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Welcome to the most notorious stretch of
ocean on Earth.
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It's been called the Devil's Triangle or
Hurricane Alley.
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But most of us know it as the Bermuda
Triangle.
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500 ,000 square miles of the Atlantic
that has terrified and perplexed
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travelers, explorers, and even
scientists for centuries.
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Since the time of Christopher Columbus,
these waters have been home to many
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unusual and unexplainable disasters and
disappearances.
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Ships, planes, and unsuspecting
travelers lost without a trace.
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But where have they gone, and why did
they vanish?
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Tonight, we aim to find out.
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In spite of the danger, we'll enter the
Bermuda Triangle by sea and by air.
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We'll search the depth for evidence of
the triangle's alleged destructive
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And finally, we'll reveal a shocking new
theory, one that could completely
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redraw the map.
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It's a mystery that could impact our
entire planet.
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As we go in search of the Bermuda
Triangle.
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Have a look at this map of the southern
Atlantic coast of the United States.
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Now, I want you to try something.
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Draw three straight lines between Miami,
Bermuda, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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That seems harmless enough, right?
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But what if I told you that this area,
which is about the size of Alaska, has
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been the site of over 50 ship
disappearances in just the past century?
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It's also been the site of at least 1
,000 fatalities during that stretch.
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Even those who've managed to survive
have reported many strange anomalies
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The triangle's countless tragic deaths
remain unsolved mysteries because
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today still can't agree on the cause.
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Is it possible that a strange and deadly
power truly lies within these three
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boundaries?
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There's only one way to find out.
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We have to enter the triangle ourselves.
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is the custodian of historic wrecks for
the island of Bermuda.
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And he thinks he's found one of the key
causes of all of this area's
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destruction.
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It's hard to believe on a day of commas
that this is one of the most treacherous
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places on Earth.
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He manages the sites of over 300
shipwrecks around the island.
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Shipwreck here, shipwreck there,
shipwreck there.
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According to Philippe, This area has
been causing problems for sailors since
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very first ships passed nearby.
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Bermuda was put on chart not as a
country that anyone wanted to move to or
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migrate to, but literally as a place of
warning to mariners. This is a place you
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want to be very careful about, a place
you want to stay away from.
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And it's that particular navigational
hazard which I think tees up the whole
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mystery and the mythos of the Bermuda
Triangle.
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It's also the reason people live on
Bermuda in the first place.
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Bermuda is a nation founded on
shipwrecks. The first settlers here
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shipwreck in 1609.
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Our national flag has a shipwreck
smashed up against the rocks on the
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which denotes the real deep importance
and connection we have to this.
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If anyone understands the destructive
power of the Bermuda Triangle, it's
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Philippe, who has been studying these
wrecks for over 15 years.
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Today, he's tracking a relatively new
theory, a unique underwater phenomenon
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that may have been sinking ships here
for centuries.
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This is actually a really exciting thing
to run into today. We've actually come
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across a large swath of sargassum, which
is a holoplogic algae that grows
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in the open ocean.
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In the historical narratives, there's
actually stories of ships finding
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themselves stuck in these large mats and
becalmed for days and weeks at a time.
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Sailors began sharing stories of an
impenetrable region of the Atlantic
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many ships were lost.
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They called it the Sargasso Sea.
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Here, thick Sargassum mats can stretch
for miles beneath the water.
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making this one of the most dangerous
parts of the Bermuda Triangle.
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There are written accounts of ships
getting stuck inside huge beds way, way
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bigger than this.
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Just imagine this thing covers a square
kilometer or two.
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Much thicker and denser, and how hard
that would be to navigate your way out
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And getting stuck isn't the only problem
caused by the Sargassum.
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Once a ship gets trapped inside,
something even more dangerous can occur.
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As it groups together, it starts to rot,
and the smell that comes off it is
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actually really toxic.
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There's a whole storyline that feeds
into this.
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In the last five years, they've had a
massive influx of a similar kind of
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in the southern Caribbean.
