When you are out there in 20, 25 foot seas, believe me,
these people are scared.
And some of the people, unfortunately, don't come back.
There are certainly missing aircraft,
missing ships that are not explained.
There's definitely something happening
down there that's unexplained.
It is a real effect that things do disappear.
A person could actually wind up dead
if they don't know what they're dealing with out there.
It can get awfully ugly very quickly.
The mystery is not where they went;
the mystery is how and why they vanished.
The Bermuda Triangle, perhaps the greatest
of all modern mysteries, more than a million miles of ocean
that seem to defy explanation.
Over the last century alone, hundreds of ships and aircraft
have simply vanished without a trace here.
Some say that the area is a portal to another dimension
and that the ships and planes are transported in time.
Others, that there is no mystery at all.
The real truth, they say, lies in severe storms, human error,
and mechanical failure.
Either way, it is still a place of unimaginable danger.
For the first time, we reveal the science behind the fiction.
With never before seen footage, we
talk to the experts and eye witnesses.
We dive to the bottom of the ocean
and investigate the most baffling disappearances
to unravel the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
I have seen many unusual things,
but I've see nothing that's unnatural.
I have talked to dozens and dozens of my fellow Coast Guard
sailors with hundreds of years of sea time,
much of it in the Caribbean and in this area called the Bermuda
Triangle, and none of us have ever seen anything unnatural.
There is definitely things that
happen in the Bermuda Triangle that
are very traumatic and very dramatic
in terms of their events.
They can, though, be, in my mind,
explained by the physical principles of meteorology
and oceanography.
Virtually all these airplanes and ships
that supposedly disappeared in the triangle
went down because of storms.
And many of them did not even happen anywhere near that area,
they happened sometimes thousands of miles away.
It's a false mystery.
It's a manufactured mystery.
I think science will be able to shed more light
on the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle,
but there will always be some remaining mystery or mysterious
events that even science cannot explain.
Sea captains have reported monsters, storms,
and even fiery seas in this area for hundreds of years.
But it wasn't until 1945 when five Navy aircraft disappeared
off the Florida coast that the public and the media
took notice.
The author Vincent Gaddis first coined
the term the "Bermuda Triangle" as late as 1964,
and a legend was born.
It is said to stretch from Puerto Rico
to Miami, from Miami to Bermuda, and from Bermuda
back to Puerto Rico.
But if you mark the estimated points of disappearance
of the hundreds of ships and planes,
the area is better covered by an uneven square that
stretches further up the American east coast.
Since 1930, over 50 planes have disappeared
into the skies of the Bermuda Triangle.
While many disappearances can be blamed
on human error and bad weather, there
are some that simply defy explanation,
like the case of Eastern Caribbean Flight 912 in 1978.
It's very significant because there
are three factors involved.
It disappeared off radar, it disappeared
from visual sighting, and it disappeared
in fairly accessible water right of the coast.
In this case, there was no debris found.
So as far as the cause of the accident,
I don't believe there... it's never been solved.
The Piper Navajo light aircraft
had taken off from the island of Saint Croix
en route to Saint Thomas.
The weather was good with only broken clouds.
Visibility was at seven miles.
On its final approach to Saint Thomas,
the plane made contact with the tower.
William Kittenger was on duty that day.
Yeah, we are at... we're about five miles.
Navajo flight, if you can, just remain south of runway six
and ease on about a two mile path.
The initial contact was about 15 miles south
of the airport and inbound for landing.
And I acknowledged him, and shortly thereafter I
had him on the radar contact.
Caribbean 591
He reported two miles out that he had his landing light on.
I observed his landing light and the radar target.
And as I went back to the Prinair flight,
cleared him for departure and monitored his take off visually
and looked back to the scope to check the Navajo
and noticed the target was missing.
And looked up and the light was also gone.
Caribbean 912 Saint Thomas, I've lost sight of you.
Say your position.
I radioed him again and received
no further transmission after that.
And immediately I thought I had a downed aircraft,
so I called the crash crew and they in turn
scrambled and then called the Coast Guard.
Within minutes, the Coast Guard was on the scene,
but no wreckage was ever found.
Eastern Caribbean 912 had sent no mayday,
and her electronic tagging device, or ELT,
gave out no signal.
Could she really just have vanished into thin air?
Coast Guard is unable to establish communications.
All vessels are requested to keep a sharp lookout
and assist if possible.
Report all sightings to the US Coast Guard.
An aircraft falling from a minimum
of 1,000 feet would leave some sort of debris,
would have to break up.
