1 00:00:01,435 --> 00:00:03,135 Narrator: THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 2 00:00:03,137 --> 00:00:07,673 ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME. 3 00:00:07,675 --> 00:00:10,409 STRANGE LIGHTS, PHANTOM FOGS, 4 00:00:10,411 --> 00:00:13,712 SHIPS THAT GO MISSING WITH NO WRECKAGE. 5 00:00:13,714 --> 00:00:17,416 Narrator: FOR OVER 70 YEARS, PEOPLE CLAIMED MYSTERIOUS FORCES 6 00:00:17,418 --> 00:00:23,288 CAUSED BOATS AND PLANES TO DISAPPEAR WITHOUT TRACE. 7 00:00:23,290 --> 00:00:25,858 OUR INSTRUMENTS ARE GOING HAYWIRE. 8 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:28,627 BUT IS ALL THAT JUST A MYTH THAT'S GROWN OUT OF HAND? 9 00:00:28,629 --> 00:00:31,196 ONE OF THEM JUST DISAPPEARED AND NEVER CAME BACK. 10 00:00:31,198 --> 00:00:34,066 Narrator: EXPERTS TRY TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ENIGMA... 11 00:00:34,068 --> 00:00:36,969 IT'S LIKE A WATER CAGE OF ICE. 12 00:00:42,543 --> 00:00:46,378 SO THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE RIGHT ON TOP OF A HURRICANE. 13 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:48,347 Narrator: BY USING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES 14 00:00:48,349 --> 00:00:50,449 TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH. 15 00:00:50,451 --> 00:00:51,984 WE KIND OF THINK OF OURSELVES 16 00:00:51,986 --> 00:00:55,054 AS HIGH-TECH FORENSIC DETECTIVES. 17 00:00:55,056 --> 00:00:57,623 Narrator: CAN SCIENCE FINALLY ANSWER WHAT DECADES 18 00:00:57,625 --> 00:01:00,759 OF LEGEND AND MYTH CANNOT? 19 00:01:00,761 --> 00:01:02,961 LOOK AT THAT! 20 00:01:02,963 --> 00:01:05,831 WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE? 21 00:01:05,833 --> 00:01:07,833 [ THUNDER ] 22 00:01:07,835 --> 00:01:10,736 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 23 00:01:10,738 --> 00:01:13,939 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 24 00:01:13,941 --> 00:01:16,742 OVER THE LAST 70 YEARS, A POPULAR LEGEND 25 00:01:16,744 --> 00:01:19,645 ORIGINATING DEEP IN THE WATERS OFF FLORIDA 26 00:01:19,647 --> 00:01:22,114 REFUSES TO DIE. 27 00:01:22,116 --> 00:01:25,317 THAT'S WHERE THE DC-3 WAS LAST REPORTED. 28 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,386 HUNDREDS OF BOATS AND PLANES 29 00:01:27,388 --> 00:01:30,756 HAVE DISAPPEARED SEEMINGLY WITHOUT TRACE. 30 00:01:30,758 --> 00:01:33,492 STAR TIGER WAS HERE. 31 00:01:33,494 --> 00:01:37,796 INVESTIGATOR BRIAN J. CANO HAS IT ALL MAPPED OUT. 32 00:01:37,798 --> 00:01:39,832 IN 1950, WE HAVE THE SS SANDRA, 33 00:01:39,834 --> 00:01:41,600 WHICH WAS LAST REPORTED HERE. 34 00:01:41,602 --> 00:01:44,036 SCORPION, 1968. 35 00:01:44,038 --> 00:01:46,205 FLIGHT 19, A LITTLE CLOSER TO MIAMI. 36 00:01:46,207 --> 00:01:47,973 THAT WAS IN 1945. 37 00:01:47,975 --> 00:01:51,310 THIS IS WHERE THE USS CYCLOPS WAS LAST REPORTED. 38 00:01:51,312 --> 00:01:53,679 1996, THE INTREPID. 39 00:01:53,681 --> 00:01:56,782 EACH ONE OF THESE X'S REPRESENTS A LOST SHIP OR PLANE, 40 00:01:56,784 --> 00:01:58,717 AND IT'S FORMING A SHAPE 41 00:01:58,719 --> 00:02:02,287 WITH CONCENTRATIONS HERE IN MIAMI, 42 00:02:02,289 --> 00:02:03,922 HERE IN BERMUDA, 43 00:02:03,924 --> 00:02:06,492 AND FINALLY, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. 44 00:02:08,929 --> 00:02:11,096 A TRIANGLE, AND IN THIS CASE, 45 00:02:11,098 --> 00:02:13,966 THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 46 00:02:13,968 --> 00:02:16,935 Narrator: THE STORIES BEHIND THESE DISAPPEARANCES 47 00:02:16,937 --> 00:02:19,404 HAVE GROWN TO OFTEN-OUTLANDISH HEIGHTS, 48 00:02:19,406 --> 00:02:21,807 AS PEOPLE STRUGGLE FOR AN EXPLANATION. 49 00:02:21,809 --> 00:02:24,743 SO WHAT'S FACT AND WHAT IS FICTION, 50 00:02:24,745 --> 00:02:27,079 AND WHERE DID IT ALL BEGIN? 51 00:02:27,081 --> 00:02:29,882 THE FIRST BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY 52 00:02:29,884 --> 00:02:32,751 WAS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FLIGHT 19. 53 00:02:37,358 --> 00:02:40,526 ON DECEMBER 5, 1945, 54 00:02:40,528 --> 00:02:45,197 FLIGHT 19 LEFT FORT LAUDERDALE ON A LOW-LEVEL BOMBING EXERCISE. 55 00:02:48,235 --> 00:02:50,369 THE PILOTS WERE MOSTLY TRAINEES, 56 00:02:50,371 --> 00:02:52,704 BUT THE COMMANDER, CHARLES TAYLOR, 57 00:02:52,706 --> 00:02:56,475 WAS AN EXPERIENCED COMBAT PILOT. 58 00:02:56,477 --> 00:02:58,076 WEATHER CLEAR OVER FORT LAUDERDALE, 59 00:02:58,078 --> 00:03:00,546 OVER THE BAHAMAS, CLOUDY. 60 00:03:03,217 --> 00:03:05,217 Narrator: THE FIVE BOMBERS FLEW EAST 61 00:03:05,219 --> 00:03:09,021 AND COMPLETED THEIR MISSION OVER SANDBANKS IN THE BAHAMAS, 62 00:03:09,023 --> 00:03:11,924 BUT THEIR PROBLEMS BEGAN WHEN THEY HIT FOG. 63 00:03:13,961 --> 00:03:17,029 THE PILOTS APPEARED TO LOSE TRACK OF WHERE THEY WERE 64 00:03:17,031 --> 00:03:18,964 AND IN WHAT DIRECTION THEY WERE HEADING IN. 65 00:03:18,966 --> 00:03:20,666 Man: WHAT DOES YOUR COMPASS READ? 66 00:03:20,668 --> 00:03:23,335 WE MUST HAVE GOT LOST AFTER THAT LAST TURN. 67 00:03:23,337 --> 00:03:25,837 Narrator: THE CREW OF FLIGHT 19 WERE LOST, 68 00:03:25,839 --> 00:03:27,806 BUT LUCKILY, A SEPARATE MISSION 69 00:03:27,808 --> 00:03:31,009 FLYING OVER THE BAHAMAS OVERHEAD THEIR CONFUSION. 70 00:03:31,011 --> 00:03:32,010 [ RADIO CHATTER ] 71 00:03:32,012 --> 00:03:33,011 THE LEAD PILOT, 72 00:03:33,013 --> 00:03:34,413 LIEUTENANT ROBERT COX, 73 00:03:34,415 --> 00:03:35,547 OFFERED HIS HELP. 74 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:36,949 WHAT IS YOUR TROUBLE? 75 00:03:36,951 --> 00:03:38,850 Taylor: I'M TRYING TO FIND FORT LAUDERDALE. 76 00:03:41,188 --> 00:03:43,055 Narrator: COX ASKED TAYLOR FOR HIS POSITION. 77 00:03:43,057 --> 00:03:44,590 Cox: I WILL COME MEET YOU. 78 00:03:44,592 --> 00:03:46,892 Narrator: HE REPLIED THAT HIS SQUADRON 79 00:03:46,894 --> 00:03:48,627 HAD SOMEHOW DRIFTED OVER THE FLORIDA KEYS, 80 00:03:48,629 --> 00:03:53,198 HUNDREDS OF MILES SOUTH OF HIS FLIGHT PLAN. 81 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,901 PUT THE SUN ON YOUR PORT WING IF YOU ARE IN THE KEYS 82 00:03:55,903 --> 00:03:59,538 AND FLY UP THE COAST UNTIL YOU GET TO MIAMI. 83 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:02,307 Narrator: TAYLOR TOOK COX'S ADVICE AND HEADED NORTH, 84 00:04:02,309 --> 00:04:04,876 BUT FOUND NO SIGN OF THE MAINLAND. 85 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,515 THE RADIO CUT OUT. 86 00:04:10,517 --> 00:04:13,352 AND NOW, IN FADING LIGHT, THE SQUADRON BEGAN 87 00:04:13,354 --> 00:04:16,755 TO BE BATTERED BY HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS. 88 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:20,259 TAYLOR WAS DESPERATE. 89 00:04:20,261 --> 00:04:22,561 HE STILL COULDN'T SEE LAND. 90 00:04:22,563 --> 00:04:26,198 SO HE STARTED TO THINK HE MUST BE TO THE WEST OF FLORIDA, 91 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,434 IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. 92 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:34,406 THE FIVE BOMBERS WERE NOW RUNNING DANGEROUSLY LOW ON FUEL. 93 00:04:34,408 --> 00:04:35,841 TAYLOR MADE A SERIES OF 94 00:04:35,843 --> 00:04:39,211 INCREASINGLY IRRATIONAL COMMANDS. 95 00:04:39,213 --> 00:04:41,179 TURNING EAST... 96 00:04:41,181 --> 00:04:44,216 CHANGE COURSE TO ZERO-90 DEGREES FOR TEN MINUTES! 97 00:04:44,218 --> 00:04:45,450 Narrator: THEN WEST... 98 00:04:45,452 --> 00:04:49,655 Taylor: WE'LL FLY 270 DEGREES WEST. 99 00:04:49,657 --> 00:04:52,224 Narrator: THEN EAST AGAIN. 100 00:04:52,226 --> 00:04:56,094 BUT IT WAS ALL IN VAIN. 101 00:04:56,096 --> 00:04:59,831 AT 6:20 P.M., OVER FOUR HOURS AFTER TAKING OFF, 102 00:04:59,833 --> 00:05:04,770 FLIGHT 19'S LAST MESSAGE CAME OVER THE AIRWAVES. 103 00:05:04,772 --> 00:05:08,807 WHEN THE FIRST PLANE DROPS BELOW TEN GALLONS, 104 00:05:08,809 --> 00:05:10,442 WE ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER. 105 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,723 Narrator: THE PILOTS WERE NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN. 106 00:05:24,725 --> 00:05:27,626 THAT SAME NIGHT, A MARTIN MARINER SEAPLANE 107 00:05:27,628 --> 00:05:30,729 WAS DISPATCHED TO SEARCH FOR THE MISSING SQUADRON, 108 00:05:30,731 --> 00:05:32,964 BUT IT TOO DISAPPEARED. 109 00:05:32,966 --> 00:05:35,634 A NEARBY WARSHIP REPORTED A DISTANT FIREBALL 110 00:05:35,636 --> 00:05:38,303 ON THE SURFACE OF THE SEA. 111 00:05:40,074 --> 00:05:44,376 THE NAVY SPENT FIVE DAYS SEARCHING FOR THE WRECKAGE, 112 00:05:44,378 --> 00:05:47,279 BUT ASTONISHINGLY, THEY DIDN'T FIND A SINGLE TRACE 113 00:05:47,281 --> 00:05:49,348 OF EITHER OF THE MISSING PLANES. 114 00:05:51,618 --> 00:05:57,222 WHAT ARE THE HARD FACTS BEHIND THIS DRAMATIC DISAPPEARANCE? 115 00:05:57,224 --> 00:06:00,359 HOW COULD SIMPLE FOG CAUSE SUCH CONFUSION? 116 00:06:06,967 --> 00:06:11,536 AND WHY HAS NO WRECKAGE EVER BEEN FOUND? 117 00:06:14,141 --> 00:06:16,775 Myhre: WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO WHERE THE LAST 118 00:06:16,777 --> 00:06:19,644 REPORTED POSITION WAS AND WE'RE GOING TO START -- 119 00:06:19,646 --> 00:06:22,047 START RUNNING A SURVEY AROUND THAT AREA. 120 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:25,617 WE'VE ALREADY BOUNCED BETWEEN... 