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, captured part 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 its own 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 pamphlet about the "mysterious disappearances" of 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 his story, both sea and air ships, once in 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 is always portrayed as a very real and mysterious place where people and vehicles go missing.

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 photo above - here you can see that 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, the edition of Kusche " Mystery Revealed Bermuda Triangle" is published in the 75th volume, following the publication of Berlitz.

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 the human factor, but not the cruel intrigues of aliens, or Atlantes.

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

And the water 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.

Australian scientists from the Monash Institute in Melbourne Joseph Monaghan and David May. Based on the data of their research work, the Australians came to the conclusion that the natural gas methane is the culprit in the crashes of planes and ships.

"Triangle" lets out gases?

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

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

In fact, the so-called Australian discovery is more self-promotion than anything new. The fact is that the so-called "methane theory" has been around for several decades, and the very fact of the theoretical possibility of the death of ships as a result of gas emissions from the bottom of the sea was proved by Australian colleagues.

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

Sea of ​​versions

For example, the famous disappearance of five American aircraft-Torpedo bombers "Avenger" on December 5, 1945, which became canonical for the "Bermudophiles", did not happen suddenly. Planes wandered over the ocean for several hours until they completely ran out of fuel. So pulling up the gas release to explain this incident will not work in any way.

Except "methane theory", as an explanation for the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle, they give a version of "killer waves", wandering in the ocean of single giant waves up to 30 meters high. The nature of this phenomenon is really not completely clear, but it is known that such waves are by no means "registered" in the Bermuda region, and can occur anywhere in the World Ocean.

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

This explains the discovery in the ocean of perfectly serviceable ships on which not a single crew member was found. However, as with killer waves, infrasound does not tend to form exclusively in the Bermuda Triangle.

Myth and its revelation

The story of a mystical geometric figure, bounded by lines from Florida to Bermuda, on to Puerto Rico and back to Florida through the Bahamas, first arose in 1950 thanks to to an Associated Press correspondent named Jones. He called this part of the ocean "the sea of ​​the devil", for the first time collecting facts related to the disappearances and catastrophes of ships and ships in a small pamphlet.

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

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

However, back in 1975 researcher Lawrence David Kusche published the book Bermuda Triangle: Myths and Reality. Former pilot civil aviation, Kusche carefully analyzed dozens of facts of "mysterious disasters" in the Bermuda Triangle. It turned out that most of them have a completely prosaic, non-mystical explanation. Some of the events did occur outside the so-called "triangle", and a number of other incidents are not at all documented in official sources.

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

Brother in the Pacific

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

The myth-makers stubbornly ignore the fact that the Bermuda Triangle is not at all a territory closed to ships and aircraft, and most of them ply this territory quite safely. Moreover, on the same Bermuda Islands from time immemorial people have lived who do not at all seek to escape from the “cursed place”, but, on the contrary, are happy to make money on mystically minded tourists.

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

This is directly related to the professionalism of pilots and navigators, but nothing to otherworldly forces.

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

The difference is that the Bermuda Triangle had much better publicity.

There are not enough nurses for everyone

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

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

In 1977, on the wave of interest in the topic of the Bermuda Triangle, the famous Soviet bard Vladimir Vysotsky wrote the song "Letter to the editor of the TV show" Obvious-Incredible "from Kanatchikova Dacha". In the song, the patients of the psychiatric hospital, inspired by the plot of the mysterious "triangle", began to unravel its riddle. In the end, "medics rushed in and fixed us."

The cheerful song of Vysotsky, in fact, should have drawn a line under the talk about the "mysticism of the Bermuda Triangle." But, as you can see, it did not disappoint. Apparently, for all lovers of such sensations, there are simply not enough Kanatchik dachas or orderlies.

« Ph'nglui mglvnafh Cthulhu R'lyeh vgah'nagl fhtagn", which means: "Here, in this house, in the city of R'lyeh, the dead Cthulhu sleeps in anticipation of his hour».