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Unbelievable growth spurts of sargassum.
It's appearing in such absolute...
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Massive quantity, but it's occluding
entire bays, poisoning beaches because
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gas that comes off it when it rots is
actually quite noxious.
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Suddenly you can imagine ships would
literally come to a stop in the algae in
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mat that's so thick and heavy that it'd
be stuck there for days, left without
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movement and unable to push their way
through.
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If those odors would get onto a ship, it
could actually drive guys mad.
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Is it possible that this strange growth
of plant life has been poisoning
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mariners? and sinking vessels for
hundreds of years.
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There is strong evidence nearby where
Philippe has cataloged not one, but
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sunken vessels clustered together.
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Where else in the world would you see
shipwrecks from all these different eras
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finding themselves in the same spot?
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Really, there is no logical reason for
them to all be there.
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Each of the three wrecks is quite
different from the others.
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And yet, they all met the same fate
right here, decades apart.
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This is the Montana Civil War blockade
runner, stuck in 1863.
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As you come around the back of the stern
boiler...
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You then turn down, and you're literally
then confronted by one of the paddle
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wheels that's lying on its side.
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The Montana's side -wheel steam
propulsion was the height of Civil War
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technology.
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But it would have been particularly
susceptible to getting tangled in the
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Bermuda Triangle's sargassum.
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And as you can see, the Montana isn't
alone.
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The really interesting part is that as
you're going across the center of that
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ship, you're actually starting to see
all the cargo that came from the ship
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sank in 1943, the Constellation.
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Sunk directly on top of the Montana, the
Constellation was a luxurious cargo
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ship stocked to the gills with high -end
goods bound for Venezuela.
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And it had everything on it. Cement,
billiard tables, glass plate for
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But of course, that cargo never reached
its destination.
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Neither did that of the Lardington, the
area's third shipwreck, which sank en
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route to Russia in 1879.
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Every shipwreck is a mystery until you
know its story.
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And with so many shipwrecks around
Bermuda, there's a bunch that we
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can't explain.
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Is this hidden growth of algae the
explanation?
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Could the centuries -old mystery of the
Bermuda Triangle really be that simple?
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As we're about to find out, the truth
may actually be far more complicated.
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Because whatever's happening here in the
Bermuda Triangle, it's not just on the
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water.
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What is it about the Bermuda Triangle?
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that has caused the loss of hundreds of
ships.
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Shipwreck custodian Philippe Rouget has
theorized that massive underwater beds
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of sargassum may be behind some of the
destruction.
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But the truth is, this question could
have multiple answers, because plant
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alone can't explain the sheer volume of
sunken vessels here.
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When we say there are 300 shipwrecks
around Bermuda, those are the ones that
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there's evidence of some kind.
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But, you know, there's a whole pile of
shipwrecks that clearly sank in the
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And those are another mystery unto
themselves.
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We have shipwrecks from every
nationality that traversed the Atlantic
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three, four centuries.
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And so we're surrounded by a lot of
riddles.
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In fact, two of the Triangle's greatest
riddles...
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took place over 600 miles away from the
Sargasso Sea.
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In 1918, the USS Cyclops, a World War I
ship, vanished in the
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Triangle without a trace, taking 306
crew members and passengers along with
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No remains have been found to this day.
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It was the largest non -combat related
loss of life in U .S. naval history.
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And it led some to suggest that there
could be supernatural forces at work in
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the Bermuda Triangle.
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Especially when combined with this story
from 30 years before.
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In 1881, a ship called the Ellen Austin
was on a voyage through the same area of
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the triangle when it crossed paths with
another vessel.
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Strangely, this other ship was
completely empty, with not a single soul
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board.
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Some of the Ellen Austin's crew
transferred to the abandoned ghost ship
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it to safety.
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The two ships were separated by a large
storm.
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When the Ellen Austin finally caught up,
the ghost ship was once again empty.
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All the crew members had vanished.
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And we say, you know, is it the
supernatural?