That's like falling off a 10 story building.
And there was no debris at all found,
so that's the mystery right there to me.
This is one of dozens of similar disappearances
where the plane and crew vanished with no wreckage
ever found.
With no one left to tell the tale,
piecing together what happened is nearly impossible.
But there is one man who has flown
into the teeth of the triangle and survived.
In 1970, pilot Bruce Gernon, his passenger,
and his light aircraft vanished into the clouds.
What he saw was so shocking it has taken him
nearly 20 years to come forward and tell his story.
I really didn't know what to say besides something
really unusual happened out there.
Gernon and his father took off from Andros Island
en route to Miami.
Just off the coast of Bimini, 15 minutes into the flight,
he saw a large, egg shaped cloud in front of him.
It was hovering about 500 feet above the surface of the water.
It was about two miles long, maybe 500 feet thick,
1,000 feet wide.
And then when I got in it, it was just dark
and it was getting darker the deeper I penetrated.
And there was a great deal of lightning flashes inside of it.
There weren't any lightning bolts
at all, just these strange flashes.
And the deeper I penetrated, the more intense
these flashes became.
And there was this eerie, grey mist that I had never
experienced before.
The plane was spotted by Miami air traffic control,
but it didn't register on its radar.
Gernon had disappeared.
What happened to his flight?
The mystery revealed up next on "Bermuda Triangle Solved?"
What happened to pilot Bruce Gernon's flight in December
1970 as he flew over the Bermuda Triangle?
Was he caught in a violent electrical storm?
What caused the mist that clung to the plane?
And why couldn't the radar pick up his signal
when he was only 10 miles from the airport?
When Gernon eventually landed, he checked his watch.
The journey, which always took an hour and a half,
had taken less than 45 minutes.
I made that flight dozens of times before,
and it never was that fast.
And so I realized something very unusual had happened,
but I didn't know what.
Professor John Hutchinson has spent a lifetime
investigating electromagnetic phenomena and time distortions.
He believes that the grey mist that Gernon describes was
caused by a high concentration of electrostatic energy
in the clouds, affecting both Gernon's controls and his mind.
I have personally experienced a greyish type mist
when I was doing my high voltage research.
And this mist would appear and disappear.
And to look at it, it looks like metallic, like a metallic mist.
I couldn't see through it.
So it exists.
It does exist.
People are highly sensitive and actually are
allergic to electromagnetic pollution,
and that can cause delirium and tremors and hallucinations.
Hutchinson believes that the magnetic fault lines crossing
the Bermuda Triangle under the Earth's surface
produce a unique energy field that can dramatically
affect electronic, navigational, and communication equipment.
They're actually going through an area, the Bermuda Triangle,
that has very strong geomagnetic field lines running right
through it.
And the compasses can deviate up to 10 to 20 degrees
off true north.
So it's highly probable that nature
can form these seals on her own and create the right situation
for this ship or aircraft to either totally disintegrate
or actually disappear into another dimension or domain.
Jim Lushine, the chief meteorologist
at the National Hurricane Center in Miami,
has also studied the mist and haze that pilots describe
and has come up with a different explanation.
Until we actually had satellites,
we would sometimes get reports of haze and dust
in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
and we would think the people were
crazy that were reporting this, because why would there
be haze and dust in the middle of the ocean?
But since we've had weather satellites,
we've realized that the dust is actually
being transported across the Atlantic Ocean
from the Sahara Desert and can cause a significant reduction
in visibility.
Magnetic fault lines, Sahara dust, electrical storms...
could these have been factors in the most famous disappearance
of all?
On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers and one rescue
plane disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
No trace of them was ever found, and a legend was born.
Each year, their former colleagues and friends
gather at the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station
to remember Flight 19 and their 14 crew.
The pilots and crew members missing are as follows.
Lieutenant Charles Taylor, United States Navy, Commanding.
Captain EJ Powers, United States Marine Corps.
Captain GW Stivers, United States Marine Corps.
Second Lieutenant FJ Gerber, United States Marine Corps
Reserve.
Ensign JT Bossi.
We're grateful for this opportunity
to gather here to show our respect
and honor those members of flight 19,
otherwise known as the Lost Patrol.
The story of the Lost Patrol began at 3:00 PM
on December 5, 1945, when five TBM Avengers took off
on a routine training flight over the Bermuda Triangle.
The skies were clear.
The weather was good.
