“In the Western Atlantic, adjacent to the southeast coast of the United States, there is a triangular region. It can be delineated by a line running from Bermuda in the north to the southern tip of Florida, thence east, bypassing the Bahamas and Puerto Rico, up to a point that is located about forty degrees west, and then back to Bermuda. This area is an exciting, almost unbelievable place that takes pride of place on the list. unsolved mysteries. It is commonly referred to as the Bermuda Triangle. More than a hundred ships and planes disappeared without a trace here, mostly after 1945. Over the past 26 years, more than a thousand people have disappeared in it, but the search failed to find a single corpse or even fragments from the disappeared ships and aircraft. Such disappearances have become more frequent, although airways and sea routes have become busier, searches are more thorough, and all data is stored much better.

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

Birth of a legend

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

Is our world small? No, it's still huge, like the world the ancients knew, with the same misty purgatory of lost souls.

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

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

"Sandra" had a radio. It was 350 feet cargo Ship with 12 crew members. After leaving Miami, the ship took on board 300 tons of insecticide in Savannah and sailed to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. On the way, he disappeared without a trace.

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

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

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

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

Airplane "Ariel"

The Navy interrupted maneuvers. Aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers plowed the waters, thousands of pairs of keen eyes looked overboard. They found no hint of the plane's fate.

A year earlier, on January 31, 1948, another British aircraft, the Star Tiger, was approaching Bermuda with 29 people on board. He transmitted his location data several times. Then there was silence, shrouded in mystery. To this day, not a trace of this aircraft has been found.

An older but more puzzling mystery is the fate of five torpedo bombers that flew out of Fort Lauderdale Naval Base on December 5, 1945, for a navigational training flight. Hours passed, darkness fell. Concerned officers called them on the radio, but the answer was silence.

A flight of Avenger aircraft

Gone are the days when aircraft had to run out of fuel. Other aircraft flew out to search, including a large, bulky PBM rescue floatplane with 13 crew members.

None of the five 14-crewed torpedo bombers was found, despite the most extensive search in Florida history. The rescue floatplane did not return either.

Approximately 135 people presumptuously went to a world they considered small and did not return - such is the list of victims of modern secrets. It is still the same big world as the ancients knew it, a world where people with their machines and ships can disappear without a trace.

Jones did not try to draw the boundaries of the "triangle", did not claim that something anomalous was hidden in it. Taken individually, the crashes he mentioned were all given convincing explanations without the involvement of "unknown forces."

Explanations without mysticism

The ship "Sandra", contrary to the statements of Jones, was not 350 feet (106 m) long, but 185 feet (56 m). He left Savannah on April 5, and the search ended not on June 16, as Jones writes, but on May 29.

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

The sea idyll was spoiled by the librarian Lawrence Kusche. Having raised the documents, he found out that a storm was raging at the time of the disappearance of the ship. The Miami Herald of April 8, 1950 reported:

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

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

Kouchet found out that the DC-3 that disappeared on June 16, 1948, took off from San Juan with dead batteries:

DC-3

"Although the ministry civil aviation and did not solve the mystery of the disappearance of the DC-3, his report contains a very important information on this account. The legend emphasizes that the disaster happened almost instantly: a sudden loss of communication between the control room and the aircraft. However...because rechargeable batteries sat down, the radio transmitter, in fact, did not work both at the airfield in San Juan and at the beginning of the last flight. It is obvious that the problems with the transmitter continued throughout the flight, as all attempts to establish radio contact with the aircraft were unsuccessful.

A lot of malfunctions could have occurred on the plane in the hour and a half that had passed between the last message from Linkvist (the pilot of the plane. - Auth.) and that fateful moment when there was not a drop of fuel left in the gas tanks. New power failures could arise, and if the plane flies at night without lights, instruments and navigation equipment, it is doomed to death ...

In San Juan, forecasters told Linkvist that the wind would be light southwest at the beginning of the flight, and then it would change direction and blow from the northwest. Making allowance for the wind, Linquist had to keep the plane slightly to the left of the given course. However, as they approached Miami, the wind changed direction again and blew from the northeast. If the pilot was not aware of this, then although the wind was not strong, it could cause a 40-50 nautical yaw to the left. Thus, DC-3 may have passed south of the southern tip of Florida and ended up over the Gulf of Mexico.”

