Greetings, dear friends! On this beautiful Sunday, I would like to take a break and not write anything to tell you about a mystery that has not yet been solved, and scientists are speculating about this phenomenon. As you already understood, today we are interested in the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
While I collected my thoughts and searched Interesting Facts in order to decorate this article, I have met information several times that the secret has been solved. But those who say this should spit in the face should not be believed, and now I will try to explain why.
One of the most mysterious places on our planet Earth is the so-called Bermuda Triangle. For more than fifty years, it can be said to swallow all the ships passing by: both water and even air.
The insidious triangle is located in the Atlantic and its peaks are the Florida peninsula, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. The area of this geometric body is truly astonishing and baffling to the most famous scientists of many branches of knowledge.
For example, suddenly a stormy electric discharge of a fairly high power occurs in the sky, this leads to a sharp change in the weather, but, of course, the scientific world is most interested in the reasons for the mysterious disappearance of ships and aircraft.
Examples of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle
On May 12, 1999, a small plane was preparing to land on one of the Bahamas. Descending and reaching a height of 30 m, it disappears from the radar monitors for thirty whole minutes, and then appears and ... turning 360 degrees, gaining a height of about 450 m and disappearing forever.
Researchers give another case. Two friends in a small private jet prepare to land. The aircraft is descending, as there are only fifty kilometers to the runway. Suddenly, an unusual object appears right in front of their eyes, it somehow prevents them from flying around it and moving further along the route.
There is a recording of the conversation in the archive, which confirms the confusion of friends. This lasts no more than three to five minutes and the connection is cut off. The plane disappears... The search did not lead to anything, no evidence of a plane crash was found.
Why are ships and planes disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle?
Scientists put forward a variety of versions, sometimes simply incredible, but they cannot put forward evidence or at least a few arguments in favor of their hypotheses.
The most common version says that in this "gluttonous" triangle "everything is calm", it's just a rather busy crossroads between the continents, and weather conditions change very quickly.
According to another hypothesis, a huge amount of methane bubbles are constantly ejected to the surface of the ocean, which are able to sink a sea vessel or drown out an aircraft engine.
Some researchers call "killers" the so-called. wandering waves up to 30 m high, moreover, they appear suddenly.
There is also another version. This is the generation of infrasound by the waters of the ocean, which negatively affects the brain. This is what the wonderful film Solaris was once made about. Maybe it wasn't fantasy. Who knows?
Pyramid found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean near the Bermuda Triangle
However, in 1977, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, just in this ill-fated area, a giant ancient pyramid was discovered. The scientific expedition of Charles Burles confirmed that the pyramid, 150 meters high, is located at a depth of more than four hundred meters.
That is higher than the famous Egyptian pyramid Cheops. After this discovery, another version arose - that the pyramid is the main energy node of the legendary Atlantis. She can concentrate energy, which leads to tragedies.
There is no unambiguous statement as to what is the cause of the death of ships. The silent ocean keeps its secrets tightly from mankind.
Let's get this straight from the start: there really is no "mystery" associated with the Bermuda Triangle. Planes and ships go missing in the region between Puerto Rico, Florida and Bermuda just as often as in any other part of the world.
Moreover, there are no statistical data for this region. Of course, there are many natural mechanisms that can cause a shipwreck, but they are almost never found in the Bermuda Triangle.
Scientists' opinion
Despite the lack of any scientific evidence, Bermuda makes headlines from time to time when the papers need another scoop. Scientists are probably already tired of explaining that the “mystery” of the Bermuda Triangle is nothing more than a myth, but, fortunately, reports have appeared the other day that actually indicate that this phenomenon simply does not exist.
The famous Australian scientist Karl Krushelnitsky notes that the percentage of ships and aircraft that disappear in this area is the same as in other parts of the world. The Bermuda Triangle, as you know, is located close to the equator, not far from America, so it is not surprising that many air and water routes pass through it.
The history of the appearance of the myth
According to Krushelnicki, the myth of the Bermuda Triangle began when several large military convoys - and their subsequent rescue missions - disappeared in the region between World War I and World War II. In fact, these disappearances are explained by the terrible weather and the insufficient equipment of the aircraft.
Some of the pilots who went missing that day also made catastrophic mistakes, such as frequently getting lost by drinking before a flight or even setting off without proper aviation equipment.
In most cases, the bodies and pieces of equipment were never found, but this is not surprising, given that they all fell into the ocean. Even today, the wreckage of aircraft and ships that fell into the ocean is very difficult to find, despite significant advances in reconnaissance and tracking technology.
Speculation and hypotheses
However, the disappearance of the crew, combined with extensive press coverage of the case, guaranteed the emergence of legends. Although it has long been known that there is nothing mystical or otherworldly about this triangle, there are still many hypotheses trying to explain these disappearances. Some of them claim to be scientific, while the rest seem absolutely outlandish.