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You know, are there supernatural
phenomenon occurring in Bermuda? And I
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say, yeah, Bermuda is a supernatural
place.
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Others believe the answer is more
scientific.
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One of the theories is this notion of
rogue waves. These waves that sort of
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into a rhythm of the sort and can create
a wave that literally throws itself
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much higher than normal, appearing out
of nowhere and creating very difficult
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situations.
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You also have theory of the methyl
hydrates, so the bubbles coming up and
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creating essentially a hole in the ocean
ships would fall into.
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Certainly you would expect an area that
has all these different forces coming
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together to have a higher degree of
risk.
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And navigating those risks is a greater
challenge here than it might be
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elsewhere.
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Each of these science -based theories
seems plausible enough on its own.
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But algae mats, rogue waves, and even
ghost ships still can't solve the entire
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mystery.
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Because whatever might be happening in
the Bermuda Triangle goes way beyond the
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water.
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Now we're going to go to a place that
isn't actually a shipwreck. It's
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the wreck of an airplane.
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You know, the Bermuda Triangle isn't
just about shipwrecks. It's also about,
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know, anomalies that influence not just
ships, but aircraft and things like
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that.
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The wreck of the KB Hayes bomber. It has
this incredible juxtaposition of, you
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know, the height of sort of human
technology and nature. You know, the
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kind of taking over these aluminum and
stainless steel engine parts, parts of
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the plane, and has a really interesting
kind of contrast going on.
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The story of this bomber, which went
down in 1961, only adds to the mystery
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the Bermuda Triangle.
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Clearly, underwater plant life wasn't
responsible, and neither was the
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This plane, in fact, went down on a very
clear day.
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They experienced engine trouble, but we
don't have the answers to it all.
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It was a lot of plane.
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The most striking thing are the struts,
like the landing gear and things like
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that.
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You know, it's a stark reminder that it
didn't land.
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It kind of is a very kind of emotionally
jarring wreck because it's something we
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can all relate to. These are airplanes.
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These are things that are really not
supposed to be underwater.
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And seeing elements of a plane
underwater has a completely different
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about it.
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But the question remains, what could be
behind this tragic accident?
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Whatever the cause may be, for Khalif
and many other citizens of Bermuda, they
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are confident that something
unexplainable...
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is happening here.
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People have a lot of different theories
about the Bermuda Triangle.
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People love this mystique.
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There is an attraction to the
unexplainable.
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You know, there's no question that
there's something really special about
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Bermuda Triangle.
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And, you know, I'm sure as we move
forward, we're going to find lots of
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explanations for things that have
happened.
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But having a good mystery out there is
actually pretty cool.
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Thanks to researchers like Philippe,
we're finding more and more of the
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Triangle's ship and airplane wrecks,
which will hopefully provide new leads
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the cause of the area's dangers.
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But there are many vessels that are
still unaccounted for, including what
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be the Triangle's most mysterious loss
of all.
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Six airplanes all vanished on the same
day in an incident.
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known as Flight 19.
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On December 5th, 1945, just a few months
after the end of World War II,
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14 airmen boarded five planes in Florida
and flew off over the Atlantic.
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But soon after entering the Bermuda
Triangle, the airmen became mysteriously
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disoriented.
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Despite their high -level skills and
some of the day's most technologically
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advanced aircraft, all five planes and
all 14 people were lost,
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gone without a trace.
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But the tragedy doesn't end there.
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In a bizarre twist, a seaplane was sent
out with 13 additional crew members on a
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rescue mission.
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Shockingly, that plane disappeared as
well.
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only 27 minutes into its voyage.
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What could have happened to these
airplanes or the 1961 KB Hayes bomber?
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And is there any chance it relates to
the area's shipwrecks?
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Could the Bermuda Triangle's combination
of hidden algae and rogue waves be the
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cause of the area's many shipwreck?
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Perhaps.
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But that doesn't explain why airplanes
continue to go missing as well.
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What is it that's going on in the skies
above this supposedly deadly stretch of
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ocean?