Flight 19. Flying coffins

The Ariel was a British South American Airways (BSAA) Tudor IV, a converted World War II bomber. However, what was suitable war time, unacceptable in peacetime: the plane was so bad that all other companies abandoned it. Don McIntosh, a former BSAA pilot, believes the cockpit heating system, mounted under the floor, is to blame. The heater ran on aviation fuel, which was fed drop by drop into a red-hot pipe, and was in dangerous proximity to the vital control system - hydraulic rods.

Captain Peter Duffy, who flew for the BSAA, also considered the proximity of the heater and the rods fatal: "I believe that there was a leak of hydraulic fluid vapors, which, hitting a red-hot heater, exploded." Under the cab there was not even a fire alarm, not to mention an automatic fire extinguishing system. The plane with broken thrusts did not have much time left to send an SOS, or the radio was also out of order.

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

The second plane Jones mentioned, the Star Tiger, was of the same type and belonged to the BSAA. It went missing on 30 (not 31) December, with 31 people on board.

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

In 2009, BBC journalists found out that the Star Tiger had run into problems even before it made an intermediate landing in the Azores. The heater was out of order, besides, one of the compasses failed. Most likely, in order to keep the plane warmer, the pilot decided to fly not at the usual height, but near the water itself. At low altitude, if something happens to the plane, it falls into the water in a matter of seconds: the pilots do not have enough time to call for help.

Gordon Stor, a former BSAA pilot, said in 2008 that he never trusted Tudor IV engines: "All the systems were hopelessly tangled, the hydraulics, all the equipment mindlessly squeezed under the floor, without any consideration." In a mess of wires, rods and hoses, any malfunction could be fatal.

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

There was no secret in the death of six aircraft - five Avenger-type torpedo bombers and a rescue hydroplane in December 1945. The pilots of the torpedo bombers, except for the squadron commander, Lieutenant Taylor and one of the crew members, were inexperienced cadets and, getting lost, hung in the air over the ocean until they ran out of fuel. Lawrence Kouchet concluded that Taylor, whose compasses had failed, played the role of Susanin, taking the squadron farther into the ocean. Many pilots realized that he was leading them in the wrong direction, but no one violated military discipline in order to return to the air base on the right course.

Video documentary about the Bermuda Triangle (up to minute 17:56)

When the time has come emergency landing, the weather was not as good as at the time of departure. Avengers are not designed to land on water, especially in bad weather. Most likely, the pilots did not even have time to open the cockpit and unfasten the seat belts, having gone under water along with the torpedo bombers.

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

How many incidents, so many reasons. As Lawrence Kusche noted, "Trying to find one common cause for all the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is no more logical than looking for one common cause for all car accidents in Arizona."

"Cyclops" is the largest victim of the "triangle". As it turned out later, the dangerously overloaded ship disappeared during a storm.

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

Rescuers say

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

According to the data of the Seventh District of the US Coast Guard, which is in charge of rescue operations in the area of ​​the "triangle", over 150,000 sea voyages are made here annually. If we compare the number of disasters in this region, which occupies about a quarter of the length of the US coast, with its entire length, then, paradoxically, the losses in the Bermuda Triangle are not only not higher than average, but sometimes even lower (for example, in 1975 out of 21 maritime disasters, only 4 fell to the share of the "triangle", in 1976 out of 28 - only 6). These data refer to ships whose tonnage exceeds 100 gross tons. Airliners, having become technically more perfect and more powerful, have ceased to "disappear". Private boats, yachts and planes are less closely monitored and continue to die in choppy waters. The Gulf Stream can carry away the wreckage for 100-200 miles in a day, hiding the traces of the tragedies that have played out.

Changeable weather, the topography of the ocean floor, including shoals and reefs, then deep-sea trenches, frequent hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, even piracy - all these factors did not make the "triangle" so dangerous that the famous insurance monopoly "Lloyd" increased the amount of ship insurance, passing through the "fatal place". A spokesman for Lloyd's stated in 1975 that "our information service found no evidence that more casualties occurred in the Bermuda Triangle than anywhere else."

