Mystery in the Gulf of Mexico: Bermeja Island

Not long ago we told you in Mysterious about the mystery of Sandy Island, and its ghostly appearance and disappearance over time and that we all associated with the series «Lost».Now, many of our readers will know without a doubt Another major and more interesting mystery: we are talking about the "Bermeja Island".

Not only does the typical enigma of the island that once existed and then disappeared disappeared.In fact, there are those who say that "it was never real" , and that Bermeja Island was nothing more than a map error that remained in time without knowing the reason very well.the political and strategic interests that were deployed for a while in this area, where the existence of the Bermeja Island, was able to Mexico control the Hoya de Dona, and the domain of more maritime territory with its consequent benefits.

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Bermeja Island, a ghost in the Sea with many economic interests

Google Maps said that Bermeja Island was there, just northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula, and specifically at 22 degrees, 33 minutes north latitude and 91 degrees, 22 minutes west longitude, but was it really like that? The disappointment was capitalized just at the time when Bermeja Island was most needed, just when this small penasco could give Mexico the opportunity to expand its domain maritime until reaching four fifths of the Western Donut Hole , being able to take advantage of its incredible resources such as oil, minerals, gas...

Mystery in the Gulf of Mexico: Bermeja Island

We were at the end of the 90s, an era where Bill's administration Clinton started some interesting negotiations on the delimitation of the Continental Shelf, and where Bermeja Island was an interesting delimitation in favor of Mexico, but when the Navy ship «Onjuku» traveled to the strategic point where the cartographic maps indicated the presence of this island, they discovered with amazement and great disappointment, that n or it was.That it didn't exist… No sign.

The disappointment was capital, and not only because of the moral plane, but above all, because of the economic and strategic dimension.Mexico reached an agreement on November 28 2000 with the United States where this part of the Gulf area was lost, being in favor of the US administration , and thus losing millions of barrels of oil.

Theories about it of the disappearance of Bermeja Island

What had happened then with Bermeja Island? This piece of land had already been described in the sixteenth century by several cartographers, there are even maps of the time and Portuguese records where it is spoken of. It was not at all the invention of an isolated character, but over the centuries it had been appearing in more than one country, from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and even appeared in the Ethnographic Letter of Mexico of 1864.

Mystery in the Gulf of Mexico: Bermeja Island

Let's now look at the most famous theories that have remained since then on the subject:

On March 20, 2009, he left Tuxpan, Veracruz a oceanographic vessel under the ownership of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.It is concluded that there is no island in the established coordinates, and that this area of the ocean has a depth of 1472.ion? The island may have existed in the past and disappeared due to a "geological landslide" that happened in other times.

For a time it came to shuffle the the possibility that the Americans would "disappear" the island for economic reasons.In fact, the Geophysics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) , indicated that it could have been done with a hydrogen bomb However, this was somewhat unlikely.

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), indicates that Bermeja Island, in fact, never existed .For this organism this was nothing more than a mapping error that remained throughout the centuries until today, until that moment when its existence had been «Vital» for the interests of Mexico.

Mystery in the Gulf of Mexico: Bermeja Island

Too much chance ? It is possible, but whatever it is, Bermeja Island is suspended even in that aura that surrounds all ghostly island that everyone saw in the past, and that today, is lost in a mysterious curtain of smoke.

What is your opinion? Do not hesitate to leave us your comments on the subject to enrich us among all.And remember, if you liked this article, you also know the cave of the giant crystals of Mexico.

image: Simon&His Camera.Christian Arballo

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