Howard Phillips Lovecraft « Call of Cthulhu»

The Bermuda Triangle is a real phenomenon of the 20th century, over the secret of which scientists, as well as ufologists, psychics and representatives of a number of other dubious professions, have been struggling for more than a dozen years. About the sinister place in the Atlantic Ocean, where ships and planes disappear, only a person who spent his whole life in a bunker did not hear. The stories of sailors, residents of nearby areas and some representatives of alternative science, richly seasoned with fantasies, cause an unhealthy chill on the back and forever discourage anyone who had previously planned a vacation somewhere nearby.

There are many versions with the reasons for the loss of transport in these waters. Some believe that aliens are kidnapping people and equipment, especially since the version of their existence has been significantly warmed up. Others suggest a government conspiracy, the dominance of pirates, the influence of ghosts and poltergeists, divine intervention, and other conjectures. Scientists are more skeptical, and offer much more mundane versions.

The Bermuda Triangle is, of course, an imaginary line that runs through Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico to form a triangle (some seriously suggest that the Bermuda Triangle can be seen). The ocean in these places is incredibly lively, there are a lot of resorts and remarkable places that attract tourists. Even superstitious captains have to grit their teeth to navigate their ships through the Bermuda Triangle (Devil's Triangle, as some religious people like to call it) to earn a living. However, rumors about the paranormal features of this part of the Atlantic are greatly exaggerated - the vast majority of ships and aircraft overcome this section without any incident. But there is always a chance to go to sea and not return.

It is human nature to exaggerate everything. Both for selfish purposes, and from a lack of understanding of the world around us. However, there is no smoke without fire. The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle really exists, albeit not on the scale that is served in literature and cinema.

What is the Bermuda Triangle

From unofficial sources, the mysterious disappearances of ships in the Bermuda Triangle area became known in 1840. According to rumors that have survived to this day, then the French ship Rosalie washed up on the shores near Nassau, on which there was no one from the crew, but the ship itself looked completely serviceable. The sails on the ship were raised and everything looked as if the crew of the ship had simply disappeared in an instant. In the 20th century, skeptics refuted this story, but the sediment remained.
The theme of the Bermuda Triangle began to return in the middle of the last century. This was influenced by a number of inexplicable events that occurred in these waters, as well as journalists who, for the sake of beautiful headlines and creativity, called an area of ​​​​about 4 million square kilometers the place where Atlantis disappeared.

A great influence on public attention to the phenomenon in Bermuda waters was Charles Berlitz, an American writer who published a book with facts about the Bermuda Triangle in 1974. In it, Berlitz collected known cases of mysterious disappearances of vehicles in the area, and also tried to analyze the events and come to their causes. The book became a bestseller not only among the American population, but throughout the world. It was from this moment that the public, which has always been greedy for all sorts of hoaxes, showed interest in the problem of the paranormal area in the Atlantic Ocean.

In fact, the Bermuda Triangle is not really a triangle, no matter how punning it may sound. If you analyze all the missing vehicles in the area using a map, and then connect the lines, you will get more like a rhombus or something similar, so the area does not have strictly defined boundaries. If there is something mystical in this place, then you should not feel safe when you go beyond the triangle.

Known cases of missing vehicles in the Bermuda Triangle

If the problem of the Bermuda Triangle is exaggerated, then not too much. Throughout the 20th century, mysterious events really take place in this area, some of which even scientists are not able to explain until now. At the bottom of the ocean in these places there are many sunken ships, an even greater number of ships and aircraft have not been found. We have tried to collect the most strange disappearances and wrecks of vehicles in the ominous Devil's Triangle.

The disappearance of the Avengers. Link 19

Perhaps one of the most controversial and mystical events associated with the Bermuda Triangle occurred on December 5, 1945. Berlitz wrote about him in his book. On this day, a flight of five Avenger torpedo bombers took off from the naval aviation base in Fort Lauderdale, which were supposed to perform an ordinary training flight. The weather was excellent: calm, clear sky, excellent visibility. 14 experienced pilots (some of them with 2,500 hours of flight time) set out on a standard airbase route to drop bombs on a hypothetical target and return home. But they didn't return.

