For centuries, maps showed a tiny island off the Yucatán Peninsula called Bermeja — a speck of land that appeared on naval charts, Spanish records, and international atlases.
Then, sometime between the 18th century and now… it vanished.

Modern satellites find nothing.
Naval sonar finds nothing.
But conspiracy theories? They find everything.

In this episode, we dive deep into the mystery of Bermeja:
A disappearing island tied to high-stakes oil rights, shifting maritime borders, and geopolitical tension between Mexico and the United States.
Was Bermeja destroyed — possibly by the CIA to manipulate Mexico’s Exclusive Economic Zone?
Or was it simply a cartographic myth — one phantom among many in ocean history?

From ghostly charts to classified allegations, The Deep Dive explores a vanishing that changed a nation’s borders… and left behind more questions than answers.

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