The flight leader was Lieutenant Charles Taylor,
an experienced Naval aviator with thousands
of flying hours under his belt.
What transpired over the next few hours
has become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
In command in the control tower that day was Captain Don Poole.
I got a call from the tower saying
that they believed they had a flight in trouble.
So immediately I went to the tower
to find out what's going on.
And that's when I realized, as soon
as I heard some transmissions from Taylor,
I knew yes, they were trouble, bad trouble.
I report to you that... of all primary...
He thought he was in the Gulf of Mexico, which... ridiculous.
You don't take off on a southeastern flight leg
and end up in the Gulf of Mexico.
So I try to transmit him, but evidently he didn't receive me
or he ignored it, I don't know which.
How could there be five planes be missing?
The east coast of Florida is a relatively easy place
to find your way home from if you're out... normally,
if you're out of the water.
Our action... reaction was to fly west into the sun
and hit the coast.
Then fly along the coast until you found a friendly airport
and land.
Lieutenant Taylor repeatedly told the tower
that his compass was malfunctioning
and his radio transmissions became weaker and weaker.
At 7:00 PM, all contact was lost with flight 19.
To add to the confusion, three hours later
a Martin Mariner seaplane was sent
to search for the missing flight.
But she, too, lost contact shortly after takeoff
and was not heard from again.
Six aircraft and 16 men had now disappeared
into the Bermuda Triangle.
In an unnerving coincidence, 20 years later
at roughly the same coordinates, pilot Bruce Gernon
suffered the same lack of visibility and navigational
problems that Flight 19 experienced.
They definitely seemed to be in the same thing that I was.
Especially since it was in the same area and the same time,
almost exactly, in the afternoon.
And also, almost exactly 25 years, minus one day.
What happened to Flight 19?
Could there be a strange force lurking in these skies?
We reveal startling new evidence when "Bermuda Triangle Solved?"
returns.
On December 5, 1945, six planes and 16 men
vanished into the Bermuda Triangle.
In the history of the Navy, the loss of Flight 19
was unprecedented.
An extensive search found nothing.
And for many, the story stops there,
an unexplained disappearance of an entire flight of Avengers.
But research has led us to some interesting facts.
Flight leader Taylor was obviously disoriented and lost,
most likely because his compass was faulty.
He was broadcasting on a weak training frequency,
causing patchy communication with the tower.
But in fact, Taylor was no stranger to in-flight problems.
He had lost his bearings at sea on numerous occasions
and had ditched no fewer than three
aircraft in the preceding few years.
He did follow misleading compasses,
which he admitted and was overheard
to admit over the radio frequency.
In fact, he admitted that he took them off course.
He said, I thought they were going wrong so I took over,
and now I realize, or I'm sure neither of my compasses
are working.
The problem was he had been flying out
of Miami for about six months down into the Florida Keys.
Just before Flight 19 went out to sea and disappeared,
he had been transferred to Fort Lauderdale,
and those flights went out over the Bahamas.
And Taylor being out to sea, not really seeing the shoreline,
looking down, seeing some islands that he knew,
in his mind, were part of the Florida Keys,
confused him because he was really
seeing some of the islands in the Bahamas.
The official Navy report states that the five avengers
ditched far out to sea when their fuel ran out.
But we can reveal new evidence that
shows that they may have come down over land.
There is one air transport command report that night
which did pick up five unidentified aircraft.
And that would have been close to the Okefenokee Swamp which
is actually a federal refuge, 660 square miles of nothing.
And it is very inaccessible.
And it would've been a pitch black, moonless night.
And by this time, if the flight did turn west southwest
to ditch, which you have to do when ditching, you
have to turn into the wind, it would
have taken them right over the heart of the swamp.
Far from being an unexplained phenomenon,
the loss of Flight 19 can be put down to simple human error.
But until we find their last resting place,
the legend of the Lost Patrol will
remain, for some, an enduring mystery.
As treacherous as the skies are, the waters
below are just as dangerous and have consumed even more victims
over the years.
Hundreds of sailboats, tankers, and yachts
have set out through these waters
never to reach their final destination.
In the face of an oncoming hurricane,
the Coast Guard saves the lives of a family of four.
A family of four has been rescued by the Coast Guard.
A helicopter flew 360 miles east of Norfolk
to save the family from their 64 foot sailboat.
Well, the weather is certainly making
it tough for the Coast Guard and the Navy
to rescue a family stranded at sea.
The Tuffles, their one-year-old son, and 10-year-old daughter
are in a 65 foot sailboat.