Not so long ago there was an assumption that shipwrecks can be caused by bubbles of methane that rises from the bottom of the sea. Although this version seems quite scientific, and not mystical, as is often the case with the Bermuda Triangle, there is one problem: there are no methane reserves in this region.
Bermuda Triangle - area in Atlantic Ocean, limited to Florida and Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, is famous for the mysterious, mystical disappearances of ships and aircraft. For many years, he has been bringing real horror to the population of the globe - after all, everyone has heard stories about inexplicable disasters and ghost ships.
Numerous researchers are trying to explain the anomaly of the Bermuda Triangle. Basically, these are theories of abductions of ships by aliens from outer space or residents of Atlantis, movement through holes in time or faults in space, and other paranormal causes. None of these hypotheses has yet been confirmed.
Opponents of the "otherworldly" versions argue that reports of mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle are greatly exaggerated. Ships and aircraft disappear in other parts of the world, sometimes without a trace. A radio malfunction or the suddenness of a disaster can prevent the crew from transmitting a distress call.
In addition, searching for debris at sea is a very difficult task. Also, the area of the Bermuda Triangle is very difficult to navigate: there are a large number of shoals, cyclones and storms often arise.
A hypothesis has been proposed to explain the sudden death of ships and aircraft by gas emissions - for example, as a result of the decay of methane hydrate on the seabed, when the density is lowered so much that the ships cannot stay afloat. Some speculate that once airborne, the methane could also cause plane crashes, for example, by lowering the density of the air.
It has been suggested that the cause of the death of some ships, including those in the Bermuda Triangle, may be the so-called wandering waves, which can reach a height of 30 meters. It is also assumed that infrasound can be generated at sea, which affects the crew of a ship or aircraft, causing panic, as a result of which people leave the ship.
Consider natural features this region - really extremely interesting and unusual.
The area of the Bermuda Triangle is just over a million square kilometers. There are huge shallow waters and deep-water depressions, a shelf with shallow banks, a continental slope, marginal and median plateaus, deep straits, abyssal plains, deep-sea trenches, a complex system of sea currents and intricate atmospheric circulation.
The Bermuda Triangle has several seamounts and hills. The mountains are covered with powerful coral reefs. Some seamounts rise to the bottom of the ocean alone, others form groups. In the Atlantic Ocean, by the way, they are much smaller than in the Pacific.
Here is the Puerto Rico Trench - the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. Its depth is 8742 meters.
Under the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle are mainly sedimentary rocks - limestone, sandstone, clay. The thickness of their layer ranges from 1-2 to 5-6 kilometers.
The smaller (southern) part of the triangle belongs to the tropical seas, the larger (northern) - to the subtropical. The water temperature on the surface here ranges from 22 to 26 ° C, but in shallow water, as well as
in bays and lagoons it can be much higher. The salinity of the waters is only slightly above average - except, again, shallow waters, bays and lagoons, where salinity can increase. The waters here are noticeably warmer than in other parts of the ocean on the same geographical latitudes because it is here that the warm Gulf Stream flows.
The current in the Bermuda Triangle is fast, impeding or slowing down the movement of ships sailing against it; it pulsates, changes speed and location, and changes are absolutely impossible to predict; it creates weather-affecting irregular eddies, some of which are quite powerful. On the edge of it warm waters with colder surrounding waters, fog is frequent.
Trade winds blow over the triangle - constant winds blowing in the Northern Hemisphere in a southwesterly direction, at an altitude of up to 3 kilometers. At high altitudes, antitrade winds blow in the opposite direction.
In the southern part of the triangle, roughly between Florida and the Bahamas, there are approximately 60 storm days a year. In fact, every fifth or sixth day there is a storm. If you move north, towards Bermuda, then the number of stormy days per year increases, that is, a storm occurs every fourth day. Destructive cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes are very frequent.
All this contributes to the disappearance of many ships and aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe the reason is not so mystical? But this cannot be said with certainty, since there are a lot of unexplained mysteries.
A LOT of ships and even planes disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, although the weather is almost always fine at the time of the disaster. Vessels and planes die suddenly, crews do not report problems, they do not send distress signals. The wreckage of aircraft and ships is usually not found, although the search is intensive, with the involvement of all relevant services.
Often, the Bermuda Triangle is credited with disasters that actually happened far beyond its borders. We have selected the most famous confirmed victims of the Bermuda Triangle among the ships.
"Rosalie"
In August 1840, near the capital of the Bahamas, Nassau, the French ship Rosalie was discovered, drifting with sails raised without a crew. The ship had no damage and was quite seaworthy. Everything looked as if the team had left the Rosalie a few hours ago.