121 00:06:25,619 --> 00:06:27,853 Narrator: FORMER ARMY PILOT JON MYHRE 122 00:06:27,855 --> 00:06:32,190 HAS SPENT THE LAST 30 YEARS TRYING TO FIND THEM. 123 00:06:32,192 --> 00:06:36,495 LOOKS LIKE WE ARE WHERE FOR THE POSITION? 124 00:06:36,497 --> 00:06:40,165 TODAY, WITH AVIATION ARCHAEOLOGIST ANDY MAROCCO, 125 00:06:40,167 --> 00:06:43,235 HE'S SURVEYING YET ANOTHER PATCH OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 126 00:06:43,237 --> 00:06:45,303 FOR THE AIRCRAFT REMAINS. 127 00:06:45,305 --> 00:06:48,373 FLIGHT 19 IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST AVIATION MYSTERY 128 00:06:48,375 --> 00:06:49,641 IN -- IN THE WORLD. 129 00:06:49,643 --> 00:06:54,379 THE ANSWER TO WHAT HAPPENED, NOBODY REALLY KNOWS. 130 00:06:54,381 --> 00:06:56,715 Narrator: JON BELIEVES THAT FINDING THE WRECKAGE 131 00:06:56,717 --> 00:07:00,185 IS THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 19. 132 00:07:00,187 --> 00:07:02,687 STARTED IN 1982. 133 00:07:02,689 --> 00:07:06,091 READ A SHORT ARTICLE ON FLIGHT 19. 134 00:07:06,093 --> 00:07:10,529 AND I SAID, BASED ON SOME DATA IN IT, 135 00:07:10,531 --> 00:07:13,899 I COULD PROBABLY FIGURE OUT WHERE ONE OF THE PLANES CRASHED. 136 00:07:13,901 --> 00:07:16,568 AND I'VE BEEN ON IT EVER SINCE. 137 00:07:16,570 --> 00:07:18,170 THAT WRECK THAT WE SAW? RIGHT. 138 00:07:18,172 --> 00:07:19,271 I HAVE ALL THAT IN HERE. 139 00:07:19,273 --> 00:07:20,539 SO THIS IS YOUR POSITION PRESENTLY... 140 00:07:20,541 --> 00:07:22,207 Narrator: JON AND ANDY SEARCH FOR ANSWERS 141 00:07:22,209 --> 00:07:24,443 IN ORDER TO SEPARATE FACT FROM FICTION. 142 00:07:24,445 --> 00:07:26,344 WE ALSO HAVE A SEARCH PATTERN -- 143 00:07:26,346 --> 00:07:27,546 WE DON'T GET PAID TO DO THIS. 144 00:07:27,548 --> 00:07:29,281 WE'RE JUST RESEARCHERS AND WE LOVE IT 145 00:07:29,283 --> 00:07:31,349 BECAUSE OF THE HISTORY AND THE SUBJECT MATTER. 146 00:07:31,351 --> 00:07:35,120 SO FOR US, WE KIND OF THINK OF OURSELVES AS 147 00:07:35,122 --> 00:07:36,955 HIGH-TECH FORENSIC DETECTIVES 148 00:07:36,957 --> 00:07:38,657 THAT ARE TRYING TO SOLVE MYSTERIES. 149 00:07:38,659 --> 00:07:40,292 29.59. RIGHT. 150 00:07:40,294 --> 00:07:42,461 Narrator: THEY BELIEVE THAT WHEN TAYLOR REPORTED 151 00:07:42,463 --> 00:07:44,129 HE WAS OVER THE FLORIDA KEYS, 152 00:07:44,131 --> 00:07:46,231 HE WAS ACTUALLY OVER THE BAHAMAS. 153 00:07:46,233 --> 00:07:48,166 HEADED OUT ON A 3-6-0 HEADING. 154 00:07:48,168 --> 00:07:49,568 AND IF THEY'RE RIGHT, 155 00:07:49,570 --> 00:07:53,038 IT MEANS THAT THE SQUADRON'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR LAND 156 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,540 SIMPLY TOOK THEM FURTHER AND FURTHER 157 00:07:55,542 --> 00:07:57,809 INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 158 00:07:57,811 --> 00:07:59,678 THIS IS THE BACKGROUND NOAA MAP. 159 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,615 DURING EACH EXPEDITION, JON SURVEYS A DIFFERENT PATCH 160 00:08:03,617 --> 00:08:07,152 OF THE OCEAN FLOOR FOR WRECKAGE, TICKING IT OFF THE LIST 161 00:08:07,154 --> 00:08:10,922 AND THEN MOVING ON TO THE NEXT LIKELY SPOT. 162 00:08:10,924 --> 00:08:13,191 BASICALLY WE'RE USING SIDE-SCAN SONAR 163 00:08:13,193 --> 00:08:16,661 AND ECHO SOUNDING DEVICES 164 00:08:16,663 --> 00:08:18,430 THAT WILL HELP US BUILD 3D MODELS 165 00:08:18,432 --> 00:08:20,332 OF WHAT IS ON THE OCEAN FLOOR 166 00:08:20,334 --> 00:08:22,734 AND BE ABLE TO GIVE US A PROFILE OF THINGS. 167 00:08:27,107 --> 00:08:29,441 Narrator: TODAY, DESPITE A FULL DAY OF SCANNING, 168 00:08:29,443 --> 00:08:32,878 THE TEAM DRAWS YET ANOTHER BLANK. 169 00:08:34,815 --> 00:08:36,348 BUT IT'S A BIG OCEAN, 170 00:08:36,350 --> 00:08:39,584 AND THEY'RE NOT READY TO GIVE UP. 171 00:08:39,586 --> 00:08:42,654 I TRULY BELIEVE FLIGHT 19 IS GOING TO BE FOUND. 172 00:08:42,656 --> 00:08:46,291 IT'S JUST A MATTER OF WHEN, AND I THINK RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 173 00:08:46,293 --> 00:08:48,894 THE BEST SHOT IN HISTORY TO FIND THEM. 174 00:08:48,896 --> 00:08:52,097 Narrator: JON'S CONVINCED HE'LL FIND FLIGHT 19 175 00:08:52,099 --> 00:08:56,134 BECAUSE THE TECHNOLOGY TODAY IS BETTER THAN IT'S EVER BEEN. 176 00:08:56,136 --> 00:08:58,904 BUT WHAT IF THE PLANES AREN'T THERE TO BE FOUND? 177 00:08:58,906 --> 00:09:01,039 IS IT POSSIBLE THE ENTIRE SQUADRON 178 00:09:01,041 --> 00:09:05,043 WERE TRANSPORTED SOMEWHERE ELSE BY A RIPPLE IN SPACE-TIME? 179 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:08,880 THIS WILD THEORY HAS LONG BEEN DERIDED MANY EXPERTS, 180 00:09:08,882 --> 00:09:11,850 BUT ONE MAN BELIEVES HE HAS PROOF, 181 00:09:11,852 --> 00:09:14,886 BECAUSE HE CLAIMS IT HAPPENED TO HIM. 182 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:24,462 Narrator: EXPERIENCED PILOT BRUCE GERNON BELIEVES HE ONCE HAD 183 00:09:24,464 --> 00:09:28,532 A BRUSH WITH DEATH INSIDE THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 184 00:09:28,534 --> 00:09:31,836 WAS I LUCKY THAT DAY? 185 00:09:31,838 --> 00:09:32,870 YEAH. 186 00:09:32,872 --> 00:09:34,572 IT WAS FATE, REALLY. 187 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:36,974 Narrator: THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS HE EXPERIENCED 188 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:40,010 HAVE CONVINCED HIM THAT FORCES UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE 189 00:09:40,012 --> 00:09:43,781 ARE TO BLAME FOR DISAPPEARANCES IN THE AREA. 190 00:09:43,783 --> 00:09:47,151 COULD HE BE RIGHT? 191 00:09:47,153 --> 00:09:49,787 IN DECEMBER 1970, 192 00:09:49,789 --> 00:09:53,157 23-YEAR-OLD BRUCE TOOK HIS FATHER 193 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:55,192 AND HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS PARTNER 194 00:09:55,194 --> 00:09:58,028 ON A SHORT HOP FROM ANDROS ISLAND TO BIMINI ISLAND 195 00:09:58,030 --> 00:10:01,031 IN THE BAHAMAS. 196 00:10:01,033 --> 00:10:05,603 IT WAS EXACTLY 3:00 P.M. WHEN WE LIFTED OFF. 197 00:10:05,605 --> 00:10:07,304 Narrator: TEN MINUTES INTO THE JOURNEY, 198 00:10:07,306 --> 00:10:09,440 BRUCE ENCOUNTERED A GATHERING STORM. 199 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:11,442 YOU CAN PROBABLY GO OVER THAT. 200 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:12,510 YEAH, WE CAN PROBABLY GO OVER IT. 201 00:10:12,512 --> 00:10:13,811 Narrator: HE ATTEMPTED TO FLY OVER IT, 202 00:10:13,813 --> 00:10:16,780 BUT THE STORM CLOUDS BELOW EXPANDED, 203 00:10:16,782 --> 00:10:18,115 ENGULFING THE TINY PLANE. 204 00:10:18,117 --> 00:10:20,084 IT'S JUST A FEW CLOUDS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING. 205 00:10:20,086 --> 00:10:23,387 Gernon: I KEPT CLIMBING UP AND I GOT CAUGHT IN THIS CLOUD, 206 00:10:23,389 --> 00:10:26,357 AND THIS WENT ON FOR ANOTHER TEN MINUTES 207 00:10:26,359 --> 00:10:29,627 UNTIL I GOT TO 11,500 FEET, 208 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:33,497 AND THEN I FINALLY BROKE FREE OF THE STORM. 209 00:10:33,499 --> 00:10:35,599 Narrator: LOOKING BACK AT THE STORM CLOUDS, 210 00:10:35,601 --> 00:10:38,102 BRUCE WAS AMAZED TO SEE THEM CURLING, 211 00:10:38,104 --> 00:10:40,304 FORMING A HORSESHOE AROUND THEM. 212 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:45,643 DO YOU SEE THIS? Narrator: AHEAD OF BRUCE, 213 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:48,179 THE TWO ENDS OF THE HORSESHOE APPEARED TO BE CLOSING SHUT... 214 00:10:48,181 --> 00:10:50,214 I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THEM. I HAVE NO CHOICE. 215 00:10:50,216 --> 00:10:54,952 LEAVING JUST A TUNNEL OF CLEAR SKY TO FLY THROUGH. 216 00:10:54,954 --> 00:10:57,154 Gernon: AND SO I FIGURED I COULD SHOOT THROUGH THAT 217 00:10:57,156 --> 00:10:59,857 SINCE IT WAS AIMING TOWARD MIAMI 218 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:02,560 AND IT LOOKED LIKE CLEAR SKIES THE WHOLE WAY. 219 00:11:02,562 --> 00:11:03,827 Narrator: AS THEY FLEW THROUGH, 220 00:11:03,829 --> 00:11:07,531 THE TUNNEL FILLED WITH A SWIRLING VORTEX OF FOG. 221 00:11:07,533 --> 00:11:09,567 WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? 222 00:11:09,569 --> 00:11:11,969 AND THEN THE TUNNEL STARTED TO COLLAPSE AROUND THEM 223 00:11:11,971 --> 00:11:14,672 AS THEY LEFT THE CLOUD. 224 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:15,839 Gernon: IT FELT LIKE ZERO GRAVITY, 225 00:11:15,841 --> 00:11:17,508 LIKE WE WERE FLOATING. 226 00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:21,278 ALL THE ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS STARTED TO MALFUNCTION. 227 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,982 DAD. DAD, I CAN'T SEE MY COMPASS. 228 00:11:24,984 --> 00:11:26,850 Narrator: BRUCE BROKE FREE FROM THE STORM, 229 00:11:26,852 --> 00:11:30,321 BUT THE FOG STILL CLUNG TO HIS PLANE. 230 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:34,325 [ RADIO CHATTER ] 231 00:11:34,327 --> 00:11:37,061 DISORIENTATED AND UNABLE TO SEE BEYOND HIS WINDSCREEN, 232 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:40,064 HE CALLED MIAMI AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR HELP. 233 00:11:40,066 --> 00:11:42,333 WE'RE 80 MILES EAST OF MIAMI, 10,500 FEET. 234 00:11:42,335 --> 00:11:45,603 Narrator: BRUCE ASSUMED HE WAS OVER BIMINI, BAHAMA, 235 00:11:45,605 --> 00:11:47,972 BUT THE RADIO CONTROLLER TOLD HIM HE WAS ACTUALLY 236 00:11:47,974 --> 00:11:51,242 OVER MIAMI BEACH, 50 MILES AWAY. 237 00:11:53,412 --> 00:11:55,713 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. 