They were heading to Bermuda, but right now
they're battling...
No one knows the power of the ocean
better than the US Coast Guard.
They are in the front line each day,
battling against the storms and the waves to save lives.
It is common knowledge to them that the waters of the Bermuda
Triangle are some of the most hazardous in the world.
Hold, hold position, hold position.
If you go to a movie, say "The Perfect Storm,"
and you look at these huge waves and these fishing
boats struggling in them, you can tell who's been to sea
and who's not in the audience.
Because the people who haven't been to sea are going, wow.
And the people who are sailors are going, uh huh.
That's what it's like out there.
According to the Coast Guard, more often than not
it is human error that leads to disaster.
We could tell stories for days about people
we found to be really inexperienced doing things that
just don't make sense to the mariner.
For example, we had a case once where
we found a disabled boat off of Miami.
And the people were trying to navigate
from Miami to the Bahamas not using a chart,
but using a place mat from a restaurant
that they'd been at a few nights before.
And they thought that was just the way it went.
It's one of the nicest things you can do is to go to sea.
It's beautiful out there.
But it can get awfully ugly very quickly.
What you're looking at is a lot of power.
I've seen sailors who've been out in this sort of thing
and they wish they weren't there.
When you're out there in 20, 25 foot seas
and you can't see the horizon, you're
down in the hole of the wave, believe me,
these people are scared.
And some of the people unfortunately don't come back.
One night in May 1998, three fisherman nearly didn't.
They faced the terror of the Bermuda Triangle
and survived to tell the tale.
Chuck Willis and his crew had been fishing off
Wilmington, North Carolina for over 15 years
in his boat, the Miss Charlotte.
He had lost friends at sea before
and had a healthy respect for the powers of the ocean.
But nothing could prepare him for the events of that night.
3 o'clock in the morning, and we woke up.
Just, something woke me up.
It was really, really rough, 20 foot seas, 80 knot winds.
I knew we were in trouble.
It was like a roadway.
I mean it was just something unexpected.
I mean it was huge.
I saw it and it was cresting about 15 feet from the boat
when it started to crest, and I knew
it was going to break over the boat.
And I knew we were in trouble.
I told all of my crew members to hold on,
because I knew it was going to be bad.
My boat probably sat 15 to 18 feet off the water
and it broke completely over top of everything.
Pushed the boat sideways and filled the boat completely up
with water... inside the wheelhouse, the back deck,
everything, everything was totally flooded.
After the wave hit, we... I called my friend
Randy King on the Flying Tiger and told him
that we were sinking and told him my position.
Flying Tiger, Miss Charlotte.
Randy, we're sinking.
Flying Tiger, Miss Charlotte.
Randy, we're sinking.
Going down.
And after we got done talking to him,
the boat sank within two minutes after the wave hit.
It was just immediate.
After we went in the water, the storm... it was just horrendous.
Driving rain, 20 foot seas where the waves were cresting over
us.
Actually, the waves would break on us, tumble us over.
We would get separated.
I would have to call out to my crew member
and try to keep everybody together.
The thought crossed my mind that we might... we might die.
I was worried.
Visibility was zero, virtually nothing.
At that stage, 20 foot seas with 80 knot winds and a driving
rain, I mean there's no... you couldn't see us in the water.
You're just tossed around and beat around, just
like being in a washing machine.
I was approximately 50 miles out
in the ocean off of North Carolina coast,
and Chuck called me at 2 o'clock in the morning,
asked me to call the Coast Guard for him,
that he was having to get in the water.
He was taking on water.
Wrightsville Beach Coast Guard, Wrightsville Beach Coast
Guard, Flying Tiger trying.
This is Coast Guard copy over.
The seas were tremendous that night.
I hadn't never seen anything like it.
I've been through hundred mile an hour
blows several times, 80 mile an hour blows.
Nothing like this, though.
It was one of the worst storms, if not
the worst storm I've ever been in.
The fate of Chuck Willis and his crew when
"Bermuda Triangle Solved?" returns.
The seas of the Bermuda Triangle are a treacherous place.
In the early morning hours of the 15th of May,
1998, fisherman Chuck Willis and his crew
had been hit by a huge, rogue wave.
And their boat, the Miss Charlotte, had sunk.
They remained in the water for over six hours in 20 foot seas.
The visibility was so low and the storm so
fierce that the Coast Guard repeatedly
flew overhead without spotting them.
It was just before 9:00 AM in the morning
when Willis' friend Randy King pulled up
alongside in the Flying Tiger.
