Bermuda Triangle: one of the main mysteries of our time, or an exaggeration of the supporters of conspiracy theories? Bermuda Triangle, secrets of a long hoax Terrain features and possible causes of crashes

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The world's oceans are fraught with many unsolved mysteries. Its depths have been attracting people from time immemorial, people are striving to reveal its secrets, but to this day the ocean is the least explored area of ​​the globe. Nobody knows exactly what is under the many kilometers of water. In the unexplored depths of the ocean - unusual animals, huge monsters, dangerous whirlpools, treacherous currents and deep trenches, seamounts and hills, corals, sunken ships and submerged islands, and maybe even races unknown to science - a whole world that is still to be discovered and explored.

Modern scientists hypothesize that the Earth and the ocean are living beings: after all, life originated in water, and it is water that makes up most of the globe and all its inhabitants. This is the simplest and most mysterious substance. Water has a memory and can react to its surroundings, in whatever state - solid, liquid or gaseous - it may be.

In Japan, an experiment was conducted: different words with different emotions were pronounced over water, then the water was frozen and the formed ice crystals were studied under a microscope. The result amazed the researchers and exceeded all their expectations.

The water, over which gentle words, words of gratitude or declaration of love were pronounced, when frozen, formed crystals of extraordinary beauty, harmoniously located in relation to the center of symmetry. The ice formed from the water, over which they shouted or swore, looked ugly and asymmetrical under the microscope. This is explained by the fact that any word uttered by a person, any sound has its own vibration, which is remembered by water. Moreover, water can not only hear, but also perceive thoughts and feelings. Water carries all the information it encounters.

This means that the ocean - a huge mass of water - is truly a storehouse of unknown, thousand-year-old human memory! Or maybe not only human? Perhaps he remembers unknown, long-forgotten peoples, extinct legendary creatures, aliens from other planets, events of bygone days, buried under a layer of eras?

Since ancient times, there have been legends about the mysterious inhabitants of the deep sea. While sailing on the seas, people are faced with unexplained natural phenomena, such as the glow of water or the appearance of strange light spots on the surface; see unusual ocean dwellers, sometimes accompanying boats and ships. People hear strange noises that seem to emanate from the seabed, they are fascinated by stories about missing ships and crews, about formidable pirates and their lost treasures. Real Robinsons-romantics voluntarily leave to live on uninhabited islands and find happiness in harmony with nature ...

In preparing this book, we used many written and oral sources, including ancient legends and traditions. Who knows, maybe it is in them that the clue lies? Maybe our distant ancestors, whose life depended on the whims of the elements, learned to take them for granted and even fight them, and perhaps even subjugate them, and knew what we do not know? Maybe millennia ago, people were wiser than us?

Be that as it may, humanity has yet to unravel all the secrets of the ocean. But, probably, behind each solved mystery, another will appear, then another and another ... The process of cognition is endless, and this is wonderful!

There are several mysterious zones on our planet that attract close attention of researchers. Scientists believe there is a Devil's Belt that spans the Earth: Bermuda Triangle, Gibraltar Wedge, Afghan anomalous zone, Hawaiian Anomalous Zone and the Devil's Sea. All these zones are located along the thirtieth degree north latitude, at an equal distance from each other. In 1968, the famous American hydrobiologist and researcher A. T. Sanderson first put forward the idea that anomalous zones are interconnected. Many scientists agree with this opinion.

In the geopathogenic zone, one can notice strange, unusual phenomena that defy logical explanation. For example, there are almost no plants and animals here, a person becomes depressed, begins to feel unaccountable fear, even panic, in addition, the flow and perception of time is disturbed.

The reasons for the appearance of anomalous zones have not been precisely established. It is believed that they can be provoked, for example, by deep faults in the crystalline rocks of the earth, as well as magnetic anomalies.

The Bermuda Triangle - an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Florida and Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas - is famous for the mysterious, mystical disappearances of ships and aircraft. For many years, he brings real horror to the world's population - after all, stories about inexplicable disasters and ghost ships are on everyone's lips.

Numerous researchers are trying to explain the Bermuda Triangle anomaly. These are mainly theories of ship abduction by aliens from outer space or inhabitants of Atlantis, movement through holes in time or rifts in space, and other paranormal reasons. None of these hypotheses have yet been confirmed.

Opponents of the "otherworldly" versions argue that reports of mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle are greatly exaggerated. Ships and aircraft disappear in other parts of the world, sometimes without a trace. A radio malfunction or the suddenness of a disaster can prevent the crew from transmitting a distress signal. In addition, finding wreckage at sea is not an easy task.

The Bermuda Triangle is also called "the devil's sea", "the cemetery of the Antlantic", "the voodoo sea", "the sea of ​​the damned".

A hypothesis is proposed that explains the sudden death of ships and aircraft by gas emissions - for example, as a result of the decay of methane hydrate at the bottom of the sea, when the density is lowered so much that ships cannot stay afloat. Some speculate that, once released into the air, methane can also cause aircraft wrecks - for example, due to a decrease in air density.

In the 70s of the last century, the circulation of Charles Berlitz's book "The Bermuda Tregolnik" reached almost 20 million copies. This is how the Bermuda Triangle fell into the hands of a very wide readership. And only then did true glory come to him.

It was believed that the cause of the death of some ships, including in the Bermuda Triangle, may be the so-called wandering waves, which can reach a height of 30 meters. It is also assumed that infrasound can be generated at sea, which affects the crew of a ship or aircraft, causing panic, as a result of which people leave the ship.

Consider the natural features of this region - really extremely interesting and unusual.

The area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle is just over a million square kilometers. There are huge shallow waters and deep-sea depressions, a shelf with shallow banks, a continental slope, marginal and middle plateaus, deep straits, abyssal plains, deep-sea trenches, a complex system of sea currents and intricate atmospheric circulation.

“In the Western Atlantic, adjacent to the southeastern coast of the United States, there is a triangular region. It can be outlined by a line running from Bermuda in the north to the southern tip of Florida, from there to the east, bypassing the Bahamas and Puerto Rico, up to a point located about 40 degrees west longitude, and then back to Bermuda. This area is an exhilarating, almost incredible place that holds pride of place on the list of unsolved mysteries. It is usually called the Bermuda Triangle. Here, more than a hundred ships and aircraft disappeared without a trace - mainly after 1945. Over the past 26 years, more than a thousand people have disappeared in it, but during the search it was not possible to find a single corpse or even debris from the disappeared ships and aircraft. Such disappearances have become more frequent, although airways and sea routes have become more active, searches are carried out more thoroughly, and all data is stored much better. "

This is how Charles Berlitz began The Bermuda Triangle, one of the few best-selling books on the anomalous. However, he was not a pioneer.

The birth of a legend

The first to tie together several disasters off the coast of Florida was journalist E.W. Jones of the Associated Press. His note read:

“Is our world small? No, it is still huge, like the world that ancient people knew, with the same foggy purgatory of lost souls.

We think it is small because of the speed of the wheels, wings, and the voice of the radio coming from the void. It takes a minute to go a mile; to fly it - a few seconds, but it's still a mile.

Miles add up to a huge unknown, where more than a hundred people flew or swam just recently and sank, like ships in the old days of navigation.

Sandra had a radio. It was a 350-foot freighter with 12 crew members. Departing from Miami, in Savannah, the ship took on board 300 tons of insecticide and sailed to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. On the way, he disappeared without a trace.

On June 16, 1950, a year when people thought the world was small, the search for her was stopped. The fate of the ship and the dozens of people on board became an officially recognized mystery.

Where are those lucky men, women and two children, 13 in all, who boarded a plane in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and flew 1,000 miles to Miami? At 4:00 am on December 27, 1948, a radio message came in that the plane was 50 miles south of its destination. They never arrived.