At 14.10 local time, the torpedo bombers left the base, after which the experts can only judge what happened from the records in the radio logs. An hour and a half after the start of the flight, radio communications were detected at the air base, in which the squadron pilots were anxiously talking about the fact that the navigation devices had failed, all the compasses had failed, and the link had gone astray.

The Fort Lauderdale leadership gave the order to establish contact with Group 19, and after half an hour the rescue unit was able to contact the lead link, Captain Taylor. The commander confirmed that he does not have navigation, and he does not see land under him. For several hours, the planes wandered around the Bermuda Triangle, after which they ran out of fuel and were forced to splash down on the surface of the ocean. After that, all communication with the crews disappeared.

The authorities of the air base immediately sent two Mariner rescue seaplanes to the area of ​​​​the proposed splashdown of Unit 19, but along different routes. One of them, board No. 49, after reporting that it was arriving in the bearing area of ​​the missing torpedo bombers, suddenly disappeared from the radio. It was not possible to establish contact with him.

At 21:20 local time, the captain of one of the oil tankers in the Bermuda Triangle sent a message to the coast guard that he had seen an explosion in the sky, which later left an oil slick on the water. Under the site of the explosion, the crew of the tanker did not find anything.

The air base headquarters at that moment grabbed his head and ordered the second Mariner to fly to the coordinates of the oil slick indicated by the sailors from the tanker to try to find the wreckage of the rescue aircraft. When board number 32 "Mariner" arrived at the scene, neither the wreckage nor the oil stain itself on the water could be found. If there was anything there, it disappeared without a trace. Further searches for Link 19 also did not bring success, and the remaining Mariner had to return to the air base with nothing. To this day, none of the aircraft has ever been found.

Such mysticism was no longer within any framework, and the US authorities ordered one of the largest search and rescue operations in history. 300 army planes were lifted into the air to comb the area. 21 vessels with the latest bearing-finding equipment set out to sea. Ground searches were also carried out with the help of volunteer detachments, who were supposed to search for the wreckage of aircraft washed ashore. To no avail. People could not find anything that would indicate the fate of Flight 19 and the rescue aircraft.

Missing US Air Force C-119 military transport aircraft

June 6, 1965 in the area Bahamas A long-range military transport aircraft S-119 disappeared from the radar screens. He was supposed to deliver four mechanics to Grand Turk, but he never made it to his destination. The last radio message from C-119 on the ground was received when it was about 180 kilometers from Grand Turk, after which the connection was cut off.

In search of the missing plane, the entire local coast guard and military were raised, who combed 77,000 square miles a day for five days, but did not succeed. The plane disappeared without a trace.

This is one of the few missing vehicles in the Bermuda Triangle that has been linked to alien abduction.

The disappearance of the Cyclops

If the disappearance of aircraft in the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle can be associated with a banal crash, then the disappearance of huge ships without a trace is not so easy to explain.

In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a US Navy transport ship, set off with a cargo of manganese ore from a port in Rio de Janeiro towards the North Atlantic states. On board this huge vessel were 306 passengers, not counting the crew. Throughout the voyage, no alarm messages were received from the crew. Last time the ship was seen near the island of Barbados, where he made a short stop. After that, no one saw him.

The search for the missing Cyclops has been going on for decades, but neither the wreckage, nor the hull of the ship, nor the bodies of the dead passengers could be found. The ship disappeared without a trace.

The mystery of the ship "Rubicon"

One of the most mysterious events associated with the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle occurred on October 22, 1944. Then the US Navy discovered a Cuban cargo ship called the Rubicon, which was independently drifting in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. When the military boarded the ship, it turned out that only a dog was on the ship. The team disappeared without a trace.