Atalanta
On January 31, 1880, the British sailing training ship Atalanta departed Bermuda with 290 officers and cadets on board. On the way to England, it disappeared without leaving a trace. 
Atalanta
This case was in the center of public attention, The Times wrote about it daily, and even many months after the disappearance of the sailboat.
The Times (London), April 20, 1880, p. 12: The gunboat Avon arrived in Portsmouth yesterday. The captain reported that near the Azores he noticed a huge amount of floating debris ... The sea was literally teeming with them. The harbor of Faial Island was filled with ships that had lost their masts. And during all five days, while the Avon remained in the roadstead of Fayala, the wreckage became more and more.
However, there was no evidence that any ship sank or was wrecked by a storm ... Some Avon officers believe that the Atalanta may have hit an iceberg, but they categorically deny that the ship could capsize.
Lawrence D. Kusche published in his book excerpts from newspaper articles, official reports from the British Admiralty, and even the testimonies of two sailors, according to which the Atalanta was a very unstable ship and, with its 109 tons of water and 43 tons of ballast on board, could easily capsize and even drown. during a mild storm.
It was rumored that there were only two more or less experienced officers in the crew, who were forced to stay in Barbados because they fell ill with yellow fever. Consequently, 288 inexperienced sailors sailed on the ship.
An analysis of meteorological data has confirmed that strong storms have been raging in the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and Europe since early February. It is possible that the ship died somewhere very far from the Bermuda Triangle, since out of the 3,000 miles of travel that awaited it, only 500 passed through the “triangle”. And yet, Atalanta is considered one of the confirmed victims of the "triangle".
Unknown abandoned schooner
In 1881, the English ship "Ellen Austin" met an abandoned schooner in the open ocean, which completely preserved its seaworthiness and was only slightly damaged. Several sailors got on the schooner, and both ships headed for St. John's, located on the island of Newfoundland.
Soon the fog descended, and the ships lost sight of each other. A few days later they met again, and again there was not a single living soul on the schooner. The captain of the Ellen Austin wanted to land another small rescue crew on the schooner, but the sailors categorically refused, claiming that the schooner was cursed.
This story has two sequels with different versions. In the first version, the captain of the Ellen Austin tried to transfer another rescue crew to the schooner, but the sailors did not want to take any more risks, and the schooner was left in the ocean.
According to another version, the second rescue crew was nevertheless transferred to the schooner, but then a squall hit, the ships dispersed a considerable distance from each other, and no one has ever seen either the schooner or its second crew.
Joshua Slocum and his yacht
Joshua Slocum, who was the first in the history of mankind to sail alone around the globe, disappeared without a trace in November 1909, making a relatively short transition from the island of Martha's Vineyard to the shores of South America through the Bermuda Triangle.
Sailing yacht "Spray" 
On November 14, 1909, he sailed away from Martha's Vineyard, and there has been no news of him since that day. To those who knew Captain Slocum, he was too good a sailor, and the Spray too good a boat, for them to fail any of the usual difficulties the ocean might bring.
No one knows for sure what happened to him, although there was no shortage of guesses and versions. There are "reliable" testimonies of some sailors who, even after the fateful date, saw Slocum alive and unharmed in various ports of the world.
Over the years, many hypotheses have been proposed to explain its disappearance. In the end, a hurricane of such force could fly in that it sank his yacht. "Spray" could burn out. He could go to the bottom, colliding with some ship at night.
In coastal waters, the collision of a small boat with a large ship is not so uncommon. The lights on a sailboat tend to be quite dim, sometimes obscured by her own sails. A large vessel could easily smash a 37-foot floor into chips, and no one would even feel the jolt.
Edward Rowe Snow, in his book Mysterious Events off the Coast of New England, assures that a mail steamer with a displacement of about 500 tons ran into the yacht. Slocum's "case" was even dealt with by the court, which examined a variety of testimonies. According to the testimony of the son of Victor Slocum, his father was in brilliant shape, and the yacht was practically unsinkable.
It has even been suggested, unreservedly accepted by some "experts," that Joshua Slocum was not happily married and therefore staged a disaster in order to hide and spend the rest of his days in seclusion.
March 1918 "Cyclops"
On March 4, 1918, the cargo ship "Cyclops" with a displacement of 19,600 tons departed from the island of Barbados, carrying 309 people and a cargo of manganese ore. The vessel was 180 meters long and was one of the largest in the US Navy.
Cyclops on the Hudson River, 1911 
It was bound for Baltimore but never arrived. It never sent an SOS signal and left no trace. At first it was thought that the ship might have been torpedoed by a German U-boat, but no German U-boats were present at the time. According to another version, the ship ran into a mine. However, there were no minefields either.