Rescuers searched 310,000 miles of ocean and mainland, but the elusive purgatory into which the plane flew is not marked on any map.

On January 18, 1949, the US Navy conducted large-scale maneuvers south of Bermuda. On the same day, the British airliner "Ariel" disappeared into the clear air in which it flew. The plane with 20 people on board was landing on the islands en route from London to Chile.

The navy interrupted maneuvers. Aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers plowed the waters, thousands of pairs of keen eyes gazing overboard. They did not find any hint of the plane's fate.

A year earlier, on January 31, 1948, another British aircraft, the Star Tiger, was approaching Bermuda with 29 people on board. He transmitted his location data several times. Then there was silence, shrouded in mystery. To this day, no trace of this aircraft has been found.

An old but more perplexing mystery is the fate of the five torpedo bombers who took off from the Fort Lauderdale naval base on December 5, 1945 for a navigation training flight. Hours passed, darkness fell. Concerned officers called them over the radio, but silence was answered.

The time has passed when planes should have run out of fuel. Other aircraft flew out in search, including the large, bulky PBM seaplane rescue plane with 13 crew members.

None of the five torpedo bombers with 14 crew members were found despite the largest searches in Florida history. The rescue seaplane did not return either.

Approximately 135 people presumptuously went into a world they thought was small and never returned - such is the list of victims of modern secrets. This is still the same big world as the ancients knew it - a world where people with their cars and ships can disappear without a trace. "

Jones did not try to draw the boundaries of the "triangle", did not claim that there was something anomalous in it. If we take the crashes he mentioned separately, they all received convincing explanations without the involvement of "unknown forces."

Explanations without mysticism

Ship "Sandra", contrary to Jones' claims, was not 350 feet (106 m) long, but 185 feet (56 m). He left Savannah on April 5, and the search stopped not on June 16, as Jones writes, but on May 29.

The October 1952 Fate magazine published an article by George Sand mentioning the sinking of the ship. He had an extraordinary imagination and painted the patches of rust that covered the sides of the entire "350-foot length" as the ship sailed serenely near Jacksonville and "through the peaceful darkness of the tropical night that enveloped the low coast of Florida, from the starboard side, the blinking light of St. Augustine ". The author told how the sailors, having dined, walked along the deck and smoked, recalling the affairs of the past day.

The idyll of the sea was spoiled by librarian Laurence Kouche. Looking up the documents, he found out that at the time of the disappearance of the ship, a storm was raging. The Miami Herald of April 8, 1950 reported:

“The storm, which broke out in connection with the passage of a low-pressure strip and was accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds, raged in Florida for three days and on Friday almost reached hurricane strength, hitting the shipping area. Winds near Virginia Capes were as high as 73 miles per hour, just two miles less than hurricane speeds. "

So much for peaceful conversations with a pipe in your mouth! Although the weather in Florida was not so pronounced, there was also a storm here, which began on April 5 - the day Sandra went to sea. It seems that there was nothing mysterious about the sinking of the ship.

Couchet found out that the DC-3 plane, which disappeared on June 16, 1948, took off from San Juan with discharged batteries:

“Although the ministry civil aviation and did not reveal the mystery of the disappearance of DC-3, his report contains very important information in this regard. The legend emphasizes that the disaster happened almost instantly: a sudden loss of communication between the control room and the plane. However ... since the batteries were depleted, the radio transmitter was essentially out of order, both at the San Juan airfield and at the start of the last flight. Obviously, problems with the transmitter continued throughout the flight, since all attempts to establish radio communication with the aircraft were unsuccessful.

Many malfunctions could have occurred on the plane in the hour and a half that passed between the last message of Linkvist (the pilot of the plane. - Author) and that fateful moment when not a drop of fuel remained in the gas tanks. New power problems could arise, and if the plane flies at night without lights, instruments and navigation equipment, it is doomed to death ...

In San Juan, forecasters told Linkvist that at the beginning of the flight the wind would be weak southwest, and then it would change direction and blow from the northwest. Correcting for the wind, Linkvist had to steer the plane slightly to the left of the given course. However, as they approached Miami, the wind changed direction again and blew from the northeast. If the pilot did not know about this, then, although the wind was not strong, it could cause a deviation from the course to the left by 40-50 miles. Thus, DC-3 may have passed south of the southern tip of Florida and ended up over the Gulf of Mexico. "

Flight 19. Flying coffins

The Ariel was a British South American Airways (BSAA) Tudor IV, a converted WWII bomber. However, what worked in wartime is unacceptable in peacetime: the plane was so bad that all other companies abandoned it. Don McIntosh, a former BSAA pilot, believes the underfloor heating system is to blame. The heater was powered by aviation fuel, which was fed dropwise into a hot tube, and was in a dangerous neighborhood with a vital control system - hydraulic rods.

Captain Peter Duffy, who flew with BSAA, also considered the proximity of the heater and the rods to be fatal: "I believe that there was a leak of hydraulic fluid vapors that exploded when they hit the hot heater." There was not even a fire alarm under the cockpit, let alone an automatic fire extinguishing system. The plane with the interrupted rods did not have much time left to have time to transmit the SOS, or the radio also went out of order.

Rescuers were at the alleged crash site 12 hours later. During this time, the wreckage could sink or float away very far.

The second aircraft Jones mentioned, the "Star Tiger", was of the same type and belonged to the BSAA. He disappeared on December 30 (not 31), 31 people were on board.

The official report on the disappearance read: "We will never know what really happened in this case, and the fate of 'Star Tiger' will forever remain an unsolved mystery." But is it?

In 2009, BBC reporters found out that “Star Tiger” faced problems even before it made a stopover in the Azores. The heater is out of order, and one of the compasses has also failed. Most likely, to keep the plane warmer, the pilot decided to fly not at normal altitude, but near the water itself. At low altitude, if something happens to the plane, it falls into the water in a matter of seconds: the pilots will not have enough time to call for help.

Gordon Store, a former BSAA pilot, said in 2008 that he never trusted the engines of the Tudor IV aircraft: "All systems were hopelessly entangled, hydraulics, all equipment thoughtlessly squeezed under the floor, without any consideration." In the jumble of wires, rods and hoses, any malfunction could become fatal.

In just three years, BSAA has experienced 11 serious incidents, with five aircraft killed, killing 73 passengers and 22 crew members. The death of "Star Tiger" was the final straw, forcing the abandonment of aircraft with such a bad reputation.

There was no secret in the death of six aircraft - five torpedo bombers of the "Avenger" type and a rescue seaplane in December 1945. The torpedo pilots, except for the squadron commander Lieutenant Taylor and one of the crew members, were inexperienced cadets and, getting lost, dangled in the air over the ocean until the fuel ran out. Lawrence Kouchet came to the conclusion that Taylor, whose compasses were out of order, played the role of Susanin, taking the squadron further and further into the ocean. Many pilots realized that he was leading them in the wrong direction, but no one broke military discipline in order to return to the airbase on the correct course.

Documentary video about the Bermuda Triangle (until 17:56)

When it was time for the emergency landing, the weather was not as good as during the flight. Aircraft "Avenger" are not intended for landing on water, especially in bad weather... Most likely, the pilots did not even have time to open the cockpits and unfasten their seat belts, having gone under the water along with the torpedo bombers.

The situation with the rescue seaplane was even simpler. The sailors of the ship "Gaines Mills" at 19.50 saw how the plane "caught fire in the air, quickly fell into the water and exploded." Such seaplanes were nicknamed "flying tanks": they always had a lot of gasoline vapors. A secretly lit cigarette or spark could cause fire and explosion at any moment.