The US Coast Guard considers the "triangle" a fiction:

“Most of the disappearances can be attributed unique features environment district. First, the "Devil's Triangle" is one of two places on Earth where magnetic compass indicates true (geographic) north. It usually points to magnetic north. The difference between the two directions is known as magnetic declination. At world tour its value can vary by as much as 20 degrees. If this magnetic declination, or error, is not taken into account, the navigator may be much off course and face great difficulties ...

Another environmental factor is the peculiarity of the Gulf Stream. This current is extremely fast, turbulent and can quickly destroy any traces of a disaster. The unpredictable nature of the weather in the Caribbean-Atlantic region also plays a role. Pilots and sailors are often threatened with disaster by tornadoes and sudden local lightning storms. Finally, the topography of the ocean floor changes from vast shoals around islands to sea ​​trenches, which are among the deepest in the world. As a result of interaction with strong currents washing numerous reefs, the topography of the bottom is in a state of constant movement and the formation of new navigational hazards occurs rapidly.

Don't underestimate the factor of human error. In the waters between the Gold Coast of Florida and the Bahamas, a large number of pleasure boats sail. Too often they try to cross this water area with too small boats, insufficiently representing the dangers of the area, and not having good navigational skills.

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

Journalist Peter Michelmore, who was on duty with the Coast Guard in the Bermuda Triangle, cites cases when people only miraculously did not enter the statistics of "disappearances without a trace":

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

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

A legend doomed to life

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

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

Reading about riddles and secrets is not as boring as non-fiction, so books on the "triangle" will not disappear from the shelves soon. The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz remained on the bestseller list for seven months and was sold, according to the most conservative estimates, with a circulation of 5 million copies (four times the big figure was also called). Instead of boring attempts to give natural explanations for the catastrophes, Berlitz unleashed intriguing conjectures and speculations on readers:

Something like this Berlitz and his followers imagine the disappearance of ships in the "triangle"

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

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

Stories like this one are cited as evidence:

“A few years ago, a National Airlines passenger plane with 127 passengers on board was approaching runway airfield in Miami (Florida) from the northeast and was controlled by ground radar. Suddenly the plane disappeared from the screen and appeared only ten minutes later. The landing took place without any incidents. The crew was surprised by the concern of the airfield service. When the pilots checked the time, it turned out that all the clocks on the plane were 10 minutes behind compared to the airfield clocks. And 20 minutes earlier, when checking the clocks on the plane and at the control room, there were no discrepancies. The chief controller said to the pilot: “My God, buddy, you simply didn’t exist for ten minutes!”

Neither Berlitz himself nor other authors provide dates, times, or flight numbers. In the documents of the US Civil Aviation Administration, the documents of the Miami airport and the airline itself, no such incident was recorded. Employees of the company argued that "if the incident really took place, everyone would probably know about it." But not everything in the books about the "triangle" is invented.

Methane hell underfoot

“Pilots of a Boeing 707 flying from San Juan to New York on April 11, 1963, observed a billowing mound of water resembling a giant cauliflower,” writes Berlitz. - He was clearly observed at 13.30 from a height of 9.5 km - first by the co-pilot, then by the commander and flight mechanic. Observation coordinates – 19°54′ s. sh. and 66°47′ W in the vicinity of the Puerto Rican Trench, 5.5 miles deep. They calculated that the rising mass of water was 0.5-1 miles in diameter and over 900 meters high. Since the commander did not want to violate the schedule, endangering the aircraft and passengers, he simply looked at the unusual phenomenon and continued flying on the same course. The co-pilot, however, then contacted the coast guard, the seismic center and, rather strangely, the FBI, but did not receive any confirmation from them that something unusual was happening at that place at the indicated time.

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

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

The crew, Commander John Knepper, myself, Ralph Stokes and the flight engineer observed this frightening phenomenon for at least three minutes, until the bubble collapsed, turning into a huge circle of dark blue water with no traces of smoke, steam or debris. He seemed to come out of nowhere and return to nothing."

