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[eerie music]

- He would point to the ocean,

and he said,
"She's so beautiful,

but she's a killer."

♪

♪

- Right after
my family's disappearance

in the Bermuda Triangle,

everything
in my world vanished.

♪ ♪

narrator: Tonight on
"The Bermuda Triangle:

Into Cursed Waters"...

- We're going right into it.

narrator: It's the Triangle's
top ten mysteries.

♪ ♪

- A giant ship
over 500-feet long

disappears without a trace.

narrator:
From killer waves...

- The Bermuda Triangle,

rogue waves
could be part of it.

narrator: To subsea
methane explosions...

- If a bubble
burst underneath you,

then you would simply fall
off the planet into the abyss.

narrator:
To an entire lost squadron...

- And there was no evidence,
no bodies, no debris.

narrator:
Even real-life ghost ships...

- Why would a crew,
an entire crew,

simply abandon a vessel
that was still floating?

narrator: The team reveals
what they now know

about each mystery...

- There is
so much evidence now,

especially coming
from military pilots.

narrator: And what
they plan to do next

to uncover answers...

- The United States government

is investigating this pattern

of mysterious disappearances
of ships.

- So the compass
could have been affected?

- Absolutely.

- So now you can kind of see

where this could become
more catastrophic.

narrator:
Including lost footage

they've never shown before...

- Mother Ocean's very good
at hiding her secrets.

narrator: And information
they've kept

under lock and key.

- If we were able
to keep that a secret,

how many other things do you
think we could keep a secret?

♪

narrator:
There is a place

that evokes fear
and fascination.

Bounded by Florida,
Bermuda, and Puerto Rico,

the Bermuda Triangle
has swallowed countless ships,

planes, and people.

♪

Now an elite team
is on the hunt...

- Dive, dive, dive.

narrator:
And making big finds.

- We've discovered
"Challenger."

narrator: Their secret weapon,
a wreck map

decades in the making.

- These are dangerous dives.

- Whoa!

- Any sane person
would not be doing this.

narrator: Their mission,
solve the mystery

of the Bermuda Triangle
one wreck at a time.

- Dude, are you seeing this?

- Mother Nature is gonna
take these wrecks away.

The clock is ticking.

♪ ♪

♪

- When you're
blazing new paths,

you don't have notes
from other people

because, obviously,
you're the first one there.

♪

- What drives us, it's always
going to be the next find

and the next target.

The unexplored.

♪ ♪

narrator: Another dive season
is in the books,

but for Mike, Jimmy,
and the Bermuda Triangle team,

the work continues.

- In between dive seasons,

it's kind of like being
in the offseason

of any kind of professional
sports team.

I mean, we want to learn
the lessons from this year

and take them forward.

So what we're gonna do is we're
gonna start researching now.

narrator:
And that means compiling

their top ten mysteries
of the Bermuda Triangle.

It's part progress report
and part to-do list.

Number ten is
a rare phenomenon,

but when it happens,
it grabs headlines...

ghost ships.

- The idea of ghost ships...

the ship seems
perfectly intact,

but the crew is missing,
gone, vanished.

And it is one of
the most incredible mysteries

out of the Bermuda Triangle.

- The big question is,
why would a crew,

an entire crew
sometimes of hundreds of men,

just simply abandon a vessel
that was still floating?

narrator:
To answer this question,

the team is investigating
several historical cases

of known ghost ships.

- One of the most famous ones,
of course,

was the "Carroll Deering."

♪ ♪

narrator:
January 1921.

The sailing frigate
"Carroll Deering,"

coming from Brazil,
enters the Bermuda Triangle.

All contact is lost.

Then on January 31st,
she appears

off Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina.

♪ ♪

- Strange thing
about that one?

Nobody on board.

Zero crew.

An empty vessel
that runs aground.

- "The Carroll Deering"
is lost

just after World War I,

where you get a rash of
unexplained losses of ships.

And so as a result,
the United States government

launched an investigation
to find out

what exactly was happening.