Ministry navy The United States, after a thorough investigation, released a statement: “The disappearance of the Cyclops is one of the largest and most intractable cases in the annals of the Navy. Even the place of the disaster has not been precisely established, the causes of the misfortune are unknown, not the slightest trace of the ship has been found.
None of the proposed versions of the catastrophe gives a satisfactory explanation of the circumstances under which it disappeared. President Woodrow Wilson said that "only God and the sea know what happened to the ship." And one magazine wrote an article about how, as if from sea waters a huge squid emerged and dragged the ship into the depths of the sea.
In 1968 a diver naval forces Dean Hayves, who was part of the team searching for the missing Scorpion nuclear submarine, discovered a ship wreck at a depth of 60 meters, 100 kilometers east of Norfolk. Later, looking at the photograph of the Cyclops, he assured that it was this ship that lay at the bottom.
"Cyclops" still appears on the pages of the press and not only as one of the characters in the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle. It was the first large vessel equipped with a radio transmitter to vanish without sending an SOS, and the largest vessel in the US Navy to vanish without leaving any trace.
Every year, in March, when the next anniversary of his disappearance is celebrated, articles are again written about this mysterious event, old ones are updated and new theories are put forward, and, probably, the already famous photograph of the Cyclops is published for the hundredth time. His disappearance continues to this day, not without reason, to be called "the most unsolvable mystery in the annals of the navy."
"Carroll A. Dearing"
The five-masted schooner "Carroll A. Dearing" was discovered in January 1921 on the shallows of Diamond Shoals. She had no damage, the sails were raised, there was food on the tables, but there was not a single living soul on board, except for two cats. 
The crew of the "Deering" consisted of 12 people. None of them could be found, and it is still unknown what happened to them. On June 21, 1921, a bottle with a note was caught in the sea, which, presumably, could have been thrown by one of the crew members:
“We are in captivity, we are in the hold and handcuffed. Report this to the company's management as soon as possible."
Passions flared up even more when the captain's wife allegedly recognized the handwriting of the ship's mechanic Henry Bates, and graphologists confirmed the identity of the handwriting on the note and on his papers. But after some time it turned out that the note was forged, and the author himself even admitted this.
The judicial investigation, however, revealed important circumstances: on January 29, the schooner passed the lighthouse at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and gave signals that she was in a dangerous position, as she had lost both ship's anchors.
Then the schooner was seen to the north of the lighthouse from another ship, while she behaved rather strangely. Weather reports for early February contain indications of a severe storm off the coast of North Carolina with winds reaching 130 kilometers per hour.
"Cotopaxi"
On November 29, 1925, the Cotopaxi left Charleston with a cargo of coal and headed for Havana. Passing through the center of the Bermuda Triangle, it disappeared without leaving the slightest trace and without having time to send an SOS signal. Neither the wreckage nor the crew were found.
"Suduffco"
The freighter Suduffco left Port Newark, New Jersey, headed south and disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle without a trace. A spokesman for the company said it was gone, as if swallowed by a giant sea monster.
The ship sailed from Port Newark on March 13, 1926 and headed for the Panama Canal. His port of destination was Los Angeles. It had a crew of 29 and a cargo of about 4,000 tons, including a large batch of steel pipes.
The ship was moving along the coast, but on the second day after sailing, contact was lost with it. The search for the ship continued for a whole month, but not the slightest trace was found. True, meteorological reports and the testimony of the captain of the Aquitania liner, which was heading the same course towards the Suduffco, confirm that a tropical cyclone passed through this area on March 14-15.
"John and Mary"
In April 1932, 50 miles south of Bermuda, the Greek schooner Embirkos discovered the two-masted John and Mary. The ship was abandoned, its crew mysteriously disappeared.
"Proteus" and "Nereus"
"Proteus" 
At the end of November 1941, the Proteus ship departed the Virgin Islands, and a few weeks later, the Nereus. Both ships were heading for Norfolk, but neither arrived at their destination, both disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
The US was preoccupied with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on Japan, so the disappearance of the ships did not evoke a response. A study of the archives of the German navy after the war showed that the Proteus and Nereus could not have been sunk by submarines.
"Rubicon"
On October 22, 1944, a ship without a crew was discovered off the coast of Florida. The only living creature on board was a dog. The ship was in excellent condition, except for the missing lifeboats and a torn towline that hung from the bow of the ship.
The personal belongings of the crew members also remained on board. The last entry in the ship's log was made on September 26, when the ship was still in the port of Havana. The Rubicon apparently sailed along the coast of Cuba.
"City Bell"
On December 5, 1946, a schooner without a crew was discovered at sea. She followed the course from the capital of the Bahamas Nassau to one of the islands of the archipelago - Grand Turk. Everything was in order on the ship, the lifeboats were in their places, only the crew disappeared without a trace.