There are as many reasons as there are incidents. As Lawrence Kouchet noted, "trying to find one common cause for all disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is no more logical than looking for one common cause for all car accidents in Arizona."

The very name "Bermuda Triangle" appeared only in 1964, when the article of the same name by Vincent Gaddis was published. It was in it that the legend acquired its final shape: ships and planes disappear not just because anything happens in the sea, but because this area is an “anomalous zone”, “a hole in the sky”. To this he added UFOs, magnetic anomalies and hints of secret government projects.

Rescuers say

Up to tens of thousands (!) SOS signals are registered in different regions of the World Ocean throughout the year. During the same time, about 300 ships perish, an average of 6 disappears without a trace, and about two dozen "ghost ships" abandoned by the crews appear. All this does not happen anywhere, but, as a rule, in those areas where the intensity of shipping is high and the conditions for navigation are unfavorable. In this sense, the "Bermuda Triangle" is not too different from other regions of the World Ocean. The first place in the wrecks and disappearances of ships is occupied by the Asian seas.

According to the data of the Seventh US Coast Guard District, which is in charge of rescue operations in the "triangle" area, over 150 thousand sea voyages are made here annually. If we compare the number of disasters in this area, which occupies about a quarter of the length of the US coast, with its entire length, then, paradoxically, the losses in the "Bermuda Triangle" are not only not higher than average, but sometimes even lower (for example, in 1975 out of 21 maritime disasters, the "triangle" accounted for only 4, in 1976 out of 28 - only 6). These data refer to ships whose tonnage exceeds 100 gross tons. Airliners, having become technically more advanced and more powerful, have ceased to "disappear". Private boats, yachts and airplanes are less closely watched and continue to die in choppy waters. The Gulf Stream can carry the wreckage of a wreck 100-200 miles in a day, hiding the traces of the tragedies that have been unfolding.

Changeable weather, the topography of the ocean floor, including shoals and reefs, then deep-sea depressions, frequent hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, even piracy - all these factors did not make the "triangle" so dangerous that the famous insurance monopoly "Lloyd" increased the amount of insurance for ships. passing through the "fatal place". A Lloyd spokesman said in 1975 that "our news service has found no evidence to indicate that there have been more casualties in the Bermuda Triangle than anywhere else."

The US Coast Guard considers the triangle to be fiction:

“Most of the disappearances can be attributed to the unique features of the area's environment. First, the Devil's Triangle is one of two places on Earth where the magnetic compass points to True (Geographic) North. It usually points to magnetic north. The difference between the two directions is known as magnetic declination. When traveling around the world, its value can change by as much as 20 degrees. If this magnetic declination, or error, is not taken into account, the navigator can go far off course and face great difficulties ...

Another environmental factor is the peculiarity of the Gulf Stream. This current is extremely fast, turbulent, and can quickly wipe out any trace of a disaster. The unpredictable nature of the weather in the Caribbean-Atlantic region also plays a role. Pilots and sailors are often threatened with catastrophe by tornadoes and sudden local thunderstorms. Finally, the topography of the ocean floor varies from extensive shallows around islands to sea trenches that are among the deepest in the world. As a result of interaction with strong currents washing numerous reefs, the topography of the bottom is in a state of constant movement and the formation of new navigational hazards occurs quickly.

The human error factor should not be underestimated either. A large number of pleasure boats sail in the waters between Florida's Gold Coast and the Bahamas. Too often they try to cross this water area in oversized vessels, not presenting enough danger to the area, and not possessing good navigation skills.

The Coast Guard is unimpressed by the supernatural explanations for disasters at sea. Each year, their own experience convinces them that the combination of natural forces and the unpredictability of human behavior can many times surpass even the most sophisticated science fiction. "

The journalist Peter Michelmore, who was on duty with the coast guard in the Bermuda Triangle area, cites cases when people only miraculously did not enter the statistics of “traceless disappearances”:

“The man who emerged victorious from the battle with death was Dan Smith, captain of the three-masted schooner Star of Pis. His ship was sailing on a calm sea from Nassau to Miami when a diesel engine suddenly exploded. The schooner began to sink rapidly. Scorched and wounded by shrapnel, Smith still found the strength not only to lower the life raft - there were five more passengers on board, besides him and two sailors - but also to send a distress signal on the air and take a radio beacon with him. Imagine that he is confused. Then the Star of Pies would add to the long list of mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle: “Mysteriously disappeared in good weather,” would be written after the name of this ship.

However, composure and resourcefulness in extreme situations are needed not only for sailors, but also for pilots. Take, for example, the story of David Ackley. On a beautiful sunny day, he flew from Palm Beach to the Bahamas in a light twin-engined plane. 40 miles offshore, his right engine caught fire. Attempts to bring down the flames were unsuccessful, the car almost ceased to obey the pilot, but he still did not let it fall into a tailspin, but splashed down on three points. Before the plane sank, Ackley managed to get onto an inflatable raft. There was one more problem to be solved: how to communicate about yourself. The fact is that while he was laying sharp turns, fighting the fire, the radio went out of order. “Fortunately, I had not a gas, but a gasoline lighter with me, about which my friends often made fun of antediluvia,” Ackley later said. “She has served me well. Since the synthetic overalls are made of non-combustible fabric, I made a brazier out of it, put my shirt and linen in there, prepared a lighter and waited for a ship or plane to appear nearby. After all, the flight control center in Miami should have noticed that I suddenly disappeared from the radar screen. " The pilot's calculation was justified: a helicopter was indeed sent in search, which saw his homemade torch.

A legend doomed to live

Lawrence Couchet reviewed the 50 most frequently reported disappearances or deaths in the Bermuda Triangle and concluded that they can be divided into several categories. Among them there are fictions - someone comes up with a "mysterious catastrophe", while others pick up this "duck" without checking the source of information. There are serious mistakes - the name of the vessel, the year, and the place of the disaster do not match. In some cases, the ship or plane did not disappear at all, continuing to sail or fly for many years!

Most often, however, those who write about the "Bermuda Triangle" mention cases that have taken place, but the information about them is seriously distorted - important details are missing that completely change the situation (for example, that the wreckage of a ship was found, a storm was raging, etc.). As a result of a soberly conducted analysis, they pass from “mysterious” to the category of ordinary ones, the veil of mystery disappears.

Reading about riddles and secrets is not as boring as scientific literature, so books on the "triangle" will not soon disappear from the shelves. Charles Berlitz's "Bermuda Triangle" did not leave the bestseller list for seven months and was sold, according to the most conservative estimates, with a circulation of 5 million copies (they also named a fourfold figure). Instead of boring attempts to provide natural explanations for disasters, Berlitz unleashed intriguing guesses and assumptions at his readers:

“If planes, ships and people are abducted from the Bermuda Triangle or another part of the world by UFOs or other means, then the most important task of any investigation should be to find a possible cause or causes. A number of researchers are of the opinion that intelligent beings, scientifically ahead of the comparatively primitive peoples of the Earth ... have been busy monitoring our progress for many centuries in order to intervene if necessary, preventing us from destroying our planet. This, of course, presupposes altruistic impulses in certain beings from near or far space, a trait that does not always prevail among researchers or discoverers.

On the other hand, in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle and in a number of other nodal points, one can assume electromagnetic gravitational currents, a door or window to another space or dimension, through which aliens sufficiently advanced in scientific terms can enter the Earth at will, but if with these windows there are people, they turn out to be a one-way road. Return for them will be impossible either because of the level of their scientific development, or because they will be hindered by extraterrestrial forces. Many disappearances, especially of entire ship crews, testify to forays from space in order to replenish the zoos of the Universe, to acquire exhibits for exhibitions showing different eras of the development of planetary civilizations, or for experiments. "

Stories like this are cited as proof:

“Several years ago, a National Airlines passenger plane carrying 127 passengers was approaching the Miami, Florida airfield from the northeast and monitored by ground-based radar. Suddenly the plane disappeared from the screen and appeared only ten minutes later. The landing took place without any incident. The crew was surprised by the concern of the airfield service. When the pilots checked the time, it turned out that all the clocks on the plane were 10 minutes behind the airfield clocks. And 20 minutes earlier, when checking the clocks on the plane and at the control room, there were no discrepancies. The chief controller said to the pilot: "My God, buddy, you just didn't exist for ten minutes!"