Berlitz did not know that the rising "bubbles" would have a natural explanation in 1984. Canadian chemist Donald Davidson drew attention to the deposits of gas hydrates under the Bermuda Triangle. In appearance, they look like ordinary snow - whitish crystals that quickly disintegrate from heat. These solid compounds of gases with water are very stable, as if cementing the bottom with a hard “armor” up to 300 meters or more thick.

Physical tests confirmed the correctness of the computer model. The ship sank if it was between the middle of the bubble and its outer edge

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

The pilots of the two planes that saw the “bubbles” did the right thing: if they flew closer, they would risk “sucking” methane into the turbines with unpredictable consequences, up to engine shutdown or an explosion in the air.

Second, if some process disturbs the equilibrium of the gas hydrate layer and its fragments begin to float, the higher temperature of the surface layers will cause them to melt rapidly. One volume of gas hydrates gives 100-160 volumes of gas, and by the time the gases come to the surface, the water will turn into a gas-water mixture that is not able to hold the ship on itself. The ship falls under the water, risking never getting up.

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

Charles Berlitz also met with people who fell into gas emissions, but preferred to consider them something supernatural. His books mention the case of Joe Tully, the captain of the fishing boat Wild Goose. In 1944, the ship was in tow behind another ship, the Caicos Trader. Tully was sleeping in the cabin, when suddenly water burst into it. He automatically grabbed life vest and swam out the hatch. The ship at that moment was already at a depth of 15-25 meters, but Tully managed to rise to the air. "Caicos Trader" remained afloat. The sailors later said that his ship literally fell under the water: they had to cut off the tow rope, fearing that they, too, would be pulled into the abyss. The ejection was small, otherwise both ships would have gone to the bottom and the depth of the dive turned out to be fatal.

"Triangle" - the base of the UFO?

On October 20, 1969, the crew of the American guided missile destroyer Josephus Daniels observed something strange. Radar specialist Robert Reilly, Petty Officer Third Class, told Berlitz:

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

It's hard to describe. It's like the moon rising above the horizon, but a thousand times bigger - like a sunrise that doesn't glow. It was a light that emitted no light. It rose above the horizon about 11-15 miles to starboard and partly in front of us, continued to increase for 15 minutes. It all looked like a flash from a nuclear explosion, but it increased, remained in place - be it nuclear explosion, we would see it on a radar with a range of over 300 miles.

The captain was notified. The watch officer on the bridge ordered the ship to be turned around. Maybe he thought it was a nuclear explosion, and the standard maneuver in this case is to "turn astern to the flash." This was seen by 70-100 people - most of them lay in their beds. I would have slept too if I had not been on duty ...

The next day we arrived in Norfolk. Everyone just talked about it. Our captain gathered the team and said not to talk about what he saw.

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

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

“That night we had a great fright. June 30 at 0.30 Norman took me to the watch, I got into sleeping bag and began to put on his socks, as it was damp and cold on the bridge. Suddenly Norman's voice was heard again, and now there was horror in it:

- Come here, quickly! Look!

I ducked through the door, followed by Santiago, climbed up to the bridge, and through the roof of the cabin we stared in the direction Norman was pointing.

Purely the end of the world. Above the horizon to port, to the northwest, a pale disk rose like a ghostly aluminum moon. Without breaking away from the water, it slowly increased in size. A correctly expanding semicircle resembled either a very dense nebula, brighter than the Milky Way, or a mushroom cap, which was inevitably advancing on us, capturing the sky ever wider. The moon shone in the opposite direction, it was cloudless, the stars sparkled. At first I thought it was a spot of light against the damp night air from some powerful searchlight over the horizon. Or maybe it's an atomic mushroom, the fruit of a monstrous oversight of people? Or Northern Lights? In the end, I leaned towards the fact that this is a luminous rain of cosmic bodies that invaded the earth's atmosphere. Then the disk, which had already occupied about thirty degrees of the black sky, suddenly stopped growing, somehow imperceptibly melted and disappeared. So we did not understand what it was ... In the morning we learned from a Barbados radio amateur that the same phenomenon, but in the northeast, was observed from many islands of the West Indies.

