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In the spring of 1897 an amazing story happened. The team the Brazilian patrol ship “Araguara” in the ocean was accidentally a bottle was caught with a message that read: “On the schooner,“ Sea Hero ” there was a riot. Captain killed, first mate thrown overboard. I, the second mate, have been forced to the helm and forced to swim at the mouth of the Amazon. Please help. “In the letter also indicated approximate geographical coordinates “Sea Hero”.
The captain of the patrol ship, after reading the note, checked the availability of this ship in the Lloyd’s book of registers. And indeed there found an English ship named “Sea Hero”, which was assigned to the port of the city of Hull (now Kingston upon Hull). Crew Brazilian watchman instantly changed course and headed for help to the British. After some time captured by the rebels the schooner appeared on the horizon, and the military quickly caught up with her, boarded and disarmed the criminals. Thereby the second assistant captain and two sailors who refused to join the rebels were saved.
The assistant captain was immensely grateful to the Brazilians, however, that amazing: he assured that he never sent any request for help. He literally did not have such an opportunity, since he and two loyal crew members of the Sea Hero were under continuous surveillance of the rebels. In addition, a bottle for such for a short time could not be attributed to underwater currents so far away, and besides, she was mossy and looked very old. Where did the message come from? It could not just materialize from a mental cry for help?
When the rioters were already in prison and many of them were executed, the mystery of the mystical bottle finally revealed that plunged many into a real shock. It turned out that for another sixteen years before the Sea Hero was launched, little known British author John Permington published a novel, which was called “Sea Hero”. In his work, the author described this very rebellion and to learn about his creation as much as possible more people threw into the sea five thousand bottles with notes, calling for help people on the then unexisting schooner. After thirty-two years, one of these messages was Caught by the Brazilian Watchdog.
Such stories are amazing. It turns out that providence itself ordered the events in the novel to exactly match the real future riot on the ship, and the author of the artwork it occurred to me to advertise my work so unusual way.
Recall that something similar happened with the legendary airliner “Titanic”, the death of which is accurate to small parts in fourteen years before the real tragedy was described by the writer Morgan Robertson in his novel “Futility”.
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