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Quinto: Welcome to the most notorious

stretch of ocean on Earth.

It's been called the Devil's Triangle...

or Hurricane Alley...

but most of us know it as the Bermuda Triangle,

500,000 square miles of the Atlantic

that has terrified and perplexed travelers,

explorers,

and even scientists for centuries.

Since the time of Christopher Columbus,

these waters have been home to many unusual

and unexplainable disasters and disappearances...

ships, planes, and unsuspecting travelers,

lost without a trace.

But where have they gone,

and why did they vanish?

Tonight, we aim to find out.

In spite of the danger,

we'll enter the Bermuda Triangle by sea and by air.

We'll search the depths for evidence

of the Triangle's alleged destructive power,

and finally we'll reveal a shocking new theory,

one that could completely redraw the map.

It's a mystery that could impact our entire planet...

as we go in search of the Bermuda Triangle.

Have a look at this map

of the southern Atlantic coast of the United States.

Now I want you to try something.

Draw three straight lines

between Miami, Bermuda, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Seems harmless enough, right?

But, what if I told you that this area,

which is about the size of Alaska,

has been the site of over 50 ship disappearances

in just the past century?

It's also been the site

of at least 1,000 fatalities during that stretch.

Even those who've managed to survive

have reported many strange anomalies here.

The Triangle's countless tragic deaths

remain unsolved mysteries, because experts today

still can't agree on the cause.

Is it possible that a strange and deadly power

truly lies within these three boundaries?

There's only one way to find out.

We have to enter the Triangle ourselves.

Philippe Max Rouja is the custodian of historic wrecks

for the island of Bermuda,

and he thinks he's found one of the key causes

of all of this area's destruction.

It's hard to believe on a day as calm as this

that this is one of the most treacherous places on Earth.

Quinto: He manages the sites

of over 300 shipwrecks around the island.

Shipwreck here. Shipwreck there.

Shipwreck there.

Quinto: According to Philippe,

this area has been causing problems for sailors

since the very first ships passed nearby.

Bermuda was put on charts not as a country

that anyone wanted to move to or--or migrate to,

but literally as a place of warning to mariners.

"This is a place you want to be very careful about,

place you want to stay away from."

And it's that--that particular navigational hazard

which I think tees up the whole mystery

and the mythos of the Bermuda Triangle.

Quinto: It's also the reason

people live on Bermuda in the first place.

Bermuda is a nation founded on shipwrecks.

The first settlers here arrived by shipwreck in 1609.

Our national flag has a shipwreck

smashed up against the rocks on the flag,

which denotes the real deep importance

and connection we have to them.

Quinto: If anyone understands the destructive power

of the Bermuda Triangle, it's Philippe,

who has been studying these wrecks for over 15 years.

Today, he's tracking a relatively new theory,

a unique underwater phenomenon

that may have been sinking ships here for centuries.

This is actually a really exciting thing

to run into today.

We've actually come across a large swath of sargassum,

which is a holopelagic algae that grows in the open ocean.

In the historical narratives, there's actually stories

of ships finding themselves stuck in these large mats

and becalmed for days and weeks at a time.

Quinto: Sailors began sharing stories

of an impenetrable region of the Atlantic

where many ships were lost.

They called it the Sargasso Sea.

Here, thick sargassum mats

can stretch for miles beneath the water,

making this one of the most dangerous parts

of the Bermuda Triangle.

There are written accounts of ships getting stuck

inside huge beds way, way bigger than this.

Just imagine this thing covers a square kilometer or two

and much thicker and denser,

and how hard that would be to navigate your way out of.

Quinto: And getting stuck

isn't the only problem caused by the sargassum.

Once a ship gets trapped inside,

something even more dangerous can occur.

As it groups together, it starts to rot,

and the smell that comes off it is actually really toxic.

There's a whole story line that feeds into this.

In the last five years, they've had a massive influx

of a similar kind of algae in the Southern Caribbean,

unbelievable growth spurts of sargassum.