♪ ♪

narrator: The investigation
was overseen

by future president
Herbert Hoover.

The government's
favored theory,

"Deering's" crew
turned on their captain

and joined league
with Communist pirates.

- The big worry at this time
was, believe it or not,

Communist revolution.

And as a result,
they were worried

that some of the ships' crews
may have actually revolted.

narrator:
But nothing could explain

why a perfectly
seaworthy boat

was reportedly discovered
all sails set but unmanned.

♪

Digging deeper,
Dave and Wayne come across

a theory rooted in
old sailors' tales

of madness at sea.

♪ ♪

- Hi, there.
- You must be Nic.

Hi, Nic.

narrator: They meet
Nic Compton, an expert

in a bizarre condition
called calenture.

- Sailors, they are unable
to resist the urge

to jump over the side
into the sea.

♪ ♪

And that's what's
fascinating about it

is that it does affect
whole crews.

In the 1785 expedition
of the Senegal River,

the crew of 30 sailors,
they all ended up jumping

over the side to their death.

- All of them?
- All 30?

- Yeah.

narrator: Such a scenario
might explain

what happened
to the crew of

the "Carroll Deering"
and other ghost ships

of the Bermuda Triangle.

But the team will need
to keep digging

to get to the bottom
of the ghost ship phenomenon.

- I really don't know
how you solve something

like the "Carroll Deering,"
unless we find out

that that crew
was taken by pirates

and there's a trace of them.

I mean, this is beyond
the needle in a haystack.

narrator: At number nine
are meteorological phenomena

that figure into many stories
of lost ships and planes,

freak storms.

♪

- We have crazy storms
that kick up

within the Bermuda Triangle,
like, instantly.

It could be
completely flat, calm,

and then all hell
is breaking loose.

♪

- I mean, we always think
of hurricanes,

but we realize
that there's much more

than just
the simple hurricane

or the occasional storm.

narrator: The team wants
to know, beyond hurricanes,

are there other kinds
of storms

more bizarre in nature
that are taking down

ships and planes
in the Bermuda Triangle?

They find clues to at least
one uncanny weather pattern

during an investigation
of an F2H Banshee,

a high-altitude
1950s-era spy plane

discovered in 290 feet
of water.

- Topsides.

We are currently sitting
on top of the aircraft.

- Does not appear
that the pilot got out.

narrator: The mystery begins
in February 1958.

A four-member Banshee squadron
from the Royal Canadian Navy

are conducting joint
training exercises

with the U.S. Navy
along the Florida coast.

They suddenly face
an intense fog bank

that materializes
seemingly out of nowhere.

Three planes emerge,
but the fourth disappears.

Was the fog hiding
a freak weather event?

The team investigates
one potential culprit.

It's called a microburst.

♪ ♪

These small, concentrated,
and powerful storms

are usually less than
2 1/2 miles in diameter

but with winds
up to 150 miles per hour.

Globally, they're responsible

for at least 20
major airline disasters,

totaling over 500 deaths.

♪ ♪

David O'Keefe joins
storm chaser Jeff Gammons

to investigate
how microbursts form

and the danger they might pose
in the Triangle.

- Typical microbursts,
you go from calm winds to 60-,

70-mile-an-hour winds,
you know, in 5 minutes.

narrator: This is what seemed
to happen the day

the Banshee disappeared,
when the pilots

of the other planes
said the skies were clear,

then suddenly
they were surrounded by fog.

- Sort of a drop of a hat,
everything changed.

- Yeah, because
the thunderstorm goes up,

and then it almost collapses
on itself.

narrator: So it's possible
a microburst

took down the Banshee,

but it's not the only weird
weather in the Triangle.

There are stories of
monstrous white squalls,

deadly sea tornadoes
called waterspouts,

even ship-sucking whirlpools.

And David O'Keefe thinks
new advances

will help the team understand
what role

these forces have played
in the Triangle's

many vanishings.