238 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:58,249 Gernon: LOOKED AT MY WATCH, I'D BEEN FLYING FOR 33 MINUTES, 239 00:11:58,251 --> 00:12:01,719 AND IT'S LIKE... AND I TOLD HIM, "NO, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE." 240 00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:07,858 AND AFTER ABOUT TEN SECONDS, ALL THE FOG WAS GONE. 241 00:12:07,860 --> 00:12:10,728 AND I LOOK DOWN AND I SEE MIAMI BEACH RIGHT BELOW ME, 242 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:13,364 SO I TOLD THE RADAR CONTROLLER HE'S RIGHT. 243 00:12:13,366 --> 00:12:15,666 WE'RE RIGHT OVER MIAMI. 244 00:12:18,070 --> 00:12:20,771 Narrator: BRUCE'S TINY AIRCRAFT APPEARED TO HAVE COVERED 245 00:12:20,773 --> 00:12:24,341 THE EXTRA 50 MILES IN NO TIME AT ALL. 246 00:12:24,343 --> 00:12:26,477 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. 247 00:12:26,479 --> 00:12:28,178 THIS MAKES NO SENSE. 248 00:12:28,180 --> 00:12:29,847 Gernon: SOMEHOW I WAS TRAVELING FASTER 249 00:12:29,849 --> 00:12:33,150 THROUGH SPACE AND TIME. 250 00:12:33,152 --> 00:12:34,985 Narrator: BRUCE IS CONVINCED HE WAS THE VICTIM 251 00:12:34,987 --> 00:12:40,024 OF AN ABNORMAL, ENERGIZED FOG THAT HE BELIEVES TRANSPORTED HIM 252 00:12:40,026 --> 00:12:42,726 TO MIAMI BEACH IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. 253 00:12:42,728 --> 00:12:46,130 HE CALLS THIS STRANGE TIME-SHIFTING WEATHER PHENOMENON 254 00:12:46,132 --> 00:12:49,033 "ELECTRONIC FOG." 255 00:12:49,035 --> 00:12:51,769 SOMEHOW IT ATTACHES ITSELF TO THE AIRCRAFT 256 00:12:51,771 --> 00:12:53,704 AND IT ALMOST BLURS YOUR VISION. 257 00:12:53,706 --> 00:12:56,507 AND THEN YOUR INSTRUMENTS START TO MALFUNCTION 258 00:12:56,509 --> 00:13:00,377 AND YOU CAN'T NAVIGATE BY INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULES, EITHER. 259 00:13:00,379 --> 00:13:02,713 Narrator: ACCORDING TO BRUCE, THE ELECTRONIC FOG 260 00:13:02,715 --> 00:13:06,617 LATCHED ONTO HIS PLANE AS HE LEFT THE STORM CLOUD. 261 00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:09,086 IT JAMMED HIS INSTRUMENTS 262 00:13:09,088 --> 00:13:10,587 AND CAUSED HIS TINY PLANE 263 00:13:10,589 --> 00:13:13,057 TO GLITCH THROUGH SPACE AND TIME. 264 00:13:13,059 --> 00:13:14,425 I BELIEVE THIS IS THE MAIN REASON 265 00:13:14,427 --> 00:13:16,694 OF THE MYSTERY OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 266 00:13:16,696 --> 00:13:20,230 IT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO FLIGHT 19 AND ANY OTHER PLANES 267 00:13:20,232 --> 00:13:24,268 AND BOATS THAT HAVE ALSO BEEN IN IT. 268 00:13:24,270 --> 00:13:27,404 Narrator: BRUCE'S STORY SOUNDS FANTASTICAL, 269 00:13:27,406 --> 00:13:31,075 BUT HOW DOES IT STACK UP TO SCIENCE? 270 00:13:34,113 --> 00:13:35,646 WELL, IN BRUCE GERNON'S STORY, 271 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:39,183 HE TALKS ABOUT TWO THUNDERHEAD ANVILS COMING TOGETHER, 272 00:13:39,185 --> 00:13:41,618 AND THAT'S CERTAINLY ENTIRELY POSSIBLE. 273 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:44,388 IF YOU HAVE TWO THUNDERSTORMS DRAWING NEXT TO EACH OTHER 274 00:13:44,390 --> 00:13:47,691 AND THEIR ANVILS SPREAD OUT AT THE TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERE, 275 00:13:47,693 --> 00:13:51,161 YOU COULD SEE THEM CONVERGING AND CREATING A TUNNEL 276 00:13:51,163 --> 00:13:55,933 THROUGH WHICH YOU COULD FLY AN AIRPLANE QUITE SAFELY. 277 00:13:55,935 --> 00:13:58,302 Narrator: THE CLOUD TUNNEL MAY HAVE BEEN REAL, 278 00:13:58,304 --> 00:14:00,003 BUT WHAT ABOUT BRUCE'S CLAIM 279 00:14:00,005 --> 00:14:03,207 THAT HE JUMPED THROUGH SPACE AND TIME? 280 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,947 Shermer: WHAT BRUCE THINKS HAPPENED WHEN HE -- 281 00:14:09,949 --> 00:14:12,082 HIS PLANE WAS GOING ALONG AND HE WAS HERE 282 00:14:12,084 --> 00:14:13,851 AND THEN SOMEHOW HE GOES THROUGH A FOG 283 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:16,587 AND HE GETS CONFUSED AND HE FINDS HIMSELF OVER HERE 284 00:14:16,589 --> 00:14:18,322 IS THAT HE DIDN'T JUST FLY THE NORMAL WAY 285 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:20,357 THAT AIRPLANES GO LIKE THIS. 286 00:14:20,359 --> 00:14:23,794 BUT, IN FACT, THAT SOMEHOW IF THIS WAS TREATED 287 00:14:23,796 --> 00:14:25,763 AS LIKE THE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME 288 00:14:25,765 --> 00:14:27,631 AND IT CRUMPLED UP LIKE THAT, 289 00:14:27,633 --> 00:14:29,199 YOU COULD COVER THE SAME AMOUNT OF SPACE 290 00:14:29,201 --> 00:14:31,168 IN A MUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME 291 00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:35,038 AND SO THAT WOULD BE KIND OF A WARPING OF SPACE AND TIME. 292 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,441 Narrator: TRAVELING VAST DISTANCES 293 00:14:37,443 --> 00:14:41,145 BY WARPING SPACE AND TIME IS A STAPLE OF SCIENCE FICTION. 294 00:14:41,147 --> 00:14:43,280 YOU MEAN, YOU COME AND GO JUST LIKE THAT? 295 00:14:43,282 --> 00:14:46,550 WITHOUT ANYONE EVER SEEING YOU? 296 00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:51,889 SURPRISINGLY, THE LAWS OF PHYSICS SAY IT IS POSSIBLE, 297 00:14:51,891 --> 00:14:55,325 BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO PHENOMENAL AMOUNTS OF ENERGY. 298 00:14:55,327 --> 00:14:56,927 IN TERMS OF THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, YOU WOULD -- 299 00:14:56,929 --> 00:14:59,062 YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SO MUCH ENERGY 300 00:14:59,064 --> 00:15:01,632 TO WARP THE SPACE TIME AROUND YOU 301 00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:04,001 THAT IT WOULD BE MORE THAN ALL OF THE ENERGY 302 00:15:04,003 --> 00:15:07,805 THAT HUMANITY HAS USED IN 10,000 YEARS OF CIVILIZATION. 303 00:15:07,807 --> 00:15:10,741 SO WHERE BRUCE GOT THAT ENERGY FOR HIS LITTLE AIRPLANE 304 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,309 OR WHERE THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED NATURALLY 305 00:15:12,311 --> 00:15:14,144 INSIDE THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, IT'S -- 306 00:15:14,146 --> 00:15:16,313 IT'S PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE. 307 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:19,149 Narrator: IF BRUCE WASN'T WARPED BY FOG, 308 00:15:19,151 --> 00:15:23,420 WHAT ELSE MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED OVER BIMINI 40 YEARS AGO? 309 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:27,624 IN TERMS OF WHAT'S MORE LIKELY, THAT A PERSON WHO GETS LOST 310 00:15:27,626 --> 00:15:29,493 AND DISORIENTED ENDS UP IN A PLACE 311 00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:31,261 THAT HE DIDN'T EXPECT TO BE 312 00:15:31,263 --> 00:15:34,598 OR THAT THIS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE THING HAPPENED, 313 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,266 THIS WARPING OF SPACE AND TIME HAPPENED TO HIM 314 00:15:36,268 --> 00:15:38,902 AND HIM ONLY IN THIS ONE PARTICULAR INSTANCE, 315 00:15:38,904 --> 00:15:40,070 WHAT'S MORE LIKELY? 316 00:15:40,072 --> 00:15:43,006 WE KNOW ALL ABOUT HUMAN ERROR, HUMAN CONFUSION. 317 00:15:43,008 --> 00:15:44,575 WE'VE ALL GOTTEN LOST BEFORE. 318 00:15:44,577 --> 00:15:46,743 WE'VE ALL ENDED UP IN PLACES WHERE WE WEREN'T EXPECTING 319 00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:48,345 BECAUSE WE GOT ORIEN-- DISORIENTED. 320 00:15:48,347 --> 00:15:49,780 THAT'S A VERY COMMON THING. 321 00:15:49,782 --> 00:15:51,114 THE WARPING OF SPACE AND TIME, 322 00:15:51,116 --> 00:15:54,585 WE KNOW OF NO PLACE WHERE THAT'S EVER HAPPENED. 323 00:15:54,587 --> 00:15:56,587 Narrator: THE MOST NATURAL EXPLANATION 324 00:15:56,589 --> 00:15:59,590 FOR BRUCE'S TIME-HOPPING FLIGHT SEEMS TO BE THAT HE WAS BLOWN 325 00:15:59,592 --> 00:16:06,530 OUT OF A STORM BY HIGH WINDS AND HE LOST TRACK OF TIME. 326 00:16:06,532 --> 00:16:08,031 BUT EVEN IF HE'S RIGHT, 327 00:16:08,033 --> 00:16:10,234 AND ELECTRONIC FOG IS DOWNING PLANES 328 00:16:10,236 --> 00:16:13,170 IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE 329 00:16:13,172 --> 00:16:17,541 HOW THE SAME FOG COULD SINK AN ENORMOUS SHIP. 330 00:16:24,584 --> 00:16:27,051 Narrator: ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING MYSTERIES 331 00:16:27,053 --> 00:16:30,521 OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE IS ITS SEEMING ABILITY 332 00:16:30,523 --> 00:16:32,456 TO SWALLOW UP INDIVIDUAL SHIPS 333 00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:36,394 WITHOUT AFFECTING THE OTHER CRAFT AROUND THEM. 334 00:16:36,396 --> 00:16:40,431 LARGE, INDUSTRIAL, MILITARY-GRADE SHIPS 335 00:16:40,433 --> 00:16:42,967 DISAPPEAR WITHOUT A TRACE WHILE FISHING VESSELS 336 00:16:42,969 --> 00:16:45,369 AND PLEASURE CRAFT IN THE EXACT SAME AREA 337 00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:48,406 LEAVE PORT AND RETURN WITH NO PROBLEMS. 338 00:16:48,408 --> 00:16:50,241 WHY ARE THESE BOATS BEING TARGETED? 