The Rubicon was in excellent condition, had no visible storm damage or anything else, the crew's personal belongings were in their places, everything in the galley looked like the crew was about to take a meal. The only entry in the ship's log was made on September 26, when the Rubicon entered the port of Havana. There were no lifeboats on board.

The main version of the loss of the Rubicon team is an ordinary storm, which forced the crew to urgently escape from the ship, however, the order that prevailed on the deck and in the cabins indicated that the storm could hardly have caused people to disappear.

Douglas DC-3 passenger plane disappearance

The Bermuda Triangle continued to take lives. On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 passenger plane disappeared without a trace in the area, carrying 29 passengers and 3 crew members.

At first, the flight from Puerto Rico to Miami proceeded as normal, the crew kept in touch with the ground and there were no signs of trouble. At 4:31 a.m. local time, the captain of the aircraft told the controllers that he was about 50 miles from Miami and would soon arrive at his destination, but for some reason this message was not received in Miami, but it was intercepted by the controller from New Orleans, who forwarded the information to Miami Airport. After that, a lot of attempts were made to call the Douglas DC-3 crew members, but they were unsuccessful. Communication was lost, as was the plane.

No debris or evidence of a crash was found in the area of ​​the aircraft's intended route. Most are inclined to believe that the disappearance of the plane is connected with a UFO.

Reasons for the disappearance of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle

Both scientists and mystics, and conspiracy theorists put forward a lot of different reasons for the collapse and disappearance of transport in the Bermuda Triangle. Among the dozens of crazy theories, those that intersect with other conjectures and facts that are characteristic of human culture stand out.

There are whole groups of people who claim that the responsibility for the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle lies with the inhabitants of the missing mainland - Atlantis. Others believe that in this area there is increased activity of UFOs and aliens who are secretly studying life on our planet. Skeptics put forward their theories, which look quite scientific, against the backdrop of the words of conspiracy theorists.

However, the coast guard and insurance companies unanimously claim that the Bermuda Triangle is no different from other areas of the ocean, and the percentage of disappearances of ships and aircraft in it is the same as in other parts of our planet.

Magnetic distortions and anomalies

Regular reports of a failure of navigation equipment in the area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle indicate that a magnetic anomaly of incredible strength may occur in this area. Some believe that this happens when the tectonic plates move, which causes the appearance of electric and magnetic fields that affect both devices and humans. This theory has many opponents both among scientists and physicians, despite the fact that it looks very scientific against the backdrop of fiction from other conspiracy theorists.

killer waves

Another theory of the death of ships in the Bermuda Triangle was the version of killer waves that occur in these places with enviable regularity.

Killer waves (rogue waves) arise spontaneously and are loners in the waters of the ocean. Their height can reach 20-30 meters, and such a colossus is a mortal danger for any modern ship. The pressure of the water, which the wave will bring down on the ship at high speed, can not withstand even the most durable skin of the ship, which makes the chances of survival almost zero.

Such waves can occur even in complete calm and are not associated with weather conditions. However, this theory does not explain the death of aircraft in the area.

The release of huge bubbles of methane

There are versions of scientists that in the area of ​​​​the Bermuda Triangle there is a possibility of the formation of giant bubbles of methane from cracks on the ocean floor.

Experimental studies have shown that a huge and solid bubble of gas, like methane, when it appears under the ship, can create a condition where the ship simply falls into the void under its bottom, after which the ocean waters instantly close over its mast, not giving a single chance to emerge.

Such a theory could also explain the dead crews on ships that could be found several times in these latitudes. Methane could easily poison people whose bodies show no visible damage.

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The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean where mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft allegedly occur. The area is bounded by lines from Florida to Bermuda to Puerto Rico and back to Florida via the Bahamas. Various hypotheses are put forward to explain these disappearances, from unusual weather events to alien abductions. Skeptics argue, however, that the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle occur no more often than in other areas of the world's oceans and are due to natural causes.