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

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

Mikhail Gershtein

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Charles Frambach Berlitz(November 23, 1913 – December 18, 2003) was an American linguist and language teacher, known for his language courses and his books on the paranormal.

a life

Berlitz was a writer on the paranormal. He wrote a number of books dealing with Atlantis. In his book Mystery of Atlantis, he claimed Atlantis was real, based on his interpretation of geophysics, psychic research, classical literature, ancestral lore, and archaeology. He also tried to link the Bermuda Triangle of Atlantis. He claimed that Atlantis is 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 duty with the US Army, mostly in intelligence. In 1950 he married Valeria Seary, with whom he had two children, a daughter, Lyn, and a son, Mark. He died in 2003 at the age of 90 at the University Hospital in Tamarack, Florida.

reception

Berlitz's statements about the Bermuda Triangle and the Philadelphia Experiment have been heavily criticized by researchers and scientists for being inaccurate. It has also been criticized for ignoring possible natural explanations and promoting pseudoscientific ideas.

Larry Kusche accused Berlitz of fabricating evidence and inventing mysteries that have no basis.

Bibliography

anomalous phenomena

• Mystery of Atlantis (1969)
• Secrets from forgotten worlds (1972)

This is the 40th anniversary of the book "The Bermuda Triangle" by Charles Berlitz. As the name implies, the publication that was published in 1974 is dedicated to the Bermuda anomaly, occupied part of the Atlantic Ocean. It was this work that made the place widely known for the mysterious zone that devours any transport vessel 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 hard nut of the anomaly.

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

According to the prevailing legend, the anomaly "settled" under Bermuda has satanic power, and arranged a dozen dozen catastrophes, destroying vehicles both air and sea.

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

Charles Berlitz, revealing the secret of the "Bermuda Triangle" to the public, connected the catastrophes and the disappearance of ships and aircraft without a trace with alien creatures.
Allegedly, it is they who open portals to other dimensions here, and abduct ships and people. UFOs fly here, whose base is hidden under water in the center of the anomaly.

The book was a very 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 existence of the mythical Atlantis.
Against the general background of the "UFO Hunt" that was developing at that time, the proposals, as well as the stories given in the book, came in very handy and were a great success.

Bermuda Triangle, prehistory.

According to the legend, which Bermuda has overgrown in literally ten 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 know who would be the next victim. scary place. Soon, at first, the nameless place gets given name- The Devil's Triangle.

Most likely, this name comes from popular superstitions, supposedly once in this place the Devil flirted with sea travelers, who played so hard 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 caused 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 a . Of course, eyewitnesses of their appearance are captured, and their further fate is unknown. Another suspect in the disasters was a kind of "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 " mysterious disappearances» aircraft and ships, between the coasts of Florida and Bermuda.

It was the reporter who first used the name Bermuda Triangle, but for some reason the glory of giving the anomaly a name did not go to him, but to the person who said this 14 years later.

Two years after the article and the seven-page pamphlet, George H. Sand published a series of strange maritime incidents.
In its history, ships, both sea and air, hit 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 the versions about 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' book in 55 about "flying saucers and conspiracies." As the title implies, although the authors were not adherents of the idea of ​​an alien presence, they willingly supported the theory with immigrants from other planets settled in Bermuda.

Just after these events, Vincent H. Gladdis (an admirer of spiritualism) “gives” a name everywhere - “Bermuda Triangle”, which immediately takes root in society.

Vincent Gladdis wrote an article in Argosy in February 1964, and later used the name in Invisible Horizons, referring to the anomaly as the "Deadly Bermuda Triangle". Since then, it has been customary 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, 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 very real and mysterious place where people and vehicles disappear without a trace.

This is terrible, the legend frightens, but: “whether it be a ship, whether it be a plane full of many travelers, be afraid to travel in this part of the ocean, the yellow fog devours everything and everyone, there is no salvation for anyone” .... Scary? Then let me tell you that the terrible mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is not as terrible as it is described by the myth, blown up by years of wrong facts and many stories before the Pleiades themselves.

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

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

Missing link "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.
Aircraft commanders worked out the flight task of training bombing, they had to make two turns as part of the navigation exercise - in a mystical way, this happens just above the tops of the Bermuda Triangle.

