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0:00There's a small triangle of water that
0:02doesn't exist on any
0:05map and whose exact dimensions are not
0:08known. And yet, we've all heard the
0:11stories that accompany the legendary
0:14Bermuda Triangle. Shrouded in mystery
0:17and conjuring up some of the wildest
0:20conspiracy theories known to man, this
0:22geographical anomaly is widely regarded
0:25as the most deadly, dangerous, and
0:28deceptive place on
0:30Earth. So, how is it that a part of the
0:33ocean that isn't even officially
0:35recognized as part of the ocean has
0:38become so revered?
0:41The small body of water that makes up
0:43the invisible triangle has slowly filled
0:45with wreckage and disappearances over
0:48centuries, claiming the lives of those
0:50that have not just passed through it,
0:52but also over it. Books have been
0:56written, documentaries have been
0:58produced, and scientists have clamored
1:00to try and explain the unexplainable in
1:03this perilous patch of ocean. What's
1:06caused this series of unfortunate
1:09circumstances to unfold? How can 20
1:12planes, 50 ships, and hundreds of people
1:15simply disappear? Is the location merely
1:18coincidence? Or is there something more
1:21sinister going on deep below the
1:23surface? I'm James Stewart and you're
1:25watching Ast from Earth. Join me for
1:28this most treacherous of adventures into
1:30the notorious Devil's Triangle.
1:34We'll journey back in time to the
1:35origins of the mystery to find out where
1:38it began and who was responsible for it.
1:41We'll visit some of the triangle's most
1:43infamous disappearances. Examine each
1:45theory surrounding the mystery, all the
1:48way from Atlantis to rogue waves to
1:50magnetic declination to hidden toxic
1:53gases rising from the depths and bring
1:56you right to the heart of the matter to
1:58uncover the real culprit of the Bermuda
2:01Triangle.
2:03Can something
2:05inexplicable be explained? After
2:08all, whilst that may have sounded like
2:10the start of a murder mystery podcast,
2:12there is actually a fair amount of
2:14science and data to unpack here. But it
2:17is generally one of the weirdest and
2:19most fascinating videos I've ever made.
2:21As I've mentioned, the Bermuda Triangle
2:23doesn't show up on any maps, nor is it
2:26officially recognized as a location by
2:28the United States, with whom it's
2:30closely situated. So then where is it?
2:35Unofficially, the Bermuda Triangle is a
2:37region of the North Atlantic Ocean
2:39roughly bounded by the southeastern
2:42coast of the US, Bermuda, and Puerto
2:45Rico. Interestingly, the exact
2:47boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle are
2:50not universally agreed upon.
2:52Approximations of the total area range
2:54between 500,000 and
2:581,500,000 square miles. So there's about
3:00well 1 million square miles worth of
3:03room for error there. The region has a
3:05vaguely triangular shape, but that
3:07triangle could end up being an isosles,
3:09a scaline, or could even look more like
3:12a rhombus if you move the boundaries.
3:14Perhaps Bermuda docahedron wasn't quite
3:17as catchy. And so from the outset, you
3:20begin to see one glaring hole in much of
3:22the discourse that surrounds this
3:24subject. Undoubtedly, there have been
3:27incidents in this area and some tragic
3:29ones at that. But because the boundaries
3:32don't actually exist and they differ
3:34from historical account to historical
3:36account, it's really difficult to
3:38provide actual numbers of fatalities and
3:40disappearances for an area whose
3:43boundaries are constantly shifting over
3:45the course of several hundred years. But
3:48it's what's happened inside this
3:50triangle throughout history that's most
3:53intriguing.
