I want to tell you about a very secret place where ships and airplanes pass. We are talking about the story of the Bermuda triangle, about its occurrence in the very Bermuda triangle, etc. I hope you enjoy my story.
The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean in which mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft supposedly take place. The area is bounded by lines from Florida to Bermuda, further to Puerto Rico and back to Florida through the Bahamas. Various hypotheses have been put forward to explain these disappearances, from unusual weather events to alien abductions. Skeptics argue, however, that ship disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle are no more frequent than in other parts of the world's oceans and are due to natural causes.
The Bermuda Triangle is far from the only name for this amazing area in the western Atlantic Ocean. It is also called the "Devil's Sea", "Antlantic Cemetery", "Voodoo Sea", "Sea of \u200b\u200bthe Damned". However, although Bermuda forms only one of the peaks of this triangle and is by no means located in its center, it is under this name that the enchanted place became known to the whole world. However, even fifty years ago, no one heard the phrase Bermuda Triangle. The first to use it was the American Jones, who published in 1950 a small brochure with this title. Then they did not pay attention to it, and again the problem surfaced only in 1964, when another American, Gaddis, wrote about the Bermuda triangle. His article was published in a well-known spiritualist journal. Later, after collecting additional information, Gaddis devoted an entire chapter to the Bermuda Triangle, which is symbolic - the thirteenth, in his book Invisible Horizons. Since then, the Bermuda Triangle has been in the spotlight.
Associated Press correspondent Jones first mentioned the "mysterious disappearances" in the Bermuda Triangle, in 1950 he called the area "the devil's sea." The author of the phrase "Bermuda Triangle" is usually considered to be Vincent Gladdis, who published in 1964 in one of the journals devoted to spiritualism, the article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle."
In the late 60s and early 70s of the XX century, numerous publications began to appear about the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle.
In 1974, Charles Berlitz published The Bermuda Triangle, which collected descriptions of various mysterious disappearances in the area. The book became a bestseller, and it was after its publication that the theory of the unusual properties of the Bermuda Triangle became especially popular. Later, however, it was shown that some facts in Berlitz's book were presented incorrectly.
In 1975, Lawrence David Couchet published the book "The Bermuda Triangle: Myths and Reality", in which he tried to prove that nothing supernatural and mysterious is happening in this area. This book is based on years of documentary research and interviews with eyewitnesses that have revealed numerous factual errors and inaccuracies in the publications of supporters of the Bermuda Triangle mystery.
GIANT PYRAMIDS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE.
The Bermuda Triangle has once again surprised scientists with the secrets stored on its territory! This time, two giant pyramids were discovered at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. The underwater Bermuda pyramids are much larger than the Egyptian pyramids. Scientists believe that they were erected about 500 years ago, and the material from which they are made resembles thick glass. The giant pyramids in the Bermuda Triangle were first discovered by oceanographer Dr. Verlag Meyer in 1991.
The US Congress passed Resolution 420-2. With this document, the Americans paid tribute to the memory of 27 naval pilots of the FT-19 flight, who disappeared without a trace 60 years ago, without returning from a training flight over the area that later became known as the "Bermuda Triangle". Following the congress, NBC announced the forthcoming premiere of a new documentary on the ill-fated link on November 27.
The resolution was initiated by the Democrat Congressman from Florida State Clay Shaw. In an interview with the Chicago Chronicle, Shaw explained his position: “We don't want to be led by all sorts of sensationalists who think the Bermuda Triangle is mysterious and unusual. But personally, I will insist on continuing the investigation of this tragedy. At least in order to inform their relatives about the fate of the crews. Probably, something extraordinary really happened there, which forced experienced pilots to take action that led to the disaster. Someday we will reveal this secret and put it on the shelf. "
Four "avenger"
Actually, the sad glory of the Bermuda Triangle - an area of \u200b\u200bthe World Ocean bounded by lines connecting the tip of the Florida Peninsula (Key West), the northern part of Puerto Rico and the greater of Bermuda - just started with that ill-fated flight. Until then, the legend of the triangle lived only in the form of the folklore of local fishermen and captains of small boats who ply this busy shipping area in abundance.
