fifteen-meter waves. According to legends, sand, covering island, is similar to Chameleon, and even in clear weather painted in the color of the ocean surrounding. The ability to mimicry is characteristic of only living organisms, which induced many sailors to the thoughts, as if the island with his zybuchi sand and sharp reefs "hunts" to passing ships.

For the first time, the seboard was applied to official maps in the XVI century. At that time, the length of the island was almost 200 miles. In the XIX century, scientists assumed that the secl, which for the preceding 300 years decreased by almost 10 times, will soon completely disappear from the surface of the earth, but this did not happen. Moreover, over the past 100 years he has increased by two miles.

Almost every island on the planet is the surface of the mountain, which, in turn, is on tectonic plates. The islands cover our planet, like pieces of mosaic, and move with a speed of several millimeters per year. The speed of moving the sabel is 100,000 times more, and this gives reason to assume that the island has no physical connection with any of the Tectonic plates of the Earth. Numerous questions for which there are still no intelligible responses, pushed some scientists to the sensational and at first glance completely insane thought that the Seb was something like a living organism, which is based on silicon, and not carbon, like all living beings on Our planet. If you agree with this theory, you can try to explain where the sand is taken on the eastern part of the island, while Western is constantly blurred by the strong ocean flow. It is possible that the sand (he is silicon) is a product of the vital activity of an insatiable shrill eater, which seems to be secl.

It is curious that shortly before the beginning of World War II, the island threw a new riddle to researchers. In the spring of 1939, a storm of unprecedented strength was raged in this area, who took up hundreds of tons of coastal sand, as a result of which a pit was formed on the island with eight ships. It is in this pit, in a hundred miles from Canada, the remains of the Roman Galete of Ancient Times were found! While the participants of the scientific expedition aimed at the island, argued about the find, broke out another storm, and a partitioned tomb was again listed with tons of raw sand.

Curse Bulavan Island

Bulavan is a small piece of sushi in the sea of \u200b\u200ba gang, which belongs to Indonesia, has long gained the fame of a bad and dangerous place. The island has gained wide fame after in 1989, in its surroundings, the plane of the American pilot Willy Van der Haage was crashed. The pilot was able to catapult, but the next 3 years he had a chance to visit Robinson's skins, making a lot of amazing discoveries.

During the forced sharpening Van der Haage, a tropical island was climbing along and across, in particular, the deep wells of clearly artificial origin were attracted, which were in dry underground caves. Going into one of these caves, the American found a truly invaluable treasure of gold coins, which, as is known from legends and horror stories, rarely brings happiness and longevity.

The treasure found by the involuntary researcher was located in four clay jugs, sealed by natural asphalt. Inside vessels were faceless, perfectly round coins, more similar to polished lenses. After gold was delivered to America, the expert commission of numismatists and antique culture specialists could not determine the state affiliation of coins, which gave reason to assume that these coins were a payment tool on the territory of some high-tech lost civilization, may even be atlantis.

Staying on the island ended as unexpectedly, as it began: by the Australian destroyer, who passed by the Australian destroy, thanks to which the missing pilot was finally saved. Upon returning, the American gave a couple of dozen interviews, in which he said that Bulavan is a powerful abnormal zone, and the cause of the aircraft crash, after which he became a prisoner of the island was the most powerful geomagnetic deviations.

From newspaper articles, the public relations about the found gold coins, and black treasure wheel holders were joined on Bulawan. Wells, gallery, the caves of the island were repeatedly shaped by fans of fast profit, and it should be noted that many were not returned with empty hands. Only now there are not gold coins, but amazing silver bars in the shape of horsepower. These zoomorphic silver, according to scientists, were used in sacred rituals unknown to us civilization. But the most striking thing is that there are no traces of artificial processing on the ingots, and it can be said that it is nothing more than the masterpiece of an abnormal zone of the island of Bulavan.

As for Willie Van der Haeag, then by passing retraining, he returned to his beloved business - and, probably, this story would have a happy end, if in March 1993 the disfigured body of the pilot was found in his own home. The murder's motive is still not clarified, but the police hurried to write off everything on a banal robbery.

It is worth noting that in the period from 1999th year, almost all the diggers who brought out of the island of precious prey were singled, elevated or shot. To speak here about banal robbers is just ridiculous.

Drifting nightmare

Palmyra Islands, Seb, Bulavan is just a small list of mysterious, damned islands, danger in itself for careless travelers. But a variety of abnormal zones that are covered with fog of secrets and mysteries, nothing compared to the main island in this list, which is more than real, and the appetite of which in the absorption of the live flesh is much worse than the fantasy of Yanna Martel.

No matter how sad it sounds, but the first place in the list of damned islands -Ukitz is occupied by the creation of the hands of a man - a trash can, which drifts between America and Eurasia. Currently, a huge dump in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean is twice the area of \u200b\u200bthe United States and is already rightfully called "Eastern Dissorous Continent" (Eastern Garbage Patch).

The basis of a giant floating dump is plastic waste, which are thrown into the ocean in huge quantities. The weight of this garbage is already estimated at 100 mil. Tons, and this figure continues to grow in a huge pace. At the same time, 70% of waste is immersed on the bottom, so the garbage island is only the top of the iceberg.

Only two countries of the Pacific region are Australia and New Zealand - carry out effective control on plastic utilization, while advanced Asian states designed and started a serial production of equipment that processes the entire ship garbage (plastic bottles, packages and other waste) into powder. Next, the crushed plastic visually invisible for environmental services is discharged into the ocean, allowing you to save colossal agents.

The trouble is that over the past couple of decades, we are accustomed to such concepts as a "humanitarian" and "ecological catastrophe". It seems to us that if this happens not in the neighboring quarter, it is unlikely that the consequences will be affected on our own skins. However, the garbage island is a catastrophe not local, but a planetary scale. The worst thing is that it is no longer a rich water environment, and the real cemetery from marine inhabitants. Every year about a million birds and one hundred thousand mammals die from plastic waste discarded in the Pacific Ocean.

This happens according to such a scheme: under the influence of sunlight plastic begins to decay into small fractions, without losing its polymer structure, then fish, jellyfish and other ocean inhabitants, confusing garbage with plankton, begin to eat them. Birds and mammals swallow what is larger: lighters, bottled plugs, syringes and toothbrushes. Of course, the "plastic diet" leads to death, but some of the fishing fish, poisoned chemistry, still falls into the plane plate.

Which of you want to taste the meat of livestock, which is grown on a farm near Chernobyl? The fish, stuffing the belly plastic, is little better, but the ordinary consumer rarely thinks over what sends into the mouth. Even when we are impassing obvious, we pretend that we do not hear, or hope for perhaps, believing that they would attack anyone, but not us.

This kind of garbage islands, albeit smaller sizes, is in all oceans. We can only admit that these drifting killers are already pulling their bony fingers far deep into the continents. And this is just the beginning ...