5 Unexplained Mysteries at Sea

In the pre-dawn silence of July 10, 1969, the Royal Mail Ship Picardie cut through the Atlantic’s vast emptiness, far removed from civilization. Captain Richard Cox, steering the ship at coordinates 33 degrees 11 minutes North and 40 degrees 28 minutes West, noticed an anomaly on the horizon—a small, seemingly abandoned boat. Despite attempts to hail the vessel with flares, flags, and horn blasts, there was no response. Cox’s decision to dispatch a boarding party unveiled a ghostly scene: an empty boat that bore signs of recent habitation but hauntingly devoid of life. Though they initially assumed that the vessel’s occupant had experienced a tragic accident, the logbooks discovered told a deeper, more shocking tale. The journey of the Teignmouth Electron, a custom-built trimaran, embarked from Teignmouth Harbor, England, on October 31, 1968. At its helm was Donald Crowhurst, an electronics engineer and amateur sailor with ambitions of triumphing in the inaugural around-the-