339 00:16:50,243 --> 00:16:54,612 IS IT SPECIFIC OR JUST BAD LUCK? 340 00:16:54,614 --> 00:16:56,414 Narrator: SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE SECRET 341 00:16:56,416 --> 00:16:59,884 TO THIS APPARENT TARGETING IS ACTUALLY THE CHANCE RELEASE 342 00:16:59,886 --> 00:17:05,456 OF HUGE METHANE GAS DEPOSITS HIDDEN UNDER THE SEABED. 343 00:17:05,458 --> 00:17:07,725 GEOLOGIST MARTIN PEPPER HAS COME TO 344 00:17:07,727 --> 00:17:10,027 A COMMERCIAL DIVING CENTER IN FLORIDA 345 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:13,330 TO FIND OUT IF THERE'S ANY TRUTH TO THIS THEORY. 346 00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:15,199 SO THE IDEA IS THAT METHANE IS COMING 347 00:17:15,201 --> 00:17:19,070 FROM BASICALLY THE DECOMPOSITION OF ALL THIS OLD DEAD MATTER. 348 00:17:19,072 --> 00:17:22,006 SO IT COULD BE REALLY DEEP WITHIN THE SEDIMENT. 349 00:17:22,008 --> 00:17:25,409 AND AS THE DECOMPOSITION HAPPENS, METHANE IS FORMED, 350 00:17:25,411 --> 00:17:29,146 AND IT BASICALLY KIND OF RISES ITS WAY THROUGH THE SEDIMENT. 351 00:17:29,148 --> 00:17:33,250 Narrator: JUST BELOW THE SEABED, THE SEDIMENT FREEZES, 352 00:17:33,252 --> 00:17:36,520 AND AS THE METHANE MOLECULES RISE UP THROUGH THIS LAYER, 353 00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:40,591 THEY CAN GET TRAPPED INSIDE ICE CRYSTALS. 354 00:17:40,593 --> 00:17:42,827 THE RESULT IS A SUBTERRANEAN LAYER 355 00:17:42,829 --> 00:17:47,531 OF GAS-RICH SNOW CALLED METHANE CLATHRATE. 356 00:17:47,533 --> 00:17:51,202 WHAT IT IS IS IT'S LIKE A WATER CAGE OF ICE. 357 00:17:51,204 --> 00:17:55,606 AND THIS ICE CAGE CAN ACTUALLY HOUSE 170 TIMES 358 00:17:55,608 --> 00:17:58,142 THE VOLUME OF GAS INTO THIS CUBE OF ICE. 359 00:17:58,144 --> 00:18:00,144 SOMEHOW, WHEN YOU DISRUPT THAT, 360 00:18:00,146 --> 00:18:02,580 IT CAN CAUSE THE METHANE TO JUST BOIL OUT OF IT. 361 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:05,049 AND AS THIS RISES IN THE WATER COLUMN, 362 00:18:05,051 --> 00:18:07,585 IT'LL ACTUALLY LOWER THE DENSITY OF THE WATER 363 00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:10,554 AND SHIPS SAILING OVER THAT CAN ACTUALLY FALL THROUGH THAT WATER 364 00:18:10,556 --> 00:18:12,656 BECAUSE OF THE DENSITY CHANGE, SUDDENLY. 365 00:18:12,658 --> 00:18:15,126 Narrator: IN THEORY, THE PRESSURE OF GAS BUILT UP 366 00:18:15,128 --> 00:18:17,128 INSIDE THESE ICY DEPOSITS 367 00:18:17,130 --> 00:18:20,598 COULD CREATE AN EXPLOSION OF METHANE FROM THE SEABED. 368 00:18:27,673 --> 00:18:31,308 BUBBLE, BOOSH, INSTANT DISAPPEARANCE. 369 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:33,477 Narrator: TO INVESTIGATE THE THEORY, 370 00:18:33,479 --> 00:18:36,380 MARTIN DEVISED AN EXPERIMENT USING THE CLOSEST THING 371 00:18:36,382 --> 00:18:41,719 TO RARE METHANE CLATHRATE -- DRY CARBON DIOXIDE ICE. 372 00:18:41,721 --> 00:18:44,088 SO WHAT I NEED TO DO IS MAKE A BIG GAS EXPLOSION, 373 00:18:44,090 --> 00:18:47,258 AND TO DO THAT, I HAVE A TWO-LITER BOTTLE, 374 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:49,260 AND WE PUT SOME OF THIS DRY ICE IN THE BOTTLE. 375 00:18:49,262 --> 00:18:52,997 AND THE BEAUTY IS, IS ONCE YOU LOCK THIS CAP, 376 00:18:52,999 --> 00:18:56,600 THE DRY ICE IS SUBLIMING, SO IT'S GOING STRAIGHT TO A GAS, 377 00:18:56,602 --> 00:18:59,403 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IT STARTS WORKING THE PRESSURE UP. 378 00:18:59,405 --> 00:19:00,871 IT'S GOING TO GET UP TO ABOUT 300 PSI 379 00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:03,340 BEFORE THIS THING FINALLY CANNOT TAKE IT. 380 00:19:03,342 --> 00:19:06,844 BOOM! AND THAT'S OUR BIG BUBBLE OF METHANE 381 00:19:06,846 --> 00:19:09,980 THAT WE WANT TO SIMULATE TO SEE IF WE CAN SINK THAT SHIP. 382 00:19:09,982 --> 00:19:12,616 Narrator: FOR SAFETY REASONS, MARTIN FIRST WANTS TO 383 00:19:12,618 --> 00:19:16,720 FIRST TEST HIS EXPERIMENT USING A HALF-FILLED BOTTLE. 384 00:19:16,722 --> 00:19:18,189 THIS IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD NOT TRY AT HOME, 385 00:19:18,191 --> 00:19:20,024 BECAUSE IT IS VERY EXPLOSIVE, 386 00:19:20,026 --> 00:19:21,759 AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THIS, 387 00:19:21,761 --> 00:19:24,328 IT CAN ACTUALLY TAKE OFF FINGERS, TAKE OUT AN EYE. 388 00:19:24,330 --> 00:19:25,596 IT'S VERY DANGEROUS. 389 00:19:25,598 --> 00:19:28,165 ALL RIGHT. 390 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:29,900 Narrator: HE PULLS THE BOTTLE TO THE BOTTOM 391 00:19:29,902 --> 00:19:34,705 OF THE TEN-FOOT DEEP TEST AREA USING A WEIGHTED PULLEY SYSTEM 392 00:19:34,707 --> 00:19:36,907 AND WAITS FOR THE PRESSURE TO BUILD. 393 00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:40,811 [ LAUGHS ] 394 00:19:40,813 --> 00:19:42,713 LOOK AT THAT! 395 00:19:42,715 --> 00:19:44,748 THE WHOLE DOCK JUMPED! 396 00:19:46,986 --> 00:19:49,420 Narrator: COULD TERRIFYING GAS EXPLOSIONS LIKE THIS, 397 00:19:49,422 --> 00:19:51,722 BUT ON A MUCH BIGGER SCALE, 398 00:19:51,724 --> 00:19:54,959 REALLY BE SINKING SHIPS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE? 399 00:19:54,961 --> 00:19:57,661 THAT IS IMPRESSIVE. 400 00:19:57,663 --> 00:20:03,133 A SIGNIFICANT CLUE LIES IN THE FROZEN WASTELAND OF SIBERIA. 401 00:20:03,135 --> 00:20:07,238 IN 2014, REINDEER HERDERS DISCOVERED HUGE HOLES 402 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,907 BLASTED OUT OF THE ICY TUNDRA. 403 00:20:09,909 --> 00:20:13,410 SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATED THE HOLES AND DISCOVERED 404 00:20:13,412 --> 00:20:16,680 UNUSUALLY HIGH LEVELS OF METHANE AT THE BOTTOM. 405 00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:19,250 THEY'RE FINDING THESE POCKMARKS, 406 00:20:19,252 --> 00:20:21,619 AND THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES SENSE IS THAT THESE CLATHRATES, 407 00:20:21,621 --> 00:20:23,988 BECAUSE OF THE RISING TEMPERATURES AROUND THE EARTH, 408 00:20:23,990 --> 00:20:25,656 THEY'RE STARTING TO BOIL SO QUICKLY 409 00:20:25,658 --> 00:20:27,091 THAT THEY'RE FORMING PRESSURES 410 00:20:27,093 --> 00:20:29,193 RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE GROUND LEVEL, 411 00:20:29,195 --> 00:20:30,728 AND SO THEY GET TO A PRESSURE LIKE THIS 412 00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:33,364 AND FINALLY JUST, BOOM, THEY EXPLODE, 413 00:20:33,366 --> 00:20:36,500 LEAVING THIS GIANT CRATER IN THE EARTH. 414 00:20:36,502 --> 00:20:39,336 Narrator: WITH THE SAFETY TEST COMPLETE, 415 00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:41,338 PEPPER PREPS A NEW EXPERIMENT, 416 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:45,743 FILLING A PLASTIC TUB WITH 33-POUND BUILDING BLOCKS. 417 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:47,811 SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS -- WITH THIS PLASTIC TUB 418 00:20:47,813 --> 00:20:51,448 IS WE'RE SIMULATING A LOADED CARGO SHIP. 419 00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:54,952 SO CARGO SHIPS ARE FILLED WITH GOODS 420 00:20:54,954 --> 00:20:57,087 TO THE POINT WHERE THERE'S JUST A LITTLE BIT OF 'EM 421 00:20:57,089 --> 00:20:58,689 SITTING ABOVE THE SURFACE. 422 00:20:58,691 --> 00:21:01,926 Narrator: HE WANTS TO SEE WHAT EFFECT A EXPLOSIVE RELEASE OF GAS 423 00:21:01,928 --> 00:21:05,229 WILL HAVE ON THIS HEAVILY WEIGHTED FLOATING TARGET. 424 00:21:05,231 --> 00:21:07,031 SO WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 425 00:21:07,033 --> 00:21:09,633 IT COULD GO DOWN BECAUSE OF THE DENSITY CHANGE. 426 00:21:09,635 --> 00:21:13,537 IT COULD GO UP BECAUSE OF THAT VERTICAL WATER FLOW COMING UP. 427 00:21:13,539 --> 00:21:15,306 OR IT COULD JUST TIP OVER ON THE EDGE OF THE BUBBLE. 428 00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:16,573 ARE YOU READY TO DO THIS? 429 00:21:16,575 --> 00:21:18,208 I'M READY. ALL RIGHT. 430 00:21:20,546 --> 00:21:24,181 SO I'VE NOW POSITIONED THE TUB RIGHT OUT HERE IN SAFETY, 431 00:21:24,183 --> 00:21:26,984 AND YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S REALLY DEEP. 432 00:21:26,986 --> 00:21:29,253 SO WHAT I WANT TO DO IS BE HERE IN THIS KAYAK 433 00:21:29,255 --> 00:21:31,422 AND KEEP IT POSITIONED WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE PRESSURE 434 00:21:31,424 --> 00:21:34,658 TO BUILD IN THAT TWO-LITER BOTTLE. 435 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:37,027 Narrator: FULLY LOADED AND PRIMED, 436 00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:40,531 THE GAS BOMB IS DRAGGED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TEST AREA 437 00:21:40,533 --> 00:21:43,767 AND THE BARGE MANEUVERED ON TOP OF IT. 438 00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:46,070 A BOAT HOOK KEEPS THE TARGET IN PLACE 439 00:21:46,072 --> 00:21:48,005 AGAINST THE CHANGING TIDE. 440 00:21:48,007 --> 00:21:49,974 NOW WE WAIT. 441 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,954 LOOK AT THAT! 442 00:22:03,956 --> 00:22:05,122 IT'S LIKE A MAGIC TRICK! 443 00:22:05,124 --> 00:22:06,690 JUST GONE. 444 00:22:11,764 --> 00:22:16,300 Narrator: THE RISING GAS RIPS OPEN THE SURFACE OF THE WATER, 445 00:22:16,302 --> 00:22:20,037 AND IN A PUFF OF ICY VAPOR, THE BARGE APPEARS TO VANISH. 