Neither Berlitz himself nor other authors give the date, time and flight number. In the documents of the United States Civil Aviation Administration, the documents of the Miami airport and the airline itself, such an incident was not registered. Employees of the company argued that "if the incident really took place, everyone would surely know about it." But not everything in the books about the "triangle" is invented.

Methane hell underfoot

“The pilots of the Boeing 707, flying from San Juan to New York on April 11, 1963, observed a billowing mound of water that resembled a giant cauliflower,” writes Berlitz. - It was clearly observed at 13.30 from an altitude of 9.5 km - first by the co-pilot, then by the commander and flight mechanic. Observation coordinates - 19 ° 54 ′ s. NS. and 66 ° 47 ′ W. in the vicinity of the 5.5 miles deep Puerto Rican Trench. They calculated that the rising mass of water was 0.5-1 miles in diameter and more than 900 m high. Since the commander did not want to disrupt the schedule, endangering the plane and passengers, he simply looked at the unusual phenomenon and continued the flight on the same course. The co-pilot, however, then contacted the Coast Guard, the Seismic Service Center and, oddly enough, the FBI, but did not receive any confirmation from them that something unusual was happening in that place at the specified time. "

The same phenomenon was observed a few weeks later by pilot Raymond Shattenkirk of Pan Am:

“I was the co-pilot of an airplane flying on March 2, 1963, Flight 211 from New York (departure at 14.34 GMT) to San Juan, where we landed at 18.22. During the flight at exactly 17.45, when we were at the point with coordinates 20 ° 45 ′ s. NS. and 67 ° 15 ′ W. at an altitude of 7.5 km, heading in an azimuth of 175 °, I saw on the surface of the ocean ahead at a course of about 45 ° on the starboard side of the formation of a giant white bubble. The bubble had the shape and symmetry of the white part of the cauliflower. Mentally comparing it with the dimensions of ground structures, as they are visible from a height of 6-9 km, I can say that Idleville Airport would easily fit in it.

The crew - Commander John Knepper, myself, Ralph Stokes and the flight engineer watched this frightening phenomenon for at least three minutes, until the bubble fell off, turning into a huge circle of deep blue water without a trace of smoke, steam or debris. It seemed that he came out of nowhere and returned to nothing. "

Berlitz did not know that the bubbling "bubbles" would have a natural explanation in 1984. Canadian chemist Donald Davidson drew attention to the deposits of gas hydrates under the "Bermuda Triangle". They look like ordinary snow - whitish crystals that quickly decay from heat. These solid compounds of gases with water are very stable, as if cementing the bottom with a rigid "shell" up to 300 meters thick.

Further, two options are possible. First, huge volumes of natural gases - mainly methane and carbon dioxide - can accumulate under the gas hydrate "armor". The "armor" from time to time cracks, and gases instantly burst outward in the form of a giant "bubble". A vessel caught in the gas emission zone is doomed. Methane gas is flammable, and if its concentration in the emission is high, it can ignite and turn into a giant torch (such torches, up to 500 meters high, were observed in 1985-1987 by L.P. Sea of ​​Okhotsk).

The pilots of the two planes who saw the "bubbles" did the right thing: if they flew closer, they would risk "sucking in" the methane with turbines with unpredictable consequences, up to a stop of the engine or an explosion in the air.

Secondly, if some process upsets the equilibrium of the gas hydrate layer and its debris begins to float, the higher temperature of the surface layers will cause them to melt quickly. One volume of gas hydrates gives 100-160 volumes of gas, and by the time the gases exit to the surface, the water will turn into a gas-water mixture that is not able to hold the vessel on itself. The ship sinks into the water, risking never to rise.

“I have met people,” said marine geologist Alan Judd of the University of Sunderland, “who have been involved in such disasters. They survived only because, in their case, the methane release was not powerful enough to sink, but the ship for a short time lost some of its buoyancy and plunged abruptly into the water by 1-2 meters. "

Charles Berlitz also met with people who got into gas emissions, but preferred to consider them something supernatural. His books mention the case of Joe Tully, captain of the fishing boat Wild Goose. In 1944 the ship was in tow after another ship - "Caicos Trader". Tully was sleeping in the cabin, when suddenly water rushed into her. He automatically grabbed a life jacket and floated out the hatch. At that moment the ship was already at a depth of 15-25 meters, but Tully managed to rise to the air. Caicos Trader stayed afloat. The sailors later said that his ship literally sank into the water: they had to chop off the towing cable, fearing that they would also be dragged into the abyss. The release was small, otherwise both ships would have gone to the bottom and the depth of diving turned out to be fatal.

"Triangle" - UFO base?

The team of the American missile destroyer Josephus Daniels observed something strange on October 20, 1969. Radar specialist Robert Reilly, Sergeant Major Third Class, told Berlitz:

“We were returning from a mission at Guantanamo and were sailing north of Cuba. Most of the sailors were not aware of the ship's whereabouts, but I was navigating and knew that we were in the Triangle. I don't remember the exact date, but I remember the time - 23.45. I was inside - we had two lookouts, one on each side of the bridge, 9 meters from the information and combat center. Someone said that the watchman on the starboard side saw something ...

It's hard to describe. It looks like the moon rising above the horizon, but a thousand times larger - like a sunrise that does not shine. It was a light that did not emit light. It rose above the horizon at about 11-15 miles to starboard and partly in front of us, and continued to increase for 15 minutes. It all looked like a flash from a nuclear explosion, but it increased, remained in place - if it were a nuclear explosion, we would have seen it on radar with a range of over 300 miles.

The captain was notified. The watch officer on the bridge ordered the ship to be turned around. Maybe he thought it was a nuclear explosion, and the standard maneuver in this case is "turn stern to the flash." It was seen by 70-100 people - most of them were lying in bunks. I would have slept too if I hadn't been on duty ...

We arrived in Norfolk the next day. Everyone was just talking about it. Our captain gathered a team and said not to talk about what he saw. "

You must have thought that the sailors from the destroyer saw the burning gas emerge from the depths of the ocean. And they were wrong. The expanding "ball" is an effect that accompanies the launch of ballistic missiles from American submarines. If the captain knew about this, the request to remain silent was fully justified.

Thor Heyerdahl saw the same thing while sailing on the Ra-II in 1970:

“We had a great fear that night. On June 30 at 0.30, Norman lifted me up to watch, I sat in a sleeping bag and began to pull on my socks, as it was damp and cold on the bridge. Suddenly, Norman's voice was heard again, and now there was terror in it:

- Come here, hurry! Look!

I ducked through the door, followed at the heels of Santiago, climbed onto the bridge, and through the roof of the cabin we stared in the direction Norman was pointing.

