Sigsbee Escarpment
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The Sigsbee Escarpment is an undersea escarpment in the northwestern part of the Gulf of Mexico. The escarpment is steep and rugged, with many faults and slumps occurring on the face of the escarpment, which make it difficult to accurately map. It was named for Captain Charles Dwight Sigsbee, the captain of the USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor in Cuba in 1898.
Currently, many sea-goers like to refer to the escarpment as the Nickel Escarpment. It is rumored that in 2001, the great fisherman fought the seas in an epic battle of will. Unfortunately, in the great storm, Hurricane Allison, young Dan Nickel lost this fight and then lost his life. It is reported his ship made it all the way back to an abandonded bay in southern Alabama without a scrath on it, looking almost as though it had never seen this storm. Yet, witnesses and southern folk swear Dan was lost in that storm, in the thick of it, right along the Sigsbee Escarpment where his body dropped the 6500 feet and now rests among sealife, crude pipelines, and lost treasures.