3:54And things begin half a millennium ago
3:58with Christopher
4:00Columbus. The year is 1492 and
4:03Christopher Columbus has set sail with
4:05three ships from Spain to find a western
4:08route to Asia and the new world. All
4:11very exciting. After sailing across the
4:14Atlantic Ocean for 10 weeks, land was
4:17cited finally. And he set foot on a
4:19small island in the Bahamas, which he
4:22named San Salvador. To get there, he
4:24would have been the first person to have
4:26sailed through the Saraso Sea and
4:29therefore the Bermuda Triangle or at
4:31least the first person to return and
4:32tell everyone back home about it. Now,
4:35you might say this is where the
4:36mysteries began because tell everyone
4:39about it eventually he
4:41did. Extracts from his log which were
4:44compiled shortly after his death have
4:46since been translated.
4:48The first indication that something
4:49might be wrong was in September
4:521492. Columbus's log reading suggested
4:55something was affecting his compass. On
4:58this day, at the beginning of night, the
5:01compasses northwested, and in the
5:03morning, they northeast somewhat.
5:06Several days later, he reported the sea
5:09rising to great heights, and most
5:11curiously described seeing a light on
5:13the horizon, which he likened to that of
5:16a
5:17candle, so small a body that he could
5:20not affirm it to be land, a small wax
5:23candle that rose and lifted up, which
5:26for a few seconds seemed to be an
5:29indication of
5:31land.
5:33Imagine hearing about those incidents
5:35500 years ago. I mean, America hadn't
5:37even been discovered yet. So little
5:39about the world was known. You can see
5:42how the stories, fables, mysteries, call
5:45them what you will, begin to garner
5:47intrigue.
5:50Later in the early 1600s, a ship from
5:53England named Sea Venture set off to
5:56resupply and revive the falling colony
5:58at Jamestown. Just off the coast of the
6:01uninhabited island chain of Bermuda, the
6:04fleet sailed into a hurricane which
6:06destroyed the ship and marooned its
6:09crew. Although there wasn't anything
6:11particularly mysterious about this
6:13occurrence, as those desolate sailors
6:15clung to the remains of their once proud
6:18ship, it must have felt like a call back
6:20to the mysterious events that had
6:22already happened in this area. It's
6:24believed that this shipwreck actually
6:26inspired Shakespeare's play The Tempest,
6:28in which he refers to Bermuda or
6:30Bamouths as a vexed or cursed
6:34place. So Bermuda had found a great
6:37place to rise to fame.
6:39One of the spookiest encounters must
6:41have been in 1881 when, as legend has
6:44it, the Ellen Austin, a cargo ship
6:47sailing from Liverpool to New York
6:48carrying passengers hoping to immigrate
6:50to the United States, cited a ghost ship
6:53in the Bermuda Triangle. Their captain
6:56took a shortcut through the stormy
6:58Saraso Sea, again, where the Bermuda
7:00Triangle is located. And it was here
7:02that they encountered an eerily silent
7:04sailing vessel with no crew on board.
7:07But strangely, plenty of plunder, almost
7:10like bait, waiting for someone to find
7:13it. And the crew of the Elen Austin took
7:15that bait. Wanting to salvage the ship
7:18and its goods, they decided to take it
7:20to New York with them and sent some of
7:22their bravest men over so they could
7:24sail both ships back together. As they
7:27carried on their journey across the
7:29Saraso Sea, however, they were caught in
7:31a huge storm. The howling winds and
7:34treacherous waves tore the ships away
7:37from one another, and the Ellen Austin
7:39lost sight of the now manned ghost ship.
7:43When the weather finally cleared, the
7:46surviving sailors started searching for
7:48their friends and their comrades.
7:50Captain Griffin spotted the vessel and
7:52called to his crew, but there was no
7:55answer. The eerie silence had returned
7:57to the other ship once again.
8:00A number of sailors went to investigate,
8:02but found no signs of life on board.
8:05Their mates had disappeared without a
8:08trace. This didn't stop Captain Griffin
8:11from ordering a second team to board the
8:13ghostly, unnamed vessel to New York. For
8:17several nights, it seemed like they were
8:19getting away with it. The ships were on
8:21course for their destination, but their
8:23luck ran out when a thick blanket of fog
8:26started to settle across the water. The
8:29Ellen Austin came to a standstill as
8:31everyone waited for the fog to disperse.