- The one area
that I think the team

really should delve into
would be

the new satellite imaging.

They've been noticing a lot
of strange cloud patterns,

and nobody really knows
what to make out of it.

narrator: The Bermuda Triangle
is arguably

the most notorious body
of water on Earth,

and the team
that knows it best

is taking us inside
their list

of its top ten
unsolved mysteries.

At number eight
is one of the largest ships

lost to
the Bermuda Triangle,

the "Marine Sulphur Queen."

- We were never able to truly
figure out what happened

to the "Marine Sulphur Queen."

But perhaps even
more important,

what was it that took her down?

[tense music]

narrator:
February 2, 1963.

The "Marine Sulphur Queen,"
nicknamed the "MSQ,"

sets out with more
than 15,000 tons

of molten sulfur on a course
through the Bermuda Triangle.

♪

- It was on a routine trip
between Texas and Virginia

when it suddenly disappeared,
never to be seen again.

narrator: The unexplained loss
of 39 souls

and a 500-foot tanker
stuns the American public,

even as the exact final
resting place

remained elusive.

- Pieces of equipment
that had the ship's name

actually washed up
near the Florida Keys.

♪

narrator:
One theory is that the "MSQ"

was sunk by
a freak weather event

called a waterspout,
ocean-borne tornadoes

that are a known hazard
to small vessels.

♪ ♪

But evidence of that is thin,
and the team

is more interested
in another theory.

- I believe
it was the ship itself.

This was a T2 tanker
that was converted

to carry molten sulfur.

narrator:
World War II era T2 tankers

like the
"Marine Sulphur Queen"

had a hidden problem.

In the early 20th century,
ship hulls

were held together
with rivets,

but as America
geared up for war

in the 1940s,
manufacturers switched

to faster, cheaper welds.

Unfortunately, the steel
wasn't up to the task.

♪ ♪

Dave and Wayne
travel to a shipyard

in Norfolk, Virginia,
to learn why.

- The steels that they
were using to build

riveted ships
were not suitable to welding.

They had too much
impurities in them.

narrator:
That dirty steel in use

at the beginning
of World War II

was prone to cracking,
leading to structural failure.

- They didn't learn how
the welding affected the steel

until you had some of those...

- Incidents
that happened at sea.

- Right.

narrator: It's a flaw
that sank several T2 tankers

throughout the 1940s and '50s.

Did it doom
the "Marine Sulphur Queen"?

♪ ♪

- It's kind of shocking.

This has to be
the most compromised vessel

that we've ever come across.

- It was a death trap.

It shouldn't have been
at sea, period.

narrator: To confirm
this theory, the team

is investigating
unexplored shipwrecks

near the
"Marine Sulphur Queen's"

last known position.
- Dive, dive, dive.

narrator: They even found
a ship sunk

by a U-boat
during World War II,

the "Joseph M. Cudahy,"
lost with 37 aboard.

But the "MSQ"
is still out there,

and this mystery will stay
near the top

of the team's list.

- We came up empty.

It just means that we have
to expand our search.

narrator: Number seven
on the team's list

is an anomaly

that may bring death
from below

and is this high on the list

because of some significant
recent discoveries...

subsea
methane hydrate deposits.

♪ ♪

- One of the questions
that's been asked

over the years is whether
methane hydrates

may have played a role
in bringing down ships

in the Bermuda Triangle.

narrator: Like other
fossil fuels, methane hydrates

are formed
when microbes break down

buried organic matter.

There's been
recent speculation

that when subsea methane
deposits explode,

they can create
a massive bubble

with the potential
to displace water

and sink ships.

Dave and Wayne
meet NOAA researcher

Mali'o Kodis,
who's helping find new ways

to detect potentially
hazardous methane deposits.

♪ ♪

- Is it possible, though,
to get an enormous amount

of methane going to the surface
which could indeed

be a hazard to shipping?

- I think with different types
of deposits,

that could be possible.

♪ ♪

narrator: Such an eruption
happened off Norway in 1985.

