What Could Have Inspired Briggs To Abandon The Perfectly Sound Vessel Case Study
Conclusions of the sub questions:
Sub question 1
What could have inspired Briggs to abandon the perfectly sound vessel, passing his wife, child and crew into a small boat in heavy seas?
There are a couple of things that were very unlikely to happen. Sea monsters are easy to dismiss, because why were the lifeboat, navigational tabled and the sextant gone? Secondly, piracy. If it were to be pirates, they would take some stuff with them, wouldn’t they? Any valuables that the ship might have held were untouched. Also, there wasn’t any sign of violence. Any valuables that the ship might have held were untouched. Others say that there was a mutiny. Anne MacGregor, a medical researcher, interviewed some crewmen’s descendants about that the crew …show more content…
It could’ve been the Comet of Biela. Only this is a possibility which isn’t mentioned in many researches. If this was very likely, there would be probably more researches with this possibility. But this cannot be totally excluded. Secondly, there could have been a leak in some of the barrels. Briggs would have thought it was too dangerous to take the risk of staying on the ship. They connected the lifeboat to the Mary Celeste with ropes and waited for the boat to explode. Eventually, the Mary Celeste didn’t explode and the rope snapped, which left the crew on the open, heavy seas. This sounds logical and possible.
Sub question 3
Was there something written in the logbook of Briggs what could have led to this …show more content…
How they died on the sea has many possibilities. Also, there aren’t many facts about the crew in the lifeboat, so it’s hard to draw a conclusion. It could have been the heavy weather, but it also could have been starvation.
This research is an improvement on research conducted in the past, because there are different possibilities debunked and some possibilities are explained. Out of all the sub questions, there has been drawn a conclusion, which matches the conclusions of the sub questions.
One option for further research is to dive for some wreck pieces of the lifeboat near the area where the Mary Celeste was found. This is a really big area, because the Mary Celeste was sailing on her own from the moment the crew left the ship. If they find a piece of rope near the wreck (the lifeboat) it is likely that this is the lifeboat where the crew went in after they left the ship.
There are so many possible answers to this mystery, but only one is the right one. Which one? It’s hard to say. There was so much information and facts given, but there was also missing a lot of it too. We have to find those missing facts and information for ourselves and solve the mystery that has been a mystery for a long
Sub question 1
What could have inspired Briggs to abandon the perfectly sound vessel, passing his wife, child and crew into a small boat in heavy seas?
There are a couple of things that were very unlikely to happen. Sea monsters are easy to dismiss, because why were the lifeboat, navigational tabled and the sextant gone? Secondly, piracy. If it were to be pirates, they would take some stuff with them, wouldn’t they? Any valuables that the ship might have held were untouched. Also, there wasn’t any sign of violence. Any valuables that the ship might have held were untouched. Others say that there was a mutiny. Anne MacGregor, a medical researcher, interviewed some crewmen’s descendants about that the crew …show more content…
It could’ve been the Comet of Biela. Only this is a possibility which isn’t mentioned in many researches. If this was very likely, there would be probably more researches with this possibility. But this cannot be totally excluded. Secondly, there could have been a leak in some of the barrels. Briggs would have thought it was too dangerous to take the risk of staying on the ship. They connected the lifeboat to the Mary Celeste with ropes and waited for the boat to explode. Eventually, the Mary Celeste didn’t explode and the rope snapped, which left the crew on the open, heavy seas. This sounds logical and possible.
Sub question 3
Was there something written in the logbook of Briggs what could have led to this …show more content…
How they died on the sea has many possibilities. Also, there aren’t many facts about the crew in the lifeboat, so it’s hard to draw a conclusion. It could have been the heavy weather, but it also could have been starvation.
This research is an improvement on research conducted in the past, because there are different possibilities debunked and some possibilities are explained. Out of all the sub questions, there has been drawn a conclusion, which matches the conclusions of the sub questions.
One option for further research is to dive for some wreck pieces of the lifeboat near the area where the Mary Celeste was found. This is a really big area, because the Mary Celeste was sailing on her own from the moment the crew left the ship. If they find a piece of rope near the wreck (the lifeboat) it is likely that this is the lifeboat where the crew went in after they left the ship.
There are so many possible answers to this mystery, but only one is the right one. Which one? It’s hard to say. There was so much information and facts given, but there was also missing a lot of it too. We have to find those missing facts and information for ourselves and solve the mystery that has been a mystery for a long