"Sandra"
In June 1950, the 120-meter cargo ship "Sandra", loaded with 300 tons of insecticides, left Savannah (Georgia) for Puerto Cabello (Venezuela) and disappeared without a trace. The search operation began only after it was established that he was six days late for the place of arrival.
By the way, an article about this case, written by journalist E. Jones and published on September 16, 1950, aroused great interest in the Bermuda Triangle. Jones noted that the Sandra is not the only ship that has disappeared here. The legend of the deadly triangle began to spread with incredible speed.
"Southern District"
In December 1954, the tank landing ship Southern District, converted into a sulfur cargo ship, disappeared in the Strait of Florida. Distress signals were not recorded either by ships at sea or by coast stations. Only a lifeline was found.
The vessel "Southern District" with a displacement of 3337 tons was sailing from Port Sulfur (Louisiana) with a cargo of sulfur to Bucksport (Maine). The destination was Portland.
The captain got in touch on the 3rd, and then on December 5th, while already off the coast of Florida. Everything was in order on the ship. On December 7, he was seen in storm surges off Charleston.
The commission of inquiry found that the ship, apparently, sank at northeast wind. In the area dominated by the Gulf Stream, this wind has a bad reputation, as it blows directly against the current, turning the Gulf Stream into a turbulent gurgling current, and even large ships hasten to get out of its way as soon as possible.
"Snow Boy"
In July 1963, a 20-meter fishing boat disappeared while sailing in clear weather from Kingston, Jamaica to the Pedro Keys. There were forty people on the ship, no one else heard anything about them. It was reported that the wreckage of the ship and items belonging to the crew members were found.
"Witchcraft"
The mysterious disappearance happened during the Christmas holidays of 1967. Two people on a small yacht left Miami Beach for a walk along the coast. They say they wanted to admire the festive illumination of the city from the sea.
Soon they reported on the radio that they had hit a reef and damaged the propeller, they were not in danger, but they asked to be towed to the pier, and indicated their coordinates: at buoy No. 7.
The rescue boat arrived at the site 15 minutes later, but did not find anyone. An alarm was announced, but the search did not give any result, no people, no yacht, no wreckage were found - everything disappeared without a trace.
"El Carib"
On October 15, 1971, the captain of the El Carib cargo ship sailing from Colombia to the Dominican Republic announced that they would arrive at their destination port at 7 am the next day. After that, the ship disappeared. It was a rather large cargo ship, the flagship of the Dominican merchant fleet, its length was 113 meters.
The ship was sailing to the port of Santo Domingo with a crew of thirty. It was equipped with an automatic signal system, which in the event of an accident automatically sends a distress signal on the air. Judging by the latest report, the ship at the time of the disappearance was in the Caribbean Sea, at a considerable distance from Santo Domingo.
This phrase has firmly entered our language as a synonym for mysterious disappearances that cannot be explained. And if the language accepted this phrase as native, then obviously the secret exists. Language always reacts to what is happening in the world. And no matter how much skeptics deny the existence of the Bermuda mystery, the language reminds us that there is a mystery, although scientists do not want to admit this.
Our language equates the Bermuda Triangle with a black hole. The hole, of course, is in space, and the triangle is on globe, but all the same, these concepts are similar, as the language understands them. But language is a product of our thinking. And if in it both concepts are interconnected, then it is quite likely that at the level of the subcortex we perceive them that way.
Of course, we practically do not know about the physics of black holes, they are far from us, because they are located where no spacecraft has yet reached. But the Bermuda region, which seems to be very close, and no rockets are required to study it, is also very little explored.
To be honest, it has not been studied much, since scientists look at the Bermuda phenomenon with a huge amount of skepticism. There are no, and cannot be, they say, secrets in this part of the ocean. And if ships and planes often disappear there, then they can die everywhere, and the statistics of disappearances here are really no different from other regions of the Earth.
Scientists are lying. They do not want to admit the obvious - in this place, everything is really not as safe as they convince us. Why? Yes, because if some places on the planet are recognized as dangerous, then the sea and air traffic, and this will immediately hit the economy and the income of many companies.
So it turns out that the economy will never allow science to recognize that the sea near Bermuda is an incomprehensible, dangerous place, but not always, but only at times. The trouble is that no one has yet drawn up a timetable for the appearance of danger in Bermuda. We do not know what goes against the rules there, what it is connected with and how it can be resisted. And, by the way, Bermuda is by no means the only such bad place. It's just the most famous.
Bermuda Triangle: what's going on there
What is special about Bermuda? People die there, equipment fails, completely incomprehensible optical and electromagnetic phenomena. And by and large, no one has yet been able to explain the causes of such planetary “failures”. This place is strange. Strange, dangerous and at the same time attractive.