Purely the end of the world. A pale disc rose above the horizon on the port side, in the northwest, like a ghostly aluminum moon. Without looking up from the water, it slowly increased in size. The regularly expanding semicircle resembled either a very dense nebula, brighter than the Milky Way, or a mushroom cap, which inevitably stepped on us, capturing the sky more and more broadly. The moon was shining in the opposite direction, it was cloudless, the stars were sparkling. At first I thought it was a spot of light against the humid night air from some powerful searchlight over the horizon. Or maybe it is an atomic mushroom, the fruit of a monstrous oversight of people? Or the northern lights? In the end, I was inclined to believe that this is a luminous rain of cosmic bodies invading the earth's atmosphere. Here the disk, which had already occupied about thirty degrees of the black sky, suddenly stopped growing, somehow imperceptibly melted and disappeared. So we did not understand what it was ... In the morning we learned from a Barbados radio amateur that the same phenomenon, but in the northeast, was observed from many islands of the West Indies. "

On board the "Ra-II" was a Soviet doctor - Yuri Senkevich, later the host of the "Film Travel Club" program. In 1997, he said that that night, too, he saw an "expanding disc" over the ocean. According to the magazine "Marine Observer", this grand spectacle - the launch of a Poseidon-class rocket - was observed from six ships in the Atlantic.

Of course, in the "Bermuda Triangle" there are various anomalies and even UFOs, but the frequency of their appearance is no higher than in other regions of the Atlantic. All known cases do not give reason to believe that the "triangle" is the base of UFOs or their hunting grounds.

Mikhail Gershtein

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The Bermuda Triangle or Atlantis is a place where people disappear, ships and planes disappear, navigation instruments fail, and almost no one ever finds the wrecked. This hostile, mystical, ominous country for a person instills such great horror in the hearts of people that they often simply refuse to talk about it.

Many pilots and sailors have no other alternative than to constantly surf the water / air spaces of this mysterious territory - a considerable flow of tourists and vacationers rushes to the area surrounded on three sides by fashionable resorts. Therefore, isolating the Bermuda Triangle from the world around it simply cannot and will not work. And, although most of the ships will pass this zone without any problems, no one is safe from the fact that one day they may not return.

Few people knew about the existence of such a mysterious and amazing phenomenon called the Bermuda Triangle a hundred years ago. Actively occupy people's minds and force them to put forward various hypotheses and theories, this mystery of the Bermuda Triangle began in the 70s. last century, when Charles Berlitz published a book in which he described the stories of the most mysterious and mystical disappearances in the region in an extremely interesting and fascinating way. After that, the journalists picked up the plot, developed the topic, and the history of the Bermuda Triangle began. Everyone began to worry about the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and the place where the Bermuda Triangle or the missing Atlantis is located.

This wonderful place or the lost Atlantis is located in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of North America - between Puerto Rico, Miami and Bermuda. It is located in two climatic zones at once: the upper part, the large one - in the subtropics, the lower one - in the tropics. If these points are connected with each other by three lines, a large triangular figure will appear on the map, the total area of ​​which is about 4 million square kilometers.

This triangle is rather arbitrary, since ships also disappear outside its borders - and if you mark on the map all the coordinates of disappearances, flying and floating vehicles, you will most likely get a rhombus.

The term itself is unofficial, its author is considered Vincent Gaddis, who in the 60s. last century published an article entitled "The Bermuda Triangle, the lair of the devil (death)." The note did not cause much excitement, but the phrase was fixed and reliably entered into use.

Terrain features and possible causes of crashes

For knowledgeable people, the fact that ships here often crash does not cause much surprise: this region is not easy for navigation - there are many shoals, a huge number of fast water and air currents, cyclones often arise and hurricanes rage.

Bottom

What does the Bermuda Triangle conceal under water? The bottom relief in this area is interesting and diverse, although it is nothing ordinary and has been studied quite well, since some time ago various studies and drilling were carried out here in order to find oil and other minerals.

Scientists have determined that the Bermuda Triangle or the lost Atlantis contains mainly sedimentary rocks on the ocean floor, the layer thickness of which is from 1 to 2 km, and it itself looks like this:

1. Deep-water plains of oceanic basins - 35%;
2. Shelf with shallows - 25%;
3. Slope and foot of the mainland - 18%;
4. Plateau - 15%;
5. Deep ocean trenches - 5% (the deepest places of the Atlantic Ocean are located here, as well as its maximum depth - 8742 m, recorded in the Puerto Rican trough);
6. Deep straits - 2%;
7. Seamounts - 0.3% (there are six of them in total).

Water currents. Gulf Stream

Almost the entire western part of the Bermuda Triangle is crossed by the Gulf Stream, so the air temperature here is usually 10 ° C higher than in the rest of the territory of this mysterious anomaly. Because of this, fog can often be seen in places of collisions of atmospheric fronts of different temperatures, often striking the minds of overly impressionable travelers.

The Gulf Stream itself is a very fast current, the speed of which often reaches ten kilometers per hour (it should be noted that many modern transoceanic ships move slightly faster - from 13 to 30 km / h). An extremely fast flow of water can easily slow down or increase the movement of the vessel (it all depends on which direction it is sailing in). There is nothing surprising in the fact that ships of weaker power in the old days easily lost their course and were skidded absolutely in the wrong place, as a result of which they suffered wrecks and disappeared forever in the ocean abyss.

Other currents

In addition to the Gulf Stream, strong but irregular currents constantly appear in the Bermuda Triangle, the appearance or direction of which is almost never possible to predict. They are formed mainly under the influence of tidal waves in shallow water and their speed is as high as that of the Gulf Stream - and is about 10 km / h.

As a result of their occurrence, whirlpools are often formed, which cause trouble for small ships with a weak engine. There is nothing surprising in the fact that if in the old days a sailing ship got here, it was not easy for him to get out of the whirlwind, and under especially unfavorable circumstances, one might even say - impossible.

Water shafts

In the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle, hurricanes are often formed, the wind speed of which is about 120 m / s, which also generate fast currents, the speed of which is equal to the speed of the Gulf Stream. They, creating huge shafts, rush along the surface of the Atlantic Ocean until they hit the coral reefs at great speed, breaking the ship if it had the misfortune of being in the path of giant waves.

In the east of the Bermuda Triangle, the Sargasso Sea is located - a sea without coasts, surrounded on all sides instead of land by strong currents of the Atlantic Ocean - the Gulf Stream, North Atlantic, North Tradewinds and Canary Islands.

Outwardly, it seems that its waters are motionless, the currents are weak and inconspicuous, while the water is constantly moving here, since water flows, pouring into it from all sides, rotate the sea water clockwise.

Another noteworthy feature of the Sargasso Sea is the huge amount of algae in it (contrary to popular belief, there are also areas with completely clean water here). When in the old days ships were brought here for some reason, they got entangled in dense sea plants and, getting into a whirlpool, albeit slow, were no longer able to get back.

Air movement

As the area lies in the area of ​​the trade winds, extremely strong winds constantly blow over the Bermuda Triangle. Stormy days are not uncommon here (according to data from various meteorological services, there are about eighty stormy days here a year - that is, once every four days, the weather here is terrible and disgusting.

Here is another explanation of why missing ships and planes were found earlier. It is now almost all the captains are informed by meteorologists exactly when the weather will be. Earlier, due to lack of information, during terrible storms in this area, many sea vessels found their last resting place.

In addition to the trade winds, cyclones feel comfortable here, the air masses of which, creating vortices and tornadoes, rush at a speed of 30-50 km / h. They are extremely dangerous, because, raising up warm water, they turn it into huge water columns (often their height reaches 30 meters), with an unpredictable trajectory and crazy speed. In such a situation, a small ship has practically no chance of surviving, a large one will most likely keep afloat, but it is unlikely to come out of the trouble intact and intact.

Subsonic signals

Another reason for the huge number of accidents, experts say, is the ability of the ocean to produce infrasonic signals that cause panic among the crew, because of which people can even jump overboard. The sound of this frequency affects not only waterfowl, but also aircraft.

Researchers in this process assign an important role to hurricanes, storm winds and high waves. When the wind begins to beat against the crests of waves, a low-frequency wave arises, which almost immediately rushes forward and signals the approach of a strong storm. While moving, she catches up with a sailing ship, beats against the sides of the ship, then goes down to the cabins.

