March 6, 1918 in the area of the Bermuda Triangle disappeared a multi-ton ship "Cyclops". On board were 390 people and a large batch of ore. Even the President of the United States joined the search, but nothing was found ...
The birth of a myth
It is significant that the disappearance of the Cyclops ship in 1918 was not explained by the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle for more than half a century from the moment of the incident. The first article about the phenomenon appeared only in 1950. Its author was the American journalist A. Jones. He called his material in an original way - "The Devil's Sea". The publication did not produce the desired effect; they did not begin to talk about the Bermuda Triangle with aspiration and fear. So they began to speak only in 1974, when Charles Berlitz's book "The Bermuda Triangle" was published. To say that the book was received "with a bang" means to say nothing. She became a bestseller. Supported by the popular researcher David Kouchet, it even came to be accepted as a real theory, although Kouchet himself called the phenomenon of the Burmuda Triangle "A magnificent fairy tale for adults."
Information feed
The press loved the Bermuda Triangle. This is not surprising: an insoluble phenomenon, moreover, dressed in a shell of mysticism and sinister fate, was incredibly interesting to readers. It is significant that the disappearances that occurred in other regions of the Earth were attributed to the "triangle". These include the case of the Freya, which was abandoned by its crew in 1902 in the Pacific Ocean, and the tragedy of the Globemaster, which fell in 1951 near Ireland. If you mark on a globe the locations of all the disappearances attributed to the Bermuda Triangle region, it turns out that they will be located in an area that covers the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and most of the North Atlantic. Often journalists wrote their materials not on the basis of research, but simply on the basis of other people's articles, thus making assumptions and conjectures hypotheses and opinions.
Project "Magnet"
There is a whole genre in Western journalism when an article is written without any reliance on reality, the more fantastic the article in this genre, the better. Around the Bermuda Triangle, 40 years ago, many "secrets" from the press were built. One example of such falsification can be narrowed down to the mysterious "Project Magnet". It was allegedly kept secret until 1963, when a correspondent for the U. F. O. Investigator magazine "revealed" its existence. "Project", "on the secondary runway" of the San Francisco airport, "this carefully concealed research program" was "very significantly connected" with the study of UFOs undertaken by the Canadian government. The project was served by specially equipped Super Constellation aircraft and pilots in civilian clothes.
Together with the article, a photograph of the rear fuselage was published, on which "PROJECT MAGNET" was written in large letters. Strange way to keep the project "secret"!
According to this correspondent, who "managed to get involved in a conversation" with the employees of the "Project", "one of the most important results of research" was the discovery of "special magnetic forces" acting over the Caribbean Sea, where five aircraft of naval forces.
Judgments in the form of versions
Proponents of the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle have put forward several dozen different theories to explain the mysterious phenomena that, in their opinion, occur there. These theories include space aliens or Atlanteans hijacking ships, travel through holes in time or rifts in space, and other paranormal causes. There are suggestions that the cause of the death of some ships, including in bermuda triangle, there may be so-called rogue waves, which, as it is believed, can reach a height of 30 meters. It is also hypothesized that, under certain conditions, infrasound can be generated in the sea, which affects crew members, causing them to panic and leave the ship.
Triangle Victims
There are not so many proven victims of the Bermuda Triangle. That is, those who disappeared under really mysterious circumstances in this region of the ocean. Half of the cases described already years after the event betray a clear ignorance of real information about weather conditions. A common figure: it was calm weather, and suddenly the ship disappeared. Some of the missing ships did pass through the Bermuda Triangle, but there is no evidence to suggest that they disappeared there. In a number of cases, the authors of articles about the Bermuda Triangle deliberately suppressed information that could easily and simply explain this disappearance. In general, we can talk about forty "victims" of the Bermuda Triangle. This is taking into account the fact that the creators of the myth - journalists, began to "explore the problem" with late XIX century. Only forty cases in more than a century, although more than a dozen planes around the world still fall every year.
Woodrow Wilson
The Cyclops story is closely connected with US President Woodrow Wilson. Thus, which for the organization of the Financial Reserve System flaunts on the 100,000 dollar bill. Now, this man was very romantic. He showed himself beautifully precisely when the Cyclops disappeared. When a multi-ton vessel with 390 people on board and a huge cargo of manganese ore necessary for metallurgy did not arrive at the port, he said: "Only the sea and God know what happened to this ship." But he didn't say, "She drowned."
scientific explanation
Science is characterized by a strict system. What is happening in the Bermuda Triangle shows neither order nor system. Rather, it shows the system, but it is more related to information policy. Statistics also say that the area of \u200b\u200bthe designated Bermuda Triangle is no more dangerous than any other part of the ocean, where cyclones form and storms often occur. Logistics says that this is one of the busiest areas of the ocean with shipping. Navigation experience says that the Sargasso Sea is not convenient for navigation. Statistics also show that ship collisions are not uncommon. According to the Liverpool Insurers' Association, in 1964 18 ships sank as a result of collisions, and 1,735 ships received emergency damage. In 1965, these figures were 14 and 1945, respectively, and only large ships with a tonnage of more than 500 registered tons were taken into account. The same statistics show that one of the main causes of ship collisions is the congestion on sea roads.
Bermuda Triangle. There is still no exact answer to the question: "What is the Bermuda Triangle?"
Here are some interesting facts about the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle is a small area located in Atlantic Ocean- namely from Bermuda to Florida, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, in which constantly ships and planes disappear.
View from space:
1. One of the versions of the solution to the Bermuda Triangle sounds like this: about 11 thousand years ago in this part of the ocean celestial body fell, which has special electromagnetic properties, under the influence of which modern equipment and engines can fail.
2. Deep under the mysterious triangle, scientists have discovered strange bubbles, inside which is methane hydrate. As soon as such a bubble fully “ripens” and rises to the surface of the water, thereby forming a kind of hill, it becomes a real danger to ships, as ships simply slide off them.
After a while the bubble bursts, in its place a funnel is formed, which sucks the ships. During the explosion, all the gas from the bubble rises into the air, and therefore planes explode- there is a contact between a hot engine and gas.
3. According to the third theory, there are Flying saucer, which performs an important mission on Earth - it studies the people of the planet, as well as our technical achievements. Another version of this theory is Bermuda Triangle is a kind of gate to another dimension, which from time to time open and absorb aircraft and ships.
4. A more mundane explanation of this territory is connected with a completely scientific fact - here the compass does not point to magnetic north, but to geographical. As a rule, sailors try to take this feature into account, but getting lost in places where the compass shows differently is elementary, which means you can easily hit the reef and crash.
Other interesting facts about the Bermuda Triangle you can find on the Web pages of the Internet.