8:33Once again, they were separated from the
8:35unnamed ship, left to wait, practically
8:38blind and with no sound but creaking
8:41planks and the waves quietly licking at
8:43the bow. After the fog cleared, the
8:46ghost ship had disappeared completely,
8:48taking with it the entire crew and its
8:51treasures, never to be seen
8:54again. It makes for a good story,
8:56doesn't it? But is there actually
8:58something to it? Well, we know there was
9:01a ship called the Ellen Austin that
9:02sailed between Liverpool and New York.
9:05However, the journey in 1881 was
9:07confirmed to have gone without incident
9:09in Lloyds of London's Register of
9:12Ships. Still, historical accounts keep
9:15mentioning mysterious happenings in this
9:17region, even up to our modern age, well
9:20into the 20th century. It gained serious
9:23attention after an especially infamous
9:25tragedy occurred in March
9:271918. The USS Cyclops, a 542 foot long
9:32Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and
9:3510,000 tons of manganese ore which was
9:38used in steel making, left Rio de
9:41Janeiro bound for Baltimore. After an
9:44unplanned stop in Barbados, she headed
9:46north and was never seen again. The
9:50ship's disappearance was the largest
9:52loss of life in US naval history that
9:55wasn't directly related to combat. The
9:58Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress
10:01call despite being equipped to do so,
10:03and an extensive search found no
10:06wreckage. US President Woodro Wilson
10:09later said, "Only God and the sea know
10:12what happened to the great ship." In
10:151941, two of the Cyclops's sister ships
10:19similarly vanished without a trace along
10:22nearly the same route. One quote from
10:25the Santa Fe magazine in 1920 described
10:28the incident. She disappeared as though
10:31some gigantic monster of the sea had
10:33grabbed her, men and all, and sent her
10:36into the depths of the ocean. And the
10:38sadness of her destruction is amplified
10:41by the absence of any wireless calls for
10:44help being picked up by any ship along
10:46the route that the Cyclops
10:49followed. Sadly, one military tragedy
10:52followed another in the same part of the
10:54world years later, doing nothing to
10:56dispel the growing theories that
10:58something strange was a foot, or rather
11:01a float. In December 1945, five Navy TBM
11:06Avented torpedo bombers carrying 40 men
11:09took off from a Fort Lauderdale airfield
11:12in order to conduct practice bombing
11:14runs over some nearby shores. But with
11:17his compass apparently malfunctioning,
11:19the leader of the mission known as
11:21Flight 19 got severely lost. Radioing to
11:25the control tower, we cannot be sure
11:27where we are.
11:2920 minutes later, after turning over
11:31command to a new flight leader for
11:34reasons unknown, the final words of
11:36flight 19 were spoken. It looks like we
11:40are entering white water. We are
11:43completely
11:45lost. All five planes flew aimlessly
11:48until they ran low on fuel and were
11:50forced to ditch at
11:53sea. That same day, a rescue plane and
11:55its 13-man crew also disappeared.
11:59After a massive week-l long search
12:01failed to turn up any evidence, the
12:04official Navy report declared that it
12:06was as if they had flown to Mars. No
12:09wreckage or trace of the pilots or their
12:12planes has ever been
12:14found. Things were becoming more and
12:17more suspicious. No longer was this
12:19strange area just claiming ships. It now
12:21seemed to extend upwards to include
12:23anything that flew over it, too. In
12:26December 1948, just a few years after
12:29Flight 19 had gone missing, a British
12:32passenger plane carrying around 30
12:34people disappeared on the 30th of
12:36January while flying over the Azors to
12:39Bermuda. One year later, the BSAA Star
12:42Aerial, the same type of plane as the
12:45previous one, disappeared while flying
12:47from Bermuda to Kingston in Jamaica.
12:50Neither plane was ever found.