The nearly 300-foot-long
oil platform

West Vanguard was disabled by
a sudden burst of methane gas.

♪ ♪

- What kind of signatures
would we be looking for

at the bottom?

- I'd think some sort
of a crater from,

you know, the hydrate
escaping the ocean floor.

- So it'd leave a crater as if,
for instance, a bomb went off.

narrator: A bomb so big,
it scars the ocean floor.

A 2010 expedition
to map a stretch

of the Bermuda Triangle
revealed craters,

some larger across
than three football fields.

Dan Taylor was part
of that expedition.

- A 600-meter
gas hydrate bubble

would create a bubble
on the surface

of the ocean that's miles,
miles wide.

If you were a vessel

and a bubble burst
underneath you,

then you would simply fall
off the planet into the abyss

and the water
would swallow you.

♪

narrator: These craters
suggest potentially

hazardous subsea explosions.

And new research has revealed
these deposits are

surprisingly common
in the Bermuda Triangle,

for reasons that aren't
totally understood.

But to David,
more evidence is needed

to prove they can sink ships.

- When it comes to
the possibility of them being

strong enough to be able
to pull down a ship,

there's been no data
found whatsoever

that supports that
particular type of theory.

narrator: Number six
on the team's list

may connect
to an important case...

wormholes.

♪

- The Bermuda Triangle's
always been full

of rumors of teleportation,
wormholes,

and strange time warps.

narrator: Some believe
the wormhole anomaly

was a factor
in the Bermuda Triangle's

most famous mystery,
the loss of six navy planes

in a single night
on December 5, 1945.

The incident became known
as the Mystery of Flight 19

and the Martin Mariner.

- December 5, 1945,
that's a weird day

off the coast of Florida.

I mean, it is, of course,
the tragic loss

of Flight 19
and Martin Mariner.

But when Dave and I
started digging in

and researching even more,

there was
some bizarre happenings.

narrator: The navy organized
one of the largest

search and rescue missions
in U.S. history

to go after the lost planes.

Dave and Wayne
met with John Blum

of the Fort Lauderdale
Naval Museum

to examine evidence of
other unexplained incidents

on that night.

- This first letter
was sent to us in 1995...

- OK.

- By a pilot instructor who
was out on a training flight.

And they had gone out on
an eight-hour training flight,

east over the Bahamas and back,
and that's the same time

Flight 19 was getting lost.

♪ ♪

- It says here, "We were
on our way back to Miami,

"but we were back 45 minutes
or so early.

"There were a lot of clouds,
and we were in and out

of them as we circled."

narrator: That put
the pilot over 100 miles

from where he thought he was.

- The only explanation
that he could come up with

was that he had some sort
of massive tailwind.

- Was this your only account,
or do you have anything else?

- No, I have some others.

Now, that night
when Flight 19 was missing,

Banana River
sent out two search planes.

They were flying back to what
they thought was Banana River,

but when
they crossed the coast,

they were in Georgia,
which is very far away.

- Georgia?
- That far up?

- Yeah, yeah.
- That's crazy.

Let me see this.
- Wow.

They floated
all the way up the coast

until they were in Georgia,
and they

didn't realize it until
they were on their way home.

No explanation as to why.

So we have
all these planes experiencing

similar difficulties
with navigation, orientation,

and understanding
where they are.

- Is it a coincidence,
or was there something

mysterious happening?

♪ ♪

narrator: Some researchers
believe the planes

entered a kind of wormhole
or portal

that transported them
vast distances

almost instantaneously.

Physicists have observed
this kind of teleportation

on the atomic level.

Many believe it's possible
on a larger scale.

But despite harrowing stories
from pilots,

there's no
corroborating evidence

that this is happening
in the Bermuda Triangle.

- Is it possible
that the air crew, the pilots,

got disoriented?

Possibly they hit some weather.

We have no solid evidence
that allows me

to speculate beyond just the
basic levels of speculation.

narrator: The Bermuda Triangle
has claimed

over 50 ships
and at least 20 aircraft,

all lost without a trace.