The Bermuda Triangle is far from the only name for this amazing area in the western Atlantic Ocean. It is also called "devil's sea", "cemetery of the Atlantic", "voodoo sea", "sea of ​​the damned". However, although Bermuda forms only one of the vertices of this triangle and is by no means located in its center, it was under this name that the enchanted place became known to the whole world. However, fifty years ago no one heard the phrase Bermuda Triangle. The first to use it was the American Jones, who in 1950 published a small pamphlet with that title. Then they did not pay attention to it, and again the problem surfaced only in 1964, when another American, Gaddis, wrote about the Bermuda Triangle. His article was published in a well-known spiritualist magazine. Later, collecting Additional information, Gaddis devoted an entire chapter to the Bermuda Triangle, which is symbolic - the thirteenth, in his book Invisible Horizons. Since then, the Bermuda Triangle has been constantly in the spotlight.
Associated Press correspondent Jones was the first to mention "mysterious disappearances" in the Bermuda Triangle, in 1950 he called the area the "Devil's Sea". The author of the phrase "Bermuda Triangle" is usually considered Vincent Gladdis, who published in 1964 in one of the journals devoted to spiritualism, the article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle".

In the late 60s and early 70s of the XX century, numerous publications began to appear about the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle.

In 1974, Charles Berlitz published The Bermuda Triangle, which collected descriptions of various mysterious disappearances in the area. The book became a bestseller, and it was after its publication that the theory about the unusual properties of the Bermuda Triangle became especially popular. Later, however, it was shown that some of the facts in Berlitz's book were presented incorrectly.

In 1975, Lawrence David Kouchet published The Bermuda Triangle: Myth and Reality, in which he attempted to prove that nothing supernatural or mysterious was happening in the area. This book is based on years of research on documents and interviews with eyewitnesses, which have revealed numerous factual errors and inaccuracies in the publications of supporters of the existence of the Bermuda Triangle mystery.

GIANT PYRAMIDS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE.
The Bermuda Triangle once again surprised scientists with the secrets stored on its territory! This time, two giant pyramids have been discovered at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. Underwater bermuda pyramids are much larger Egyptian pyramids. Scientists believe that they were erected about 500 years ago, and the material from which they are made resembles thick glass. The giant pyramids in the Bermuda Triangle were first discovered by oceanographer Dr. Verlag Meyer in 1991.

The US Congress passed Resolution 420-2. With this document, the Americans paid tribute to the memory of 27 FT-19 naval pilots who disappeared without a trace 60 years ago, without returning from a training flight over the area that later became known as the Bermuda Triangle. Following the congress, the NBC television company announced the premiere of a new documentary film about the ill-fated link, which is being prepared for November 27.
The initiator of the resolution was Florida Democrat Congressman Clay Shaw. In an interview with the Chicago Chronicle, Shaw clarified his position: “We don't want to be led by sensationalists who think the Bermuda Triangle is mysterious and unusual. But personally, I will insist on continuing the investigation of this tragedy. At least in order to inform their relatives about the fate of the crews. Probably, something extraordinary really happened there, which forced experienced pilots to take actions that led to disaster. Someday we will solve this mystery and put it on the shelf.

Four "avengers"

Actually, the sad glory of the Bermuda Triangle - the region of the World Ocean, limited by lines connecting the tip of the Florida peninsula (Key West), northern part Puerto Rico and the larger of Bermuda, just started with that ill-fated flight. Until then, the legends of the triangle lived only in the form of folklore of local fishermen and captains of small boats that ply this busy shipping area in abundance.

The area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle was considered dangerous for navigation during the time of Spanish rule in Central and South America. Spanish galleons, which exported gold and silver from the colonies, were collected in Havana, and then sent across the ocean to Spain. It has been estimated that there are about 1,200 Spanish ships at the bottom of the sea within the Bermuda Triangle. They were wrecked during summer hurricanes and winter storms, ran into reefs and sandbanks, they were drowned by pirates.