It's appearing in such absolute massive quantities

that it's occluding entire bays, poisoning beaches,

'cause the gas that comes off it when it rots

is actually quite noxious.

Suddenly you can imagine

ships would literally come to a stop in the algae

in a mat that's so thick and heavy.

Then they'd be stuck there for days, left without movement,

and unable to push their way through.

If those odors would get onto a ship,

could actually drive guys mad.

Quinto: Is it possible that this strange growth of plant life

has been poisoning mariners

and sinking vessels for hundreds of years?

There is strong evidence nearby,

where Philippe has catalogued not one,

but three sunken vessels clustered together.

Where else in the world would you see

shipwrecks from all these different eras

finding themselves in the same spot?

- All right. - Really, there is

no logical reason for them to all be there.

Quinto: Each of the three wrecks

is quite different from the others,

and, yet, they all met the same fate

right here, decades apart.

This is the Montana,

a Civil War blockade runner, sunk in 1863.

As you come around the-- the back of the stern boiler,

you then turn down, and you're literally

then confronted by one of the paddle wheels

that's lying on its side.

Quinto: The Montana's side-wheel steam propulsion

was the height of Civil War-era technology,

but it would have been particularly susceptible

to getting tangled

in the Bermuda Triangle's sargassum.

And as you can see, the Mont isn't alone.

The really interesting part is that,

as you're going across the center of that ship,

you're actually starting to see

all the cargo that came from the ship

that sank in 1943, the Constellation.

Quinto: Sunk directly on top of the Montana,

the Constellation was a luxurious cargo ship

stocked to the gills with high-end goods

bound for Venezuela.

And it had everything on it,

cement, billiard tables, glass plate for windows.

Quinto: But, of course, that cargo

never reached its destination.

Neither did that of the Lartington,

the area's third shipwreck,

which sank en route to Russia in 1879.

Every shipwreck is a mystery until you know its story.

And with so many shipwrecks around Bermuda,

there's a bunch that we obviously can't explain.

Is this hidden growth of algae the explanation?

Could the centuries-old mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

really be that simple?

As we're about to find out,

the truth may actually be far more complicated,

because, whatever's happening here in the Bermuda Triangle,

it's not just on the water.

Quinto: What is it about the Bermuda Triangle

that has caused the loss of hundreds of ships?

Shipwreck custodian Philippe Rouja

has theorized that massive underwater beds of sargassum

may be behind some of the destruction.

But the truth is this question could have multiple answers,

because plant life alone can't explain

the sheer volume of sunken vessels here.

When we say there are 300 shipwrecks around Bermuda,

those are the ones that there's evidence of some kind.

But, you know, there's a whole pile of shipwrecks

that clearly sank in the deep,

and those are a-another mystery unto themselves.

We have shipwrecks from every nationality

that traversed the Atlantic over three, four centuries,

and so, we're surrounded by a lot of riddles.

Quinto: In fact, two of the Triangle's greatest riddles

took place over 600 miles away from the Sargasso Sea.

In 1918, the USS Cyclops, a World War I ship,

vanished in the Triangle without a trace...

taking 306 crew members and passengers along with it.

No remains have been found to this day.

It was the largest noncombat-related loss of life

in U.S. Naval history.

And it led some to suggest that there

could be supernatural forces at work in the Bermuda Triangle,

especially when combined with this story from 30 years before.

In 1881, a ship called the Ellen Austin

was on a voyage through the same area of the Triangle

when it crossed paths with another vessel.

Strangely, this other ship was completely empty,

with not a single soul on board.

Some of the Ellen Austin's crew

transferred to the abandoned ghost ship to sail it to safety.

The two ships were separated by a large storm.

When the Ellen Austin finally caught up,

the ghost ship was once again empty.

All the crew members had vanished.

And we say, you know, is it the supernatural?

You know, are there supernatural phenomenon occurring in Bermuda?

And I would say yeah. Bermuda is a supernatural place.

