San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09
SCIENTIST USES
EX|DE ON LOST
ISLE HUN I
Skaters Romantic Legend
Of Port of Missing
Ships in Sargasso.

A mass of shin hulks, entanglcd in
z sea Of weed-this is the tabled Port
If Missing Ships located in the Sar-
gasso Sea. The tales about this weird
spot in the Atlantic Ocean have been
handed down from age to age, genera
tion TO generation for thousands OF
years. according TO W Brunncmann.
Of the San Antonio Exide Battery
company.
Columbus, on his first voyage to
find a new passage to India, discoy-
cred IL and named it Mar de SargacO.
But even before Columbus there had
come stories from the Phoenicians and
other mighty sailors Of hundreds and
thousands of years ago about tins
mass of seaweed which hindcred the
path of ships and sometimes caught
them and held them fast. In the mass
of weed securely entangled are reputed
TO be the oldest ships that sailed the
seas. Each nation. age and continent
IS represented. Some say. too, that
all the wrecks and hulkS of ships lost
in the Atlantic gradually drift until
they reach their final resting place in
this mass of weed, this Port Of Miss
ing Ships.
PROVES A MYTH.
Many fascinating tales of adventure
have been written about this elusive
sea. Stories of treasure hunts and
search for the Spanish galleons laden
with Incas' gold from the ancient
mines OF Peru. Not so long ago a
moyins-picture company produced q
picture called "The Isle of Lost
Ships--a story of shipwreck and
adventure among the vessels caught In
this sea of weed.
But though it may shock the ro-
mantle ones, we must have the truth.
So far as William Beebe. well known
scientific explorer, is concerned, the
tabled Port of Missing Ships seems to
be a greater myth even than the well
known and somewhat notorious sea-
serpent.
When DR.. Beebe, as head Of an
oceangraphic expedition sent out by
the New York Geological Society,
started on his recent exploration OF
the Sargasso Sea he promised to LOOK
into the legend of lost ships.
~The Sargasso Sea- he wrote IN
the New York Times Sunday Maya
zine, has always been one of the
most appealingly romantic spots Of the
world
MAKE DISCOVERIES.
Put he didn't find the Port OF
Missing Ships" the isle of Los
Ships" or anything Of the sort.
BE did, however, make many inter
esting discoveries Of greater scienti
fic interest, and il the trip has los
the romantic background Of the Isle o.
Lost Ships. il nevertheless is sur
rounded with the interest Of modern
science.
Out IN the middle Of the oeeaI
this expedition describes 10 the worlC
by radio its discoveries the same after
noon they are made. The Arcturus
the vessel carrying the expedition, i
equipped with an Exide Battery 10
emergency radio service, thus lnsur
ing uninterrupted communication witt
the rest of the world.
Thus while the Sargasso Sea fabl
Of the lost ships has turned out TO b
only one of those fish stories such a
vacation fishermen like to tell, ID
Beebe has real fish stories Of surpass
ing interest. For although the expedi
fion could not find the harbor Of thesl
missing ships of bygone ages, II
search was well regarded by th
variety of fascinating marine crea
lures found among the sargassun
weed.