Later, English, French and Dutch ships plowed the waters of the triangle, and again dozens of new ships went to the bottom of the sea. So this region of the Atlantic has always had a bad reputation, but nevertheless there is no such historical document that would speak of it as mysterious, although in past centuries full of superstitions there would be much more room for this than at the present time.

The incident itself, which received a special congressional resolution, occurred on the afternoon of December 5, 1945, when five Grumman TBM-1 Avenger torpedo bombers of Patrol Flight FT-19 under the command of flight instructor First Lieutenant Charles Taylor took off from the airfield of the US Navy Fort Lauderdale. The purpose of the mission is to develop group flying and maintain the flight skills of the crews, the flight duration is three hours.

Four "avengers" ("avengers") went into flight with regular crews: a pilot, a navigator-scorer and a radio operator gunner. Taylor's instructor car was missing a gunner. The tragedy happened on the way back: the flight commander gave the controller in Key West a radiogram: “We have an emergency situation, obviously we have lost our course.”

The last message from Taylor, received 40 minutes later, indicated that the commander had decided to pull towards the coast until the fuel was completely exhausted. These people were never seen again. A few hours later, three Martin PBM-1 Mariner maritime patrol bombers took off in search of the link.

These radar-equipped flying boats, capable of landing on the water and taking off even with a wave force of 3-4.5 points, were the best suited for searching and rescuing those in distress, the fuel supply allowed them to stay in the air for up to 48 hours. One of the rescue aircraft also disappeared, taking with it the mystery of the death of 13 crew members.

"Million on a Million"

Soon reporters from local newspapers found out about the disappearance of the whole link, and the story received wide publicity. America was in a state of shock. It's no joke - 4 months after the end of the war, five combat aircraft with experienced crews who have gone through the hell of air battles over the Pacific Ocean are dying. And what kind of aircraft: "Avenger" ("avenger") - the main carrier-based torpedo bomber of the US Navy, a thunderstorm of the Japanese fleet - was for the Americans the same symbol of victory that the legendary Il-2 attack aircraft serves for us.

Reliable aircraft (there were cases when the "avengers" came to the aircraft carrier in the literal sense "on one wing"), equipped with the most modern navigation equipment, are lost in simple weather conditions with visibility, as aviators say, "a million to a million", and where!

Practically in the “inner puddle”, an area over which during the war years thousands of American aircraft made tens of thousands of sorties in search of German and Japanese submarines trying to watch for allied transports on the way from Florida to the Panama Canal.

The excitement was added by the fact that large-scale searches for 250 thousand square meters. miles of water taken by hundreds of ships and aircraft provided no physical evidence of the disaster. I immediately remembered the old legends about the ships abandoned by the crews, and the tales of the islanders, who "knew for a long time that the places here are not good." At the same time, recent cases were also recalled: two months earlier, under suspicious circumstances, on approaching Key West, a cargo-passenger liner Lancastrien of the British airline BOAC, flying from Barbados, crashed.

Piloted a four-engine vehicle, demilitarized heavy bomber, experienced military crew. Air traffic controllers in Florida heard only a few panicky phrases in their headphones, after which the plane disappeared from the radar screens. Although the remains of the life rafts washed ashore some time later, 23 passengers and four pilots are still missing. However, these stories were soon forgotten. Until the time.

The real explosion occurred in 1974 after the publication of the book The Bermuda Triangle by the uncrowned king of the Bermuda Triangle mysteries, Charles Berlitz. The bestseller was instantly reprinted by other publishers, and each of them had to reprint several times. According to the most conservative estimates, the circulation of Berlitz's book reached almost 20 million copies (in a cheap pocket design).

So the Bermuda Triangle became the property of a very wide readership, including the Soviet one. In 1978, Berlitz's translation was published by the Moscow Mir publishing house. Supporters of Berlitz and his followers are constantly looking for new justifications for the "mysticism", "mystery" and "mysteriousness" of this place. But how are things really? This is evidenced by unbiased statistics.