12:54So many incidents in such a small space
12:56that all begin with Columbus noticing
12:58something strange about his compass with
13:01no real evidence or explanation as to
13:04why someone needed to connect the dots
13:07and give this space a name. The deadly
13:11Bermuda Triangle was the name American
13:14author Vincent Gallas went for in the
13:16February 1964 edition of Argusy
13:19magazine. Draw a line from Florida to
13:21Bermuda. Another one from Bermuda to
13:23Puerto Rico and a third line back to
13:26Florida through the Bahamas. Within this
13:28area known as the Bermuda Triangle, most
13:31of the total vanishments have occurred.
13:34In the absence of any hard facts, there
13:36was frenzy speculation about this idea,
13:39and unsurprisingly, it captured the
13:41imagination of the world. Suddenly, like
13:44a great detective solving a serial
13:46murder, the mysteries had been
13:48connected. The article was a masterpiece
13:51of conspiratorial fantasy, suggesting
13:54that dark forces were at work. For
13:57context here, this was the era of the
13:59Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis,
14:02when conspiracy theories and hearsay
14:04loomed large. It was also a time when
14:06NASA and science more generally was
14:09increasingly filling in the blanks,
14:11providing answers to many of life's
14:12great unsolved questions. Yet here in
14:16the Bermuda Triangle was a phenomenon
14:18that tantalizingly defied explanation.
14:22Others were quick to cash in on the
14:24Bermuda Triangle fever. Scores of books
14:27were published. Many became
14:28international bestsellers with the most
14:30popular of all being Charles Burlitz's
14:32The Bermuda Triangle. Published in
14:351974, it sold 20 million copies in more
14:39than 30 languages. An extraordinary feat
14:42for a work that offered up some
14:44mindblowing suggestions as to what was
14:46really going on. Nothing was off limits.
14:49Burlet's theories were so popular that
14:51when Steven Spielberg made close
14:53encounters of the third kind, he
14:55depicted the Flight 19 air crew as
14:58having been abducted by aliens.
15:02Bullets aimed to prove that the Bermuda
15:04Triangle was connected to the mythical
15:06lost city of Atlantis, pulling ships,
15:09planes, and people into its murky
15:11depths, explaining why so many vessels
15:14and aircraft had disappeared. He also
15:16leaned heavily on paranormal or
15:19supernatural phenomena to explain what
15:21he says cannot be mere coincidences.
15:24For example, most interesting to Balitz
15:26is that most of the missing aircraft and
15:29ships didn't send out distress calls
15:31before disappearing. Something he
15:33suggests is evidence of extraterrestrial
15:36interference or at least paranormal
15:39activity, pricking the ears of
15:40Spielberg, evidently. But he doesn't
15:43stop there. Oh, no. He suggests that the
15:45triangle may be a portal under the sea
15:48transcending time and space to another
15:50dimension or some other unearly place.
15:54Similarly, he says this might be the
15:57spot on earth reserved for aliens to
16:00abduct
16:01humans. To Bullet, the possibilities
16:04were endless. The wilder the better.
16:07Even if critics and us hold serious
16:09doubts about his methodology, we know so
16:13much these days. Even in the 70s, gaps
16:16in knowledge were being filled in. So to
16:18cling on to something that we might not
16:20have all the answers to is intoxicating.
16:23And it's why the mystery of the Bermuda
16:25Triangle has stood the test of time.
16:28It's exhilarating to think that despite
16:30all these great scientific minds and
16:31databased analytics in the world today,
16:34something somehow slipped under the net.
16:38It's like a riddle that can't be solved
16:40with pretty much the entire rest of the
16:42planet mapped out. Bar this small
16:46triangle of mystery. Although we haven't
16:49heard much about it recently, have we?