Once in a confined space, the infrasonic wave begins to psychologically press on the people there, causing panic and nightmares, and seeing their worst nightmares, people lose control and jump overboard in despair. The ship completely abandons life, it remains without control and begins to drift until it is found (which can take more than a decade).

Infrasonic waves affect aircraft in a slightly different way. An airplane flying over the Bermuda Triangle is hit by an infrasonic wave, which, as in the previous case, begins to psychologically press on the pilots, as a result of which they cease to think about what they are doing, especially since at this moment phantoms begin to appear in front of them. Then either the pilot will crash, or he will be able to take the ship out of the danger zone for him, or the autopilot will save him.

Gas bubbles: methane

Researchers are constantly pushing Interesting Facts about the Bermuda Triangle. For example, there are suggestions that in the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle, bubbles are often formed filled with gas - methane, which appears from cracks in the ocean floor that were formed after the eruptions of ancient volcanoes (oceanographers discovered huge accumulations of methane crystalline hydrate above them).

After some time, for one reason or another, certain processes begin to occur in methane (for example, their appearance can cause a weak earthquake) - and it forms a bubble, which, rising upward, bursts at the surface of the water. When this happens, the gas escapes into the air, and a funnel forms in the place of the former bubble.

Sometimes the ship passes over the bubble without any problems, sometimes breaks through it and crashes. In reality, no one has ever seen the impact of methane bubbles on ships; some researchers argue that a huge number of ships go missing for this very reason.

When the ship hits the crest of one of the waves, the ship begins to descend - and then the water under the ship suddenly bursts, disappears - and it falls into empty space, after which the waters close - and water rushes into it. There was no one to save the ship at this time - when the water disappeared, concentrated methane gas burst out into the wild, instantly killing the entire crew, and the ship sinks, and forever finds itself on the ocean floor.

The authors of this hypothesis are convinced that this theory also explains the reasons for the presence in this area of ​​ships with dead sailors, on whose bodies no damage was found. Most likely, the ship, when the bubble burst, was far enough away to be threatened, but the gas reached the people.

For airplanes, methane can be detrimental to them as well. Basically, this happens when the methane that has risen into the air enters the fuel, explodes, and the plane falls down, after which, falling into a whirlpool, it disappears forever in the ocean abyss.

Magnetic anomalies

In the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle, magnetic anomalies also often occur, confusing all navigation equipment of ships. They are unstable, and appear mainly when tectonic plates diverge as much as possible.

As a result, unstable electric fields and magnetic disturbances arise, which negatively affect the psychological state of a person, change the readings of devices and neutralize radio communications.

Hypotheses of the disappearance of ships

The mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle do not cease to interest the human mind. Why it is here that ships wreck and disappear, journalists and lovers of all the unknown put forward many more theories and assumptions.

Some believe that interruptions in navigation devices are caused by Atlantis, namely its crystals, which were previously located in the Bermuda Triangle. Despite the fact that only miserable crumbs of information have come down to us from the ancient civilization, these crystals are still active and send signals from the depths of the ocean floor that cause interruptions in navigation devices.

Another interesting theory is the hypothesis that the Bermuda Triangle or Atlantis contains portals leading to other dimensions (both in space and in time). Some are even sure that it was through them that aliens penetrated the Earth in order to abduct people and ships.

Military action or piracy - many believe (even if it has not been proven) that the loss of modern ships is directly related to these two reasons, especially since such cases have happened more than once before. Human error - ordinary disorientation in space and misinterpretation of instrument readings may also be the cause of the ship's death.

Is there a secret?

Are all the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle revealed? Despite the excitement raised around the Bermuda Triangle, scientists argue that in reality this area is no different, and a large number of accidents are mainly associated with difficult natural conditions for navigation (especially since the World Ocean contains many other, more dangerous for humans places). And the fear that the Bermuda Triangle or the missing Atlantis evokes are ordinary prejudices that are constantly fueled by journalists and other sensationalists.

The book "The Bermuda Triangle" by Charles Berlitz has already been 40 years old. As the name implies, the publication released in 1974 is dedicated to the Bermuda anomaly, captured part of the Atlantic Ocean... It was this work that brought the town wide fame for the mysterious zone that devours any transport ship passing in the area.

But despite the elapsed time, interest in the anomaly has not subsided at all, researchers regularly and persistently try to crack the tough nut of the anomaly.

The legendary "Devil's Triangle" is another name for the mysterious anomaly, with the tops of the corners propping up Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale.

According to the established legend, the anomaly "lodged" near Bermuda possesses satanic power, and caused a dozen dozen disasters, destroying both air and sea vehicles.

And despite hundreds of expeditionary attempts to find at least something from the dead ships or people, the researchers each time left here dejectedly empty-handed.

Charles Berlitz, revealing the secret of the "Bermuda Triangle" to the public, linked disasters and disappearances of ships and aircraft with alien beings.
Allegedly, it is they who open portals to other dimensions here, and kidnap ships and people. UFOs fly here, whose base is hidden under water in the center of the anomaly.

The book was a huge success, and even generated some hysteria around the "Bermuda anomaly", because, among other things, there was a version with a pyramid from the era of the mythical Atlantis.
Against the general background of the "UFO Hunt" developing in those days, the proposals, as well as the stories given in the book, came in very handy and were a great success.

Bermuda Triangle, prehistory.

According to the legend, which overgrown Bermuda literally over a dozen years, ships, people and planes, crossing the territory of the mysterious triangle, disappeared without a trace inside the anomalous zone.
There was no way to find out who would be the next victim of the terrible place. Soon, the initially unnamed place gets its own name - "Devil's triangle".

Most likely, this name comes from popular superstitions, allegedly once in this place the Devil flirted with sea travelers, who played so much with the waves that he lost the travelers in the abyss. Since then, in this place periodically - this is the cause of disasters.

Perhaps, in this place of the Atlantic Ocean, the Devil really laid something terrible in ancient times, which became the cause of the tragedies taking place here. However, another version sounds more reliable, it relies on aliens who left in the center of the triangle some extremely complex device associated with the transfer of matter to another place in the Universe.

In another case, aliens use this place as. Of course, eyewitnesses to their appearance are captured, and their further fate is unknown. Another suspect in the disasters was a certain "mystical whirlwind" that sucks ships and planes to the seabed and throws them into another dimension.

The myth of the mysterious triangle was first voiced in the Associated Press on September 16, 1950, when the American reporter E. Jones wrote a small brochure about the "mysterious disappearances" of planes and ships, between the coasts of Florida and Bermuda.

Two years after the article and the seven-page brochure, George H. Sand published a series of strange maritime accidents.
In its history, ships, both sea and air, having fallen into the zone of the water triangle formed by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, disappear without a trace for no apparent reason, and do not have time to report anything on the radio.

I would like to note that versions of the disappearances and presence of alien intelligence in this part of the ocean appeared several years before Jessup's book "The Case for UFOs" ... or Frank Edwards's book in volume 55 about "flying saucers and conspiracies." As the name implies, although the authors were not adherents of the idea of ​​an alien presence, they willingly supported the theory with immigrants from other planets who settled in Bermuda.

Just after these events, Vincent H. Gladdis (a fan of spiritualism) and "gives" the name everywhere - "Bermuda Triangle", which immediately takes root in society.

Vincent Gladdis wrote an article for Argosy in February 1964 and later used the title in Invisible Horizons, referring to the anomaly as The Deadly Bermuda Triangle. Since then, it has become a tradition to believe that it was Gladdis who gave the name to the now world-famous myth of the Bermuda Triangle.