But why?

On the team's list of the
Triangle's biggest mysteries

is one that could
offer a reason

for many of these vanishings.

At number five,
compass malfunctions.

- Most of the anecdotal
evidence that we came across

is usually stories
along the same line.

The compasses
are not playing properly.

They're spinning around
or they're just

giving readings
that are false,

and it's unexplained
as to why.

- When you're talking
about flying over water,

your ability to navigate is
limited to a compass or GPS.

And so now you can be a degree
or two off, and that changes

potentially
by hundreds of miles

from where
you're supposed to be at.

And so now you can
kind of see

where this could become
catastrophic, potentially,

if not handled correctly.

narrator: Jason sees some
conventional explanations

for this anomalous
compass behavior.

- A compass is designed to
work well when it's balanced.

Well, you add,
like, a thunderstorm,

it starts rocking the airplane,
your compass no longer

is as reliable as it once was.

narrator: But there may be
other reasons

for the strange
compass behavior

in the Bermuda Triangle.

[tense music]

The team meets Tamitha Skov,
a scientist

who specializes
in solar activity

and its effects on the Earth.

- If you think
of the sun's surface

as like an ocean,
it'll fire off solar flares,

solar storms,
and the solar radiation storms

sometimes all at the same time.

♪

- What is it like
when it arrives on Earth

and how does it impact
directly ships at sea?

- Slams into the Earth's
big magnetic shield,

and that causes it
to rock and roll,

which then causes compasses
to kind of wiggle

and do all sorts
of strange things.

It causes issues for
satellites and for airlines.

narrator: In 2008, a solar
storm was the leading suspect

in an onboard
computer malfunction

that suddenly sent
a Qantas A330 Airbus

into an uncontrolled nosedive,

injuring passengers
and requiring the pilot

to make an emergency landing.

- This is the dark side
of the moon,

just in case.
- Wow.

narrator: Looking deeper,
the team found a clear link

between periods
of increased solar activity

and notorious
Bermuda Triangle losses.

- So possibly the compass
could have been

affected by this solar storm.

- It is absolutely likely.

- There could be
much more of a connection

than we ever expected.

Something bizarre happened
at this particular time

when there was a solar eruption
or a solar flare

that was going on.

The problem is,

correlation does not
prove causality.

But what it does do
is give us the impetus

to do further research.

narrator: Solar weather
is increasingly

being recognized as a hazard
to ships and planes.

That fits the pattern
for a Bermuda Triangle mystery

that is number four on
the team's list, killer waves.

♪

Mariners have long
told tales of rogue waves...

♪ ♪

70-foot walls of water
that rise from nowhere

to swallow ships whole.

Wayne and David
are investigating

just how frequent
and dangerous

rogue waves are
in the Triangle.

- The Bermuda Triangle,
we don't know exactly

why there are
so many shipwrecks there.

Rogue waves
could be part of it.

narrator:
They join Laura Azevedo,

a Florida-based oceanographer.

- We consider
a rogue wave a wave

that's at least twice the size
of the other waves

in the ocean.

Now, it could be twice
or it could be much more.

We sometimes see
three times the size.

narrator: But can rogue waves
get big enough to sink a ship?

The team sets out to find
evidence on the seafloor.

- Have had a shallow wreck
called the "Peconic"

that we identified
about 20 years ago

which was a victim
of a rogue wave,

which is a phenomenon
associated

with the Bermuda Triangle.

Came out of the darkness
and just swallowed up the ship.

narrator:
August 28, 1905,

the steamship "Peconic"
sets sail,

traveling along
the Florida coast,

when a rogue wave
estimated at 70 feet

appears out of the darkness.

Only two sailors managed
to escape in a lifeboat

as the "Peconic"
is swallowed by the sea.

- So I think we go down
and dive the wreck

and try to see
if there's something

that exhibits
some kind of damage

from the rogue wave sinking.