Bermuda Triangle- the legendary region of the Atlantic Ocean between Puerto Rico, Florida and Bermuda, in which, according to many researchers, many inexplicable phenomena occur. Indeed, drifting ships were found here quite often, both with dead crews and without them. There have also been fixed disappearances of planes and ships, failure of navigation instruments, radio transmitters, clocks, etc. English researcher Lawrence D. Kusche collected and analyzed in chronological order more than 50 cases of disappearances of ships and aircraft in the area and came to the conclusion that the legend of the "triangle" is nothing more than an artificially fabricated hoax, which I twisted the result of carelessly conducted research, and then was finalized by authors who are fond of sensationalism. The same point of view was held by the Soviet academician L.M. Brekhovskikh and many other researchers. In favor of such an "official" point of view, it can be added that in reality there are not so many catastrophes in the "terrible" place, a huge amount of air and sea traffic passes through this region of the Atlantic.
"Ordinary" mysterious disappearances were no longer enough for lovers of sensations, therefore, postscripts, omissions and simply deceit (in some cases this is completely proven) were used, as a result of which ships that drowned either for quite trivial reasons (Japanese ship " Raifuku Maru, around which legends arose, in 1924 crashed in front of another steamer precisely because of a severe storm; the three-masted schooner Star of Peace was sent to the bottom by an exploding diesel engine in the blink of an eye), or far from the Bermuda region (German the barque "Frea" in 1902 was "transferred" by the press from the Pacific Ocean due to an accidental coincidence in the names of the area; the trimaran "Tignmouth Electron" in 1989 was actually abandoned by the crew, but - not reaching 1800 miles to the "triangle"), or not even ships at all (the erroneous alarm, for example, was raised twice because of half-flooded buoys set by "Akademik Kurchatov" in 1978).
Real, recorded cases of ship disappearances are hardly more than 10-15% of what was reported in sensational newspaper publications. Nevertheless, in the investigation of these particular cases from the “gold reserve” of bermudologists, the supporters of the “official point of view also did not show a truly scientific approach, and in the 13th book of the same L. Kusche one can find a number of frauds and reticences precisely in cases with the most mysterious incidents.
A number of researchers who do not agree with this position point primarily to events that have not received an unambiguous clear explanation. Here is the sudden disappearance, and then the appearance 10 minutes later on the radar screen of an aircraft in the Miami area, and the luminous "white waters" in the Sargasso Sea, and the sudden failure of the most reliable equipment, and the ships suddenly abandoned by the crews, which are in good condition. Of course, among this part of scientists there is no unambiguous solution to all the questions posed by the "triangle". For example, Academician V.V. Shuleikin explains the fact of ships abandoned by the crews by infrasonic vibrations generated in the water; under the influence of these infrasonic waves, crew members can fall into a state of panic and leave the ship. But there are at least two dozen more hypotheses that explain the same fact: from versions with the abduction of people by aliens with UFOs to assumptions about the involvement of the mafia in this disappearance.
The most mysterious so far is the story of the disappearance of 6 aircraft, which occurred on the evening of December 5, 1945.
At 14:10, five Avenger aircraft with 14 pilots took off, reached the training target in the ocean, and at about 15:30-15:40 set back on a course to the southwest.
At 15.45 (just a few minutes after the last turn) at the command post of the air base Fort Lauderdale received the first strange message: "We have an emergency situation. Obviously, we have lost our course. We do not see the ground, I repeat, we do not see the ground."
The dispatcher made a request for their coordinates. The answer greatly puzzled all the officers present: "We can not determine our location. We do not know where we are now. We seem to be lost!" It was as if not an experienced pilot was speaking into the microphone, but a bewildered novice who had no idea about navigation over the sea! In this situation, the representatives of the airbase took the only the right decision: "Keep heading west!"
Airplanes will not slip past the long coast of Florida. But... "We don't know where the west is. It doesn't work... It's strange... We can't determine the direction. Even the ocean doesn't look the same as usual!.." due to the sharply increased atmospheric interference, these advice, apparently, were not heard. The controllers themselves had difficulty picking up fragments of the radio conversations between the pilots: “We don’t know where we are. It must be 225 miles northeast of the base ... It looks like we ...”
At 4:45 pm, a strange message arrives from Taylor: "We are over the Gulf of Mexico." Ground controller Don Pool decided that the pilots were either embarrassed or crazy, the indicated place was in perfect opposite side horizon!
At 17.00 it became clear that the pilots were on the verge of a nervous breakdown, one of them was shouting on the air: "Damn it, if we had flown west, we would have got home!" Then Taylor's voice: "Our home is in the northeast ..." The first fright soon passed somewhat, some islands were noticed from the planes. "The ground is under me, the terrain is rugged. I'm sure it's Keys..."
Ground services also located the missing, and there was hope that Taylor would restore orientation ... But everything turned out to be in vain. Darkness has come. The planes that took off in search of a link returned with nothing (another plane disappeared during the search) ...
Taylor's most recent words are still in dispute. Radio amateurs were able to hear: "It seems that we are sort of ... we are sinking into white waters ... we are completely lost ..." According to reporter and writer A. Ford, in 1974, after 29 years, one radio amateur shared such information : supposedly last words commander were: "Don't follow me... They look like people from the Universe..." ["Abroad", 1975, No. 45, p. eighteen]. In my opinion, the last phrase is probably invented or interpreted later: before 1948, people would almost certainly have used the expression "descendants from Mars" in such a situation. Even at a meeting of the Commission to investigate this incident, they subsequently dropped the phrase: "They disappeared as irrevocably as if they had flown to Mars!" It is unlikely that Taylor would have used the little-used word "Universe", especially since even science fiction writers did not think about aliens from there ...
So, the first and indisputable conclusion that follows from listening to radio recordings is that the pilots encountered something unusual and strange in the air. This fateful meeting was the first not only for them, but they probably did not hear about such a thing from their colleagues and friends. Only this can explain the strange disorientation and panic in a normal regular situation. The ocean has a strange look, “white water” has appeared, the arrows of the instruments are dancing - you must admit that this list can frighten anyone, but not experienced naval pilots, who must have already found the right course over the sea in extreme conditions. Moreover, they had a great opportunity to return to the coast: it was enough to turn to the west, and then the planes would never have flown past the huge peninsula.
This is where we come to the root cause of the panic. The bomber link, in full accordance with common sense and on recommendations from the ground, searched for land only in the west for about an hour and a half, then for about an hour - alternately in the west and east. And didn't find it. The fact that an entire American state has disappeared without a trace can drive even the most persistent of minds.
In fairness, it must be said that at the end of their flight they saw the land, but did not dare to splash down nearby in shallow water. Visually, from the outlines of the islands, Taylor determined that he was above the Florida Keys (southwest of the southern tip of Florida) and at first even turned northeast towards Florida. But soon, under the influence of colleagues, he doubted what he saw and returned to his previous course, as if he were much east of Florida, i.e. where it should be and where it was located by ground-based radar installations.