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Today, pilot and Bermuda Triangle
enthusiast Jordy Klein hopes to fly in
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find out. I feel that the legends of the
Bermuda Triangle have quite a bit of
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merit to them.
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And the reason I say that is because...
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I've experienced it myself.
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Jordy grew up in Florida, close to the
western border of the Bermuda Triangle,
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and he's been interested in the
anomalies here for his entire life.
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My dad is also a pilot. I used to fly
with him before I could even see over
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dashboard.
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My dad was intrigued by the weird things
that would happen in the Bermuda
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Triangle. And I can remember us flying
to the Bahama Islands and, you know, all
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over the Atlantic Ocean.
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And that's what sparked my interest in
the Bermuda Triangle.
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I guess you can say I'm a second
-generation Bermuda Triangle survivor.
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Following in his father's footsteps,
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Jordy began flying through the Triangle
on his own as soon as he got his pilot's
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license at age 17.
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I've flown in the Bermuda Triangle
hundreds of times, and I've had
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strange experiences.
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I've flown on crystal clear days where
bad weather came out of nowhere.
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I've had my compass go haywire. I've had
my altimeter become erratic.
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And I've even experienced magnetic fog.
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Many pilots have described magnetic fog
in the Bermuda Triangle.
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comparing it to a cloud that wraps
itself around an airplane and follows
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obscuring all visibility.
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So the big difference between flying
through a magnetic fog bank and a
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fog bank is with a magnetic fog bank is
that when you fly into it, you cannot
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rely on your vision nor your
instruments.
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So given those two scenarios, there's
countless numbers of bad things that
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happen.
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It's very disorienting. Aside from the
aircraft instrument, I've turned my head
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quickly and I get vertigo. Almost like
my internal compass is also affected by
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the magnetic fog.
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Could magnetic fog be at the root of the
Triangle's many plane crashes,
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including the disappearance of Flight
19?
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Jordy believes it's a definite
possibility.
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It's one thing to be lost in a car where
you can pull over.
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and look for directions.
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But if your only navigational source is
the compass and it starts acting
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erratically, you could be in trouble.
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To further test his theory, today Jordy
is taking a flight into the Bermuda
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Triangle with our camera crew, using
only his compass for navigation.
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off the coast of Florida, where I've had
most of my experiences with the Bermuda
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Triangle.
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It's a dangerous proposition, but
Jordy's plane does have a backup system
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case things go wrong.
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Today, we're going to go out in this
1949 aircraft, and it has pretty much
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same instruments as it did 70 years ago.
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We're going to try to rely totally on
those instruments today.
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This area is just a hotbed of aviation
and marine wreckage.
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the magnetic compass as if he ripped it
off of the dash and he was holding it as
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if he was like just praying for it to
work.
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Jordy's plane is currently two miles
from where that fatal incident took
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If he can recreate a magnetic anomaly in
the air today, he's confident this is
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where it will happen.
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Right now we're flying right over the
island of Bimini. If you look on the
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western shore here, You'll see the
strange abnormalities in the water.
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There's this really weird reef. It
doesn't look like any other reef on
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It, to me, looks man -made.
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And it's even more strange underwater
than it is flying over it.
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Jordy and many other local pilots
believe that the reef, known as Bimini
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contains a pyramid -shaped underwater
formation.
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that could somehow be impacting the
navigation of planes and boats in the
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The question is, how?
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A lot of the strange occurrences happen
around this reef.
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So whatever's going on down there, to
me, that's just one of the biggest
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of evidence that supports the mystery of
the Bermuda Triangle.
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Look at that.
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Look at the compass.
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The fog came out of nowhere.
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Whoa.
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My compass is going crazy.
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Can't see anything outside.
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Hold on.
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The fog came out of nowhere.
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This is what I'm talking about here.
Look at this.
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My compass is going crazy, and now we're
in turbulence.
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Very disorienting.