You can, of course, pretend that Bermuda is no different from calm waters in the same Atlantic. On the contrary, one can see in Bermuda a manifestation of world evil. But it is much more interesting to try to figure out what strange events in this place can be connected with.
Very few people deal with the Bermuda problem. They are enthusiasts. They are just trying to figure out what is happening in this ill-fated place.
We are accustomed to think that physical laws well known to us, but why then does everything that has made Bermuda famous seem to mock our laws? Why here, what should fly, falls? What should float, sinks? What is not Earth? Why not Earth? - Earth. But another earth. And the laws we invented only work on Earth from school textbooks. Bermuda is, if you like, a place where other laws are in force, unknown to us and incomprehensible.
Mass destruction of aircraft in Bermuda
How did Bermuda become famous? We can say that the day that made the Bermuda Triangle famous divided time in the minds of mankind into two parts: before Bermuda and after Bermuda. Until this day, we lived in an understandable world, where, of course, accidents and disasters occur, but they can be explained by very real reasons.
After that day, we found ourselves in a world where, as it turned out, events occur that, from the point of view of common sense and science is impossible to explain. Of course, incidents in this region of the North Atlantic were known before, but there has never been such a strange and contrary to all our experience case.
In addition, the disaster did not occur on the water, but in the air, and not with one aircraft, but with a whole link of military torpedo bombers. And when more than one plane dies, but several at once, and the catastrophe is accompanied by a mass of incomprehensible side events, there is something to think about.
Missing planes in the Bermuda Triangle
In the history of Bermuda, only one case of mass aircraft loss is known, which happened to 5 aircraft of the US Air Force and one rescue aircraft. In that day Bermuda took 6 completely serviceable and defect-free aircraft and 27 human lives.
It was a catastrophe of such magnitude that even after 60 years, the memory of the missing pilots was honored in the US Congress with a minute of silence. And if this tragic event is remembered even 60 years later, I think it makes sense for us to know what happened on that day far from us over the azure waters of the Atlantic.
The weather over Bermuda is surprisingly changeable. Therefore, meteorologists refuse to make long-range forecasts. They can only give short-term reports. But on that day, December 5, 1945, the weather was wonderfully sunny. The air was clean and transparent, the sea - extremely calm. Weather reports showed that in the foreseeable future there would be no storms, no thunderstorms, or even ordinary rain.
in Florida, where military base USAF Fort Lauderdale, the weather was great too. And the weather reports for Florida did not portend any trouble - a great, just amazing day for flying!
At 1410 hours, the 19th torpedo bomber unit - 5 Avenger aircraft - took off into the cloudless sky. As always, the flight was to have a normal flight. The pilots were faced with a routine task - to go towards the island of Bimini, where the training ground is located, and conduct training firing.
The planes would then return to Florida and follow the coastline just 150 miles to the east and 40 miles to the north. Estimated flight time is 2 hours. They had enough fuel for a longer flight. But the link of torpedo bombers did not reach the training ground. And it never came back again.
Maybe the pilots were newbies? It is this version that is offered to us when they try to reduce all the secrets of Bermuda to the human factor - that is, pilot errors. But the pilots of the 19th flight were not newcomers. As for the flight commander, Lieutenant Charles Taylor, he was an experienced pilot. His experience totaled more than 2500 hours of flight.
Maybe the plane had defects? If we talk about one car, then such an assumption can be justified, but about five at once? According to probability theory, this is a very crazy idea.
The Last Words of Flight Avengers
At 3:45 p.m., Wing Commander Charles Taylor contacted the control tower at Fort Lauderdale. Records have been preserved with the negotiations of Commander Taylor and the ground service of reference.
"We can't see the ground," Taylor said, embarrassed. "We seem to be off course." - Where are you? the tower asked.
There was silence for a few minutes. Taylor then reported:
- We're not sure where we are. I repeat: we do not see the earth.
After that, the connection was interrupted. And although they tried to contact the aircraft of the 19th flight from Fort Lauderdale, nothing worked.
Approximately 5 minutes earlier, Lieutenant Robert F. Cox, chief flight instructor at Fort Lauderdale Air Force Base, was flying around the airfield and overheard the conversations of unidentified pilots. On the frequency used by the pilots during training flights, Junior Flight 19 Edward J. Powers, aircraft FT-36, was given instructions and asked about instrument readings, finally a voice said:
“I don't know where we are. Obviously we got lost after the last turn." It was FT-28, Wing Commander Charles Taylor, and he said, "I've got both compasses out and I'm trying to find Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ground is below me, the terrain is rugged. I'm sure it's the Keys, but I don't know how to get to Fort Lauderdale."
Cox immediately advised Taylor to turn the plane so that the sun was on the left, and head for the coast, to Miami, and from there another 20 miles to Fort Lauderdale. They could not talk anymore, because Cox's radio unexpectedly deteriorated.