But where were they really? On the ground, the crew's report of Kees' sighting was taken as the ravings of panicked pilots. The direction finders could be wrong by exactly 180 degrees and this property was taken into account, but at that moment the operators knew that the planes were somewhere in the Atlantic (30 degrees N, 79 degrees W) north of the Bahamas and they were just in it could not occur to me that the missing link was in fact already much to the west, in the Gulf of Mexico. If so, then Taylor could really be seeing the Florida Keys, and not "looking like the Florida Keys."
Perhaps the DF operators in Miami were unable to distinguish signals coming from the southwest from those coming from the northeast. The mistake cost the pilots their lives: apparently, having searched in vain for land in the west and having used up all the fuel, they landed on the water and sank, while they themselves were searched in vain in the east ... In 1987, it was there, on the shelf bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and one of the "Avengers" built in the forties was found! ["Pravda", 1987, March 2]. It is possible that the other 4 are also somewhere nearby. It remains to ask the question: how could the planes move seven hundred kilometers to the west unnoticed by everyone?
Cases of, if not instantaneous, then ultra-fast movements of aircraft are already known to aviation historians. During World War II, a Soviet bomber returning from a mission overran an airfield in the Moscow region for more than a thousand kilometers and landed in the Urals... disappeared from sight"... These and many other similar cases are united by the fact that ultra-fast flights were always made in strange clouds (white fog, some kind of haze, sparkling haze). It is precisely in these terms that eyewitnesses reward another strange phenomenon in which there is a rapid movement in time; for example, after walking for half an hour or an hour in the "strange white fog" on the island of Barsakelmes in the Aral Sea, travelers returned a day later.
Yes, and in the Bermuda Triangle itself " white mist"not such a rare guest. After meeting with him, an airliner approaching Miami once disappeared from the locator screens ... and when it reappeared 10 minutes later, all the clocks on board were behind the same minutes. In that flight, none of passengers did not notice anything unusual, it is possible that a sudden increase in speed due to "tricks" over time will also be imperceptible to the eyes. with radio communications (you have to talk to the earth - a place where the usual course of time does not coincide with the anomalous "heavenly").Recall that it was after the Avenger pilots mentioned that a strange fog had appeared and that five compasses had failed at once, radio communication with them disappeared and subsequently recovered only occasionally.
Such anomalous places occasionally arise also because the course of physical time is influenced to some extent by all bodies moving in a circle. This effect, as follows from the experiments of Professor Nikolai Kozyrev, can be achieved on a very small scale even with the help of tiny flywheels. What can we say about the Bermuda region in the Atlantic, where the powerful Gulf Stream swirls water eddies hundreds of kilometers in diameter! (It is precisely such formations that sometimes become visible on the surface of the ocean in the form of white or even faintly luminous circles and "wheels".) Whirlwinds are twisting - time changes - gravity must also change. In the center of the vortex (where American satellites recorded the water level 25-30 meters below normal) gravity is increased, and at the periphery it is reduced. Is it not the cause of many shipwrecks that the cargoes in the hold suddenly increase in weight? With non-uniform loading and exceeding the safety margin of the hull, a catastrophe is almost inevitable! To complete the tragic picture, we must add to this the unreliability of radio communications in such places ...
Of course, after the first reports about the Bermuda "tricks", over time, new chilling, but not always true, details began to appear in the press ... Not so long ago, the American weekly "News" told about an amazing incident with an American submarine sailing in the "triangle "at a depth of 200 feet (70 m). Once the sailors heard a strange noise overboard and felt a vibration that lasted about a minute. Following this, it was noticed that the people in the team allegedly aged very quickly. And after surfacing with the help of a satellite navigation system, it generally turned out that the submarine was in, .. Indian Ocean 300 miles from the east coast of Africa and 10,000 miles from Bermuda! Well, why not a repetition with the movement of technical devices, only not in the air, but in the water? True, it is too early to draw conclusions in this story: the US Navy, as before in such cases, does not confirm, but does not refute this information either.
But some conclusions can be drawn in the case of the missing squadron back in 1945. Most likely, in the sky over the Bermuda Triangle, this link collided with a non-stationary nomadic anomalous zone, in which their instruments failed and radio communications went haywire. Then the planes, being in a "strange fog", moved at a very high speed to the Gulf of Mexico, where the pilots recognized with surprise the local ridge of islands ...
Let's clarify what "very fast" means. So, an hour and a half after takeoff, the planes fall into a strange fog, where all their instruments fail, INCLUDING THE WATCH. At 16.45, the planes come out of the clouds and restore their orientation (from the reports one can hear that they already trust the compasses). According to the airfield ground clock, 2.5 hours of flight had passed, and there was still 3 hours of fuel left. How much time has passed according to the aircraft clock (out of order) - it's hard to say. It is unlikely that pilots could answer this question correctly either: in extreme situations, time perception differs sharply from the usual one. Only one mechanism can give us an answer - these are aircraft engines, they were the only ones that continued to work normally in the anomalous zone! So, at 5:22 p.m., Taylor announced, "When anyone has 10 gallons [38 liters] of fuel left, we're splashing!" Judging by the phrase, the fuel was indeed coming to an end. Apparently, soon the planes splashed down because at 18.02 on the ground they heard the phrase: "... At any moment it can drown ..." This means that the fuel in the torpedo bombers ran out between 17.22 and 18.02, while it should have been enough until 19.40, and taking into account the emergency supply - up to 19.50. Such a sharp discrepancy can only be explained by one thing: the engines burned fuel for 2 hours more than previously thought!
Here it is, the missing link in the chain of clues! While only one hour passed on the ground, about three flew by in a white fog!!! The speed of the planes was normal all this time, but for a hypothetical outside observer, it would seem to be 3 times faster! Probably, during these 3 hours of their own time, the torpedo bombers, alas, slipped through the Florida ledge with their home base and ended up in the Gulf of Mexico. The pilots were still not completely out of the tenacious paws of a very thinned fog, when a ridge of islands appeared under the wings ...
You know the rest. Taylor, of course, was able to recognize the islands over which he flew dozens of times. But ... he did not believe their "miraculous" appearance and, at the insistence of the air base, again took a western course. (Now the "strange fog" has passed, and the flight took place in normal time.) He believed an hour later and turned back, but the inexperienced advice of the controllers, who said: "You are just flying up to Florida" - completely confused him ... Ultimately, the lieutenant’s uncertainty ruined the link: he feverishly changed direction several times, following either to the northeast at a course of 30 degrees, then to the east (90), then, at the request of the dispatchers, to the west (270). Fuel shortage prompted to make the final choice. Taylor played toss, and... Death won. The bombers, once again almost reaching the saving mainland, made their last turn and left on a course of 270 degrees ... Away from land ...