Quinto: Others believe the answer is more scientific.

One of the theories is this notion of rogue waves,

these waves that sort of get into a rhythm of a sort

and can create a wave that literally throws itself

much higher than normal, appearing out of nowhere,

and creating very difficult situations.

You also have the theory of the methyl hydrates,

or the bubbles coming up and creating

essentially a hole in the ocean ships would fall into.

Certainly you would expect an area

that has all these different forces coming together

to have a higher degree of risk, you know,

and navigating those risks is a greater challenge here

than it might be elsewhere.

Quinto: Each of these science-based theories

seems plausible enough on its own.

But algae mats, rogue waves, and even ghost ships

still can't solve the entire mystery,

because whatever might be happening

in the Bermuda Triangle goes way beyond the water.

Now we're gonna go to a place that isn't actually a shipwreck.

It's actually the wreck of an airplane.

You know, the Bermuda Triangle isn't just about shipwrecks.

It's also about, you know, anomalies that influence

not just ships, but aircraft and things like that.

The wreck of the KB Hayes bomber,

it has this incredible juxtaposition of, you know,

the height of, sort of, human technology and nature.

You know, the reef is kind of taking over

these aluminum and stainless-steel engine parts

and parts of the plane,

and it has a really interesting kind of contrast going on.

Quinto: The story of this bomber,

which went down in 1961,

only adds to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

Clearly, underwater plant life wasn't responsible,

and neither was the weather.

This plane, in fact, went down on a very clear day.

They experienced engine trouble,

but we don't have the answers to it all.

Oh, it's a lot of plane.

Think the most striking thing are the struts,

like the landing gear and things like that.

You know, it's a stark reminder that it didn't land.

It kind of is a very kind of emotionally jarring wreck,

because it's something we can all relate to.

These are airplanes. These are things

that are really not supposed to be underwater,

and seeing elements of a plane underwater

has a completely different feeling about it.

Quinto: But the question remains.

What could be behind this tragic accident?

Whatever the cause may be, for Philippe

and many other citizens of Bermuda, they are confident

that something unexplainable is happening here.

People have a lot of different theories

about the Bermuda Triangle.

People love this mystique.

There is an attraction to the unexplainable.

You know, there's no question that there's something

really special about the Bermuda Triangle,

and, um, you know, I'm sure,

as we move forward, we're gonna find

lots of other explanations for things that have happened,

but, uh, having a good mystery out there

is actually pretty cool.

Thanks to researchers like Philippe,

we're finding more and more

of the Bermuda Triangle's ship and airplane wrecks,

which will hopefully provide new leads

on the cause of the area's dangers.

But there are many vessels that are still unaccounted for,

including what might be

the Triangle's most mysterious loss of all.

Six airplanes all vanished on the same day

in an incident known as Flight 19.

On December 5, 1945,

just a few months after the end of World War II,

14 airmen boarded five planes in Florida

and flew off over the Atlantic.

But soon after entering the Bermuda Triangle,

the airmen became mysteriously disoriented.

Despite their high-level skills and some of the day's

most technologically advanced aircraft,

all 5 planes and all 14 people were lost,

gone without a trace.

But the tragedy doesn't end there.

In a bizarre twist, a seaplane was sent out

with 13 additional crew members on a rescue mission.

Shockingly that plane disappeared as well

only 27 minutes into its voyage.

What could have happened to these airplanes

or the 1961 KB Hayes bomber?

And is there any chance

it relates to the area's shipwrecks?

Quinto: Could the Bermuda Triangle's combination

of hidden algae and rogue waves

be the cause of the area's many shipwrecks?

Perhaps, but that doesn't explain

why airplanes continue to go missing as well.

What is it that's going on in the skies

above this supposedly deadly stretch of ocean?

Today pilot and Bermuda Triangle enthusiast Jordy Klein

hopes to fly in and find out.

I feel that the legends of the Bermuda Triangle

have quite a bit of merit to them.

