Devil's Triangle: Sea of Death (2)

Such hurricanes may have been the most feared of sailors in the days of sailing ships. They could topple a sailboat or break a mast in a single blow, but sailors who have sailed around the Devil's Triangle remember the horror as very different from the devastation wrought by hurricanes. At that time, many sailboats were sailing on the sea. There was often no wind at all, so the sailboats could not move at all. They had to wait lonely on the sea surface. At the same time, their sailboat was in a huge whirlpool, and the dreaded sargassum was floating around the boat.

As they approached the center of the whirlpool, there would be more and more frightening corpses of sailors and almost decaying wooden ships. In this deathly silence, the sailors were killed by hunger and fear.

Portrait of Columbus

Perhaps it was from these old sailor stories that the idea of the Bermuda Triangle began. But it was the disappearance of ships and planes in the recent past that led many scientists around the world to pay attention to the mysterious waters. Scientists do not believe the legend of 16th-century sailors, who can monitor the Devil's Sea area with the latest technology. The most popular explanation is that changeable weather has turned peaceful voyages into disasters.

But why is the area between Bermuda, the Florida Peninsula, and Puerto Rico attracting more attention? Why are there so many shipwrecks here and so impressive?

People have noticed a puzzling detail in another account of Columbus. As they tried to make a stop on the nearest Florida coast to avoid the wind and waves, suddenly all the navigation instruments failed, and instead of pointing true north, the compass turned six degrees to the northwest. Columbus also became the first person in the Western countries to discover the phenomenon of magnetic deflection. Similar accounts have been made of sailors sailing on the other side of the world in Japan's Dragon Triangle.

After that, people began to believe that the phenomenon of magnetic decrement caused ships to get lost or even disappear. The magnetic declination Angle is a natural phenomenon caused by the fact that the north and south magnetic poles on the earth do not coincide with the north and south poles geographically. And this bias is everywhere on the planet. So, it's not unique to the Bermuda Triangle and the Japanese Dragon Triangle.

Moreover, the phenomenon of magnetic decantation, proposed by Christopher Columbus 500 years ago, has become so essential to seafarers that it cannot simply be the cause of lost and sunk ships with modern equipment. Moreover, the five aircraft of Flight Group 19 could not have been lost in the sea by a mere six degrees. At least they should have found the American continent and had enough fuel to land safely at the base. So what causes planes and ships to mysteriously disappear here?

Although most scientists agree that bad weather is to blame for these shipwrecks, many believe there is another cause.

A sunken ship

Professor Jun Chi Yaoyi, an expert on paranormal phenomena, has a unique view: "If the ships disappear instantly, I can only say that they may have gone to another space, and I think there is a door to another space."

But most scientists think Jun Chi's theory is as far-fetched as science fiction. In the devil's sea, however, there are still ships missing.

In January 2002, a Chinese cargo ship, the Lin Jie, and its crew of 19 disappeared off the Japanese port of Nagasaki. Two years later, scholars are still struggling to explain the phenomenon. With no distress call, no wreckage, the ship seems to have disappeared, and we have no way of knowing what happened to her.

David Maughan is a shipwreck specialist with a distinguished record of locating shipwrecks, but he has always had a pragmatic attitude.

In 1994, David and his team took on an unprecedented challenge to solve the mystery of the Derbyshire wreck.

Also trying to investigate these mysteries was the 47th American Air Force based in Japan, whose members were well aware of the difficulty of searching the vast expanse of ocean for clues.

Bermuda wreck salvage

Although the pilots know the area like the back of their hands, they still can't explain everything they experience here.