Friends of the missing pilots still cannot understand why Lieutenant Taylor commanded, and his subordinates (among whom were more senior in rank) landed on rough seas, while they could search for land for another two hours! .. on the high waves left virtually no chance of escape, and yet, Taylor's subordinates carry out this order without hesitation, although just now they were loudly cursing and arguing with their commander about the course. The only way the pilots could carry out a suicide landing was knowing that they were really running out of fuel. Presumably, at about 19:00, the lieutenant's plane was already at the bottom, radio operators recorded snippets of conversations between other crews, someone tried to call Taylor through the obvious noise of the waves and received no answer. Then the rest of the voices fell silent... On the ground, the hope for their return was still preserved, since no one could believe the fact of splashdown. Another hour passed, according to the calculations of the airfield personnel, the pilots were only now running out of emergency fuel, and they were waiting for a miracle ... Finally, 20 hours came, it became clear that the wait was in vain ... tens of miles, burned for some more time.
Finally, at 21:00, someone in the control room silently turned the switch... The pilots, of course, were still alive at that moment. Most likely, after the planes went to the bottom, they were in the water in their life jackets. But an overnight storm is guaranteed to have done the demolition business. A rich experience of maritime disasters suggests that most likely the pilots who were not found by anyone were able to withstand the cold waves until about midnight ...
At midnight, 2,500 kilometers from this place in Mount Vernon, New York, Joan Powers and her one and a half year old daughter woke up at the same time, as if from a sudden blow. Joan immediately understood the reason for her nightmare and decided to do what she had never done before - call her husband at the air base. It took about 2 hours to find out the phone number and connect. At exactly 2:00 a.m., the bell rang in Fort Lauderdale. The duty officer who answered the phone turned purple and stuttered: "Don't worry, but we can't call your husband, Captain Edward Powers, he's in flight right now..." The man who turned off the lights on the runway 5 hours ago , and did not dare to pronounce the verdict aloud. Joan found out the truth about her husband only in the morning from a radio news special...
Perhaps the same anomalous zone that knocked down Taylor, and Powers, and everyone else, did not miss the Marine Mariner, the twin-engine flying boat that disappeared without a trace, the same one that fearlessly went in search of the Avengers. The seaplane radio operator's last elephants were about "strong wind at an altitude of 1800 meters" ... Although the reason may be more prosaic, someone in the vicinity of this boat saw a bright flash in the sky. An explosion?.. Together with the crew of the flying boat, the number of victims of the "triangle" that evening amounted to 27 people...
When the hypothesis described above took on a more or less harmonious shape, it was decided to introduce her to one of the direct participants in those events. The already mentioned Don Poole, at that moment already an 82-year-old lieutenant colonel and retired, lived in Florida. Any answer was expected, but this ... "Everything described may be interesting, but according to you it turns out that the planes fell in the Gulf of Mexico, in fact, they were recently found in the Atlantic, just 10 miles from their home base Fort Lauderdale! Relatives of the victims say that it would be better if they had not found: it is bitter to know that the pilots died literally on the doorstep of the house, in one minute of flight! So the topic is closed. First they found 4 aircraft, then a fifth one was found - with the number 28. It was Taylor's number! Yes, they flew like that: "twenty-eighth" Taylor was ahead, followed by four wingmen ... "This is news! True, it is not at all clear why the 19th link fell into the water in that area, why in this case they were hard to hear on the radio, for 10 miles (18 km) they should have been heard from both next room... Something was missing in the new solution to the mystery, it was necessary to find out additional details...
In 1991, the Deep Sea search vessel of the Scientific Sich Project, northeast of Fort Lauderdale, was searching for a sunken Spanish gold galleon. The crew on deck joked about the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, someone chuckled, remembering various stories, including with the missing torpedo bombers. Therefore, when the message "Torpedo bombers are under us" came, everyone took it as a joke. These were 4 Avengers lying in formation at a depth of 250 meters, the fifth with the number 28 was a mile from the rest. The four, as it were, slightly lagged behind the leading "28th" aircraft (one involuntarily recalls the version that Taylor's last words were: "Don't get close, they look like ...").
The archives were immediately raised. It turned out that for all the time in the Atlantic Ocean 139 Avenger-type aircraft fell into the water, but a group of five aircraft went missing only once in December 45th. Skeptics also decided to check: could planes fall into the water from an aircraft carrier in this area? Similar records were not found in the archives either, but soon the need to search for them disappeared, more detailed photographing of the finds proved that the planes were actually landing on the water: their propeller blades were bent and the cockpit lights were open. No bodies were found in the cabins. No one else had any doubts that this was the missing 19th flight, especially since there were also letter images "FT" on two sides - this was how the aircraft based at the Fort Lauderdale base were designated. The US government, the Navy and the SSP firm immediately began a legal battle among themselves for ownership of the find, while the relatives of the victims demanded that the planes be left alone. The discoverer of the Avengers, Hawkes, in one of his last interviews, said: “We will sail closer in an underwater vehicle in order to read the numbers. I am sure that they are! We have solved the greatest mystery! But if it turns out that this is not the 19th link, then it means that we have created a new great mystery, because 5 planes cannot simply gather on the bottom of the ocean! .. "
But the mystery did not yield... A month later, in the summer of 1995, fresh material came to our request... numbers, and how ... disappointed: two numbers were clearly visible - FT-241, FT-87 and two only partially - 120 and 28. The missing link had numbers: FT-3, FT-28 (Taylor), FT -36, FT-81, FT-117. Only one number came together, and that one - without letter designation. The numbers of the planes found at the bottom have not yet been identified, they are not listed among the missing. In most archival records, only the serial number of the aircraft appears, but since these numbers were recorded on the plywood keel of the Avenger, there is no hope that the number on the aircraft has been preserved for such a long time.
In short, the mysteries remain open. What planes lie at the bottom of the ocean near Fort Lauderdale, what or who made them come together? And where did the "those same" planes go? After the failure in the Atlantic, the captain of the Deep Sea ship categorically refused to go to the Gulf of Mexico in order to read the number of the Avenger found there earlier: "I didn't care about the planes," he said, "it would be better if we found a Spanish galleon!"
Do you think that a submarine immediately went to the crash site on the instructions of the government?! No, the government "suddenly" lost the power of speech, probably because it turned out that it would not receive money for the 19th link, but would only receive a new painful problem. Need with clever expression face to explain something that is almost impossible to explain, but oh, how you don’t want to spend finances on an investigation! In 1996, however, an explanation was found, the official commission found that: 1. At the bottom, not airplanes at all, but mock-ups of airplanes. 2. They were specially placed there in order to work out the bombing from the air.