And the reason I say that

is because I've experienced it myself.

Quinto: Jordy grew up in Florida,

close to the western border of the Bermuda Triangle,

and he's been interested in the anomalies here

for his entire life.

My dad is also a pilot.

I used to fly with him

before I could even see over the dashboard.

My dad was intrigued by the weird things

that would happen in the Bermuda Triangle.

And I can remember us flying to the Bahama islands

and, you know, all over the Atlantic Ocean,

and that's what sparked my interest

in the Bermuda Triangle.

I guess you can say

I'm a second-generation Bermuda Triangle survivor.

Quinto: Following in his father's footsteps,

Jordy began flying through the Triangle on his own

as soon as he got his pilot's license at age 17.

I've flown in the Bermuda Triangle hundreds of times,

and I've had countless strange experiences.

I've flown on crystal-clear days

where bad weather has came out of nowhere.

I've had my compass go haywire,

I've had my altimeter become erratic,

and I've even experienced magnetic fog.

Quinto: Many pilots have described

magnetic fog in the Bermuda Triangle,

comparing it to a cloud that wraps itself around an airplane

and follows it, obscuring all visibility.

The big difference between flying

through a magnetic fog bank and a regular fog bank is--

with a magnetic fog bank, is that, when you fly into it,

you cannot rely on your vision, nor your instruments.

So, given those two scenarios,

there's countless numbers of bad things that could happen.

It's very disorienting.

Aside from the aircraft instrument,

I've turned my head quickly, and I get vertigo,

almost like my internal compass

is also affected by the magnetic fog.

Quinto: Could magnetic fog be at the root

of the Triangle's many plane crashes,

including the disappearance of Flight 19?

Jordy believes it's a definite possibility.

It's one thing to be lost in a car,

where you can pull over and look for directions,

but if your only navigational source

is the compass and it starts acting erratically,

you could be in trouble.

Quinto: To further test his theory,

today Jordy is taking a flight into the Bermuda Triangle

with our camera crew using only his compass for navigation.

Quinto: It's a dangerous proposition,

but Jordy's plane does have a backup system

in case things go wrong.

Today, we're gonna go out in this 1949 aircraft,

and it has pretty much the same instruments

as it did 70 years ago.

We're gonna try to rely totally on those instruments today.

This area is just a hotbed of aviation and marine wreckage.

A buddy of mine lives in the Bahamas,

and he was scuba diving, and he found this sunken plane

that had crashed some years before,

and, when he went down and looked through the--the window,

he saw the skeletons of the pilot and the copilot,

and the pilot had his feet against the windshield

as if trying to kick it out.

The copilot had the magnetic compass,

as if he ripped it off of the dash,

and h-he was holding it as if he was, like,

just praying for it to work.

Quinto: Jordy's plane is currently two miles

from where that fatal incident took place.

If he can recreate a magnetic anomaly in the air today,

he's confident this is where it will happen.

Right now, we're flying right over the island of Bimini.

If you look on the western shore here,

you'll see these strange abnormalities in the water.

There's this really weird reef.

It doesn't look like any other reef on Earth.

It, to me, looks man-made.

And it's even more strange underwater

than it is flying over it.

Quinto: Jordy and many other local pilots

believe that the reef, known as Bimini Road,

contains a pyramid-shaped underwater formation

that could somehow be impacting

the navigation of planes and boats in the area.

The question is, how?

A lot of the strange occurrences

happen around this reef,

so, whatever's going on down there,

to me, that's just one of the biggest pieces of evidence

that supports the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

Look at that. Look at the compass.

This fog came out of nowhere.

Whoa.

My compass is going crazy.

It's a white-out.

Hang on.

Ah,. Whoa!

For centuries, the area known as the Bermuda Triangle

has seen more than its fair share

of sea and air disasters,

but what could be causing these incidents?

Today pilot Jordy Klein

has flown directly into the Triangle to find out.

This fog came out of nowhere.