Over the years, the myth has been described and shown, and television series and films have been made on its basis. The Bermuda Triangle is firmly embedded in our culture, and has always been portrayed as a very real and mysterious place where people and vehicles disappear without a trace.

This is terrible, the legend scares, but: "whether it be a ship, whether it be an airplane full of many travelers, be afraid to travel around this part of the ocean, the yellow fog devours everything and everyone, there is no salvation for anyone here" ... Fearfully? Then let me tell you that the eerie mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is not as terrifying as a myth that has been blown up by years of wrong facts and stories to the Pleiades themselves.

If you look at the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle and look for facts, then the terrible tragedy of Bermuda is described not by hundreds of ships missing here. And not even fifty, but only ten, and even then, this is if we "pull" to this area all the crashes that occurred nearby.

By the way, look at the photo above - here you can see that the anomalous zone does not "lie exactly on the equator" as it is often said, pointing to the mystical side of the phenomenon. The central figure that represents the "Bermuda Triangle" is the departure of the naval aviation flight number 19.

The missing link of the Avengers, Departure number 19.

In all cases, the story began on December 5, 1945, when five single-engine Avenger torpedo bombers left Fort Lauderdale. Charles Berlitz's book says that the Avengers were flown by 14 experienced pilots.
The commanders of the planes worked out the flight task of training bombing, they had to make two turns as part of the navigation exercise - in a mystical way, this happens just over the tops of the Bermuda triangle.

Then something terrible happens, the connection periodically disappears, the planes moving for a couple of hours without changing their course, nevertheless, circle inside the anomaly. Then the link disappears completely without a trace. Adding creepiness to the situation is the rescue mission of the twin-engine flying boat Martin 162 (Martin Mariner), who went to the rescue of colleagues - there were no traces of him either.

Berlitz was opposed by Larry Kusche (Larry Kush), pointing out the hoax of facts. Surprisingly, Kushe's edition "The Bermuda Triangle Revealed" is published in the 75th, following the Berlitz edition.

This is an actual fact that happened, but he read the investigative reports, and declares - this is an incredible case for the entire world aviation, but the cause of the disaster is the human factor, but not the cruel intrigues of aliens, or Atlanteans.

After reviewing the reports of the investigation team, Larry Kusche points out that the torpedo bombers were controlled by 14 people, 13 of whom began retraining for flights on this machine under the command of Lieutenant Charles Taylor. At the same time, the flight commander was recently transferred from the Florida Keys, and has not previously flown in the area.

It turns out that the commander of the group did not know the terrain, and the other pilots and navigators who arrived for training were inexperienced. - Many people talk about this when they tell the Bermuda mythology half a century ago. Although at least four navigators were experienced, as evidenced by the same military reports.

Meanwhile, the weather situation in the area is considered very difficult - frequent tsunamis, storms, and the compass is naughty. There is no anomaly here, skeptics assure, there are many places on Earth where you cannot rely on a compass needle, or you need to gain great altitude.

In the case of the American Avengers (torpedo bombers), they might not have had a chance to climb higher, as they were "pushed" to the water by a thundercloud. The pilots circling in the area surrounded by lightning eventually burned all the fuel, leaving the landing on the water, where the storm wave was raging.

However, the version of Larry Kusche also "limps", Lieutenant Taylor flew 2500 hours on this type of aircraft, which characterizes him as an experienced and skillful specialist in naval aviation. The mention of a transfer from another place is somewhat weak for arguments, since it came from a neighboring sea area.

And the water stretching around leaves little chance to consider visual reference points for navigation, even if the flights take place in the usual place. The commanders of other vehicles can be called trainees with a stretch - the total flight time is about 350 hours, Captain Powers even arrived from the main headquarters of the Marine Corps.

And you know, I, for example, would note in this case one strangeness, as if having a presentiment, knowing what awaits him that day, one of the radio gunners did not appear for the flight and survived.
The further development of events of that time is difficult to imagine reliably, since even on the official pages of the US Navy and Navy, conflicting data appeared (now they are not at all).
Although, in theory, such structures should have complete information. But a rough picture is drawn as follows:

The fact that the flight had been lost in space and was experiencing a navigational problem was learned at 15:50 - 16:00, when senior instructor Lieutenant Robert Fox, intending to land in Fort Lauderdale with his ward, heard a radio broadcast where someone without a call sign openly requests Powers.
Minutes later, the radio brings a voice, “I don’t know where we are. I think we got lost in the last reversal. "

A little later, Lieutenant Fox manages to talk with Charles Taylor, and find out about the breakdown of the onboard compasses (the TBM-3 was a fairly technologically advanced machine of that time, in addition to the pilot and navigator compasses, there was also a gyrocompass and a radio compass).

Many ignore the fact that there were still four aircraft left, from which the flight commander could determine the location and choose a course for the base.
Nevertheless, everything looks as if the pilots and navigators of the whole group were left without means of navigation, or were subjected to some kind of mystical influence.

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?

Now let's look at the tragedy of the Bermuda Triangle in a slightly different way, but we will not consider here the well-known negotiations between Taylor and Fox.
There is also nothing mystical about the death of a flying boat, its explosion was recorded and explained by technical reasons.
Although, of course, it should be noted that there were no reports from the Mariner about a problem with the plane, only words that they were arriving in the area of ​​the last bearing of the missing link.

According to the captain of the tanker Gaines Mills passing in those places, to the headquarters of the coast guard, at 19:50 pm an air explosion and a pillar of fire up to 35 meters high were recorded. According to Captain S. Stanley, in deep confusion, the crew watched a vertical column of fire hanging in the air, which lasted a good ten minutes.

True, later the captain told a more understandable picture of the event, allegedly the crew saw how the plane caught fire, fell into the water, exploded, left oil stains, a mass of debris…. The planes arriving in the search area did not find signs of a seaplane crash.

In the literal sense, the entire coast was combed, the water surface was carefully examined. You will not believe it, but even the floats from the missing seaplane were not found, nothing at all that could tell the cause of the tragedy that happened in these places.

On December 10, 1945, the search work was curtailed, the crews of the missing aircraft were declared missing. On April 3, 1946, the American Naval Directorate identified Lieutenant Taylor as the culprit for the death of flight number 19, they say the flight commander got confused, then panicked, confused ... to be honest, these are strange conclusions, to suspect that the combat pilot was confused and panicked.

Taylor's mother and aunt rejected such a statement by the military, forcing the Navy to reconsider the decision. Dissatisfied women are hiring a lawyer and demanding more thorough trials and re-examination of the case. Strange, but on November 19, the verdict was adjusted, and the tragedy takes on different conclusions about the causes of what happened - "for unknown reasons."

Often the radio communications coming from Taylor are mystifying, allegedly someone heard him say through the interference: "everything is not so here ... this is strange ... the ocean does not look as it should" .... “We can't get out”… “this damn yellow fog”… “I don't know, they look like…”.

In fact, there is no documentary confirmation of these words, it is not possible to find a person with a specific surname, who would have said it initially.
Probably, this comes from adherents of false sensations and unnecessary evidence, an attempt to explain everything with the help of aliens, and at the same time "fasten" alien spaceships hovering over the Bermuda Triangle to this.

And yet there are enough oddities in this catastrophe. At 5:15 pm, Taylor informs Port Everglades: “I hear you very badly. We are following the course of 270 degrees "... we will keep the course until we reach the shore, or land on the water when the fuel burns out (Taylor has experience of two such landings).

Robert F. Fox, speaking with Lieutenant Taylor, comes to the conclusion that he is in the sky over the Florida Keys, since when asked where they are, Taylor answers - over the Keys (I am sure I’m in the Keys).
Robert Fox, orienting a colleague, advises that the planes turn their port side towards the Sun, and follow this course.