446 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:21,538 AW, WOW! 447 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:23,007 SLOW-MOTION CAMERAS 448 00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:26,143 REVEAL WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MODEL CARGO SHIP. 449 00:22:26,145 --> 00:22:30,014 FIRST, A SHOCKWAVE OF WATER TRAVELING AHEAD 450 00:22:30,016 --> 00:22:33,150 OF THE RISING GAS LIFTS THE BARGE 451 00:22:33,152 --> 00:22:34,885 CLEAN OUT OF THE WATER. 452 00:22:34,887 --> 00:22:37,488 A CAMERA INSIDE THE BARGE 453 00:22:37,490 --> 00:22:40,157 SHOWS HOW THE HEAVY CRAFT DROPS LIKE A STONE 454 00:22:40,159 --> 00:22:42,726 THROUGH THE HOLE LEFT BY THE RISING GAS. 455 00:22:46,265 --> 00:22:49,800 THE EXPERIMENT PROVES THAT A LARGE ENOUGH GAS EXPLOSION 456 00:22:49,802 --> 00:22:52,469 COULD SINK A HEAVY FLOATING SHIP, 457 00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:54,038 BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 458 00:22:56,509 --> 00:22:59,410 NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN A METHANE GAS EXPLOSION 459 00:22:59,412 --> 00:23:02,312 IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 460 00:23:02,314 --> 00:23:04,281 YOU DON'T SEE THESE BIG EXPLOSIONS OF BUBBLES 461 00:23:04,283 --> 00:23:05,682 COMING UP ALL THE TIME, 462 00:23:05,684 --> 00:23:09,053 AND YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE THAT IF THIS WERE A REAL PROBLEM. 463 00:23:09,055 --> 00:23:12,089 IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ONE HECK OF A COINCIDENCE 464 00:23:12,091 --> 00:23:15,225 FOR ONE OF THESE BUBBLE FIELDS TO FORM RIGHT UNDERNEATH 465 00:23:15,227 --> 00:23:16,794 A BIG SHIP AND SINK IT. 466 00:23:16,796 --> 00:23:20,164 AND YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN OTHER BUBBLE FIELDS 467 00:23:20,166 --> 00:23:24,168 GOING UP IN THE -- IN THE SEA LANES ELSEWHERE 468 00:23:24,170 --> 00:23:27,738 AND NOT TAKE DOWN A SHIP IF THIS WERE A COMMON PHENOMENON. 469 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:30,340 I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS MUCH CHANCE 470 00:23:30,342 --> 00:23:34,044 THAT METHYL HYDRATES ARE -- ARE SINKING A LOT OF SHIPS. 471 00:23:34,046 --> 00:23:40,150 MAYBE ONE SHIP WAY BACK WHEN AS A HECK OF A COINCIDENCE, 472 00:23:40,152 --> 00:23:42,753 BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S A REGULAR PHENOMENON 473 00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:44,421 AND IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT. 474 00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:48,459 Narrator: IF IT'S NOT ALL GAS EXPLOSIONS, 475 00:23:48,461 --> 00:23:51,695 WHAT ELSE COULD BE SINKING SHIPS? 476 00:23:58,537 --> 00:24:01,204 Narrator: THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE IS ONE OF THE BUSIEST PATCHES 477 00:24:01,206 --> 00:24:03,573 OF OCEAN IN THE WORLD. 478 00:24:03,575 --> 00:24:05,609 CARGO SHIPS, YACHTS, 479 00:24:05,611 --> 00:24:09,746 AND CRUISE LINERS ALL FIGHT FOR SPACE. 480 00:24:09,748 --> 00:24:12,082 ON A GOOD DAY, IT'S PARADISE. 481 00:24:14,386 --> 00:24:17,220 BUT ON A BAD DAY, THESE WARM TROPICAL WATERS 482 00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:20,724 CAN STIR UP THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE STORMS ON EARTH -- 483 00:24:23,829 --> 00:24:25,462 HURRICANES. 484 00:24:29,435 --> 00:24:31,201 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, 485 00:24:31,203 --> 00:24:34,671 THE WORLD'S MOST ADVANCED HURRICANE SIMULATOR 486 00:24:34,673 --> 00:24:37,174 GENERATES THE KIND OF WINDS THAT SLAM INTO 487 00:24:37,176 --> 00:24:40,644 THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE DURING HURRICANE SEASON. 488 00:24:40,646 --> 00:24:44,748 Man: OKAY, WE'RE GOING UP TO CATEGORY 5. 489 00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:48,585 Narrator: PROFESSOR BRIAN HAUS HEADS UP THE FACILITY. 490 00:24:48,587 --> 00:24:51,221 Haus: ALL RIGHT, NOW WE'RE SEEING AN 150-MILE-AN-HOUR-WIND, 491 00:24:51,223 --> 00:24:53,123 WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE AT THE OCEAN SURFACE. 492 00:24:53,125 --> 00:24:55,759 I MEAN, JUST ALL THAT WATER IN THE AIR, 493 00:24:55,761 --> 00:24:58,528 ALL THE BUBBLES DOWN HERE IN THE WATER. 494 00:24:58,530 --> 00:25:00,030 I MEAN, IT'S WHAT THE SAILORS 495 00:25:00,032 --> 00:25:01,832 WILL ACTUALLY CALL WHITEOUT CONDITIONS. 496 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:03,667 YOU KNOW, YOU JUST CAN'T SEE ANYTHING OUT THERE 497 00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:04,968 IF YOU'RE ON THE WATER. 498 00:25:04,970 --> 00:25:07,871 AND SO, IF YOU WERE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH 499 00:25:07,873 --> 00:25:11,374 IN A VESSEL TO BE CAUGHT OUT IN THESE CONDITIONS, 500 00:25:11,376 --> 00:25:14,644 YOU CAN'T SEND OUT A SIGNAL, YOUR POWER GOES OUT, YOUR -- 501 00:25:14,646 --> 00:25:17,180 YOUR SHIP LOSES STEERAGE, YOU'RE DONE. 502 00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,282 AND NOBODY IS GOING TO FIND THE PIECES. 503 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,387 Narrator: HURRICANE SEASON LASTS FROM EARLY JUNE 504 00:25:24,389 --> 00:25:29,359 TO LATE NOVEMBER, ALMOST HALF THE YEAR. 505 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:32,229 HOT WATER VAPOR RISES FROM THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC, 506 00:25:32,231 --> 00:25:36,199 SUCKING IN THE AIR AROUND IT AND CONDENSING AT ALTITUDE 507 00:25:36,201 --> 00:25:39,870 TO FORM A VAST, SPINNING CLOUD SYSTEM. 508 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:42,939 THESE STORMS GAIN IN STRENGTH AS THEY HEAD WEST 509 00:25:42,941 --> 00:25:46,943 ALONG A WELL-TRODDEN PATH KNOWN AS HURRICANE ALLEY. 510 00:25:46,945 --> 00:25:49,579 BY THE TIME THEY REACH THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 511 00:25:49,581 --> 00:25:51,715 THE HURRICANES CAN BE 1,000 MILES WIDE 512 00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:55,986 WITH WIND SPEEDS OF OVER 150 MILES PER HOUR. 513 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:01,691 RECREATING THAT KIND OF CLIMATIC VIOLENCE IN THE LAB 514 00:26:01,693 --> 00:26:05,162 TAKES INDUSTRIAL-SCALE EQUIPMENT. 515 00:26:05,164 --> 00:26:08,031 Haus: WE START OUT REALLY BIG, THREE-STORY-HIGH INTAKE 516 00:26:08,033 --> 00:26:10,367 SO WE'RE NOT BRINGING IN THE AIR TOO FAST, 517 00:26:10,369 --> 00:26:11,968 NOT VACUUMING THE SKY. 518 00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:13,937 COMES IN THROUGH, ACCELERATES, 519 00:26:13,939 --> 00:26:16,373 GOES UP, GOES THROUGH SOME SOUND ATTENUATORS 520 00:26:16,375 --> 00:26:19,442 SO WE'RE NOT TOO NOISY, COMES AROUND THIS BIG TURN, 521 00:26:19,444 --> 00:26:21,111 AND THEN WE HAVE TO COMPRESS IT DOWN 522 00:26:21,113 --> 00:26:24,047 SO WE JUST HAVE A NICE, SMOOTH, WELL-BEHAVED AIRFLOW 523 00:26:24,049 --> 00:26:27,484 AS IT COMPRESSES DOWN AND COMES IN OVER THE TANK. 524 00:26:27,486 --> 00:26:31,454 GOES SHOOTING THROUGH AT UP TO 150 MILES AN HOUR, 525 00:26:31,456 --> 00:26:34,257 AND THEN IT EXITS THROUGH THAT LIKE TRUMPET BELL MOUTH. 526 00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:37,060 AS IT GOES OUT, IT SLOWS DOWN. 527 00:26:37,062 --> 00:26:38,828 Narrator: BRIAN USES THE SIMULATOR 528 00:26:38,830 --> 00:26:41,031 TO TAKE MEASUREMENTS THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE 529 00:26:41,033 --> 00:26:44,568 TO CARRY OUT SAFELY INSIDE A HIGH-CATEGORY HURRICANE. 530 00:26:44,570 --> 00:26:47,270 HE'S CONCLUDED THAT IN HURRICANE SEASON, 531 00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:50,207 THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE IS DEADLY. 532 00:26:50,209 --> 00:26:52,475 Haus: YOU KNOW, THE OCEAN SURFACE OF THESE CONDITIONS 533 00:26:52,477 --> 00:26:55,078 WOULD BE INCREDIBLE TO SEE FROM THE SHIP, 534 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,247 BUT IT WOULD ALSO BE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS. 535 00:26:57,249 --> 00:27:00,217 THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE IS SITUATED RIGHT OVER 536 00:27:00,219 --> 00:27:02,452 THE HEART OF HURRICANE ALLEY IN THE ATLANTIC, 537 00:27:02,454 --> 00:27:05,188 SO IT'S REALLY VULNERABLE TO STORMS. 538 00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:07,457 AND YOU SEE, YOU KNOW, MANY, MANY OF THE SHIPS 539 00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:10,860 THAT WERE LOST WERE LOST DURING HURRICANE SEASON. 540 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:14,331 Narrator: HURRICANES DO SINK SHIPS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 541 00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:19,202 BUT IT'S HARD TO FILE THESE DISASTERS AS MYSTERIOUS. 542 00:27:19,204 --> 00:27:21,571 FAR MORE INTRIGUING ARE REPORTS 543 00:27:21,573 --> 00:27:24,708 OF VESSELS SINKING DUE TO HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS 544 00:27:24,710 --> 00:27:28,645 THAT APPEAR WITHOUT A DARK CLOUD IN SIGHT. 545 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:33,183 THESE BIZARRE, FRIGHTENING GUSTS ARE CALLED WHITE SQUALLS, 546 00:27:33,185 --> 00:27:35,752 AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE POWER IS LEGENDARY. 547 00:27:35,754 --> 00:27:40,090 ONE PHENOMENON THAT HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR CENTURIES BY MARINERS 548 00:27:40,092 --> 00:27:42,225 IS SOMETHING THEY CALLED A WHITE SQUALL. 