This is what I'm talking about here. Look at this.

My compass is going crazy, and now we're in turbulence.

Very disorienting.

Whoa!!

If I was a pilot relying

only on this magnetic compass, I'd be freaking out right now,

'cause I would have no idea what direction we're flying.

But I can rely on my GPS to fly us out of this.

If I wasn't an experienced pilot,

I might not be so calm right now.

With that compass spinning,

I would have been very concerned without the GPS.

Quinto: Jordy believes this magnetic interference

could easily be responsible

for the Bermuda Triangle's abnormally high death toll.

In the old days, when all you had to guide you

was compass and sight, you could imagine.

One mistake could have been catastrophic.

But that's what it was like 50 years ago.

Many people never make it out.

Quinto: With every successful flight he makes

through the Triangle, Jordy considers himself lucky.

I fly all over the world,

but the Bermuda Triangle is the only place I know

that all of these weird things happen.

Quinto: And, yet, Jordy continues to fly here,

committed to understanding more about what's going on

and warning others about the potential dangers.

With today's technology,

things are much safer in the Bermuda Triangle.

But weird things still happen there,

and if you're not prepared for it,

you can still get yourself into trouble.

Jordy's experiment suggests that there may indeed

be a magnetic anomaly at work in the Bermuda Triangle,

and we've also heard theories

ranging from deadly gas leaks to unusual plant life

to rogue waves that can appear out of nowhere.

Is there a chance

that all of these could somehow be connected?

Perhaps we should look into the accounts

of one of the very first explorers

to ever sail into the Bermuda Triangle.

When Columbus entered this part of the Atlantic

during his famous 1492 voyage,

he reported erratic compass readings

the likes of which he'd never seen before.

It's even more evidence that the Triangle's powers

could be magnetic in origin.

But Columbus spotted something else as well.

He described strange lights and flames

crashing across the surface of the ocean.

What should we make of Columbus' account?

Is there some type of phenomenon

that combines fire and magnetism,

and could it be behind all the unusual activity

here in the Bermuda Triangle?

As we're about to find out, the answer to that question

may be hiding right under our noses.

Quinto: The Bermuda Triangle has been feared

as one of the ocean's deadliest areas for generations.

The question is, what could be going on

in this storied region of the Atlantic Ocean?

So far, we've witnessed unusual plant growth, weather anomalies,

flames across the water, and issues of magnetism.

Look at the compass.

Whoa!

Quinto: But we have yet to identify

the source of these dangerous phenomena.

Fortunately we may be on the verge of a breakthrough,

because deep-sea mineral prospector Nick Hutchings

has spent years researching Bermuda's geology,

and he thinks he might have found the cause

of all of the Triangle's destructive power.

I was born in Bermuda, so I grew up curious,

what inspired a story like the Bermuda Triangle?

So we're on our way to Whale Bone Bay,

where we can see some of the earliest evidence

of Bermuda's geological formations.

Quinto: Like many islands, Bermuda was created by a volcano

that dates back millions of years.

But, according to Nick,

Bermuda's volcano was unlike any other on Earth.

The interesting thing about Bermuda

is that it has a very unusual lava.

The most recent research says that it's actually unique.

It hasn't been discovered anywhere else in the world.

Quinto: Nick has spent years

studying the composition of this lava,

trying to determine the source of its unusual properties.

When I started to look more closely, I started to learn

that it's been extremely enriched in minerals,

including titanium dioxide and iron oxide,

which have combined to make a mineral called magnetite.

Magnetite is the most magnetic

naturally occurring mineral on Earth.

Where Bermuda's volcanic rock is 18% to 20% magnetite,

most soils only contain between 1% and 5%,

so that's a big difference.

You have more concentrated magnetite,

you have more magnetism.

Quinto: Volcanoes typically spew lava

from the very top of the Earth's mantle,

an average of 20 miles below the surface.

The new study claims that when Bermuda was formed,

a unique disturbance caused magma

to bubble up from much farther down...