Only the most gullible believed such official nonsense. The scuba divers must have laughed their heads off. Didn't any of the government bodies read their reports, where they described numbers, open lights, bent propeller blades during landing? None of this could be on mock-targets. If these are mock-ups, then those that themselves flew here "in formation". And the pilots probably laughed because making bombing targets at a depth of 250 meters is the same as aiming a pistol at a target located behind the Great Wall of China!
Thus ended this strange incident (from which, in fact, the official history of the "triangle" originates), during which all the pilots of the Avengers and the seaplane that flew to the rescue disappeared and so far have not been found ... However, The story itself will never end...
Here are other attempts to explain the bloodthirsty actions of the "triangle". Several dozen different explanations have been put forward:
BUT) The reason is in the minds of people:
A-1) "Just a fantasy." All cases are nothing more than newspaper ducks and fables of travel agency owners ... (This version can explain up to 50-70% of all incidents.)
A-2) "Just a coincidence." All cases are nothing more than coincidences and coincidences ... (This version can explain up to 70-80% of all incidents.)
B) The reason is underground and at the bottom:
B-3) "Underwater earthquakes" (based on the work of the Polish engineer E. Korkhov). Perhaps, as a result of catastrophic displacements of the ocean floor, waves up to 60 m high can arise, capable of instantly swallowing a ship of any size without leaving any traces. During the drift of the continents for millions of years, colossal caverns formed in the earth's crust, and during an earthquake, the arch of such a cave can collapse. If the cave is under the ocean floor, then water will inevitably pour into it, a strong whirlpool will appear on the surface, which sucks in both water and air ... (This version can explain up to 20-40% of all incidents.)
B-4) "Atlantes". Remaining traces of the activities of the lost civilization of the Atlanteans (whose mainland "was somewhere nearby") ... (This version can explain a number of incidents.)
B-5) "Underwater civilizations". It differs from the version with the Atlanteans only in that the hypothetical underwater inhabitants live and thrive to this day. However, fantasize - so fantasize! Atlantes in the past could become modern underwater inhabitants. In addition, this hypothesis may have a direct connection with the alien version ... (This hypothesis can also explain a number of incidents.)
AT) The reason is in the water:
C-6) "Voice of the Sea" (based on the discovery of 1932 by the famous Soviet hydrologist V. A. Berezkin). This is one of the interesting and even a little romantic hypotheses. Its author, sailing on the Taimyr hydrographic vessel, noticed that if a pilot balloon is kept at a distance of 1-2 cm near the ear in the open sea during an approaching storm, then significant pain is felt in the ears. The study of this phenomenon was carried out by academician V.V. Shuleikin, it was he who gave him the name - "Voice of the Sea". The scientist spoke at the USSR Academy of Sciences with the theory of the occurrence of infrasonic oscillations in the ocean. During storms and strong winds above the sea surface, the flow is stalled on the crests of the waves; when the wind speed is greater than the speed of wave propagation, the air lingers at the crests, forming compression, and rarefaction above the wave soles. The resulting condensation and rarefaction of air propagate in the form of sound vibrations with a frequency of up to 10 Hz. In the air, not only transverse oscillations occur, but also longitudinal ones, the strength of the resulting infrasound is proportional to the square of the wavelength. At a wind speed of 20 m / s, the power of the "voice" can reach 3 W from each meter of the wave front. Under certain conditions, the storm generates infrasound with a power of tens of kW. Moreover, the main radiation of infrasound is approximately in the range of about 6 Hz - the most dangerous for humans. It should be added that the "voice", propagating at the speed of sound, is significantly ahead of the wind and sea waves, moreover, infrasound is very weakly scattered with distance. In principle, it can propagate without significant attenuation for hundreds and thousands of kilometers, both in air and in water, and the speed of the water wave is several times higher than the speed of the air wave. So - a storm is raging somewhere, and a thousand kilometers from this place, the crew of some schooner goes crazy from 6-hertz radiation and rushes in horror into an absolutely calm sea. With fluctuations of the order of 6 hertz, a person experiences a feeling of anxiety, often turning into unaccountable horror; at 7 hertz, paralysis of the heart and nervous system is possible; with fluctuations an order of magnitude higher, the destruction of technical devices is possible. In the process of evolution in man, apparently, a center was formed that is sensitive to infrasonic vibrations, the precursors of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. A complex of reactions that should manifest themselves when this center is affected: avoid closed spaces in order not to fall into the blockage; strive to move away from nearby objects that threaten to collapse; run "where your eyes look" in order to get out of the disaster area. And now you can observe a similar reaction in many animals. At the same time, when directly exposed to the body, non-specific reactions occur, such as lethargy, weakness and various disorders, as well as, for example, when irradiated with X-rays, high-frequency radio waves. Man has lost his high sensitivity to infrasonic vibrations, but at high intensity, the ancient protective reaction awakens, blocking the possibilities of conscious behavior. It should be emphasized that fear will not be caused by external images, but will, as it were, "come from within." The person will have a sensation, a feeling of "something terrible." Depending on the intensity of the infrasonic vibrations, people on the ship will experience varying degrees of panic and inadequate actions (here it is appropriate to recall Homer's Odyssey). This hypothesis, in principle, sheds light on the disappearance of sailors, putting forward as a reason, for example, mass suicide. (This version can explain up to 30-50% of all incidents.)
B-7) "Underwater ultrasound" (it differs from the previous version in that the source or, more correctly, the concentrator of the terrible sound is not on the surface, but at the bottom). The storm occurring in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the elephants of the Ukrainian researcher V. Shulga, allegedly generates infrasonic waves, which, reflected from the bottom pits ("reflectors"), are focused in certain areas. The colossal dimensions of the focusing structure suggest the presence of regions where infrasonic vibrations can reach a significant value, which is the reason for the anomalous phenomena occurring here. Infrasound can cause resonant vibrations of ship masts, leading to their breakage (the effect of infrasound on aircraft structural elements can lead to similar consequences). Infrasound can be the cause of the appearance of a rapidly emerging and just as quickly disappearing thick ("like milk") fog over the ocean. Atmospheric moisture condensed during the rarefaction phase may not have time to dissolve in the air during the subsequent compression phase, but at the same time it can “instantly” disappear during several periods of the absence of infrasonic oscillations. (And this version can also explain up to 30-50% of all incidents.)
B-8) "Countercurrents" (proposed by N. Fomin). It is based on the assumption that under the influence of the northerly wind and oncoming waves in the depths of the ocean, waterfalls several kilometers high and powerful downward currents are born. (This version can explain up to 20-30% of all incidents.)
