This event has been covered MANY times, however, you`ve found photos I had not seen before. My opinion? The ship failed catastrophically, no time for distress call with a (W)anchor as a Captain. RV Petrel, get back on the job and locate the wreck - the `Bermuda Triangle` is a fallacy. Thanks for the video - hope you get to make one on the solution!
Topnotch, Jamie👍!! I've always been titillated about, the tale of the USS 'Cyclops', and the Bermuda Triangle. Didn't know this ship, was built in Philadelphia (a 100 miles away, from us). I knew her Captain, was kinda kooky, but not to the point, that he wasn't right, in the head (only long underwear, and a derby. Chasing crew around, with pistols😳⁉️). And on how she met, her demise. You said the captain sometimes let, an inexperienced officer, load the ship. It's possible he didn't protect, the magnesium ore from touching the steel hull, which in turn ate through, the hull plates. Especially, when salt water combines with it. Causing multiple holes, simultaneously. Would've sunk, in mere minutes.