Gateway to Oblivion [antikvár]

1The Bavaria Is MissingNear the end of a cool May, in 1889, several tall-masted ships sailed out of Kingston harbor, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, to search for a missing vessel. There had been a storm over the lake. Not uncommon in these waters. And the Bavaria, the missing ship, had failed to make port.Her absence had raised concern among the ship's ovmers and relatives of the crewmen. There was good reason for this concem, for, although Lake Ontario is not the largest in the Great Lakes chain, it has one rather weird, if not deadly, anomaly that none of the others possess. It has the Marysburgh Vortex. This vortex, like the famed Bermuda Triangle, is a swathe of water in the eastern end of the lake that has a long history of bizarre circumstances that have caused the loss of numerous ships and their crews. According to marine insurance records, the Great Lakes have a higher concentration of shipping accidents than any comparable area elsewhere. And it has held this unenviable position for over a hundred years.But the problem doesn't end there. In its variety of mysteri-