Then something terrible happens, the connection periodically disappears, the planes moving for a couple of hours without changing course nevertheless circle inside the anomaly. Then the link completely disappears without a trace. The rescue flight of a twin-engine flying boat Martin 162 (Martin Mariner), which went to the rescue of colleagues, adds to the horror of the situation - there were no traces of it either.

Berlitz was opposed by Larry Kushe (Larry Kushe), pointing out the hoax of facts. Surprisingly, Kouchet's edition of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved is published in Volume 75, following Berlitz's edition.

In the book, Kusche explicitly states that no anomaly exists in Bermuda. Couchet did not deny the fact that five torpedo bombers disappeared without a trace under unknown circumstances, as well as the disappeared seaplane Mariner.

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

After reviewing the reports of the investigation team, Larry Kusche indicates that 14 people flew torpedo bombers, 13 of whom began retraining for flying this machine under the command of Lieutenant Charles Taylor. At the same time, the flight commander was recently transferred from the Florida Keys, and had not previously flown in the area.

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

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 the compass needle, or you need to gain high altitude.

In the case of the American Avengers (torpedo bombers), they might not have had a chance to rise higher, as they were “pressed” to the water by a thundercloud. Pilots circling in the area, surrounded by lightning, eventually burned all the fuel, there was a landing on the water, where a storm wave raged.

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

And the water that stretches around leaves little chance of considering visual landmarks for navigation, even if the flights take place in the usual place. The commanders of other vehicles can be called trainees with a stretch - the total flight time is about 350 hours, Captain Powers did come from the main headquarters of the Marine Corps.

And you know, I, for example, would have noted one oddity in this case, as if anticipating something, knowing what awaits him that day, one of the radio shooters did not appear for the flight, and survived.
The further development of events of that time is difficult to imagine reliably, since even conflicting data appeared on the official pages of the US Navy and the US Navy (now they don’t exist at all).
Although, in theory, such structures should have complete information. But an approximate picture is drawn as follows:

The fact that the link was 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 together with the ward, heard a radio broadcast where someone without a call sign openly requests "Powers".
Minutes later, the radio brings in a voice, “I don't know where we are. I think we got lost on the last turn."

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

Many ignore the fact that there were still four aircraft left, on the instruments of which the flight commander could establish 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.

Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?

Now let's look at the tragedy of the Bermuda Triangle a little differently, but we will not consider here the well-known negotiations between Taylor and Fox.
There also seems to be nothing mystical about the death of the 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 aircraft, only words that they were arriving in the area of ​​​​the last direction finding of the missing link.

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

True, later the captain told a more understandable picture of the event, supposedly the crew saw how the plane caught fire, fell into the water, exploded, leaving oil stains, a lot of debris .... The planes that arrived 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 searched for the now missing 6 aircraft.

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

On December 10, 1945, the search work was curtailed, the crews of the missing aircraft were declared missing. On April 3, 1946, the US Naval Administration pointed out Lieutenant Taylor as the culprit for the death of flight “number 19”, they say the flight commander got confused, then panicked, confused ... frankly, these are strange conclusions, to suspect that the combat pilot was confused and panicked.

Taylor's mother and aunt rejected the military's claim, forcing the Navy to reconsider. Dissatisfied women hire a lawyer and demand more thorough proceedings and a review of the case. Strange, but on November 19 the verdict was adjusted, and the tragedy takes on different conclusions about the causes of what happened - "for unknown reasons."

Often, the radio conversations coming from Taylor are mystified, allegedly someone heard him say through the static: "it's not right here ... this is strange ... the ocean does not look like it should" .... "we can't break out"... "that 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 this originally.
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 “screw” alien spaceships hovering over the Bermuda Triangle to this.

Meanwhile, there are enough oddities in this catastrophe. At 5:15 pm, Taylor informs Port Everglades: “I can't hear you very well. We are heading 270 degrees” … we will keep heading until we reach the shore, or we will land on the water when the fuel burns out (Taylor has experience of two such landings).

Robert F. Fox, talking with Lieutenant Taylor, comes to the conclusion that he is in the sky over the Florida Keys (Florida Keys) because when asked where they are, Taylor answers - over the Keys (I am sure I'm in the Keys).
Robert Fox, orienting his colleague, advises him to turn the planes to the left side to the Sun, and follow this course.