In the literature on the Bermuda Triangle, 50 cases of the disappearance of ships and aircraft are described in detail. In some works, 40 or 50 more cases are rather vaguely described. In total, therefore, it turns out about 100. Is this a lot or a little? It should not be forgotten that this number has accumulated over the past 100 years, that is, on average, one case per year. This, of course, is very small for an area that has the densest network of air and sea transport lines and is also a favorite place for yachtsmen and sport fishing enthusiasts.

Tropical cyclones in summer and storms in winter are a good test even for experienced captains of large vessels, what about yachts and small fishing boats and light private jets? By the way, since modern jet liners began to fly over the area, major disasters from passenger aircraft in the Triangle itself, its last “victim” was the heavy transporter C-119, which disappeared back in 1965!

However, the mystery of the death of the FT-19 link continues to haunt the minds. On Friday evening, the largest American television company, NBC, announced that last summer, at its own expense, it equipped an expedition to the area where torpedo bombers were killed. The premiere of the film about her is scheduled for November 27. According to the producers of the documentary, the expedition raised more questions than it answered.

The controllers heard only a few panicky phrases in their headphones, after which the plane disappeared from the radar screens. The US Congress adopted resolution 420-2. With this document, the Americans paid tribute to the memory of 27 FT-19 naval pilots who disappeared without a trace 60 years ago, without returning from a training flight over the area that later became known as the Bermuda Triangle. Following the congress, the NBC television company announced the premiere of a new documentary film about the ill-fated link, which is being prepared for November 27.

The initiator of the resolution was Florida Democratic Congressman Clay Shaw. In an interview with the Chicago Chronicle, Shaw clarified his position: “We don't want to be led by sensationalists who think the Bermuda Triangle is mysterious and unusual. But personally, I will insist on continuing the investigation of this tragedy. At least in order to inform their relatives about the fate of the crews. Probably, something extraordinary really happened there, which forced experienced pilots to take actions that led to disaster. Someday we will solve this mystery and put it on the shelf.

Actually, the sad glory of the Bermuda Triangle - the region of the World Ocean, limited by lines connecting the tip of the Florida peninsula (Key West), the northern part of Puerto Rico and the larger of Bermuda - just began with that ill-fated flight. Until then, the legends of the triangle lived only in the form of folklore of local fishermen and captains of small boats that ply this busy shipping area in abundance.

The area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle was considered dangerous for navigation during the time of Spanish rule in Central and South America. Spanish galleons, which exported gold and silver from the colonies, were collected in Havana, and then sent across the ocean to Spain. It has been estimated that there are about 1,200 Spanish ships at the bottom of the sea within the Bermuda Triangle. They were wrecked during summer hurricanes and winter storms, ran into reefs and sandbanks, they were drowned by pirates.

Later, English, French and Dutch ships plowed the waters of the triangle, and again dozens of new ships went to the bottom of the sea. So this region of the Atlantic has always had a bad reputation, but nevertheless there is no such historical document that would speak of it as mysterious, although in past centuries full of superstitions there would be much more room for this than at the present time.

The incident itself, which received a special congressional resolution, took place on the afternoon of December 5, 1945, when five Grumman TBM-1 Avenger torpedo bombers of the FT-19 patrol under the command of flight instructor First Lieutenant Charles Taylor took off from the airfield of the US Navy Fort Lauderdale. The purpose of the mission is to practice group flying and maintain the flight skills of the crews, the flight duration is three hours.

Four "avengers" ("avengers") went into flight with regular crews: a pilot, a navigator-scorer and a gunner-radio operator. Taylor's instructor car was missing a gunner. The tragedy happened on the way back: the flight commander gave the controller in Key West a radiogram: “We have an emergency situation, obviously we have lost our course.”

The last message from Taylor, received 40 minutes later, indicated that the commander had decided to pull towards the coast until the fuel was completely exhausted. These people were never seen again. A few hours later, three Martin PBM-1 Mariner maritime patrol bombers took off in search of the link.