The area of \u200b\u200bthe Bermuda Triangle was considered dangerous for navigation even during the Spanish rule in Central and South America. The Spanish galleons, who exported gold and silver from the colonies, were collected in Havana and then sent across the ocean to Spain. It has been estimated that there are about 1,200 Spanish ships at the bottom of the sea within the Bermuda Triangle. They crashed during summer hurricanes and winter storms, swooped down on reefs and sandbanks, and drowned them by pirates.
Later, the waters of the triangle were plowed by English, French and Dutch ships, and again dozens of new ships went to the bottom of the sea. So this region of the Atlantic has always had a bad reputation, but nevertheless there is no such historical document that would speak of it as mysterious, although in the past centuries full of superstitions there would have been much more room for this than at present.
The incident itself, which was awarded a special resolution of the Congress, occurred on the afternoon of December 5, 1945, when five torpedo bombers from the Grumman TBM-1 Avenger bombers of the FT-19 patrol unit under the command of flight training instructor First Lieutenant Charles Taylor took off from the airfield of the US Navy Fort Lauderdale. The purpose of the mission is to practice group flying and maintain the flight skills of the crews, the flight duration is three hours.
Four "Avengers" ("avenger") went on a flight with regular crews: pilot, navigator-bombardier and gunner, radio operator. There was no shooter on Taylor's instructor car. The tragedy happened on the way back: the flight commander sent a radio message to the dispatcher in Key West: "We have an emergency situation, obviously, we have lost our course."
The last message from Taylor, received 40 minutes later, indicated that the commander had decided to pull towards the coast until the fuel was completely depleted. Nobody saw more of these people. A few hours later, three Martin PBM-1 Mariner naval patrol bombers flew in search of the flight.
These radar-equipped flying boats, capable of landing and taking off even with a wave of 3-4.5 points, were perfectly suited for the search and rescue of those in distress, the fuel supply allowed them to stay in the air for up to 48 hours. One of the rescue planes also disappeared, taking with it the mystery of the death of 13 crew members.
"Million in a Million"
Soon, local newspaper reporters found out about the disappearance of the whole link, and the story received widespread publicity. America was in a state of shock. It's no joke - 4 months after the end of the war, five combat aircraft with experienced crews, who have gone through the hell of air battles over the Pacific Ocean, die. And what kind of aircraft: "Avenger" ("avenger") - the main carrier-based torpedo bomber of the US Navy, the thunderstorm of the Japanese fleet - was for the Americans the same symbol of victory as the legendary Il-2 attack aircraft serves for us.
Reliable aircraft (there were cases when "avengers" came to an aircraft carrier literally "on one wing"), equipped with the most modern navigation equipment, are lost in simple weather conditions when visibility, as the aviators say, is "a million in a million", and where!
Practically in the "inner puddle", an area over which, during the war years, thousands of American planes made tens of thousands of sorties in search of German and Japanese submarines trying to watch for allied transports on the way from Florida to the Panama Canal.
The excitement was also added by the fact that large-scale searches for 250 thousand square meters. miles of water, taken by hundreds of ships and aircraft, provided no physical evidence of the disaster. Immediately I remembered the ancient legends about the ships abandoned by the crews, and the stories of the islanders, who "have long known that the places here are not good." At the same time, recent cases were recalled: two months earlier, under suspicious circumstances, a cargo-passenger liner Lancastrien of the British airline BOAC, which was flying from Barbados, crashed on its approach to Key West.
Piloted a four-engined car, a demilitarized heavy bomber, an experienced military crew. Controllers in Florida heard only a few panicky phrases in their headphones, after which the plane disappeared from the radar screens. Although the remains of the liferafts washed ashore some time later, 23 passengers and four pilots are still missing. However, these stories were soon forgotten. Until the time.