However oddity, Taylor hears, speaks, and does not react in any way to the words. Meanwhile, communication continues to deteriorate, at about 7 pm the communication, which was hanging on parole, ceases altogether, Lieutenant Taylor's group has clearly moved a considerable distance.
At 19:05 pm, the last thing the Miami coast heard from the planes was how one of the pilots called Taylor in touch.

However, the bearing of their location indicated the center of the Bermuda anomaly, and accordingly, based on this, the search was carried out in the triangle.
How can this be, what a mystic, maybe the truth is this place hides some secret beyond our understanding?

What's happening in the Bermuda anomaly.

According to the Coast Guard, the designated place is famous for frequent storms, and they love to rush in the skies.
At the same time, researchers who do not believe in devilish tricks or games with parallel worlds could not find confirmation of the five hundred disappearances of aircraft and sky ships that allegedly disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda anomaly.
There weren't even a dozen confirmed cases of ships missing here.

It turns out that most of the ships that crashed and cited as evidence of the anomaly happened quite far from the "Devil's Death Triangle", the ships could not experience it on themselves.
Some authors of theories assure us that all ships disappear in this place completely without a trace, nothing can be found!

But what can you find? The Avengers are a heavy iron machine that, having fallen into the sea, exploding / not exploding from hitting the water, will inevitably go to the bottom.
Likewise, for a long time, rescuers cannot find traces of modern aircraft disappearing over any part of the sea.
According to experts, there is no reason to blame the Bermuda Triangle for requiring more ship casualties than any other part of the planet.

If you look at the outlined triangle with a normal eye, then it becomes obvious that catastrophes in this place of the ocean occur no more often than in any other place in the Atlantic.
The fact is that disasters happen, for one reason or another, in absolutely any place on the planet. Airplanes crash, ships sink, but we are not looking in every case for a "magic crystal" or some kind of "transguangulator" - a high-tech device installed / lost by ancient aliens.

Australian scientists from the Monash Institute in Melbourne Joseph Monaghan and David May. Based on data from their research work, the Australians concluded that natural gas, methane, was the culprit in aircraft and ship crashes.

Is the "Triangle" gasping?

Scientists have explored some areas of the seabed in this region. As a result, they discovered that a large number of methane hydrants had accumulated at the site of ancient faults in the places of ancient volcanic eruptions. According to their theory, gas, being released from natural cracks, turns into huge bubbles, which then rise from the bottom of the ocean and become the culprits of catastrophes, bursting at the surface of the water. The evidence for this is set out in research work published in the American journal Physics.

To test their theory, scientists first decided to recreate the situation using a computer. The model showed that any ship, being in a methane bubble, loses its buoyancy and therefore sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Giant bubbles can even shoot down a plane in the sky, disabling engines or provoking an explosion.

In fact, there is more self-promotion than anything new in the so-called Australian discovery. The fact is that the so-called "methane theory" is already several decades old, and the very fact of the theoretical possibility of the death of ships as a result of gas emissions from the seabed was proved by colleagues of the Australians.

It is also known that the circumstances of the disappearance of many ships and ships, around which the legend of the Bermuda Triangle was created, do not in any way fall under the "gas version".

A sea of ​​versions

For example, the famous disappearance of five American Avenger torpedo aircraft on December 5, 1945, which became canonical for the Bermudophiles, did not happen suddenly. The planes wandered over the ocean for several hours until they ran out of fuel. So there is no way to pull up the gas release to explain the incident.

except "Methane theory", as an explanation of the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, they cite a version of "Killer waves", wandering in the ocean single giant waves up to 30 meters high. The nature of this phenomenon is indeed completely unclear, but it is known that such waves are by no means "registered" in the Bermuda region, and can occur anywhere in the World Ocean.

Another theory that explains the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is infrasound... Supporters of this version believe that under certain conditions, infrasound can be generated at sea, which affects the crew members, causing panic, as a result of which they leave the ship.

This explains the discovery of perfectly serviceable ships in the ocean, on which not a single crew member was found. However, as in the case of "killer waves", infrasound is not in the habit of forming exclusively in the Bermuda Triangle.

The myth and its exposure

The story of a mystical geometric figure bounded by lines from Florida to Bermuda, then to Puerto Rico and back to Florida through the Bahamas, first arose in 1950 thanks to Associated Press correspondent Jones... He called this part of the ocean "the devil's sea", having collected for the first time in a small brochure facts related to the disappearances and disasters of ships and ships.

In 1964, in one of the American journals devoted to spiritualism, Vincent Gladdis published an article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle", which was the start of the "triangle fever".

But worldwide popularity Bermuda Triangle received in 1974 when Charles Berlitz published the book "The Bermuda Triangle", which collected descriptions of various mysterious disappearances in the area. The book became a bestseller, and the triangle became almost a sacred place for lovers of mysticism.

However, back in 1975 researcher Lawrence David Kouche released the book "The Bermuda Triangle: Myths and Reality." A former civil aviation pilot, Kouchet has carefully analyzed dozens of "mysterious disasters" in the Bermuda Triangle. It turned out that most of them have a completely prosaic explanation, not related to mysticism. Some of the events took place outside the so-called "triangle", and a number of incidents were not at all documented in official sources.

The remaining stories really remain mysterious, but their number is extremely small, and, most importantly, similar incidents have happened in other parts of the world.

Sister in the Pacific

From the most recent events of this kind, one can recall the disappearance of the An-2 aircraft in the Sverdlovsk region, or the crew of the dry-cargo ship "Amurskaya" that disappeared in the Far East. Had these incidents happened in the Bermuda Triangle, there is no doubt they would have added to the myth carefully guarded by enthusiasts.

The myth-makers stubbornly ignore the fact that the Bermuda Triangle is not at all a territory closed to ships and aircraft, and most of them ply in this territory completely safely. Moreover, on the same Bermuda from time immemorial there have been people who do not at all seek to escape from the "damned place", but, on the contrary, are happy to earn money on mystically minded tourists.

The Bermuda area really makes sailors keep their ears open, but not for mystical reasons. Navigation here is influenced by the powerful Gulf Stream, difficult bottom topography, as well as intricate atmospheric circulation leading to rapid and abrupt changes in weather conditions.

This is directly related to the professionalism of pilots and navigators, but not to otherworldly forces.

By the way, thanks to the lovers of everything mysterious, the Bermuda Triangle has a "brother" - the Devil's Triangle. It is located in Pacific near the Japanese island of Miyakejima, and absolutely the same properties are attributed to it as to its counterpart in the Atlantic.

The only difference is that the Bermuda Triangle had much better PR.

There are not enough orderlies for everyone

Considering that the number of lovers of mysticism in society is quite large, a mysterious zone where something disappears can be created everywhere - you just need to actively involve the media that will catch up with passions. And soon, rest assured, everyone will start talking about the paranormal triangle in Northern Butovo, where wallets and mobile phones mysteriously disappear.

Or here's another mysterious "triangle" in the Russian Ministry of Defense, where in an inexplicable way. The best mediums and psychics from the Investigative Committee are now struggling to solve this mystery.

In 1977, in the wake of interest in the theme of the Bermuda Triangle, the famous Soviet bard Vladimir Vysotsky wrote the song "Letter to the editor of the TV show" Obvious-Incredible "from Kanatchikovaya dacha". In the song, the patients of the psychiatric hospital, inspired by the plot of the mysterious "triangle", began to solve its riddle. In the end, "orderlies rushed in and fixed us."

Vysotsky's funny song, in fact, should have brought the line under the talk about the "mystic of the Bermuda Triangle." But, as we can see, she did not disappoint. Apparently, for all fans of such sensations, there is simply not enough either Kanatchikovye dachas or orderlies.

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