But Taylor's signal was picked up in Port Everglades, where the naval aviation rescue base was located. It is from the radio communications between Taylor and the Port Everglades base that one can get a picture of the further events that occurred with the 19th air link.
From Taylor's messages, it became clear that the group of aircraft was lost, but it was not possible to understand exactly where. Taylor reported that he did not recognize the area, that everything around, including the ocean, looked strange. Specialists from the Port Everglades base began to work out all possible versions of the reasons that led this group of torpedo bombers to deviate from the course.
One of the main assumptions is the failure of navigation instruments at the leading link, that is, Taylor. Therefore, from the base of Port Everglades, a proposal was received to transfer command of the link to a pilot with functioning navigation instruments. Taylor accepted the offer and immediately gave the order to rebuild. Then the connection was interrupted. It failed to install. So Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale decided to work together. This is the message that was sent:
"Port Everglades to Fort Lauderdale: Since FT-74 (Cox) has lost contact with FT-28 (Taylor), while continuing south, I believe that the link has lost its way somewhere over the Bahama Bank, and I propose to raise the duty officer into the air an aircraft from Fort Lauderdale Air Force Base with the task of listening to a frequency of 4805 kilohertz; heading 075 degrees (east-northeast), attempt to establish contact with FT-28.
If communication with FT-28 improves as the duty aircraft follows the assigned course, it is safe to say that the link has lost its way over the Bahamas. In addition, the aircraft on duty will be able to act as a relay station, as radio reception from the FT-28 becomes increasingly difficult.
After a while, Taylor again gets in touch. He is faintly heard, but from his transmission it is possible to understand that he seems to be over the Gulf of Mexico. This meant that he was in a completely different place, not where he had previously assumed. Then the connection became very weak. Taylor told his pilots that he saw the ship on the left and if one of the pilots ran out of fuel, then the link would land on the water. The connection is broken.
By phone, Fort Lauderdale contacts Port Everglades. At 1751 hours, all coastal rescue stations were ordered to search for FT-28 and its flight. All bases south of Banana River are on alert #1.
On alarm at the base of Port Everglades, a Martin Mariner rescue aircraft was raised. Other aircraft in the air were ordered to try to contact Taylor.
"Martin Mariner" went the intended course towards the missing link. The rescue aircraft contacted several times, transmitting the usual report: the sea is calm, no traces of the 19th flight were found. At 1800 hours, we managed to find the location of the 19th link: within a radius of 100 miles from the point with coordinates 29 degrees 15 minutes north latitude 79 degrees 00 minutes west longitude - that is, over the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Bahamas and east of New Smerna, Florida.
But these coordinates turned out to be impossible to transfer to the rescue aircraft - communication with it was lost. On the ground, they decided that the passage of radio waves was disrupted in the search area. Plane after plane took off from the base. They didn't find a single Avenger. Nor did they find the Martin Mariner. The Martin Mariner never made contact again.
The military used every possible means to transfer the correct course to the 19th link, but all attempts were countable. It became clear that the link was missing. In the same way, a well-equipped rescue aircraft, sent in search of Avengers, has sunk forever into obscurity.
Last words, transmitted by Taylor, were completely incomprehensible:
It seems like we're like... we're sinking... we're completely lost... we're entering white water...
No planes found in the Bermuda Triangle
For 5 days, ships and planes ransacked all the ocean waters around Bermuda. In this operation, the military involved 300 aircraft and 21 ships, checked all possible areas where the Avengers could crash, including the coast of Florida, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys.
But they found absolutely no trace of the mysterious link. As they did not find traces of the Martin Mariner rescue aircraft. As if 6 aircraft with their crews melted in a clear sky.
This is what it looks like misterious story the disappearance of a flight of Avengers and a flying boat "Martin Mariner" in the area. A special commission was created to investigate the incident, which interviewed many witnesses, checked the records of the negotiations, but could not answer how, where and why 27 servicemen died.
Perhaps the only “achievement” of the commission was that the Bermuda Triangle and its victims were known far beyond the ill-fated area. I immediately remembered other tragedies that happened where they are Bermuda and until the death of the 19th link.
And a lot of different theories have appeared, some completely ridiculous and insane, others more scientific, and still others try to deny the obvious and give the riddle a "mysterious" but clearly politicized meaning.
The Bermuda Triangle was first mentioned by writer Vincent Gaddis in 1946 when he wrote an article for Argosy magazine about the strange disappearance of Flight 19. The Bermuda Triangle is considered to be an area in the Atlantic Ocean between the coast of Florida, a small island in Bermuda, and an island in Puerto Rico. This triangle is said to be the place where ships and planes mysteriously disappear. But why?