16:51But the truth is, we do have the
16:54answers. we can finally explain what's
16:57going on in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a
17:00really strong answer, too. Not one of
17:01those could be this or maybe that. We're
17:04an Earth science channel first and
17:05foremost. And as much as I'd love to
17:07make a video on Atlantis, ghost ships,
17:09and alien abductions. Maybe one day,
17:12there are some more plausible
17:14science-based theories that exist about
17:16the Bermuda Triangle and its
17:18disappearances. One of the things that
17:20comes up time after time is navigational
17:23issues. We touched on a couple with
17:24Columbus's compass going arai and flight
17:2719 essentially being unable to identify
17:30where they were during their training
17:32run. In almost every account of the
17:34mystery surrounding the Bermuda
17:36Triangle, you'll see reference to the
17:38fact that it's one of only two places on
17:40Earth, the other being the Devil Sea
17:42just off the coast of Japan, where a
17:44compass points to true north rather than
17:47magnetic north. Could this cause
17:50compasses to malfunction so that ships
17:52and planes get terribly offc course? A
17:55quick compass refresh. If like me,
17:57you've forgotten how to use one because
17:58your phone does it for you. A compass
18:00works because its magnetic needle is
18:02attracted by the magnetism of Earth,
18:04which draws it to point to the
18:06constantly shifting magnetic north pole.
18:09The geographic north pole, on the other
18:11hand, is static and is located 1,200 m
18:14north of the magnetic pole. The
18:17variation between these two readings is
18:19known as magnetic declination or compass
18:22variation which can change as you move
18:25across the
18:26globe. There's another piece of
18:28terminology that's relevant here as
18:30well. The agonic line. It's an imaginary
18:33line where true north and magnetic north
18:35are in perfect alignment. There is no
18:38magnetic declination.
18:40In the early 18th century, Edmund Halley
18:43noticed that the Aegonic line was slowly
18:45moving westwards. He came up with the
18:48idea of showing declination as contour
18:51lines on a map. At points west of the
18:54Aegonic line, a magnetic needle will
18:57point east of true north, positive
18:59declination. At points east of the
19:02Aegonic line, a magnetic needle will
19:04point west of true north, negative
19:07declination.
19:09Since then, scientists have noted a
19:11westward drift of the Agonic line with
19:14an average velocity of about 0.2° per
19:17year. This drift is not equal in all
19:20places, however. It's much stronger in
19:22the Atlantic hemisphere than in the
19:23Pacific Hemisphere. Navigators must
19:26always compensate for magnetic
19:28declination when they chart their
19:30courses. While the Agonic line once did
19:33pass through the Bermuda Triangle, it
19:35now falls within the Gulf of Mexico,
19:38rendering claims that it contributes to
19:40disappearances in the triangle largely
19:43inaccurate. The issue with the compass
19:45malfunction theory is that calculation
19:47errors anywhere could cause a plane or
19:49ship to go off course. It also assumes
19:52that experienced pilots and captains
19:54passing through the area were unaware of
19:56magnetic declination, which is unlikely.
19:59Not to mention that the vast majority of
20:01Boers and flyers pass through this area
20:04without incident. Another thing you'll
20:06have noticed about these instances,
20:07particularly at sea, is an absence of
20:09wreckage on almost every occasion. One
20:12plausible theory of this is quite simply
20:15good old-fashioned bad weather.
20:17Hurricane season, as we know, passes
20:18right through the middle of this exact
20:20location. Just look at 2024's
20:23devastation in this area. Some theorists
20:25site rogue waves as being a reason so
20:28many ships haven't reached their
20:30destinations. Huge, abnormally large
20:33waves that can reach up to 100 ft in
20:35height. Rogue waves are certainly real
20:38and account for roughly one in every
20:4010,000 waves. The first recorded by an
20:43instrument was on the 1st of January in
20:451995 in the North Sea. This particular
20:48wave known as the Dropna wave was 84 ft
20:51tall. Let's not forget about the role of
20:54the Gulf Stream here too. A theory
20:56supported by NOAA, the National Oceanic
20:59and Atmospheric Administration, which
21:01says environmental considerations can
21:03explain away some of the Bermuda
21:05Triangle disappearances. The Gulf Stream
21:08travels along the western edge of the
21:10triangle and is extremely swift and very
21:13turbulent. It can pose extreme
21:15navigational challenges, especially for
21:18inexperienced sailors. The Gulf Stream
21:20has been reported to move faster than
21:22four or five knots per hour in some
21:24areas. That's 300 times faster than the
21:27Amazon River. This is more than enough
21:29to throw sailors hundreds of miles off
21:31course if they don't compensate
21:33correctly for the current. It can also
21:36quickly erase any evidence of
21:39disaster. An increasingly popular and in
21:41fact the newest scientific theory to
21:43come to light is based around methane.