549 00:27:42,227 --> 00:27:44,828 THIS WAS A SUDDEN, VIOLENT WINDSTORM 550 00:27:44,830 --> 00:27:48,965 WITHOUT ASSOCIATED DARK CLOUDS OR HEAVY RAINFALL 551 00:27:48,967 --> 00:27:51,601 WHICH NORMALLY ACCOMPANY A SQUALL AT SEA. 552 00:27:51,603 --> 00:27:54,571 BUT FOR MANY CENTURIES, METEOROLOGISTS SORT OF 553 00:27:54,573 --> 00:27:59,175 DISMISSED THE IDEA AS SORT OF A MARINER'S URBAN LEGEND, 554 00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:01,444 YOU KNOW, A -- A TALL SEA TALE 555 00:28:01,446 --> 00:28:03,980 THAT THE OLD SALTS WOULD TELL THE -- 556 00:28:03,982 --> 00:28:07,150 THE POLLYWOGS TO KIND OF SCARE 'EM. 557 00:28:07,152 --> 00:28:10,854 Narrator: SCIENTISTS NOW BELIEVE THAT WHITE SQUALLS ARE REAL 558 00:28:10,856 --> 00:28:13,423 AND THAT THEY'RE SINKING SHIPS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 559 00:28:13,425 --> 00:28:15,659 WITHOUT A DARK CLOUD IN SIGHT. 560 00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:21,865 THEIR VICTIMS ARE MOSTLY SAILBOATS. 561 00:28:24,336 --> 00:28:26,636 WELL, THERE ARE SEVERAL RECENT EXAMPLES 562 00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:29,339 OF SAILING SHIPS GOING DOWN IN WHITE SQUALLS. 563 00:28:29,341 --> 00:28:32,976 THE FAMOUS CASE IS THE ALBATROSS IN 1961. 564 00:28:32,978 --> 00:28:35,945 THERE WAS ALSO THE MARQUES IN 1984 565 00:28:35,947 --> 00:28:38,548 AND THE PRIDE OF BALTIMORE IN 1986. 566 00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:40,617 NOW, THESE SHIPS HAD SURVIVORS, 567 00:28:40,619 --> 00:28:43,053 SO WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM, 568 00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:46,356 AND THEY ALL DESCRIBED SORT OF THE SAME PHENOMENON, 569 00:28:46,358 --> 00:28:48,258 A WIND WITHOUT A -- 570 00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:51,294 A SUDDEN VIOLENT WIND WITHOUT WARNING. 571 00:28:51,296 --> 00:28:53,330 Narrator: SCIENTISTS BELIEVE WHITE SQUALLS 572 00:28:53,332 --> 00:28:56,099 ORIGINATE FROM DISTANT RAIN CLOUDS 573 00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:59,903 WHEN THEY PASS OVER WARM, DRY AIR. 574 00:28:59,905 --> 00:29:02,439 THE FALLING RAIN COOLS THE AIR AROUND IT, 575 00:29:02,441 --> 00:29:05,642 MAKING THE AIR HEAVIER. 576 00:29:05,644 --> 00:29:07,911 THE COLD AIR THEN DROPS LIKE A STONE 577 00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:10,046 AND SPREADS OUT OVER THE OCEAN SURFACE 578 00:29:10,048 --> 00:29:13,717 IN A POWERFUL, ROLLING VORTEX OF WIND. 579 00:29:13,719 --> 00:29:16,619 THIS IS THE WHITE SQUALL. 580 00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:19,589 THE VORTEX CAN TRAVEL FOR TENS OF MILES 581 00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:22,659 AND STILL PACK ENOUGH PUNCH TO KNOCK DOWN A SHIP. 582 00:29:25,964 --> 00:29:27,297 YOU SOMETIMES GET 60, 583 00:29:27,299 --> 00:29:29,666 70-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS OUT OVER THE OCEAN, 584 00:29:29,668 --> 00:29:32,035 MILES AWAY FROM WHERE THE STORM IS. 585 00:29:32,037 --> 00:29:34,604 THE WHITE SQUALL WILL HIT THEM TOTALLY UNAWARES. 586 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:36,239 THEY WON'T HAVE TIME TO TAKE DOWN SAIL, 587 00:29:36,241 --> 00:29:38,108 THEY WON'T HAVE TIME TO POINT THE SHIP 588 00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:39,542 IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, 589 00:29:39,544 --> 00:29:42,512 AND THEY'LL GET CAUGHT BROADSIDE BY THESE -- 590 00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:44,848 THESE GALE-FORCE AND HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS 591 00:29:44,850 --> 00:29:50,253 AND JUST GET HOVE OVER AND THEY SINK VERY RAPIDLY. 592 00:29:50,255 --> 00:29:53,490 Narrator: THESE SURPRISE WINDS HAVE ALSO BEEN IMPLICATED 593 00:29:53,492 --> 00:29:55,458 IN CASES OF LIGHT AIRCRAFT 594 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,094 THAT HAVE GONE MISSING IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 595 00:29:58,096 --> 00:30:01,030 A SMALL AIRCRAFT HAS NO DEFENSE 596 00:30:01,032 --> 00:30:03,500 AGAINST ONE OF THESE ROLLING VORTICES THAT -- 597 00:30:03,502 --> 00:30:05,635 THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A WHITE SQUALL. 598 00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:07,704 YOU DON'T SEE THESE DARK CLOUDS APPROACHING. 599 00:30:07,706 --> 00:30:09,539 YOU'RE GIVEN VERY LITTLE WARNING. 600 00:30:09,541 --> 00:30:12,008 ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU'RE IN A VIOLENT WINDSTORM, 601 00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:15,445 AND ALL THEY CAN DO IS TAKE THE BLOW. 602 00:30:17,582 --> 00:30:19,682 Narrator: EXTREME WEATHER OFFERS A RATIONAL, 603 00:30:19,684 --> 00:30:22,452 SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE 604 00:30:22,454 --> 00:30:25,789 OF SHIPS AND PLANES WITHIN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 605 00:30:25,791 --> 00:30:27,791 BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE CONVINCED 606 00:30:27,793 --> 00:30:31,961 THESE REPORTS ARE JUST A CONVENIENT COVER STORY, 607 00:30:31,963 --> 00:30:34,697 PART OF AN ELABORATE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY 608 00:30:34,699 --> 00:30:37,133 TO CLOSE OUR EYES TO THE REAL REASON 609 00:30:37,135 --> 00:30:41,037 BEHIND THE DISAPPEARANCES -- 610 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:42,806 ALIENS. 611 00:30:53,751 --> 00:30:56,185 FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, THIS HAS BEEN A LOCATION 612 00:30:56,187 --> 00:30:58,721 THAT HAS BEEN HOST TO MANY STRANGE LIGHTS, 613 00:30:58,723 --> 00:31:00,122 PHANTOM FOGS, 614 00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:02,024 SHIPS THAT GO MISSING WITH NO WRECKAGE, 615 00:31:02,026 --> 00:31:04,260 PEOPLE THAT DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR. 616 00:31:04,262 --> 00:31:06,195 EVEN THOUGH THERE'S PLENTY OF LOGICAL 617 00:31:06,197 --> 00:31:08,931 AND RATIONAL EXPLANATIONS FOR THESE DISAPPEARANCES, 618 00:31:08,933 --> 00:31:12,568 THE MOST COMMON ONE SEEMS TO BE UNDERWATER ALIENS, 619 00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:16,839 "U.U.O.s," UNIDENTIFIED UNDERWATER OBJECTS. 620 00:31:16,841 --> 00:31:18,641 Narrator: IT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE, 621 00:31:18,643 --> 00:31:21,210 BUT REPORTS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION 622 00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:23,346 SUGGEST THE CASE FOR UNDERWATER ALIENS 623 00:31:23,348 --> 00:31:25,548 IS STRONGER THAN YOU IMAGINE. 624 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,786 THE CONTROVERSIAL REPORTS 625 00:31:30,788 --> 00:31:33,689 CENTER ON SUBMARINE COMMANDER YURY BEKETOV, 626 00:31:33,691 --> 00:31:35,391 WHO PATROLLED THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 627 00:31:35,393 --> 00:31:39,028 DURING THE 1980s. 628 00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:41,197 BEKETOV CLAIMED THAT THE INSTRUMENTS 629 00:31:41,199 --> 00:31:44,500 ONBOARD HIS SUBMARINE WOULD SUDDENLY MALFUNCTION. 630 00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:45,901 AT OTHER TIMES, THEY WOULD JAM, 631 00:31:45,903 --> 00:31:49,171 AS IF BEING BLOCKED BY A POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY 632 00:31:49,173 --> 00:31:52,341 EMANATING FROM OUTSIDE THE CRAFT. 633 00:31:54,445 --> 00:31:56,579 [ SPEAKS RUSSIAN ] 634 00:31:59,050 --> 00:32:01,784 ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, BEKETOV'S SONAR 635 00:32:01,786 --> 00:32:04,720 IS SAID TO HAVE PICKED UP UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS 636 00:32:04,722 --> 00:32:08,991 SPEEDING AT OVER 260 MILES PER HOUR UNDERWATER. 637 00:32:09,827 --> 00:32:11,394 [ BEEPING ] 638 00:32:11,396 --> 00:32:13,295 HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? 639 00:32:13,297 --> 00:32:15,531 THE COMMANDER BELIEVED THESE INCIDENTS 640 00:32:15,533 --> 00:32:18,567 WERE EVIDENCE OF ALIEN ACTIVITY. 641 00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:24,573 Beketov: IT WAS LIKE THE OBJECTS DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS. 642 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:32,014 THE CREATURES WHO BUILT THEM FAR SURPASS US IN DEVELOPMENT. 643 00:32:36,754 --> 00:32:38,888 Narrator: BUT IF THE CARIBBEAN SEA 644 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:40,723 IS REALLY PACKED FULL OF ALIENS, 645 00:32:40,725 --> 00:32:43,426 WHY DON'T WE SEE THEM TODAY? 646 00:32:43,428 --> 00:32:45,961 BIZARRELY, SOME PEOPLE ARE CONVINCED 647 00:32:45,963 --> 00:32:49,298 FLYING SAUCERS ARE HIDDEN AWAY IN A NETWORK 648 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:53,102 OF UNDERWATER TUNNELS CALLED BLUE HOLES. 649 00:32:53,104 --> 00:32:55,004 THESE BLUE HOLES, PEOPLE ARE THEORIZING, 650 00:32:55,006 --> 00:32:57,173 MIGHT BE PORTALS TO ANOTHER WORLD, 651 00:32:57,175 --> 00:32:58,441 ANOTHER DIMENSION. 652 00:32:58,443 --> 00:33:00,142 THIS MIGHT BE WHERE THE ALIENS ARE BASED. 653 00:33:00,144 --> 00:33:03,245 IT COULD BE A FOLD IN TIME-SPACE. 