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Whoa! If I was a pilot relying only on
this magnetic compass, I'd be freaking
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out right now, because I would have no
idea what direction we're flying.
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I can rely on my GPS to fly us out of
it.
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If I wasn't an experienced pilot, I
might not be so calm right now.
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With that compass spinning, I would have
been very concerned without the GPS.
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Jordy believes this magnetic
interference could easily be responsible
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Bermuda Triangle's abnormally high death
toll.
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In the old days, when all you had to
guide you was compass and sight, you
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imagine. One mistake could have been
catastrophic.
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But that's what it was like 50 years
ago.
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Many people never make it out.
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With every successful flight he makes
through the triangle, Jordy considers
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himself lucky.
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I fly all over the world, but the
Bermuda Triangle is the only place I
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all of these weird things happen.
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And yet, Jordy continues to fly here.
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committed to understanding more about
what's going on and warning others about
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the potential dangers.
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With today's technology, things are much
safer in the Bermuda Triangle. But
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weird things still happen there.
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And if you're not prepared for it, you
can still get yourself into trouble.
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Jordy's experiment suggests that there
may indeed be a magnetic anomaly at work
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in the Bermuda Triangle.
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We've also heard theories ranging from
deadly gas leaks to unusual plant life
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rogue waves that can appear out of
nowhere.
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Is there a chance that all of these
could somehow be connected?
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Perhaps we should look into the accounts
of one of the very first explorers to
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ever sail into the Bermuda Triangle.
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When Columbus entered this part of the
Atlantic during his famous 1492 voyage,
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he reported erratic compass readings,
the likes of which he'd never seen
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It's even more evidence that the
triangle's powers could be magnetic in
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But Columbus spotted something else as
well.
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He described strange lights and flames
crashing across the surface of the
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What should we make of Columbus's
account?
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Is there some type of phenomenon that
combines fire and magnetism, and could
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be behind all the unusual activity here
in the Bermuda Triangle?
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As we're about to find out, the answer
to that question may be hiding right
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under our noses.
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The Bermuda Triangle has been feared as
one of the ocean's deadliest areas for
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generations.
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The question is, what could be going on
in this storied region of the Atlantic
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Ocean?
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So far, we've witnessed unusual plant
growth, weather anomalies, flames across
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the water, and issues of magnetism.
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Look at the compass.
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Whoa! But we have yet to identify the
source of these dangerous phenomena.
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Fortunately, we may be on the verge of a
breakthrough.
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Because deep -sea mineral prospector
Nick Hutchings has spent years
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Bermuda's geology, and he thinks he
might have found the cause of all of the
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triangle's destructive power.
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I was born in Bermuda, so I grew up
curious what inspired a story like
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the Bermuda Triangle.
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So... We're on our way to Whalebone Bay
where we can see some of the earliest
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evidence of Bermuda's geological
formations.
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Like many islands, Bermuda was created
by a volcano that dates back millions of
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years.
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But according to Nick, Bermuda's volcano
was unlike any other on Earth.
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The interesting thing about Bermuda is
that it has a very unusual lava.
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The most recent research...
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says that it's actually unique.
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It hasn't been discovered anywhere else
in the world.
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Nick has spent years studying the
composition of this lava, trying to
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the source of its unusual properties.
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When I started to look more closely, I
started to learn that it's been
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enriched in minerals.
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including titanium dioxide and iron
oxide, which have combined to make a
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called magnetite.
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Magnetite is the most magnetic,
naturally occurring mineral on Earth.
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Where Bermuda's volcanic rock is 18 to
20 % magnetite, Most soils only contain
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between 1 and 5 percent, so that's a big
difference. You have more concentrated
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magnetite, you have more magnetism.
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Volcanoes typically spew lava from the
very top of the Earth's mantle, an
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average of 20 miles below the surface.
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The new study claims that when Bermuda
was formed, a unique disturbance caused
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magma to bubble up from much farther
down.
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400 miles down, in fact.
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And according to Nick, the result is
that Bermuda contains more magnetite
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any known island on the planet.
