Why did this Prime Minister Mysteriously Disappear?

Harold Holt was born in Sydney on August 5, 1908. He briefly served in the Australian military during World War Two and then became Australia’s 17th Prime Minister.
Holt would go on to be remembered as one of the highest-ranking political figures in the world to have disappeared outright.
Holt was an avid swimmer, and on December 17, 1967, he and some friends went to Portsea, Victoria where he wanted to go for a swim. His friends saw him going deeper and deeper into the sea, and then he disappeared.
What followed this event was a massive coordinated search for his body on the seafloor, but it was never found. A number of conspiracy theories have sprung as a result ranging from the mild, that he faked his death to escape with a lover, to the outlandish, that he was assassinated by the CIA to prevent Australia from pulling out of the Vietnam War, or that he was a Chinese spy and was picked up by a Chinese submarine.
That last one has a whole book dedicated to it, Prime Minister Was a Spy, in which the author, Anthony Grey, stitches together some information he claims to have obtained from interviews with Chinese sources, and which points towards the conspiracy theories.
However, Grey’s book is filled with inaccuracies and the general consensus is that Holt really did just drown.
Holt had nearly drowned earlier that year on May 20 while swimming in Cheviot Beach where he had to be taken to the shore by his friends. He vomited seawater and even turned purple.
With this in mind, Holt’s physician had warned him to swim less. There was even a headline in The Australian, published the morning of Holt’s disappearance, that said “PM advised to swim less.”
The search party that searched for Holt’s body was compromised of no less than 340 people. It started with 3 amateur divers and ended with helicopters and police divers.
Although the search would continue until January 5, a full 19 days after his disappearance, a new Prime Minister was appointed only two days after, on December 19th.
When a person disappears like this but is probably dead, they can legally be presumed dead. This is called death in absentia. With this presumption made, Holt’s memorial was held five days after his disappearance.
While we can’t know for sure what happened to Harold Holt that December 17th, we know what probably happened. We know the sea was turbulent, we know he had come close to drowning before, and we know that he was advised to swim less. While there will always be conspiracies surrounding the deaths of high profile people like him, this case seems intuitive enough.
Editing by Myles Adoh-Phillips
Written by Lucas L

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