It seems that Australian scientists - Professor Joseph Monaghan and student David May from Monash University in Melbourne - have uncovered his secret. The reason for the mysterious disappearance,.
Oceanographers, having explored some dangerous areas of the seabed, found sites of ancient eruptions with a large accumulation of methane hydrates. According to the assumptions of scientists, methane, released from natural cracks in the ocean floor, turns into huge gas bubbles, which then, geometrically expanding, rise to the surface of the water and explode there. Then the gas begins to rise through the air.
Monaghan and May using computer modelling decided to find out if their theory was correct. Based mainly on scientific principles The fluid dynamics computer program used all the variables, including the giant methane bubble's speed, pressure, and density, of both the gas and the surrounding waters.
As shown by the computer model, any ship caught in a megabubble of methane immediately loses its buoyancy, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. These giant gas bubbles are also capable of shooting down an airborne aircraft.
Scientists to confirm the accuracy of their results, built a large reservoir filled with water. After that, they began to release large bubbles of methane from the bottom of the tank to the toy ships floating on the surface of the water.
And they found that the ship went to the bottom if it was located between the middle and the outer edge of the bubble. If the sea vessel was at a sufficiently distant distance from the edge of the bubble or directly above it, it was not in danger. This may well explain some cases when ships with dead crew members were found in the Bermuda Triangle, however, on the body of which there was not a single scratch. It turns out that people simply suffocated with poisonous gas.
However, what a methane bubble actually looks like and how it breaks the surface of the sea, escaping from the ocean depths, continues to be a mystery. And according to some archival data, there have not been any large gas emissions in the Bermuda Triangle over the past five hundred years. Or there simply were no records of them.
OTHER VERSIONS
Remaining technologies lost city Atlantis
There is an opinion that the Bermuda Triangle is the location of the lost city of Atlantis. According to legend, the city's energy source was crystals that sent waves from the depths of the ocean, causing interruptions in the operation of navigation instruments on ships and aircraft.
Curvature of time
Portals leading to other dimensions, gaps in space and time? According to some reports, 1,000 lives have been lost in 500 years, and 50 ships and 20 aircraft have been lost in the last century. The Coast Guard says there is evidence of anomalies in this area, but what about time travel? However, enthusiasts believe that there are "blue holes" in the Bermuda Triangle - the remains of time tunnels through which aliens crossed dimensions to get to Earth.
Deliberate attacks
This is a reason not supported by anything other than numerous accidents at sea and in the air. While there was no evidence or suggestion that the plane went missing in the case of Flight 19 due to the attack, it is believed by many that this may be the reason for the disappearance of other ships and planes. These deliberate attacks include both military action and piracy. In the past, and even today, there are many recorded cases of such cases of piracy, even after Captain Blackbeard descended into his watery grave.
Geomagnetic fields
Strange disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle have been linked to navigation problems. Therefore, geomagnetic fields can be a real cause of accidents. There is a theory that there are magnetic anomalies in this area and that the triangle is one of only two places on Earth where true north and magnetic north align, which could lead to changes in navigation instruments.
Gulf Stream Changes
The Gulf Stream is like a river in the ocean that starts in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Strait of Florida to the North Atlantic. This current occupies an area 64-70 km wide. The Gulf Stream could easily move an aircraft or a ship off course, and the Bermuda Triangle contains some of the deepest depressions in the world, some of which go down to 8534 m. The remains of the ships were most likely swallowed up by the sea.
weather and big waves
Caribbean-Atlantic storms result in unpredictable weather in the Bermuda Triangle area. This may be another reason for the disappearances. According to Norman Hook, of the Lloyds Marine Data Service in London, "Bermuda Triangle does not exist". He says that all accidents are caused by the weather. Devastating hurricanes are often observed here, as well as very large waves that sink ships and oil platforms. Recent satellite readings have recorded 25m waves in open space.
human error
Spatial disorientation and sensor confusion are rare, but are a known cause of a certain percentage of aircraft crashes. Also, the fact that there is heavy traffic in the Bermuda Triangle area leads to accidents and disappearances.
Complete fiction
The only explanation is its absence. The theory of the Bermuda Triangle is based on prejudices that have been keeping people in suspense for several centuries. Over time, writers took sea tales and legends as a basis, and even records of Christopher Columbus himself that “there are strange dancing lights on the horizon in this area”, “flames in the sky” and “interruptions in navigational instruments”, and continued to unleash this myth.
Today it is believed that Columbus saw only the flames of the fires of the people from the Taino tribe. Compass failures were due to incorrect calculations of the movement of a certain star, and the flames in the sky are meteorites falling to the ground, which are easy to see in the sea. Although the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been left alone, the very name and mystery continues to exist.
And for lovers of the unknown: ships and people were abducted by aliens.