B-9) "Hydrodynamic effect" (proposed by G. Zelkin, Candidate of Technical Sciences). Saturated with gas released from the bottom soil (this is a product of tectonic activity), the mass of the hearth breaks away from the bottom and moves to the surface; in this case, an electromagnetic field is induced. Having reached the surface, the gas-liquid volume can rise to a height of several hundred meters. Any ship or aircraft that finds itself in the ejection zone will fall into the abyss; the crew, once in a gas cloud, will surely die. (This version can explain up to 40-50% of all incidents.)
B-10) "Hydrate bottom" is a practically similar version, differing only in the process of release and accumulation of bottom gas. (This version can explain up to 50-60% of all incidents.)
B-11) "Methane Emissions" (promoted by Alan JAD, a marine geologist at the University of Sunderland). Perhaps the methane flowing from the bottom is to blame. This assumption, in his opinion, explains the mystery of the disappearance of ships and aircraft without a trace. During the explosion, a large amount of methane is in the sea water and the density of the water decreases so many times that not only the ships go to the bottom in a matter of seconds, but also the people who rushed from the ship in life jackets go to the bottom like a stone. And when methane reaches the surface of the water, it rises into the air and poses a danger to aircraft flying in this place ... (This version can explain up to 10-20% of all accidents.)
B-12) "Animal attack". Attacks by giant squids and underwater animals are a reality, but ... not as obvious as they are presented by horror films ... (This version can explain a number of incidents.)
B-13) "Attack of monsters". But nothing can be reliably said about the behavior of fantastic and legendary (such as extinct plesiosaurs) underwater animals ... (But this version can also explain a number of incidents.)
D) The reason is in the air:
D-14) "Reduced Cohesion" (promoted in 1950 by Canadian Wilbur B. Smith, who headed government research on magnetism and gravity in the Bermuda Triangle). It was announced the detection of zones in the atmosphere with "reduced cohesion". These areas have a diameter, according to Smith, up to 300 m. They tend to rise to great heights and move slowly, disappearing and reappearing elsewhere. The influence of such a zone on nervous system person. An aircraft caught in a zone of "low friction" can easily be destroyed. (This version can explain up to 30-40% of all incidents.)
G-15) "Atmospheric explosion". It is believed that with a complex combination of gravitational, electromagnetic, seismic and acoustic anomalies, the usual picture of existence is distorted. air environment; under these conditions, a downdraft can suddenly form, with a speed of up to several hundred meters per second and can lead to the death of any ship or aircraft. (This version can explain up to 30-50% of all incidents.)
G-16) "Reverse tornado" (proposed by A. Pozdnyakov). It is based on reports of giant whirlpools observed in the Bermuda Triangle with a diameter of 150-200 km, a depth of 500 meters, with a rotation speed of up to 0.5 m per second. It is assumed that as a result of the specific distribution of flows in the atmosphere, a so-called "anti-tornado" may arise, in which the air flow rushes not from top to bottom, but from bottom to top. At the same time, a whirlpool appears on the surface of the ocean. According to Pozdnyakov, strong electromagnetic fields arise around the "anti-tornado", which distort the operation of instruments and compasses. (This version can explain up to 10-30% of all incidents.)
G-17) "Natural laser" (pushed by K. Anikin). The scientist believes that under certain conditions the Sun can be considered as a source of pumping, the smooth surface of the ocean and the upper layers of the atmosphere - as reflectors of light waves, and moving air currents - as an active medium. Thus, elements of a laser device are allegedly created. The action of such a laser can theoretically lead not only to damage, but also to the evaporation of ships and aircraft. (This version can explain up to 20-40% of all incidents.)
D) The reason is in the physical fields:
D-18) "Magnetic anomalies" (proposed by Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A. Elkin). It is assumed that a magnetic anomaly periodically arising here leads to a violation normal operation instruments, primarily a compass, resulting in a loss of orientation and a significant deviation from the course. Perhaps the remains of the disappeared ships and planes are not found because the search work is being carried out far away. Statistics show that ships and planes mostly disappear at the moments of full moons and during periods the greatest value precessional forces; and the magnetic anomaly occurs due to the movement of ionized magma in the bowels of the earth, caused in turn by lunisolar tides ... (This version can explain up to 30-50% of all incidents.)
D-19) "Ocean Electric Current" (nominated by E. Alftan, Candidate of Technical Sciences). Increased electrical conductivity is proposed to be the cause of the anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle. This version is supported by sharp changes in depths at the bottom of the ocean, the structure of the bottom and the "thinned" Earth's crust in the Puerto Rican Trench. It is assumed that the magnetic anomaly "in combination with the natural electric field that permeates the oceans, generates the movement of large masses of water. The death of people is explained by the impact on the human body of fluctuations in electric and magnetic fields, which are caused by sharp shifts of rocks that overlap or narrow the conductive sections of the ocean floor.
D-20) "Electric Discharge Energy" (proposed by an employee of the Moscow Region TsNIIMash Alexander Petrovich NEVSKY). In his works, he considered the mechanism of formation of an electric charge on cosmic bodies moving in the Earth's atmosphere and made specific calculations of the magnitude of the potential on such a body relative to the surface of the planet. He claims that for large space speeds for bodies of large sizes, the potentials reach such enormous values that there is a real possibility of breakdown of a many-kilometer gap between the moving body and earth's surface, and the main part of the energy of the meteorite (due to physical features process) is converted into the energy of an electric discharge explosion (ERV). In the Bermuda Triangle, in his opinion, "electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from such a discharge disabled all devices (moreover, it could even hit the electrical power networks of aircraft). After exposure to EMP, a shock wave reached the group of aircraft in a few tens of seconds from the ERV that destroyed them"... A. Nevsky did not explain why the planes flew for several hours after the "destructive blow"; even more difficult, according to his theory, is the situation with ships (their design is incomparably more durable). But, says Nevsky, since the ship is a kind of "point" on the surface of the sea, it is natural that under certain conditions "it is a voltage concentrator, leading to a predominant breakdown precisely on it. If a strong discharge strikes the ship, then practically the ship will destroyed"... (This version can explain up to 10-20% of all incidents.)
E-21) "Gravity anomaly" (based on the lowering of the ocean level recorded by American astronauts in the central part of the Bermuda Triangle by 25 m relative to the general level of the World Ocean). It is assumed that gravitational perturbations are not constant, and under certain conditions can lead to instantaneous catastrophic drops in the water level, followed by an equally rapid return to the original state. Thus, a gigantic whirlpool appears, capable of absorbing any ship, and a temporary distortion of the air environment over this area ("air pocket"), leading to the death of aircraft. (This version can explain up to 30-50% of all incidents.)
E) The reason is in space:
E-22) Alien abductions. The direct intervention of aliens in all known cases of ship abductions is, of course, possible, but it is absolutely fantastic ... (A number of incidents can be explained by this version.)