I just couldn't believe it.
Best sight I've ever seen in my life, just totally amazed,
happy to see Randy.
Didn't know whether I was going to make it or not.
My mate on there, he thought... we
both thought we were probably gone.
He really had to do some boat handling to get to me.
He had to run 10 miles to the north just to get to me,
and it was very, very dangerous.
I mean, he risked his life to come save me.
The Miss Charlotte was never found.
And had Chuck Willis and his crew not survived,
the boat, the three men, and the events of the night
would have become just another unsolved disappearance
of the Bermuda Triangle.
The SS Marine Sulphur Queen was not as fortunate.
On February 2, 1963, the 7,000 ton tanker
had set out from the Gulf Coast of Texas
en route to Norfolk, Virginia with a cargo of molten sulphur
and a crew of 39.
She never arrived.
No distress call was received.
And although some debris washed up on the shore,
the ship itself, her cargo, and her crew have never been found.
It has become one of the Bermuda Triangle's greatest maritime
mysteries.
Deep sea diving experts Mike Barnett and Jeff Hunter
believe they may have found her wreck over 415 feet down
on the ocean bed, 120 miles off the Florida coast.
If they are right, they may be able to inspect the wreck
to finally see why and how she sunk,
shedding much needed light on other ships that
have disappeared without a trace.
On board is Debbie Corwin, the daughter
of Jesse Vicera, the ship's pump engineer,
who disappeared with the rest of the crew.
She has spent most of her life investigating
the disappearance.
Well I think the Marine Sulphur Queen
has become a famous disappearance
in books and in history books because there
was absolutely no positive conclusion about what
happened to it.
No one could definitely say, not even the US Coast Guard,
that this ship blew up because of a mixture of molten sulphur
and weather conditions and the ocean water hitting it.
In the early hours of the morning,
their two boats set off from Fort Myers
on the Florida coast.
On board is a team of eight expert deep sea divers.
As dawn breaks, they head towards the Florida Keys
and the Dry Tortugas, the last known position of the Marine
Sulphur Queen, and where the Coast Guard reported
that small items of debris were found.
Jeff Hunter had been surveying the ocean floor around the Dry
Tortugas for years using sonar and deep water metal detectors.
He knew that the area was the course
that the tanker would have taken.
And late in 2000 he detected a large, solid mass
on the ocean bed.
To an experienced wreck hunter, it could mean only one thing...
a sunken ship.
But was it the Marine Sulphur Queen?
Today they would try to find out.
Once we get situated, I'm going
to have you guys throw your hook out and we'll go from there.
All right.
Stand by.
Yeah, we're gonna, we're just gonna
find the tallest place that we can find
and we're going to throw our hook out first.
There it is, guys, sitting at 420, comes up to 360.
That's a big fish.
Yeah, that's a huge school of fish, right?
What are the colors from the bow were looking at?
That's our bottom line, down here.
How deep?
415 feet.
And the wreck looks to be laying, looks
to be laying a little bit this way, like that, I think.
The wreck is thought to be 415 feet below on the ocean bed,
making it an extremely challenging dive.
The divers will be able to spend only 15 minutes on the sea
bed, followed by nearly two hours of decompression.
It will test them to the very limits of their endurance.
Nothing is left to chance.
We have a target in about 420 of water.
Good possibility that the wreck in question
might be either turtled or on its side, which makes
identification a little bit harder for us.
I'm not quite sure, the mast might have fallen down
or it might still be upright, I'm not sure.
We'll find out when we get down there.
But from there, we'll give them the OK
if we set down the wreck together
and get some good footage and have a good dive.
Four divers act as support while four divers
go down to the wreck, slowly descending on the guide
rope that has been anchored to the sea bed.
At that depth, the team will need
to breathe a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen,
and each driver has to take between three to five large air
tanks with them, greatly restricting movement.
It will be nearly two hours before the divers surface
again.
Slowly, the wreck came into view, an enormous tanker sunk
into the sand of the ocean bed.
Although she was covered in sea urchins,
barnacles, and had obviously been below water for dozens
of years, she remained largely intact
and in good shape with her bow, superstructure, and propeller
clearly in place.
We got down to the wreck, it was laying on one of its sides.
We didn't see any signs of distinct damage.
We don't know if it's a war casualty
or if was your father's ship.
We tried to find some remains of the cargo.
The area we were at, the wreck is covered just
by really thin growth of coral, so it's still
very... It still has its lines; it's a very intact vessel
down there.