The real explosion occurred in 1974 after the publication of the book of the uncrowned king of experts on the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle Charles Berlitz "The Bermuda Triangle". The bestseller was instantly reprinted in other publishers, and in each of them it was necessary to print additional copies several times. By the most conservative estimates, the circulation of Berlitz's book has reached almost 20 million copies (in a cheap pocket edition).
So the Bermuda Triangle became the property of a very wide readership, including the Soviet one, in 1978, Berlitz's translation was published by the Moscow publishing house Mir. Supporters of Berlitz and his followers are constantly looking for new justifications for the "mysticism", "mystery" and "mysteriousness" of this place. But how are things really? This is evidenced by impartial statistics.
The literature on the Bermuda Triangle describes in detail 50 cases of the disappearance of ships and aircraft. In some works, 40 or 50 more cases are described rather vaguely. In total, this makes about 100. Is this a lot or a little? It should not be forgotten that such a number has accumulated over the past 100 years, that is, on average, one case occurs per year. This, of course, is very small for an area that has the densest network of air and sea transport lines and is also a favorite destination for yachtsmen and sports fishing enthusiasts.
Tropical cyclones in summer and storms in winter pose a good challenge even for seasoned large boat captains, but what about yachts and small fishing boats and light private jets? By the way, since modern jet airliners began to fly over the area, there have been no major accidents with passenger planes in the Triangle itself; its last "victim" was the heavy transport aircraft C-119, which disappeared back in 1965!
However, the mystery of the death of the FT-19 link continues to haunt the minds. On Friday evening, the largest American television company NBC announced that it had equipped an expedition to the area where the torpedo bombers were killed last summer. The premiere of a film about her is scheduled for November 27. As the producers of the documentary say, the expedition posed more questions than it answered.
Charles Frambach Berlitz (November 23, 1913 - December 18, 2003) was an American linguist and language teacher known for his language teaching courses and his books on the paranormal.
a life
Berlitz was a writer on the paranormal. He wrote a number of books on Atlantis. In his book Mystery of Atlantis He argued Atlantis was real, based on his interpretation of geophysics, psychic research, classical literature, generic knowledge, and archeology. He also tried to tie the Bermuda Triangle of Atlantis. He claimed that Atlantis is located underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. He was also an ancient astronaut advocate who believed that aliens were visiting Earth.
Berlitz spent 13 years on active service in the US Army, mainly in intelligence. In 1950, he married Valeria Seary, with whom he had two children, daughter Lin, and a son, Mark. He died in 2003 at the age of 90 at University Hospital in Tamarack, Florida.
reception
Berlitz's claims about the Bermuda Triangle and the Philadelphia Experiment have been sharply criticized by researchers and scientists for their inaccuracy. He has also been criticized for ignoring possible natural explanations and promoting pseudoscientific ideas.
Larry Kouchet accused Berlitz of fabricating evidence and inventing mysteries that have no foundation.
Bibliography
Abnormal phenomena
- Mystery of Atlantis (1969)
- Secrets from Forgotten Worlds (1972)
The book "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 a mysterious anomaly, with the tops of the corners propping up Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale.
According to the prevailing legend, the anomaly "lodged" near Bermuda possesses satanic power, and arranged 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 creatures.
Allegedly, it is they who open portals here to other dimensions, 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, background.
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 folk 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 "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 aircraft and ships, between the coasts of Florida and Bermuda.
It was the reporter who was the first to use the name Bermuda Triangle, but the glory of giving the anomaly a name for some reason did not go to him, but to the person who said about it 14 years later.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 the 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 \u200b\u200ban 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 based on it. 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 go missing.
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 it is described by the myth, blown up over the years of wrong facts and many stories to the Pleiades themselves.
If you look at the area of \u200b\u200bthe Bermuda Triangle and look for facts, then the terrible tragedy of Bermuda is described by not hundreds of ships missing here. And not even fifty, but only ten, and even then, this is if you "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 states that the Avengers were flown by 14 experienced pilots.
The commanders of the aircraft practiced the flight task of training bombing, 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 the 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 left either.
