Myths and Legends
According to a legend which grew up around the incident, the RMS Homeric received a cryptic SOS from the Raifuku Maru on April 21, 1925, which read, in broken English: "Danger like a dagger now! Come quick!" Reportedly, the Homeric traveled to where the vessel had given the SOS, but found not a trace of the ship. There was much speculation over what the "dagger" was (popular opinion seems to be divided between waterspouts and UFOs), and this was regarded as a genuine mystery of the sea by many. Popular writers on the Bermuda Triangle, specifically Charles Berlitz and Vincent Gaddis, propagated the myth of the vessel's "mysterious" sinking.
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