However, strangely, Taylor hears, speaks, and does not react to words in any way. Meanwhile, the connection continues to deteriorate, around 19 pm the connection, hanging on parole, stops altogether, the group of Lieutenant Taylor has clearly moved a considerable distance.
At 7:05 p.m., the last thing the Miami shore heard from the planes was one of the pilots calling Taylor.

At 20 pm, the estimated time came out, the fuel of the aircraft of departure "number 19" ran out. Now look at the strange riddle: Lieutenant Taylor was accused of losing his bearings and taking the group into the Atlantic Ocean.
For example, I was also amazed: the link of aircraft, maintaining the chosen course, went a considerable distance.

However, the bearing of their location indicated the center of the Bermuda anomaly, respectively, on the basis of this, the search was carried out in the triangle.
How can this be, what kind of mysticism, maybe the truth is that this place hides some secret beyond our understanding?

What is happening in the Bermuda anomaly.

According to the Coast Guard, the designated area is famous for frequent storms, and people like to rush in the skies.
At the same time, researchers who do not believe in devilish tricks or games with parallel worlds could not find confirmation of the five hundred disappearances of aircraft and celestial vessels that allegedly disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda anomaly.
There were not even a dozen confirmed cases of the disappearance of ships here.

It turns out that most of the ships that crashed and cited as evidence of the anomaly happened quite far from the Devil's Death Triangle, the ships could not experience it for 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 be found? The Avengers are a heavy iron machine that, having fallen into the sea, having exploded / did not explode from hitting the water, will inevitably go to the bottom.
In the same way, rescuers for a long time cannot find traces of modern aircraft that disappear 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 look, then it becomes obvious that catastrophes in this part of the ocean occur no more often than in another part of the Atlantic.
The fact is that disasters happen, it happens for one reason or another in absolutely any place on the planet. Planes 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.

At the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle, pyramids were found several times larger than those of Egypt.
In early 1977, the echo sounders of a fishing boat registered on the ocean floor, somewhat away from Bermuda, an irregularity resembling a pyramid. This was the reason for the American Charles Berlitz to organize a special expedition. This expedition discovered a pyramid at a depth of 400 meters. Charles Berlitz claims that its height is almost 150 meters, the length of the side of the base is 200 meters, and the slope of the side faces is the same as the pyramids of Cheops. One side of this pyramid is longer than the other.
The found pyramid is three times higher than the largest Egyptian pyramid (Cheops), has glass (or glass-crystal-like) faces that are impeccably smooth and even, like mirrors.