21:47We know it mostly as a particularly
21:49potent greenhouse gas that comes from
21:51cows, but large amounts of methane are
21:53trapped in sediments beneath the ocean.
21:56In 2016, researchers at the Arctic
21:59University of Norway discovered craters
22:01off the coast of the country that were
22:03up to half a mile wide and 150 m deep.
22:08They suggest the craters appear to have
22:10been caused by the explosive release of
22:12methane that was trapped in the sediment
22:14below, exploding upwards as giant burps
22:18of death. Despite their research making
22:21it very clear that they were not
22:22claiming any links to the triangle,
22:24other academics, including Russian
22:26scientist Igor Yeltzoff, took it upon
22:29themselves to make the connection
22:30anyway. And of course, many media
22:32outlets in particular have lapped up the
22:34theory. The astrome view, it's certainly
22:38possible, but highly, highly unlikely to
22:40be the culprit. With methane gas,
22:43geomagnetism, and the Caribbean's stormy
22:46weather systems, it becomes apparent
22:48that this region can be treacherous for
22:50both planes and boats. These are
22:53plausible scientific explanations that
22:55demystify the Bermuda Triangle. The
22:58truth is though, putting said obvious
23:00environmental conditions aside, simply
23:03mentioning scientific terms like
23:04geomagnetism or methane blowouts doesn't
23:08equate to presenting irrefutable
23:10evidence. These are hypotheses or
23:12speculations. They're not definitive
23:15conclusions. So, where's the real
23:17evidence? At the end of it all, a diary
23:20that was translated from 1492, a
23:22magazine article from the 1940s, and
23:25even a best-selling book from the 70s,
23:27well, they all tell one story. But when
23:30you examine the actual available
23:31aviation and marine casualty data over
23:34the last few decades, and you compare
23:36this to other regions across the globe,
23:38the data reveals a very different
23:41story. In fact, it's precisely the lack
23:44of a story that points us to the truth.
23:48There is nothing out of the ordinary
23:50going on in the Bermuda Triangle. It
23:53doesn't even make the top 10 most
23:55dangerous ocean regions in the world.
23:58Utilizing the marine casualty and
24:00pollution data for researchers data set,
24:02which covers 150,000 plus records from
24:051982 to 2015, you're left with around
24:099,000 incidents for analysis. Of these,
24:13361 were located within the Bermuda
24:16Triangle, just
24:194%. This reveals that the causes of
24:22casualties in the Bermuda Triangle
24:24closely mirrored the worldwide pattern
24:26with a somewhat lower occurrence of
24:28capsizing events, likely due to the
24:30proximity to major trading ports where
24:32conditions are generally calmer.
24:35Interestingly, no incidents classified
24:37as disappearance were reported within
24:40the Bermuda Triangle between 1982 and
24:442015. YouTuber Johnny Harris obtained
24:47shipping data from 2021 via Lloyd's
24:49List, a global shipping publication,
24:52which took this a step further. Their
24:55data showed that in that entire year,
24:571.8% 8% of all vessels everywhere in the
25:01world have some sort of casualty during
25:03their voyage, which included mysterious
25:06disappearances. Of the
25:098,634 boats that passed through the
25:11Bermuda Triangle, there were only two
25:14such casualties, 0.02%.