654 00:33:03,247 --> 00:33:05,147 WHATEVER IT IS, IT SEEMS LIKE SAILORS 655 00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:07,083 AND OTHER VESSELS ARE UNWITTINGLY 656 00:33:07,085 --> 00:33:11,487 WANDERING INTO THESE AREAS AND POTENTIALLY DISAPPEARING. 657 00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:14,323 Narrator: BLUE HOLES ACTUALLY DO EXIST. 658 00:33:14,325 --> 00:33:16,592 THEY CAN BE FOUND DOTTED AROUND THE SHALLOW WATERS 659 00:33:16,594 --> 00:33:18,194 OF THE BAHAMAS. 660 00:33:18,196 --> 00:33:21,530 THEY CAN DESCEND TO OVER 600 FEET BELOW THE SEABED 661 00:33:21,532 --> 00:33:26,001 AND BRANCH INTO NETWORKS OF SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES. 662 00:33:26,003 --> 00:33:30,840 BUT WERE THESE TUNNELS REALLY BUILT BY ALIENS? 663 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:34,643 GEOLOGIST MARTIN PEPPER ISN'T SO SURE. 664 00:33:34,645 --> 00:33:37,613 APPARENTLY A BLUE HOLE IS A PORTAL 665 00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:41,584 WHERE ALIENS ARE ABLE TO COME FROM AND ABDUCT BOATS 666 00:33:41,586 --> 00:33:43,319 AND PLANES AND OTHER THINGS. 667 00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:47,323 SO IT'S A CAVITY THAT ALLOWS THEM TO HIDE, 668 00:33:47,325 --> 00:33:49,291 AND THAT'S WHERE THEY MAKE THEIR ATTACK. 669 00:33:49,293 --> 00:33:51,327 IT'S ALMOST LIKE A FUNNEL SPIDER. 670 00:33:51,329 --> 00:33:54,029 THEY WAIT DOWN IN THE BLUE HOLE, SOMETHING COMES OVER, 671 00:33:54,031 --> 00:33:56,365 AND GOT IT! 672 00:33:56,367 --> 00:33:58,300 Narrator: PEPPER THINKS THERE'S A NATURAL EXPLANATION 673 00:33:58,302 --> 00:34:01,737 FOR THESE MASSIVE UNDERWATER SINKHOLES, 674 00:34:01,739 --> 00:34:05,841 AND IT INVOLVES LIMESTONE, ACID RAIN, 675 00:34:05,843 --> 00:34:08,244 AND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME. 676 00:34:08,246 --> 00:34:10,513 Pepper: SO HERE WE HAVE A CHUNK OF LIMESTONE, 677 00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:14,083 AND THIS IS THE SURFACE OF OUR EARTH, BASICALLY, 678 00:34:14,085 --> 00:34:15,985 AROUND THIS AREA. 679 00:34:15,987 --> 00:34:18,521 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS SEA LEVEL CHANGES A LOT, HUNDREDS 680 00:34:18,523 --> 00:34:21,357 OF FEET THROUGHOUT THOUSANDS, MAYBE MILLIONS OF YEARS. 681 00:34:21,359 --> 00:34:24,226 AND SO WHAT WE NEED IS WE NEED SEA LEVEL TO DROP. 682 00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:25,494 THAT'S IN A COLD TIME, 683 00:34:25,496 --> 00:34:27,863 THAT'S BECAUSE POLAR ICE CAPS REMOVE WATER, 684 00:34:27,865 --> 00:34:30,933 DROPPING OUR SEA LEVEL. 685 00:34:30,935 --> 00:34:33,769 Narrator: WHEN THE SEA LEVEL DROPPED OVER THE BAHAMAS, 686 00:34:33,771 --> 00:34:38,274 THE EXPOSED LIMESTONE WAS OPEN TO ITS DEADLY ENEMY -- 687 00:34:38,276 --> 00:34:40,042 ACID RAIN. 688 00:34:42,513 --> 00:34:44,814 Pepper: ONCE THE LIMESTONE COMES OUT OF THE WATER, 689 00:34:44,816 --> 00:34:46,749 WE CAN ACTUALLY APPLY ACID RAIN, 690 00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,984 AND THIS HAPPENS OVER THOUSAND OF YEARS. 691 00:34:48,986 --> 00:34:51,620 THE SURFACE OF THE LAND HAS CRACKS, DIPS. 692 00:34:51,622 --> 00:34:55,424 SO THIS ACID RAIN, WHEN WE ACTUALLY POUR THAT ON, 693 00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:58,294 YOU CAN SEE WHAT IT'S DOING TO THIS LIMESTONE. 694 00:34:58,296 --> 00:35:01,063 THOSE BUBBLES ARE TURNING THIS INTO CARBON DIOXIDE GAS 695 00:35:01,065 --> 00:35:03,199 AND LIQUID AND IT'S JUST RUNNING AWAY, 696 00:35:03,201 --> 00:35:05,601 AND SO THAT ETCHES THROUGH THE VALLEYS 697 00:35:05,603 --> 00:35:08,270 AND THE PUDDLES, AND OVER TIME, 698 00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:11,507 THAT'S GOING TO CAUSE A MATRIX OF CAVES. 699 00:35:11,509 --> 00:35:14,343 Narrator: THE WALLS OF THE CAVES BECAME SO THIN, 700 00:35:14,345 --> 00:35:19,048 THEY COLLAPSED, CREATING A LONG VERTICAL SHAFT. 701 00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:22,151 EVENTUALLY, THE SEA LEVEL ROSE BACK AGAIN, 702 00:35:22,153 --> 00:35:27,623 LEAVING BEHIND A BLUE HOLE HUNDREDS OF FEET DEEP. 703 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:29,391 AS A GEOLOGIST, THESE ARE FASCINATING. 704 00:35:29,393 --> 00:35:30,593 THEY'RE MYSTERIOUS. 705 00:35:30,595 --> 00:35:33,295 BUT WHEN YOU FIGURE OUT HOW THEY FORM, 706 00:35:33,297 --> 00:35:36,866 IT'S REALLY MAGICAL IN A SENSE WHERE IT TAKES A LONG TIME 707 00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:38,167 FOR THEM TO FORM 708 00:35:38,169 --> 00:35:40,336 AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SERIES OF EVENTS. 709 00:35:40,338 --> 00:35:42,137 YOU HAVE TO HAVE SEA LEVELS CHANGE. 710 00:35:42,139 --> 00:35:44,607 YOU HAVE TO HAVE ACID RAN OCCUR. 711 00:35:44,609 --> 00:35:46,408 YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WHOLE SCENARIO 712 00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:50,512 FOR IT TO FINALLY DROP DOWN AND FORM YOUR BLUE HOLE. 713 00:35:50,514 --> 00:35:52,114 Narrator: IT'S NOT JUST GEOLOGISTS 714 00:35:52,116 --> 00:35:55,851 WHO FIND BLUE HOLES FASCINATING. 715 00:35:55,853 --> 00:35:59,188 THEY'RE NEAR THE TOP OF EVERY SCUBA DIVER'S BUCKET LIST. 716 00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:02,291 THAT MEANS THE BLUE HOLES OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 717 00:36:02,293 --> 00:36:05,327 ARE SOME OF THE MOST WIDELY EXPLORED UNDERWATER HABITATS 718 00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:07,229 IN THE AREA. 719 00:36:07,231 --> 00:36:10,099 THE CHANCES OF ALIENS BEING HIDDEN FROM 720 00:36:10,101 --> 00:36:14,169 SO MANY PRYING EYES SEEMS VERY UNLIKELY. 721 00:36:14,171 --> 00:36:16,705 BUT IF ALIENS AREN'T ABDUCTING SHIPS, 722 00:36:16,707 --> 00:36:20,843 WHY DO SO MANY OF THEM SEEM TO DISAPPEAR WITHOUT TRACE? 723 00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:22,544 THERE'S NOTHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT THE FACT 724 00:36:22,546 --> 00:36:24,613 THAT WE HAVE TROUBLE FINDING THE WRECKAGE. 725 00:36:24,615 --> 00:36:26,849 I MEAN, THE OCEAN IS A VAST DEEP 726 00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:30,286 AND IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND SOMETHING ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR 727 00:36:30,288 --> 00:36:31,687 EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE GENERAL IDEA 728 00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,322 OF WHERE THE SHIP WENT DOWN. 729 00:36:33,324 --> 00:36:35,858 SO, BLUE HOLES, THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL, 730 00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:38,928 THEY'RE FASCINATING, THEY'RE MYSTERIOUS. 731 00:36:38,930 --> 00:36:41,563 ALIENS? I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT. 732 00:36:41,565 --> 00:36:45,301 Narrator: WE'VE SEEN HURRICANES, TIME-SHIFTING FOG, 733 00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:49,271 AND EXPLOSIONS FROM THE DEEP. 734 00:36:49,273 --> 00:36:52,274 BUT THERE'S ONE MORE POTENTIAL EXPLANATION, 735 00:36:52,276 --> 00:36:56,045 AND IT COULD BE THE MOST TERRIFYING YET. 736 00:37:03,454 --> 00:37:06,522 Narrator: FOR OVER 70 YEARS, BOATS HAVE BEEN GOING MISSING 737 00:37:06,524 --> 00:37:11,560 IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, INCLUDING VAST CARGO SHIPS. 738 00:37:11,562 --> 00:37:13,562 A BUSY ROUTE FOR THESE FLOATING GIANTS 739 00:37:13,564 --> 00:37:16,332 PASSES BY THE ISLAND OF BERMUDA, 740 00:37:16,334 --> 00:37:18,534 AND IT'S THE SETTING FOR ONE OF THE MOST 741 00:37:18,536 --> 00:37:21,770 MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES OF THEM ALL. 742 00:37:21,772 --> 00:37:23,506 OCTOBER 24, 1980. 743 00:37:23,508 --> 00:37:25,941 A VESSEL CALLED THE SS POET, 744 00:37:25,943 --> 00:37:28,644 HAULING A LOAD OF CORN TO EGYPT. 745 00:37:28,646 --> 00:37:30,079 THIS IS A VESSEL THAT IS LARGER 746 00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,181 THAN THE SIZE OF TWO FOOTBALL FIELDS, 747 00:37:32,183 --> 00:37:35,451 AND IT GOES MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE. 748 00:37:35,453 --> 00:37:39,388 Narrator: THE COAST GUARD SEARCH THE ATLANTIC FOR TEN DAYS, 749 00:37:39,390 --> 00:37:43,526 BUT DIDN'T EVEN FIND A TRACE OF THE 11,000-TON SHIP. 750 00:37:43,528 --> 00:37:47,229 OKAY, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF ADVERSE WEATHER IN THE AREA 751 00:37:47,231 --> 00:37:49,465 AT THE TIME, BUT NOTHING THAT SHOULD HAVE CAPSIZED A -- 752 00:37:49,467 --> 00:37:52,468 A BOAT OF THIS SIZE, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO IT? 753 00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:55,137 WHERE DID IT GO? 754 00:37:55,139 --> 00:37:57,606 Narrator: A CLUE TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE POET 755 00:37:57,608 --> 00:38:01,510 IS THAT THE CAPTAIN DIDN'T ISSUE A MAYDAY MESSAGE. 756 00:38:01,512 --> 00:38:03,946 THIS WOULD SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED 757 00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:05,781 TO THAT VESSEL HAPPENED SO QUICKLY, 758 00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:07,816 THERE WAS NO TIME TO REACT. 