In the early 1990s, American oceanographers using sonar instruments discovered an underwater pyramid in the very center of the Bermuda Triangle. After processing the data, scientists suggested that the surface of the pyramid-shaped structure is perfectly smooth, possibly glass! In size, it is almost three times the size of the pyramid of Cheops! According to the characteristics of the echoes reflected from its surface, the sides of the pyramid are composed of some mysterious material, similar to polished ceramics or glass. The sensational news was announced by scientists at a press conference in Florida.
The journalists were provided with relevant materials of oceanographic research: photographs, echograms. Shipborne sonar and computerized analyzers with high resolution showed three-dimensional images of very smooth, clean, not overgrown with algae, the faces of the pyramid. The pyramid does not consist of blocks, no seams, no connectors, no cracks are visible. It seems that it is carved from a single monolith. But in subsequent years, the US authorities classified information about the glass pyramid, and this topic became closed in the media. mass media. According to US Navy intelligence officials, the area is known to have seen UFOs take off directly from the water and entry of unidentified objects into the depths of the sea. In recent years, special services have been monitoring such flights, which occur quite often.
Employees of the special services and the US Army are forced to admit that the anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle are due to the work of a huge energy complex of underwater inhabitants, perhaps Atlanteans, who survived the tragic disaster. Thus, the glass pyramid is the central part of such a complex, built once by the priests of Atlantis. A similar group of structures in the form of luminous pyramids was also recently discovered near southern Chile, in the Bellingshausen depression, at a depth of 6000 meters. We can talk once again about the come true prophecies of Edgar Cayce, in particular, about a huge crystal that had monstrous power, capable of causing destructive cataclysms on the planet and destroying traces of past civilizations. Reports of pyramids allegedly found in the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle come in regularly. In the documents of the hydrographic service of the US Navy in August 1948, the mountain "American Scout" was first mentioned. This huge mountain rises from a depth of 4400 meters and reaches 37 meters from the surface of the ocean. Careful measurements in September 1964, carried out by the American research vessel Atlantis-11, showed that there was no mountain. Geologists concluded that information about this seamount was obtained as a result of the so-called "false bottom". The well-known atlantologist Charles Berlitz spoke about the underwater pyramid in the Bermuda Triangle. The expedition led by him discovered a mountain similar to a pyramid. He believed that this mountain is an exact copy of the pyramid of Cheops. It was at a depth of 400 meters, its height was 150 meters, and its base was 200 meters. However, it is not yet possible to talk about the identity of the Berlitz pyramid with the recently discovered one. Alejandro Serillo Perez, a resident of Guatemala, a descendant of Maya shamans, is the Elder of the Americas. It was proclaimed by two All American Congresses. The cities built in the Yucatan, Pérez says, were built by Mayan ancestors who came from Bermuda. And this word first sounded - May. May is Atlantis. At first they lived in the Diamond City in Bermuda and from there they came to Tollan. The most important city is Diamond, in Bermuda, with a pyramid under water.
However, in 2003, a message came again that two mysterious giant pyramidal structures were found in the Bermuda Triangle region. Oceanographer Verlag Mayer, using special equipment, managed to find out that they consist of a substance resembling glass. The dimensions of the underwater pyramids, located in the very center of the mysterious triangle, significantly exceed the dimensions of similar structures on land, including famous pyramid Cheops. However, preliminary data suggest that the age of these pyramids does not exceed 500 years. Who and why built them remains a mystery behind seven seals. Mayer claims that the technology by which the pyramids are made is unknown to earthlings.

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Introduction

The world ocean is fraught with many unsolved mysteries. Its depths have been beckoning a person since time immemorial, people strive to reveal its secrets, but to this day the ocean is the least explored area. the globe. No one knows exactly what is under many kilometers of water. In the unexplored depths of the ocean - unusual animals, huge monsters, dangerous whirlpools, treacherous currents and deep gutters, underwater mountains and hills, corals, sunken ships and islands that have gone under water, and maybe even races unknown to science - a whole world that is still to be discovered and explored.

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

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

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

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

Since ancient times there have been legends about mysterious inhabitants sea ​​depths. When sailing the seas, people encounter inexplicable natural phenomena, such as the glow of water or the appearance of strange light spots on the surface; they see unusual inhabitants of the ocean, sometimes accompanying boats and ships. People hear strange noises that seem to come from the bottom of the sea, listen with fascination to stories about missing ships and crews, about formidable pirates and their lost treasures. The real Robinsons-romantics of their own free will go to live on uninhabited islands and find happiness in harmony with nature...

In preparing this book, we used many written and oral sources, including ancient legends and traditions. Who knows, maybe they are the answer? Maybe our distant ancestors, whose life depended on the vagaries of the elements, learned to take them for granted and even fight them, and perhaps even subjugate them, and knew something that we do not know? Maybe thousands of years ago people were wiser than us?

Be that as it may, mankind has yet to unravel all the mysteries of the ocean. But, probably, behind each unraveled mystery, another one will appear, then another and another ... The process of cognition is endless, and that's wonderful!

Anomalous zones

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

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

Reasons for the appearance anomalous zones not exactly established. It is assumed that they can be provoked, for example, by deep faults in the crystalline rocks of the earth, as well as magnetic anomalies.

Bermuda Triangle

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

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 also 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.

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

A hypothesis has been proposed that explains 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 when methane rises into the air, it could also cause plane crashes, for example, due to a decrease in air density.

In the 1970s, the circulation of Charles Berlitz's Bermuda Triangle reached almost 20 million copies. So the Bermuda Triangle "fell into the hands" of a very wide readership. And only then did true glory come to him.

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 is 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.