- Dive, dive, dive.

narrator: To find traces
of a rogue wave hit,

the team deploys a technique
called photogrammetry.

The process requires
hundreds of photos

that are then
stitched together

by a computer algorithm
to create

a detailed 3D model
of the wreck.

♪ ♪

- Wow.
- Look what we got for you.

- Oh, look at that.

- Whatever happened
happened very quickly.

- Unbelievable.
- Yeah.

Something that just grabbed it,
rolled it,

and put it
on the bottom like that.

narrator: A ship resting
on its side on the seafloor

is highly unusual.

This is clear evidence
of a strike by a rogue wave

and reinforces
the threat posed

by massive killer waves
in the Bermuda Triangle.

- These waves are big.

If you don't handle
the ship correctly,

you could roll to one side
and you could get toppled over.

♪ ♪

narrator: The Bermuda Triangle
team is regrouping

and making plans to tackle

the biggest mysteries
of the Triangle.

Number three has made it
this high on the list

because it's a phenomenon
that Hollywood

has long associated
with the Bermuda Triangle,

unidentified flying objects.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- The top of the list,

when it comes
to Bermuda Triangle mysteries,

of course,
is the concept of the UFO

or what we now call UAPs.

♪

So one of the big mysteries

is whether they are actually
playing a role

in the loss of aircraft
and ships.

narrator:
Recent evidence released

by the U.S. government

includes footage
captured by navy pilots

just north
of the Bermuda Triangle

off Florida.

♪ ♪

- There is
so much evidence now,

especially coming
from military pilots

and airline pilots.

- Have I ever seen anything
that I can't identify?

I'd have to say yes.

♪ ♪

Sometimes you just
kind of chalk it up to,

it was likely something
that was meant to be there.

I just haven't been trained
or exposed to that.

That's how
I've rationalized it.

♪ ♪

narrator:
To determine if UAP activity

contributes to the loss
of ships and planes,

Dave and Wayne speak
with UFO expert

Kathleen Marden,
who reveals the details

of an incident at the edge
of the Triangle

that's been kept secret
for decades.

- On this particular night,

there were fast movers
that came from the north

down the East Coast.

I've spoken
to military officers

who were in the radar tower.

♪ ♪

narrator:
March 31, 1967.

Military radar operators
track a cluster

of targets
moving at speeds well beyond

any known aircraft.

The targets head straight
to Homestead Air Force Base.

♪

A radar operator at Homestead
locks onto the targets,

and then...

- Four seconds later...

♪

It knocked out the radar.

He said that the gauges
moved backwards.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Later that same month,

Marden says
the American military

intercepted radio traffic
from two Cuban MiGs

in the middle
of a close encounter.

- The Cuban MiGs
were in pursuit

of an unidentified
flying object.

One of them
simply disintegrated.

- What could have brought down
a Cuban MiG

traveling at high speed
and have it

just simply disintegrate
into thin air?

♪

narrator: The team did find
one potential explanation

for some of the sightings...

government weapons testing,

specifically
the SR-71 Blackbird.

They speak with Bob Hanyok,

a former
U.S. intelligence operator.

- The SR-71 flew
over the United States,

and people would
see this terribly fast object

in the sky.

This would have been
1965, 1966 period.

Three SR-71s were deployed
to an airbase in Florida

to test conditions
that were similar to Asia...

the humidity and so on.

narrator: It means the
Blackbirds were being tested

in the heart
of the Bermuda Triangle.

- That airplane
still looks extraterrestrial

in present day.

So we were able
to keep that a secret.

How many other things do you
think we could keep a secret?

While it might be
a mystery to us,

there's someone
that it's not a mystery to.

narrator: For his part,
Mike Barnette does not put

too much stock
in the idea that UFOs

are taking ships and planes.

♪ ♪

- You know, I'm not dissing
it, but I want an answer.

An answer
is gonna be rational.