25:18According to the Lys list data set, the
25:21danger of disappearing in the Bermuda
25:22Triangle is actually 90 times lower than
25:26the global
25:28average. Whilst not committing to quite
25:30as low a number as Johnny's video does,
25:32Lloyds of London and the US Coast Guard
25:34back this up, stating the number of
25:37ships that go missing in the Bermuda
25:38Triangle to be the same as anywhere else
25:40in the world on a percentage basis. Over
25:45the past decade, annual shipping losses
25:46have actually decreased by 70%. And
25:49regions around the Bermuda Triangle
25:51don't get a look in when there are
25:53incidents. For the past decade, the
25:55South China, Indo-China, Indonesia, and
25:59Philippines regions have been by far the
26:02worst affected, and the East
26:03Mediterranean and Black Sea regions were
26:05the second top loss locations. But what
26:08about the planes flying over it? Turning
26:11our attention to aviation incidents, we
26:13can explore the aviation accident
26:15database provided by the National
26:17Transportation Safety Board. This covers
26:20all investigated accidents from 1962 to
26:23the present, including both commercial
26:25and military flights. Here we find a
26:28very similar story, or lack thereof.
26:32While notorious incidents like the
26:34Flight 19 bombers disappearance and
26:36various passenger aircraft mysteries
26:38have fueled Bermuda Triangle legends, a
26:41closer examination of the data revealed
26:44that most incidents occurred during
26:46landing and takeoff, primarily in the
26:48Bahamas. Only a few incidents during
26:51flights resulted in fatalities, and the
26:53only documented commercial flight
26:55accident was attributed to poor weather
26:58related decisions by the pilot. Since
27:011965, there's only been one aviation
27:04incident over Bermuda. JetBlue flight
27:07number
27:08N913 JB experienced severe turbulence
27:12resulting in one
27:14injury. In the case of the infamous
27:16Flight 19, the transcripts show
27:19Lieutenant Taylor, the lead pilot,
27:21thought his compass had malfunctioned
27:23and that he was above the Florida Keys,
27:25a string of islands stretching to the
27:27southwest of the US mainland, when in
27:30fact, later analysis by ground staff
27:32would show he was to the southeast near
27:35an island in the Bahamas. Instead of
27:37turning back west toward Florida, he
27:40kept flying east deeper into the
27:42Atlantic Ocean. In other words, he'd
27:45gotten lost. This is something that
27:48according to Australian scientist Carl
27:49Krishnetski has happened on previous
27:52occasions with the same pilot. In all
27:55likelihood, this tragedy was sadly as a
27:58result of human
28:00error. In the triangle, the islands of
28:03Bermuda experience on average one
28:05damaging tropical cyclone once every six
28:08or seven years with smaller, lesser
28:10systems affecting the island more
28:12frequently. Approximately 500 tropical
28:15and subtropical cyclones have affected
28:17the state of Florida. More storms hit
28:20Florida than any other US state. And
28:23since 1851, only 18 hurricane seasons
28:26have passed without a known storm
28:29impacting the state. Puerto Rico is hit
28:32by hurricanes on average about four or
28:34five times a year. Even in 2025, where
28:37we can track, predict, model, observe,
28:39and plan against coming storms, they
28:42still cause tremendous devastation. So,
28:45imagine what it would have been like
28:46when we
28:48couldn't. So, there you have it. Maybe
28:50slightly underwhelmingly, but if your
28:52friends ever bring this up, you can
28:54confidently reassure them that there
28:56really isn't anything special about the
28:58Bermuda Triangle. It's undeniably one of
29:00the worst weather affected regions on
29:02the planet. So it tracks that
29:04unfortunately and over the course of
29:06several centuries there would be
29:09incidents along the way. But the truth
29:11is statistically speaking you're at no
29:13more risk of traveling through the
29:14Bermuda Triangle than you are anywhere
29:17else in the world. In fact, it's
29:19significantly safer than me traveling
29:21from Dova to Calala for my boring summer
29:23holiday. Sadly, it seems that some of
29:25these tragic events come down to simple
29:28human error and one of the worst weather
29:30effective regions in the world. No more,
29:34no less. Sorry, aliens. But the good
29:37news is the curse has been lifted. The
29:40Bermuda Triangle is, well, relatively
29:42boring, or as I like to put it,
29:44fabulously unremarkable. And let's be
29:46honest, we could actually do with things
29:48being a little more unremarkable in our
29:50lives right now.

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