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An estimated volume of over 400 billion
tons.
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Now, over time, that eroded away to the
slopes of the volcano or the sides of
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the volcano and washed into the sea.
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And all of the magnetite that was in
that volcanic rock is now deposited up
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120 miles in all directions around
Bermuda.
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So even though Bermuda is just a tiny
dot on the map, it's a very small
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it is essentially one giant magnet.
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Volcanic activity and highly magnetic
rock.
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It sounds a lot like what Christopher
Columbus reported on his first trip
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through the triangle.
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And studies have shown that a large
magnetic field can enhance the growth
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patterns of certain plants, like
sargassum.
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Could the magnetite be the source of all
the mysterious weather and navigational
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anomalies experienced by travelers for
centuries in the Bermuda Triangle?
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According to Nick, the answer is yes.
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What we have here is a really good
example of the magnetite that's exposed
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the limestone.
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You can see it right through here and
down there. And if you look carefully,
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can see a really good example of it
layered in the rocks.
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If we move this compass over even the
small amount of rock, it'll affect it.
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And you can see, as soon as this compass
comes over the rock, it'll change
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magnetic north by several degrees.
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What we're seeing here is just the tip
of the iceberg because Bermuda is
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surrounded by this kind of rock.
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Nick's calculations suggest the
magnetite surrounding Bermuda is at
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feet thick.
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So I think this massive deposit of
magnetite, it can cause strange
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boats and planes that are coming through
the area.
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If you pass a compass over even a small
piece of magnetite, it can cause a blip.
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You can only imagine what 400 billion
tons would do to a passing plane or
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One can easily imagine an ancient
mariner when all of a sudden his one
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important tool that's helping him get
back home would start to do weird stuff.
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We even find this warning about magnetic
anomalies in the Bermuda area on maps
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and admiralty charts.
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And of course, Bermuda's at the apex of
the Bermuda Triangle.
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If Nick's theory is correct, all of the
anomalies within the Bermuda Triangle
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and all of its heightened danger could
come down to a question of magnetism.
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If that magnetic relationship is indeed
the culprit, it sets up one more
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compelling mystery.
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In 1980, a 400 -foot auxiliary ship sank
off the coast of Daytona Beach
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here, in a location 250 miles north of
Miami.
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In 1991, a commuter flight crashed on
the east coast of Georgia, here.
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And in 2018, a Piper PA -31 aircraft
took off from South Carolina, headed for
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the Bahamas.
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100 miles off the coast, in this
location, the pilot made an emergency
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to divert the plane.
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Afterwards, it was never seen or heard
from again.
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These wrecks, and others like them, did
not take place within the Bermuda
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Triangle. Instead, as you can see, they
form a path that leads over 1 ,000 miles
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to the northwest.
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But a new theory is emerging, which
could not only explain this path, but
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have major implications for the future.
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The question is, what if the Bermuda
Triangle as we know it is on the moon?
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The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle may
finally be close to being solved.
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Experts have theorized that the area's
high concentration of magnetite could be
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causing interference with the Earth's
magnetic field, leading to weather
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anomalies, dangerous algae growth, and
problems with navigation.
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If that's the case, then the issue lies
much deeper than the ocean floor.
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It lies at the very core of our planet.
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And according to geophysics professor
Dr. Justin Revenoff, a potentially
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catastrophic magnetic shift is happening
there right now.
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My interest in the Earth's magnetic
field began when I was in college.
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Because of a big solar storm, the
northern lights moved further down from
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poles than usual.
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And I thought it was amazing, and as a
result, I've kept tabs on the magnetic
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field through the rest of my life. What
it's doing right now is unusual.
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What it's doing is moving, and it might
be taking the Bermuda Triangle right
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along with it.
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So here we're looking down on the north
pole of the planet.
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Geographic north lies right there.
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Shown in the colored dots are the
position of magnetic north over time.
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We start down here in 1900, moving
steadily northward slowly until
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about 1990, at which point it started
moving much more quickly. At the present
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day, it's moving at a rate of 35 miles
per year to the north and west.