400 miles down, in fact.

And, according to Nick, the result is that Bermuda

contains more magnetite than any known island on the planet.

An estimated volume of over 400 billion tons.

Now, over time, that eroded away,

the slopes of the volcano or the sides of the volcano,

and washed into the sea, and all of the magnetite

that was in that volcanic rock is now deposited up to 120 miles

in all directions around Bermuda.

So, even though Bermuda's just a tiny dot on the map,

it's a very small island,

it is essentially one giant magnet.

Quinto: Volcanic activity and highly magnetic rock.

It sounds a lot like what Christopher Columbus reported

on his first trip through the Triangle.

And studies have shown that a large magnetic field

can enhance the growth patterns

of certain plants, like sargassum.

Could the magnetite be the source

of all the mysterious weather and navigational anomalies

experienced by travelers for centuries

in the Bermuda Triangle?

According to Nick, the answer is yes.

What we have here is a really good example

of the magnetite that's exposed in the limestone.

You can see it right through here and down there,

and if you look carefully, you can see

a really good example of it layered in the rocks.

If we move this compass

over even this small amount of rock, it'll affect it.

And you can see, soon as this compass comes over the rock,

it'll change magnetic north by several degrees.

What we're seeing here is just the tip of the iceberg,

because Bermuda is surrounded by this kind of rock.

Quinto: Nick's calculations suggest the magnetite

surrounding Bermuda is at least 500 feet thick.

So I think this massive deposit of magnetite,

it can cause strange anomalies

to boats and planes that are coming through the area.

If you pass a compass over even a small piece of magnetite,

it can cause a blip.

You can only imagine what 400 billion tons

would do to a passing plane or ship.

One can easily imagine an ancient mariner

when, all of a sudden, his one most important tool

that's helping him get back home would start to do weird stuff.

We even find this warning about magnetic anomalies

in the Bermuda area on maps and admiralty charts.

And, of course, Bermuda is

at the apex of the Bermuda Triangle.

If Nick's theory is correct,

all of the anomalies within the Bermuda Triangle

and all of its heightened danger

could come down to a question of magnetism.

If that magnetic relationship is indeed the culprit,

it sets up one more compelling mystery.

In 1980, a 400-foot auxiliary ship

sank off the coast of Daytona Beach here,

in a location 250 miles north of Miami.

In 1991, a commuter flight

crashed on the east coast of Georgia here.

And, in 2018, a Piper PA-31 aircraft

took off from South Carolina, headed for the Bahamas.

100 miles off the coast, in this location,

the pilot made an emergency request to divert the plane.

Afterwards, it was never seen or heard from again.

These wrecks and others like them

did not take place within the Bermuda Triangle.

Instead, as you can see, they form a path

that leads over 1,000 miles to the northwest.

But a new theory is emerging,

which could not only explain this path,

but also have major implications for the future.

The question is, what if the Bermuda Triangle

as we know it is on the move?

Quinto: The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

may finally be close to being solved.

Experts have theorized

that the area's high concentration of magnetite

could be causing interference with the Earth's magnetic field,

leading to weather anomalies,

dangerous algae growth, and problems with navigation.

If that's the case, then the issue

lies much deeper than the ocean floor.

It lies at the very core of our planet.

And, according to geophysics professor Dr. Justin Revenaugh,

a potentially catastrophic magnetic shift

is happening there right now.

My interest in the Earth's magnetic field

began when I was in college.

Because of a big solar storm, the northern lights

moved further down from the poles than usual.

And I thought it was amazing,

and, as a result, I've kept tabs on the magnetic field

through the rest of my life,

and what it's doing right now is unusual.

Quinto: What it's doing is moving,

and it might be taking the Bermuda Triangle

right along with it.

So here we're looking down on the north pole of the planet.

Geographic north lies right there.

Shown in the colored dots

are the position of magnetic north over time.

We start down here in 1900,

moving steadily northwards slowly until about 1990,

at which point, it started moving much more quickly.