These radar-equipped flying boats, capable of landing on the water and taking off even with a wave force of 3-4.5 points, were the best suited for searching and rescuing those in distress - the fuel supply allowed them to stay in the air for up to 48 hours. One of the rescue aircraft also disappeared, taking with it the mystery of the death of 13 crew members.

"Million on a Million"

The area of ​​the Bermuda Triangle was considered dangerous for swimming even during the Spanish rule in Central and South America.

Soon reporters from local newspapers found out about the disappearance of the whole link, and the story received wide publicity. America was in a state of shock. It's no joke - 4 months after the end of the war, five combat aircraft with experienced crews who have gone through the hell of air battles over the Pacific Ocean are dying. And what kind of aircraft: "Avenger" ("avenger") - the main carrier-based torpedo bomber of the US Navy, a thunderstorm of the Japanese fleet - was for the Americans the same symbol of victory that the legendary Il-2 attack aircraft serves for us.

Reliable aircraft (there were cases when the "avengers" came to the aircraft carrier in the literal sense "on one wing"), equipped with the most modern navigation equipment, are lost in simple weather conditions with visibility, as aviators say, "a million to a million", and where!

Practically in the “inner puddle”, an area over which during the war years thousands of American aircraft made tens of thousands of sorties in search of German and Japanese submarines trying to watch for allied transports on the way from Florida to the Panama Canal.

The excitement was added by the fact that large-scale searches for 250 thousand square meters. miles of water taken by hundreds of ships and aircraft provided no physical evidence of the disaster. I immediately remembered the old legends about the ships abandoned by the crews, and the tales of the islanders, who "knew for a long time that the places here are not good." At the same time, recent cases were also recalled: two months earlier, under suspicious circumstances, on approaching Key West, a cargo-passenger liner Lancastrien of the British airline BOAC, flying from Barbados, crashed.

Piloted a four-engine vehicle, demilitarized heavy bomber, experienced military crew. Air traffic controllers in Florida heard only a few panicky phrases in their headphones, after which the plane disappeared from the radar screens. Although the remains of the life rafts washed ashore some time later, 23 passengers and four pilots are still missing. However, these stories were soon forgotten. Until the time.

In total it turns out

Charles Berlitz book "The Bermuda Triangle"

The real explosion occurred in 1974 after the publication of the book The Bermuda Triangle by the uncrowned king of the Bermuda Triangle mysteries, Charles Berlitz. The bestseller was instantly reprinted by other publishers, and each of them had to reprint several times. According to the most conservative estimates, the circulation of Berlitz's book reached almost 20 million copies (in a cheap pocket design).

So the Bermuda Triangle became the property of a very wide readership, including the Soviet one - in 1978, Berlitz's translation was published by the Moscow publishing house Mir. Supporters of Berlitz and his followers are constantly looking for new justifications for the "mysticism", "mystery" and "mysteriousness" of this place. But how are things really? This is evidenced by unbiased statistics.

In the literature on the Bermuda Triangle, 50 cases of the disappearance of ships and aircraft are described in detail. In some works, 40 or 50 more cases are rather vaguely described. In total, therefore, it turns out about 100. Is this a lot or a little? It should not be forgotten that this number has accumulated over the past 100 years, that is, on average, one case per year. This, of course, is very small for an area that has the densest network of air and sea transport lines and is also a favorite place for yachtsmen and sport fishing enthusiasts.

Tropical cyclones in summer and storms in winter are a good test even for experienced captains of large vessels, what about yachts and small fishing boats and light private jets? By the way, since modern jet liners began to fly over the area, there have been no major accidents with passenger planes in the Triangle itself - its last “victim” was the heavy S-119 transporter, which disappeared back in 1965!

However, the mystery of the death of the FT-19 link continues to haunt the minds. On Friday evening, the largest American television company, NBC, announced that last summer, at its own expense, it equipped an expedition to the area where torpedo bombers were killed. The premiere of the film about her is scheduled for November 27. According to the producers of the documentary, the expedition raised more questions than it answered.