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If that motion continues, it'll cross
the Arctic Ocean and work its way into
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Russia.
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The question is, If the Bermuda Triangle
features a deadly magnetic anomaly, how
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might it be impacted by the planet's
magnetic shift?
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We've already seen evidence of
increasingly frequent plane and boat
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disappearances to the northwest of the
current triangle.
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Underwater, Bermuda's magnetite deposits
are also drifting in the same
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direction. Could this simply be a
coincidence?
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One thing's for sure, the magnetic shift
is having a significant impact.
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The average person has no idea that
magnetic north is moving. Why should
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You can't see it, you don't feel it.
That affects the navigation of ships and
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airplanes.
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It's a problem that sounds a lot like
what could be happening in the Bermuda
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Triangle. Except now, it's beginning to
occur on a global scale.
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These changes are requiring us to update
maps and software to accommodate the
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shifts in the poles that are necessary
to make sure that GPS and compass -based
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navigation continues to be accurate.
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But according to Dr. Revenaugh, there
could be even greater consequences for
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life on Earth.
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The Earth's magnetic field acts like a
force field. If you think about the Star
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Trek USS Enterprise, when they would be
shot by lasers and photon weapons would
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be deflected away from the spacecraft.
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Star Trek didn't pull this out of thin
air. Our planet's magnetic field is
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protecting us from base weather, solar
radiation, solar winds.
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If they reached the Earth in full
numbers, it could shut down electrical
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gas and oil pipelines, cellular and
satellite communication, television,
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aircraft flights, and potentially other
things that we haven't even thought
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about. It won't happen overnight, but we
are seeing signs that it could happen
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rather soon.
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Dr. Revenaugh has a simple way to
illustrate this effect.
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So to understand what might happen at
first magnetic field where we can, we're
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going to look at a microwave.
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Microwave creates radiation of its own
kind that we can use to heat water, cook
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food. We're protected from that by the
casing and the grill on the front of the
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microwave. So imagine what would happen
if we put a cell phone inside.
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Out here, it's protected from the
radiation inside the microwave. But if I
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it in, that protection is not going to
be there anymore.
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It's going to feel its effects entirely.
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Hit start.
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Look at that.
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It only took about five seconds, and
look at that. The radiation inside there
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completely fried the electronics. It's
shot.
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Still cool to the touch, though. It
wasn't that it heated up. It was that
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electronics were shorted out by the
radiation.
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What if this happened worldwide and our
communications, compass and GPS
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navigation, radar and safety tracking
all cease to function?
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We basically would be thrown back 300
years.
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It wouldn't quite be the Stone Age, but
it wouldn't be the modern world we've
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become accustomed to.
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But Justin believes that there are steps
we can take to prevent this scenario.
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To fix this would require building
physical protections for many parts of
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infrastructure. It's not a coding issue.
It's not a software fix.
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It's an infrastructure issue.
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Cell phone towers, electrical grids,
pipelines, all need to be rebuilt or
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modified to be protected from solar
radiation.
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Unless we can build these protections in
time, it won't matter if the Bermuda
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Triangle is moving or not.
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because its alleged effects could soon
impact the entire world.
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Scholars like Dr. Revena are currently
trying to identify all of the issues
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a magnetic shift could cause.
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After that, they'll still need to
convince governments, private companies,
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engineers to shore up our infrastructure
before it's too late.
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As for the Bermuda Triangle, if it is
moving northwest as we proposed.
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Thankfully, it remains an isolated area,
just 500 ,000 square miles on the
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surface of a nearly 200 million square
mile planet.
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But if we don't plan for the future, the
entire world may one day become a
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Bermuda Triangle, a place where safe
navigation of the seas and skies can no
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longer be possible.
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In other words, we must continue moving
forward in the same spirit as the
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Bermuda Triangle's first explorers.
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Sometimes, the only way out of a
predicament is to head straight through.
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The search continues.
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