At the present day, it's moving at a rate

of 35 miles per year to the north and west,

and, if that motion continues,

it'll cross the Arctic Ocean and work its way into Russia.

Quinto: The question is, if the Bermuda Triangle

features a deadly magnetic anomaly,

how might it be impacted by the planet's magnetic shift?

We've already seen evidence

of increasingly frequent plane and boat disappearances

to the northwest of the current Triangle.

Underwater, Bermuda's magnetite deposits

are also drifting in the same direction.

Could this simply be a coincidence?

One thing's for sure.

The magnetic shift is having a significant impact.

The average person has no idea that magnetic north is moving.

Why should they? You can't see it,

you don't feel it,

but it affects the navigation of ships and airplanes.

Quinto: It's a problem that sounds a lot

like what could be happening in the Bermuda Triangle,

except now it's beginning to occur on a global scale.

These changes are requiring us to update maps and software

to accommodate the shifts in the poles

that are necessary to make sure that GPS

and compass-based navigation continues to be accurate.

Quinto: But, according to Dr. Revenaugh,

there could be even greater consequences for life on Earth.

The Earth's magnetic field acts like a force field.

If you think about the "Star Trek" USS Enterprise,

when they would be shot by lasers and photon weapons,

would be deflected away from the spacecraft.

"Star Trek" didn't pull this out of thin air.

Our planet's magnetic field

is protecting us from space weather,

solar radiation, solar winds.

If they reach the Earth in full numbers,

it could shut down electrical grids,

gas and oil pipelines,

cellular and satellite communication, television,

aircraft flights, and potentially

other things that we haven't even thought about.

It won't happen overnight,

but we are seeing signs that it could happen rather soon.

Quinto: Dr. Revenaugh has a simple way

to illustrate this effect.

So to understand what might happen

if Earth's magnetic field were weakened,

we're gonna look at a microwave.

Microwave creates radiation of its own kind

that we can use to heat water, cook food,

and we're protected from that

by the casing and the grill on the front of the microwave.

But imagine what would happen if we put a cellphone inside.

Out here, it's protected

from the radiation inside the microwave,

but, if I put it in,

that protection's not gonna be there anymore.

It's gonna feel its effects entirely.

Hit start.

Look at that.

It only took about five seconds, and look at that.

The radiation inside there

completely fried the electronics.

It's shot.

It's still cool to the touch, though.

It wasn't that it heated up.

It was that the electronics were shorted out by the radiation.

Quinto: What if this happened worldwide

and our communications, compass, and GPS navigation,

radar, and safety tracking all ceased to function?

We basically would be thrown back 300 years.

It wouldn't quite be the Stone Age,

but it wouldn't be the modern world

we've become accustomed to.

Quinto: But Justin believes that there are steps

we can take to prevent this scenario.

To fix this would require building physical protections

for many parts of the infrastructure.

It's not a coding issue. It's not a software fix.

It's an infrastructure issue.

Cellphone towers, electrical grids,

pipelines would all need to be rebuilt or modified

to be protected from solar radiation.

Quinto: Unless we can build these protections in time,

it won't matter if the Bermuda Triangle

is moving or not, because its alleged effects

could soon impact the entire world.

Scholars like Dr. Revenaugh are currently trying to identify

all of the issues that a magnetic shift could cause.

After that, they'll still need to convince governments,

private companies, and engineers

to shore up our infrastructure before it's too late.

As for the Bermuda Triangle,

if it is moving northwest as we've proposed,

thankfully it remains an isolated area,

just 500,000 square miles on the surface

of a nearly 200-million-square-mile planet.

But if we don't plan for the future,

the entire world may one day become a Bermuda Triangle,

a place where safe navigation of the seas and skies

can no longer be possible.

In other words, we must continue moving forward

in the same spirit

as the Bermuda Triangle's first explorers.

Sometimes the only way out of a predicament

is to head straight through.

The search continues.