759 00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:09,852 Narrator: SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE POET 760 00:38:09,854 --> 00:38:12,855 MAY HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF A RARE BUT INCREDIBLY VIOLENT 761 00:38:12,857 --> 00:38:16,392 FREAK OF NATURE CALLED A ROGUE WAVE. 762 00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,764 ROGUE WAVES ARE INCREDIBLY RARE WAVES 763 00:38:21,766 --> 00:38:25,868 THAT RISE UP MUCH HIGHER THAN THE WAVES AROUND THEM. 764 00:38:25,870 --> 00:38:29,905 THEY CAN SWEEP AWAY SHIPS WITHOUT WARNING. 765 00:38:29,907 --> 00:38:32,141 WHEN YOU HAVE A BIG STORM OR YOU HAVE HIGH WAVES 766 00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:34,610 AND YOU GET ONE OF THESE WAVES THAT'S JUST MUCH BIGGER 767 00:38:34,612 --> 00:38:36,612 THAN THE OTHER WAVES, THAT'S A ROGUE WAVE. 768 00:38:36,614 --> 00:38:38,847 THEY'RE NOT COMMON, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT 769 00:38:38,849 --> 00:38:40,916 A LARGE SURFACE, IF IT'S A BIG STORM, 770 00:38:40,918 --> 00:38:44,153 MAYBE IT COULD BE ONE OUT OF 500 WAVES -- 771 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:47,756 BIG WAVES THAT GOES BY MIGHT BE THAT REALLY BIG ONE. 772 00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:50,292 Narrator: ROGUE WAVES ARE RARE BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE 773 00:38:50,294 --> 00:38:53,362 A SPECIFIC SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES TO FORM. 774 00:38:57,068 --> 00:38:59,702 ARE YOU READY TO TURN ON THE COALESCING WAVE PACKET? 775 00:38:59,704 --> 00:39:00,970 YEAH, WE'RE GETTING READY. 776 00:39:00,972 --> 00:39:03,205 FIVE MINUTES. NO, I'VE GOT IT IN FIVE. 777 00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:06,175 Narrator: BRIAN SIMULATES THIS PROCESS IN A LAB 778 00:39:06,177 --> 00:39:11,113 BY FIRST CREATING A SLOW WAVE 779 00:39:11,115 --> 00:39:14,750 AND THEN A FASTER WAVE WHICH CATCHES UP TO THE FIRST 780 00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:16,352 AND MERGES WITH IT, 781 00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:19,488 CREATING A MUCH LARGER ROGUE WAVE. 782 00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:22,625 SCALED UP TO THE OPEN OCEAN, 783 00:39:22,627 --> 00:39:26,228 ROGUE WAVES CAN BREAK WITH INCREDIBLE FORCE. 784 00:39:28,799 --> 00:39:31,700 IT CAN KNOCK GIANT HOLES INTO LARGE SHIPS. 785 00:39:31,702 --> 00:39:34,403 IT CAN TWIST THEM INTO -- TO INCREDIBLE ANGLES 786 00:39:34,405 --> 00:39:35,938 BECAUSE IT'S JUST SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT 787 00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:38,440 OF ENERGY BEING IMPARTED. 788 00:39:38,442 --> 00:39:41,310 Narrator: THE BROKEN GEOLOGY OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 789 00:39:41,312 --> 00:39:45,281 IS PERFECT FOR COOKING UP ROGUE WAVES. 790 00:39:45,283 --> 00:39:50,953 IN A STORM, WAVES BEND INWARD AS THEY PASS SMALL ISLANDS. 791 00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:53,088 AND SOMETIMES, THE TWO CONVERGING WAVES 792 00:39:53,090 --> 00:39:58,227 COMBINE PERFECTLY TO CREATE MONSTER ROGUE WAVES. 793 00:39:58,229 --> 00:39:59,928 ROGUE WAVES CAN ALSO FORM 794 00:39:59,930 --> 00:40:02,031 WHEN A STRONG CURRENT BENDS WAVES 795 00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:04,366 IN TOWARDS EACH OTHER, 796 00:40:04,368 --> 00:40:07,703 ANOTHER FEATURE COMMON TO THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 797 00:40:07,705 --> 00:40:09,638 GOING RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 798 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,441 IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT CURRENTS, 799 00:40:12,443 --> 00:40:13,575 THE GULF STREAM, 800 00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:16,278 WHICH HAS TREMENDOUS CURRENT VELOCITIES 801 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,882 AND HAS LARGE SHEARS THAT CAN FOCUS THE WAVES. 802 00:40:19,884 --> 00:40:21,283 Narrator: IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 803 00:40:21,285 --> 00:40:25,921 WAVES CAN SOMETIMES RUN INTO STRONG CURRENTS. 804 00:40:25,923 --> 00:40:29,191 THESE CURRENTS ALTER THE SHAPE OF THE RUSHING WAVES, 805 00:40:29,193 --> 00:40:31,960 MAKING THEM MUCH LARGER. 806 00:40:31,962 --> 00:40:34,296 THE STRONGER THE CURRENT, 807 00:40:34,298 --> 00:40:36,799 THE BIGGER THE WAVES IT CAN PRODUCE. 808 00:40:39,503 --> 00:40:42,438 IT'S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT A -- A SHIP SUCH AS THE POET, 809 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,374 WHICH WAS IN A STORM -- IT WAS IN STORM CONDITIONS 810 00:40:45,376 --> 00:40:46,442 AND IT WAS IN AN AREA 811 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:48,177 ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE GULF STREAM 812 00:40:48,179 --> 00:40:50,379 WHERE THIS KIND OF FOCUSING IS KNOWN TO HAPPEN, 813 00:40:50,381 --> 00:40:52,181 AND SO THAT -- THAT'S AN ENTIRELY 814 00:40:52,183 --> 00:40:54,783 PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE 815 00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:58,120 CAUSED THAT SHIP TO BE LOST. 816 00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:00,656 Narrator: FOR NEARLY A CENTURY, WE HAVE SOUGHT ANSWERS 817 00:41:00,658 --> 00:41:02,424 TO THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES 818 00:41:02,426 --> 00:41:07,429 OF BOATS AND PLANES INSIDE THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 819 00:41:07,431 --> 00:41:11,066 ANY NUMBER OF THEORIES HAVE BEEN RAISED, 820 00:41:11,068 --> 00:41:14,069 FROM ALIEN ABDUCTIONS 821 00:41:14,071 --> 00:41:17,172 TO KILLER BUBBLES FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. 822 00:41:17,174 --> 00:41:19,641 BUT THE MORE SCIENTISTS LOOK INTO THE MYSTERY, 823 00:41:19,643 --> 00:41:22,244 THE MORE THEY REALIZE THAT MAYBE THERE'S NOTHING SPECIAL 824 00:41:22,246 --> 00:41:24,747 ABOUT THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE AFTER ALL. 825 00:41:24,749 --> 00:41:26,415 SO THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE HAS THIS IDEA 826 00:41:26,417 --> 00:41:28,417 THAT THERE'S AN INORDINATE NUMBER 827 00:41:28,419 --> 00:41:31,553 OF MISSING PLANES AND SHIPS AND ACCIDENTS 828 00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:34,390 AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN THIS LITTLE TRIANGULAR AREA, 829 00:41:34,392 --> 00:41:36,725 IN A HIGHLY TRAFFICKED AREA. 830 00:41:36,727 --> 00:41:38,193 AND SO WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS, 831 00:41:38,195 --> 00:41:41,530 "WOW, IT'S AN UNUSUAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS 832 00:41:41,532 --> 00:41:44,366 AND DISAPPEARANCES," UNUSUAL COMPARED TO WHAT? 833 00:41:44,368 --> 00:41:47,136 Narrator: SURPRISINGLY, STATISTICS SHOW THAT 834 00:41:47,138 --> 00:41:50,172 THERE ARE NO MORE ACCIDENTS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 835 00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:52,875 THAN IN ANY OTHER HEAVILY TRAFFICKED TROPICAL SEA 836 00:41:52,877 --> 00:41:55,043 IN THE WORLD. 837 00:41:55,045 --> 00:41:57,079 IF YOU WERE TO TAKE A -- 838 00:41:57,081 --> 00:41:59,915 A TRIANGULAR AREA OF ANY PART OF THE OCEAN, 839 00:41:59,917 --> 00:42:02,418 YOU WOULD FIND MYSTERIES THERE, 840 00:42:02,420 --> 00:42:05,854 AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS THAT DISAPPEARED 841 00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:07,990 FOR UNKNOWN REASONS. 842 00:42:07,992 --> 00:42:09,958 YOU WOULDN'T ASSUME THAT EVERYTHING 843 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,194 THAT HAPPENED WITHIN THIS ARBITRARY TRIANGLE 844 00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:16,165 WE PICKED OUT WOULD BE DUE TO ONE PHENOMENON. 845 00:42:16,167 --> 00:42:19,368 Narrator: THE WORLD'S OCEANS ARE DANGEROUS PLACES. 846 00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:22,004 IT'S JUST THAT HERE IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 847 00:42:22,006 --> 00:42:25,307 THE DISAPPEARANCES GET MORE PUBLICITY. 848 00:42:25,309 --> 00:42:29,745 THERE'S NOTHING AT ALL UNUSUAL ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE AREA. 849 00:42:29,747 --> 00:42:31,146 THE ONLY THING UNUSUAL IS 850 00:42:31,148 --> 00:42:34,850 IT'S BEEN EMBELLISHED OVER THE YEARS BY WRITERS. 851 00:42:34,852 --> 00:42:36,351 PEOPLE LIKE TO HEAR GHOST STORIES, 852 00:42:36,353 --> 00:42:40,122 LIKE TO HEAR MYSTERY STORIES, AND SO IT'S PERSISTENT. 853 00:42:40,124 --> 00:42:42,724 I MEAN, YOU CAN NEVER DISCOUNT 854 00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:45,828 THE STRENGTH OF THE LEGS OF ANY BAD IDEA. 855 00:42:45,830 --> 00:42:47,930 I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK THAT PEOPLE WANT TO GET 856 00:42:47,932 --> 00:42:49,898 TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY, 857 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:52,367 BECAUSE THE MYSTERY ITSELF, THE SEARCH, 858 00:42:52,369 --> 00:42:54,403 IS WHAT KEEPS THE IMAGINATION GOING. 859 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:56,672 IT KEEPS PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THIS STORY. 860 00:42:56,674 --> 00:42:59,141 AND IF WE FOUND ALL THE ANSWERS, 861 00:42:59,143 --> 00:43:01,310 THERE'D BE NO STORY LEFT TO INVESTIGATE.