Marysburgh vortex

The Marysburgh Vortex is an area of eastern Lake Ontario with a history of shipwrecks during the age of sail and steam that has encouraged legends, superstitions and comparisons to the Bermuda Triangle. The name describes an area whose three corners are Wolfe Island (Ontario), Mexico Bay near Oswego, NY, and Point Petre in Prince Edward County. Although many legends suggest mysterious circumstances for the sinkings, historical writers have attributed the area's record of shipping disasters to conventional maritime hazards such as bad weather, shifting cargoes, fires, submerged reefs exposed during periods of low water levels, and compass errors due to natural geomagnetic anomalies.[1][2]

History

Ships lost in the area are said to number at least 100, including the vessels Bavaria (1889), George A. Marsh (1917), Eliza Quinlan (1883) and Star of Suez (1964).[1] The term "Marysburgh Vortex" was coined by Toronto writer Hugh F. Cochrane in his 1980 book Gateway To Oblivion in which he proposed "an unknown invisible vortex of forces" as the cause of the maritime disasters, however reviewers criticized Cochrane's work, saying, "His own reconstructed accounts of accidents are the worst kind of speculative history of the "you are there" variety".[3] Because of the relatively large number of sunken wrecks in Lake Ontario, the area within the Marysburgh Vortex is popular with recreational divers.[1]

On September 14, 2017 the Epoch Times reported that the project to raise the Avro Arrow had found the first of the nine prototypes of the aircraft in the Marysburgh vortex area of Lake Ontario.[4] Photos of the aircraft on the lake-bed have been published on the group's website.[5]

References
  1. Michael J. Varhola (1 October 2007), Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures, Great Lakes: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!, Globe Pequot Press, pp. 133–, ISBN 978-0-7627-4492-3
  2. Barbara Wall La Rocque (13 August 2009), Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone, Dundurn, pp. 145–, ISBN 978-1-77070-609-5
  3. Book Review Digest, H.W. Wilson Company, 1980
  4. Jared Gnam, "Avro Arrow Recovery Project Finds First Test Model in Lake Ontario", The Epoch Times, 14 September 2017 retrieved 20170918
  5. https://www.raisethearrow.com/ "Raise the Arrow" retrieved 20170918

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