There's a lot
of rational explanations

for the disappearances of
these aircraft and ships.

narrator:
While the team may disagree,

there's no denying the link
between the Bermuda Triangle

and strange lights in the sky,

so UAPs will remain a focus
of ongoing investigation.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The team is closing in

on their top
unsolved mysteries

of the Bermuda Triangle.

Number two
on the team's list

is the single
deadliest incident

in the Bermuda Triangle.

- Right at the top of the list

is the disappearance of
the USS "Cyclops" in 1918.

I mean, this is a giant ship,
over 500 feet long,

suddenly just disappears
without a trace.

- And there was no evidence,
no bodies, no debris.

The largest peacetime loss
of naval personnel.

That resonates to this day.

[eerie music]

narrator: On March 4, 1918,
at the height of World War I,

the "Cyclops," a navy ship
nearly as long

as two city blocks,
sails from Barbados

to Baltimore
with 309 men aboard.

Bristling with heavy cranes
and thousands of tons of cargo

in her hold, she travels
north towards Puerto Rico,

crosses into
the Bermuda Triangle,

and suddenly vanishes.

No SOS.
No lifeboats.

- So many questions.

I mean,
this ship just vanished.

- Yeah.

- Not a piece of wreckage
was found.

- To really explain what
happened to the "Cyclops,"

the wreck needs
to be found first.

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narrator: The team took
two shots at "Cyclops."

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The first was a large target
off Florida

that lined up with the theory
that the "Cyclops"

took the inside route,
hugging the U.S. coast.

The wreck was
called Cal's wreck.

- This is a site that's
resting in 385 feet of water.

We're on the western edge
of the Gulf Stream.

narrator: Mike and Jimmy
became the first

to put human eyes
on Cal's wreck

and determined
it was most likely

a large turn-of-the-century
cargo steamship

called the "General Whitney."

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The team's next shot
at "Cyclops"

was another reportedly
massive wreck

off the coast of Virginia,

this time following
a theory that "Cyclops"

made it much closer to her
final destination in Baltimore

before she went down.

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- Dive, dive, dive.

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narrator: The team identified
a massive 500-foot shipwreck.

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But it turned out to be
a Great Lakes bulk carrier.

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- Well, we know where
the "Cyclops" isn't now,

so we're able
to cross those out.

The "Cyclops"
has to be somewhere

en route from Barbados
to Baltimore.

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narrator: Back on land, the
team explores several theories

for what happened
to "Cyclops."

- Still can't find it.

narrator: Cyclops expert
Marvin Barrash

thinks that rogue waves
were the likeliest suspect.

- Rogue waves,
they can come out of nowhere.

I suspect at night, it would
have probably easily succumbed

to such, you know, a disaster.

♪

narrator:
The ship was reportedly

overloaded with a cargo
of manganese,

a heavy ore that "Cyclops"
was not designed to carry.

- Now, this has weight to it.
- Oh, boy.

narrator: The dense cargo may
have destabilized "Cyclops,"

leaving her vulnerable
to heavy seas, storms,

and even rogue waves.

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- Additional weight.

She was built for coal and oil,
not for manganese.

- So you're talking
a catastrophic event.

- Yes.

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- Compromised engineering
and a rogue wave.

- And all under the umbrella
of the Bermuda Triangle.

narrator: The fate
of this 500-foot ship

carrying more than 300 sailors

will remain a focus of the
team's ongoing investigation.

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- Mother Ocean is very good
at hiding her secrets,

and this is a case in point.

♪ ♪

narrator: The Bermuda Triangle
team is confronting

the biggest mysteries
they've tackled

in two seasons of exploration
and investigation.

Number one
is the disappearance

that started it all.

- Without a doubt,
the number one mystery

is the loss of Flight 19
and the Martin Mariner.

narrator:
December 5, 1945.

A squadron of five
navy bombers takes off

from Fort Lauderdale
Naval Air Station

on a training mission
codenamed Flight 19.

Around 5:00 p.m., the planes
radio in that they're lost,

their compasses out.