Towards the end of the dive we saw some bulkheads
and portholes, so we don't know if that was the stern
superstructure or the mid-ship superstructure.
One of the other divers took a measurement of the beam.
It seems initially that it's a little narrow for Marine
Sulphur Queen.
So... however, I'm not sure... a lot of times
wrecks, when they settle in the sand,
they'll bury themselves a little bit.
So I'm not sure how accurate... you can talk... get back
to the dock and we can talk to him about how
he... his protocol for measuring it
and how accurate he thinks it is.
So at this time I can't conclusively
tell you whether or not it is or it isn't your father's ship.
I wish I could.
The dive was inconclusive.
It is a large, intact wreck and appears to be a tanker,
but they were unable to locate any identification markings.
And there was a discrepancy over its exact length and width.
Another dive using a remotely operated camera
would be necessary to see if this wreck is the lost SS
Marine Sulphur Queen.
If and when the wreck is eventually found,
it will have profound implications
on the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
How many other so-called missing ships
lie undetected on the ocean floor?
A fascinating natural phenomenon which
may hold the key to sudden disappearances at sea
when "Bermuda Triangle Solved?" returns.
Hundreds of ships have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle
since records began.
Some have been lost to bad weather,
but a new theory has emerged to shed light
on sudden disappearances at sea.
Professor Alan Judd of the University
of Sunderland in England believes
that gas eruptions from the sea bed may hold the answer.
The gas escapes from deep beneath the sea bed
and forms a plume of bubbles up to the surface.
This frothing, gassy eruption is much less dense
than the seawater around it and any vessel caught in it
will sink quickly.
Let us look at two lines of evidence
which give us this information.
The first one is that drilling accidents
where drilling rigs, usually during petroleum drilling,
have drilled into pockets of gas accidentally,
they've released large volumes of gas during a blow out.
And these blow outs have been known
to cause drilling rigs to sink.
Not just ships but drilling rigs,
which are substantially bigger.
What happens when a gas release occurs
is that the water which normally supports the weight of a ship
is replaced by the gas.
Now, you know what happens if you're in a bath
and you take the water out, you feel heavier.
So it's more or less the same thing.
The water is actually supporting the ship.
You replace the water by not just a giant gas bubble,
but by maybe a curtain of gas bubbles,
a cloud of gas bubbles.
Then the buoyancy is lost and that's why a ship will sink.
Gas eruptions, magnetic fields, dust clouds,
electrical storms, and other natural phenomena
do undoubtedly account for many of the Bermuda Triangle's
so-called disappearances.
But what if an unknown intelligent force
was at work here, too?
In 1980, two pilots, Jose Torres and Jose Santos,
took off from the Dominican Republic bound for Puerto Rico.
Their flight, like so many before them,
would take them through the Bermuda Triangle.
Just under two hours into the flight,
they radioed a mayday message which
was picked up by an Iberian Airlines flight
en route to Spain.
Torres and Santos, clearly shaken,
radioed that they had a strange object on their course
and that they were lost.
The Iberian jet told them to contact
San Juan control in Puerto Rico immediately and state
their position.
Torres and Santos, their transmissions now breaking up,
repeated that they had a strange object at one o'clock
and that they were lost.
Shortly afterwards, the aircraft disappeared from the radar
at San Juan control and all contact with the flight
was lost.
Using their last known radar position,
the Coast Guard's search for the plane was quick and thorough,
but nothing was ever found.
No signal was ever picked up by any station,
and no one could explain what the strange object was.
But Torres and Santos were not alone.
Dozens of pilots have long reported strange lights, UFOs,
or unidentified craft over the Bermuda Triangle.
Although it is impossible to identify what they saw,
maybe some of the answers lie hidden
beneath the ocean in a top secret military facility
off the Bahamas.
AUTEC, the Underwater Test and Evaluation Center,
is home to a wide range of cutting edge Naval technology.
In addition to natural phenomena,
could some underwater craft or experiment
have sunk ships in this area for years?
The world's press is littered with reports
of submarines colliding with shipping.
We asked AUTEC to comment on this, but they declined.
Whatever is being tested in the depths of this ocean
continues to be a well guarded secret.
Will the mystery shrouding the Bermuda Triangle ever
be lifted?
Many of the disappearances can be put down
to either human error, mechanical failure,
or natural phenomena.
But there are still a few intriguing events
that do defy explanation.
And until we can solve these, the mystery, the lure,
and the danger of the Bermuda Triangle is here to stay.