Berlitz was opposed by Larry Kusche (Larry Kush), pointing out the hoax of facts. Surprisingly, Kusche's edition, The Bermuda Triangle Revealed Mystery, is published in volume 75, following the Berlitz edition.
In the book, Kusche explicitly states that there is no anomaly in Bermuda. Kusche did not deny the fact that five torpedo bombers disappeared without a trace under unknown circumstances, as well as the disappeared Mariner seaplane.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 to fly 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 had 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, since they were "pressed" to the water by a thundercloud. The pilots circling in this area surrounded by lightning eventually burned all the fuel, leaving the landing on the water, where the storm wave was raging.
However, Larry Kusche's version 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 machines can be called trainees with a stretch - the total flight time is about 350 hours, Captain Powers 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 remained alive.
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 (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 entire 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 look at the well-known negotiations between Taylor and Fox here.
There also seems to be 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 \u200b\u200bthe last bearing of the missing link.
As the captain of the Gaines Mills tanker passing in those places reported to the coast guard headquarters, 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 as a vertical column of fire hung 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 the plane catch 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.
The US military sent a huge force in search of the missing: 300 aircraft and 21 ships, many volunteers and the National Guard were looking for the now missing 6 aircraft.The entire coast was literally combed, the water surface was carefully examined. You will not believe it, but even the floats from the missing seaplane were not found, absolutely nothing 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. Disgruntled women are hiring a lawyer and demanding more thorough trials and re-examination. 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 strangeness in this disaster. At 5:15 pm, Taylor informs Port Everglades: “I can't hear you very well. We follow 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, while orienting a colleague, advises that the planes turn their port side towards the Sun and follow this course.
Oddly, however, Taylor hears, speaks, and does not react in any way to the words. Meanwhile, the connection continues to deteriorate, at about 19 o'clock in the evening, the connection, which was hanging on parole, ceases altogether, Lieutenant Taylor's group has clearly moved a considerable distance.
At 7:05 p.m., the last thing the Miami coast heard from the planes was one of the pilots calling Taylor in.
For example, I was also amazed: the link of the aircraft, maintaining the chosen course, went a considerable distance.
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 kind of 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 sky.
At the same time, researchers who do not believe in devilish tricks or games with parallel worlds have not been able to find confirmation of the five hundred disappearances of aircraft and sky ships that allegedly disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda anomaly.
There are not even a dozen confirmed cases of ships missing here.
It turns out that most of the ships that crashed and are cited as evidence of the anomaly happened quite far from the "Devil's Death Triangle", the ships could not experience it 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, falling into the sea, exploding / not exploding from hitting the water, will inevitably go to the bottom.
Similarly, 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 part of the ocean occur no more often than elsewhere 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 disasters, bursting at the surface of the water. The evidence for this is presented in a research paper published in the American journal Physics.
To test their theory, the scientists decided to begin by re-creating the situation using a computer. The model showed that any ship, being in a methane bubble, loses its buoyancy and therefore sinks to the ocean floor. Giant bubbles can even shoot down an aircraft 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, does not in any way fall under the "gas version".
A sea of \u200b\u200bversions
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 this incident.
Besides "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.
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 has become almost a sacred place for mysticism lovers.
However, back in 1975 researcher Lawrence David Kouche released the book "The Bermuda Triangle: Myths and Reality." A former civil aviation pilot, Kusche 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 do 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
Among 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 a 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 planes, and most of them ply in this territory quite safely. Moreover, on the same Bermuda from time immemorial people have lived 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 the Pacific Ocean near the Japanese island of Miyakejima, and it is attributed exactly the same properties as 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 talk 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 Bermuda Triangle theme, the famous Soviet bard Vladimir Vysotskywrote the song "Letter to the editor of the TV show" Obvious-Incredible "from Kanatchikovaya dacha". In the song, the patients of a psychiatric hospital, inspired by the plot of the mysterious "triangle", began to solve its riddle. Ultimately, "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 Kanachikovy dachas or orderlies.