E-23) "Alien interference". But a number of ufologists believe that signal equipment may be installed on the seabed, powered by a powerful source of energy, which serves as a beacon for UFOs. It is this equipment that periodically disrupts the operation of navigation devices and has a direct or indirect detrimental effect on the human body. (This version can explain a number of incidents.)
E-24) "Time trap". It is assumed that a space-time trap has been created in the Bermuda Triangle, in which time flows at a different speed. A ship or plane, entering such an area, ceases to exist in our world and is transferred to the Future, Past, or to the Paraworld [more about this theory - Chernobrov V. "Secrets of Time", M., AST-Olympus, 1999; Chernobrov V. "Secrets and paradoxes of Time", M., Armada, 2001]. So, they say that in 1993, a fishing boat with 3 fishermen, who were considered dead, allegedly disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle; the fishermen showed up a year later and said that during a storm, when their damaged ship began to sink, they were rescued by a ship whose crew was dressed in ancient clothes and spoke Old English. For the fishermen themselves, the incident took a few days. There are many similar (fictitious and non-fictional) stories in which sailing ships, submarines and aircraft that have fallen from the past appear ... (This version can explain up to 40-60% of all incidents.)
E-25) "Black Hole". Such a local gravitational anomaly that sucks in ships (but where is it "based"? and why does it not always "work"?),. (This version can explain up to 20-40% of all incidents.)
E-26) "Non-existent universe" (proposed in 2000 by contactee Leonid RUSAK). According to him, "because of the emerging magnetic disturbances in this area, military aircraft moved into the time interval of the formation of the Non-existent Universe, where the continents, seas and islands have in many ways different outlines. The transition of the Avenger crews was complete: the pilots saw not water of the Arcturian world, but a foggy Substance consisting of single atoms of silicon, always present in water and not disappearing in Otherness... But when the planes, falling through the whitish fog of silicon, landed on the firmament, it turned out to be the earth that exists in the interval of the Non-existent Universe But later, as soon as they were under a layer of silicon, they did not begin to be affected by magnetic disturbances and began to move into the time interval of the Arcturian world of Real.It was then that the water of our Arcturian world filled the volume occupied by the "whitish fog" with a dense mass, accelerating the denouement of the tragedy. .." (This version can explain a number of incidents.)
But it is rather difficult to test any of the hypotheses put forward (including the terrible "Voice"); Let us recall that real, recorded cases of disappearances of ships are hardly more than 10-15% of what was reported in sensational newspaper publications, and information about these truly inexplicable disappearances is extremely scarce (by definition).
One thing is indisputable and irrefutable - the Bermuda Triangle remains the greatest fear, the greatest miracle, the greatest deceit and the greatest hope for a solution in the history of the study of anomalous zones in the world. The fear of Bermuda is almost entirely invented by the man himself, it has not yet become easier for past and (possibly) future victims ...
Driving to the Bermuda Triangle:
getting here is both easy and difficult. Simply because the conditional borders of the triangle "come close to the resorts of Florida and Cuba (it is enough to take a ticket and soak up the beaches with" caressing your body " warm water Bermuda Triangle). It is difficult because it is not known where exactly, at what point in this region of the Atlantic, you need to get in order to become a witness or participant in events that add to the terrible statistics. Maybe, and - fortunately for most.
The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by a triangle whose vertices are Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Those who are of the opinion that the mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft in the Devil's Triangle do occur, put forward various hypotheses to explain them: from unusual weather events to abductions by aliens or residents of Atlantis.
15. Christopher Columbus was the first to talk about the anomalies of the Bermuda Triangle.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus wanted to find new way to Asia and discovered America. Columbus was the first known traveler to cross the area of the Atlantic that we now call the Bermuda Triangle. His ship's log contains a description of the sea, completely filled with algae, a story about the unusual behavior of the compass needle, about the sudden appearance of a huge tongue of flame, about the strange glow of the sea.
14. Most of the missing ships and aircraft have never been found.
From the 1600s, ships began to disappear in the ill-fated triangle. Many associate the loss with the Gulf Stream. Due to the speed of water, reaching 2.5 meters per second, in this current, any debris, debris, and even an aircraft in just a couple of minutes will be carried to a distance of several kilometers. In 1925, the Clinchfield Navigation cargo ship SS Cotopaxi disappeared without a trace. This year, the Cuban Coast Guard discovered a ship missing 90 years ago in the Caribbean. There were no traces of the crew on board.
13. In the Bermuda Triangle zone, the compass shows the wrong direction.
Compasses in this area behave strangely and give incorrect readings. It is generally accepted that the Earth's electromagnetic field has holes. There are a large number of areas on Earth where the compass will not point due north. So the Bermuda Triangle is not the only place on the planet where similar anomalies occur.
12 More Vessels Missing In The Bermuda Triangle Than We Know
Not all stories of the disappearance of ships and aircraft are covered by the media. Moreover, some disasters are attributed to the human factor. According to skeptics, those ships that crashed and disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle just fell victim to crew errors.
11. Disappearance of carriages
In 1872, the Mary Celeste left Staten Island, New York, for the port of Genoa, Italy. On the ship, in addition to the captain and a crew of 7 people, there was the captain's wife and his two-year-old daughter. The ship was discovered 4 weeks later, without a crew. At the same time, provisions, personal belongings, money and jewelry remained intact. And the arrangement of things testified that the ship did not fall into a strong storm.
10. The size of the Bermuda Triangle is much larger
The area of the Bermuda Triangle within its classical boundaries is just over 1 million square kilometers. But some experts suggest that the anomalous region is much larger.
9. Not only ships disappear, but planes too
The most famous case mentioned in connection with the Bermuda Triangle is the disappearance of a flight of five Avenger-class torpedo bombers. These planes took off on December 5, 1945 from the US Naval Forces base in Fort Lauderdale and did not return back. Their wreckage, like the crew, was not found. After the disappearance of the Avengers, other planes were sent to search for them, and one of them also disappeared without a trace.
8. Portal of time
In 1970, Bruce Gernon, along with his father and a friend, flew from the Bahamas and headed for Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Shortly after climbing, the pilot noticed a strange semi-circular cloud directly ahead. There were bright flashes inside the cloud, Gernon and the passengers felt a feeling similar to weightlessness. All navigational instruments were out of order, the compass needle darted in all directions. When the plane took off from that tunnel, Bruce saw that he was already flying up to Miami Beach. At the same time, the flight took only 45 minutes, although it should have lasted at least 75!
7. Anomalies don't just happen in the Bermuda Triangle
Devil's Sea - this is how Japanese fishermen dubbed the Pacific waters around the island of Miyakejima (128 km south of Tokyo), located in the northern part of the Philippine Sea. Paranormal activity researchers bring this zone closer to the Bermuda Triangle for the reason that ships and planes mysteriously disappear in it.