Then they vanish somewhere
in the Bermuda Triangle.

Hours later,
a Martin Mariner seaplane

is sent out to rescue
the five planes

from Flight 19.

It, too, vanishes
without a trace.

[dramatic music]

- What really elevates that
mystery is the Martin Mariner.

Why did we lose
the search airplane?

narrator: While Flight 19
is thought to be lost

in the heart
of the Bermuda Triangle,

the Martin Mariner
is believed to have gone down

much closer to shore.

- Martin Mariner,
this is supposed to be

in shallower water,
something that we

could dive and explore.

narrator: The key clue to the
Martin Mariner's whereabouts

is an eyewitness account
from a passing freighter.

- Everything came down
to a ship

called the "Gaines Mill"
that was just

sailing through that area.

And all reports
at around 7:50 that night,

they saw a fireball
100-feet high

off the ocean floor
that burned for 10 minutes.

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narrator: Many believe
that fireball

was the Martin Mariner.

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But after decades
of searching,

Mike is starting
to question everything,

including the official record.

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- We've dived
all the charts inshore.

There's nothing that fits.

But what does fit is that
she was farther offshore,

and we were working
our way out to that area,

and I think one day,
one of these targets

is gonna be
the Martin Mariner.

Just a matter of time,
dedication, and stubbornness.

narrator:
While Mike Barnette believes

Flight 19's wreckage
lies in deep water,

David and Wayne have been
investigating a theory

that at least one
of its planes

made it back to shore.

The theory is based
on intercepted radio

communications that suggest
the five planes split up

and two of them headed
west toward Florida.

- Damn it,
we need to fly west.

- We know
that there was conflict

and arguments going on
between the different pilots.

I think there's
a good possibility

that the planes
did separate and one or two

did make it back.

narrator: Wayne and David have
found tantalizing evidence

that backs up this theory...

- That's a 50-cal.

That is a .50-caliber.

- Yes, this is
M2 aircraft .50-caliber.

- Wow.

- I believe it would
have been mounted

in the wing of the aircraft.

narrator: Including potential
wreck sites

throughout
Central Florida swamps.

So far, though,
they've turned up

no conclusive evidence.

But the hunt is far from over.

- We are not gonna rest
until this particular mystery

of the Bermuda Triangle
is solved.

narrator: It was while looking
for Flight 19

that the team made
a surprise discovery,

an F-8 Crusader
that crashed in 1966.

It didn't figure
into any known

Bermuda Triangle mysteries,

but for the family
of the fallen airman,

Lieutenant Bill Lawton,
it was a powerful discovery.

In a moment seen
for the first time,

Mike and Jimmy
are invited to meet them.

- Hi.
- Hi.

- How you doing?
Hey, I'm Mike.

- Hi, Mike.
It is such a pleasure.

- Nice to meet you.
- Thank you so much for coming.

- Jimmy.
- April.

- April, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, ma'am.

- Nice to meet you.

narrator: Among them
is April Kerr-Miller,

the fiancée the 20-year-old
airman didn't get to marry.

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- As soon as I saw it,
I was on my feet.

I scared everybody
in the house.

That's...
that's Bill's plane.

There's no doubt in my mind
that that's Bill's plane.

- It must be unusual
for you to come into all this

and realize that you all
have such an impact.

- Just to have
someone remembering

that there's a really
human element to this,

and it was very moving
for the whole family.

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narrator: These opportunities
to meet next of kin

connect the team
to the larger meaning

of their search.

- Whenever you're diving
a shipwreck,

in more cases,
an aircraft wreck,

you're just looking
for the facts...

what type of aircraft,
when did it go down.

And then
when you actually learn

about the person involved,
the losses,

and then potentially
reaching out to their family,

it's hard to really describe,

but it's very moving
and deeply gratifying.

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narrator: For the team,
the bigger mission

continues,
with new dive targets

to explore
and new theories

to investigate.

The mysteries
of the Bermuda Triangle

are slowly being unraveled.