6. Bad reputation
Despite the bad reputation, many routes of both ships and aircraft pass through the Bermuda Triangle every day. At the same time, nothing is heard about mysterious disappearances and catastrophes.
5. Atlantis at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle
Exploration of the ocean floor off the coast of Cuba with the help of a deep-sea robot confirmed that at the very bottom of the Bermuda Triangle there is a city of gigantic proportions. Scientists suggest that this is Atlantis. “The US government received evidence of the existence of an underwater city during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s of the last century. The nuclear submarine then moved along the Gulf Stream deep into the sea, where they discovered the structure of the pyramids. They immediately took control of the place so that it would not be in the hands of Soviet Union", - say the journalists.
4 Alien Territory
Although the existence of aliens has not yet been proven, some attribute everything that happens in the Bermuda Triangle to them. In 2009, unknown lights appeared in the night sky over this zone, which even formed something similar to a whirlpool, and disappeared an hour later.
3. Unpredictable weather
In the area of the Bermuda Triangle, severe tropical cyclones, storms and hurricanes are often observed. They happen most often unexpectedly.
2. Rogue waves
It has been suggested that rogue waves, which are believed to be up to 30 meters high, may be responsible for the loss of some ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
1. Coincidence and the human factor
Skeptics claim that main reason the disappearance of more than 100 ships in the Bermuda Triangle is a human factor. To err is human, and even an experienced captain or pilot is not immune from error.
AT Have you ever wondered what is really going on in that fateful Bermuda Triangle? Maybe it's time to dispel all the myths once and for all? It sounds somewhat ambitious, although the researchers still managed to challenge some of the replicated legends. In addition, new theories have emerged to explain the mysteries of the past. Get ready, ahead of you are waiting for 25 very interesting facts about the Bermuda Triangle. Go!
25. The Bermuda Triangle is sometimes referred to as the Devil's Triangle, and it has earned such an ominous reputation thanks to mysterious occurrences and supposedly bad energy concentrated in this area.
24. The first person to notice oddities was Christopher Columbus himself. He once wrote that he saw a huge object fall into the sea, engulfed in flames (possibly a meteor).
23. Columbus also noted that even the compass was malfunctioning in the area. An explanation for the anomaly can be found in the fact that the Bermuda Triangle is one of the few places on Earth where the geographic North Pole and the North Magnetic Pole intersect.
22. It is said that in Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" (The Tempest), the shipwreck occurred just in the area of the Bermuda Triangle, and the plot of the dramatic work in no small measure served to demonize this place.
21. Some pilots claim that this is where they often lose track of time, which is why many crews dislike flying in this area. Because of such statements, a legend appeared, according to which the Bermuda Triangle contains a warp in the space-time continuum and portals for traveling to other dimensions.
20. Until 1918, almost nothing was known to the general public about the Bermuda Triangle. That was until the sinking of the American warship USS Cyclops. There were 306 people on board the ship, and for some reason none of them gave a distress signal. In 1918, the ship simply went missing and was never seen again. US President Woodrow Wilson then said: "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship."
19. In 1941, 2 ships from the same series as the USS Cyclops also disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. By the way, they sailed along the same route ...
18. The Triangle became especially famous in 1945, when 5 ships of the US Navy left the coastal waters of Florida and went to sea in the direction of Bermuda. During the mission, the crew had navigation problems, the compass stopped working, and the ships ran out of fuel.
17. The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first introduced by Vincent Gaddis (Vincent Gaddis, American writer) in 1964 in one printed article. Since then, science fiction writers have used this phrase more than once in their books about aliens, sea monsters and gravitational fields. However, scientists believe that trying to find a common cause of all shipwrecks and disappearances that have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle area is like looking for a common cause of all car accidents anywhere else. There is no meaning and there is no connection. It's just statistics.
16. The Triangle includes an area located strictly between Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico.
15. More than once there have been reports in the press about the discovery of completely empty and abandoned ships floating somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. In several cases, the vessel could not be identified, and the disappearance of the entire crew remained an unsolved mystery.
14. In 1945, search and rescue teams were sent to the Bermuda Triangle area, which combed the region, both at sea and from the air. Then a ship with 13 crew members disappeared without a trace. They were never found, and the representative of the Navy admitted that "they seemed to have sailed to Mars."
13. Despite the bad reputation of the mysterious zone, scientists have found that, taking into account all the tropical storms and other objective factors, the number of missing ships and aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle does not exceed the statistical norm.
12. It is worth noting that not only theoretical scientists, but also the US Coast Guard along with the local leading insurance agency do not consider the Bermuda Triangle region to be more dangerous than other ocean areas in this part of the world.
11. Most likely, accidents are related to a number of objective factors, including difficult weather conditions, reefs, Gulf Stream currents and the vulnerability of navigational equipment.
10. There is a crazy version according to which ships sink due to rising methane bubbles.
9. Many people wonder why no one ever finds the wreckage of ships that crashed here. According to one of the most probable theories, these remains are carried away by the powerful currents of the Gulf Stream (the largest ocean current).
8. One of the craziest versions - ships are pulled to the bottom by a crashed spaceship. What for? Conspiracy theorists speculate that the aliens are either conducting cruel experiments on crew members, or are thus collecting the parts they need to fix their aircraft.
7. There is another interesting version put forward by fans of science fiction literature. According to the followers of the theory of the supernatural nature of this area, the Bermuda Triangle is one of 12 vortex funnels located throughout the Earth at the same latitude. As these theorists assure, mysterious funnels more than once became places where inexplicable incidents and disappearances took place.
6. In 2013 World Foundation wildlife(World Wide Fund for Nature) published a list of the 10 most dangerous sea routes in the world, but the Bermuda Triangle was not included in this rating.
5. Scientists are sure that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is an ordinary hoax, and the notoriety of this region is earned solely through the efforts of writers and the media trying to make money on high-profile stories and scandalous sensations.
4. In 1955, a yacht was discovered in the Bermuda Triangle that survived as many as 3 hurricanes. There was not a single person on board the ship. Their fate is still unknown.
3. The US Coast Guard reported that the number of missing ships in the Bermuda Triangle is negligible compared to the number of ships that sailed across this fatal area without any problems.
2. Psychologists suggest that the popularity of the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon is not subsiding due to a common cognitive bias called "validation bias." In fact, everything is explained as follows: a person tends to pay attention only to those facts that confirm his already formed point of view. For example, if the ship disappears in the Bermuda Triangle, conspiracy theorists once again strengthen their belief in the mysticism of this place.
1. And now let's turn to dry and impartial statistics. How often do you think something bad happens in the Bermuda Triangle? According to official figures, an average of 20 yachts and 4 aircraft disappear here every year.
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