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What the hell is going on in Bermuda?

If it is just an archipelago, it is worthless. I know, you are talking about the Bermuda Triangle. Here's the information: Burmuda Triangle The origin of the name "Bermuda Devil Triangle" is that on December 5, 1945, the American Flight 19 suddenly disappeared during training. At that time, the scheduled flight plan was a triangle, so people later extended the western Atlantic Ocean on the southeast coast of the United States from Bermuda in the north to Miami in the south of Florida, then passed through the Bahamas, passed through Puerto Rico, and then returned to Bermuda. Hundreds of ships and planes have crashed in this area, and thousands of people have died here. From 188 to 1976, there were about 158 disappearances, most of which occurred in the 3 years since 1949. There were 97 disappearances, and at least 2, people died or disappeared here. These strange and mysterious disappearances are mainly in an area called "the sargasso sea" in the western Atlantic Ocean, which is a wide water area between 2-4 north latitude and 35-75 west longitude. There is a world-famous Mexican warm current that flows 12-19 kilometers every day and night, and there are many whirlpools, typhoons and tornadoes. Not only that, the depth of the sea here is 4-5 meters, and there is Puerto Rico trench, which is more than 7 meters deep and the deepest is 9218 meters. 1. The 19th flight squadron of the missing aircraft group consists of 5 Avenger torpedo bombers and 14 pilots (including 5 pilots, others are radios and gunners). Four of the planes were piloted by student pilots, and the pilot of the fifth plane was Captain CharlesTaylor, the squadron leader who was responsible for training these students. At 2 pm on December 5, 1945, these five planes took off from the Naval Air Base in Lauderdale, Florida for flight training. The established route was to fly eastward from the Florida Peninsula across the Atlantic Ocean to the Bahamas, and then return to Fort Lauderdale. The whole journey was about 3 miles, and the gasoline carried on the plane was enough to fly for six hours. At 4 pm, the base received a signal from Taylor that it was in trouble. At this time, the plane has reached the sky above the Bahamas, but it did not turn back to the south and west as originally planned, but continued to fly north and east, and the farther away from the mainland, it flew to the deep Atlantic Ocean. The last communication received by the base was shortly after 7 o'clock, when the plane still had one hour's fuel, but apparently it continued to fly deep into the Atlantic Ocean until it ran out of fuel and sank to the bottom of the sea. The pilot may try to land on the sea, but he fails in the dark and is killed. Rescuers failed to find the wreckage and bodies of the plane, and it was obvious that they had all sunk into the depths of the sea. The Avenger, nicknamed "Iron Bird", weighed 14, pounds empty, and once it fell to the sea, it quickly sank to the bottom of the sea. However, the tragedy did not end. At 7: 27 that evening, two Martin Mariner took off to rescue them. One of them exploded 23 minutes after taking off, killing all 13 crew members on board. "Sailor" sea plane is prone to oil leakage, nicknamed "flying fuel tank". If there are passengers smoking or sparks for other reasons, it may explode and have an accident. The sailors of SS Gaines Mills witnessed the explosion of the plane and found the wreckage that fell to the sea. Subsequent official and unofficial investigations (including Kushe) concluded that Captain Taylor must bear the main responsibility for the disappearance of the 19th Flying Squadron. Taylor is not an excellent pilot, but is known for his carelessness. In World War II, he was rescued twice because he lost his way at sea (Taylor was also forced to abandon his plane and parachute for the third time at sea, but that time was not his responsibility). During this flight training, Taylor forgot to bring his watch and basic navigation instruments. During the flight, he reported that the compass on his plane was out of order, but believed that he could continue to lead the flight according to the visual inspection, claiming that he didn't need help. At 4: 45, the base found that Taylor had obviously lost his way and asked him to hand over the command to the following plane, but Taylor obviously didn't do so. According to the phone records, Taylor has been leading the squadron to sail in the wrong direction. As late as 6 o'clock, Taylor was still ordering the squadron to fly east, and at least two student pilots thought it should fly west, but due to military discipline, they had to follow Taylor to the abyss. The base repeatedly asked Taylor to switch to a more reliable emergency channel, and Taylor refused to do so. Therefore, the accident was mainly caused by human error, and secondly, the weather was not good. Although the weather was good when the 19th squadron took off, it soon became bad. The rescue plane reported strong airflow and dangerous flight conditions, while the ships in the sea reported storms and huge waves. A stray and headstrong mid-team leader flew at night in bad weather with an inexperienced student pilot. It was almost inevitable that he was killed, and there was no mystery. But Taylor's relatives were dissatisfied with the survey results. They appealed to the top of the US Navy. In the late 194s, the highest authorities of the US Navy met the demands of Taylor's relatives, blaming the accident on bad weather and "unknown factors". "Unknown factors" stimulate people's imagination. The crash of the 19th flight squadron became the most talked-about mysterious story in the Bermuda Devil's Triangle, and it was embellished intentionally or unintentionally in the spread, so the bad weather was described as "the weather was fine at that time" (see Zhao Juntao's Bermuda: Death Triangle, the same below), and a training flight for student pilots was described as "the 14 pilots who participated in the training were also experienced veterans". Taylor's refusal to use the emergency communication channel was described as "radio communication was disturbed", and the "sailor" rescue plane that exploded shortly after taking off was described as "missing after keeping in touch with the base", which seemed mysterious, but in fact it was just one of many rescue planes dispatched that day. After this incident was embellished and disclosed, Bermuda became famous. With people's attention to this sea area, the incredible disappearance of the plane becomes even more frightening. At 22: 3 on December 27, 1948, a DC-3 large civil aviation flight took off from San Francisco Airport and passed through Bermuda. The ground control tower heard the captain's words of surprise: "What's going on? Are they all singing Christmas songs? " No one thought of the meaning contained in this sentence. At 4: 3 am on the 28th, the flight also sent a telegram to the airport-"Close to the airport, lights visible, ready to land." The airport is ready for landing. But this DC-3 flight never landed at the airport. It disappeared before landing, and none of the crew and all the passengers survived. The plane kept normal contact with the airport a minute ago, and the disappearance seemed to happen in a flash. Like a hole in the sky, the plane fell into the hole and was silent. 2. What kind of sea area is the Bermuda Triangle? We may get a glimpse of this sea area 3 years ago from what Columbus saw and heard when he first sailed through this sea area. In 152, when Columbus spent the fourth time in America, he passed through the Bermuda Triangle. On this day, Columbus made a bow, but he saw a clear sky and Wan Li, and the sea was calm. Suddenly, the wind blew suddenly, and the sky was dark. Huge waves of tens of meters high came at the fleet like walls. Qi Xin, the sailors, tried to turn the course, but all the navigation instruments on the ship failed. The pointer on the magnetic compass was not pointing to the true north, but to the northwest, deviating from 6 degrees. The ship got out of control and was pushed by the wind and waves. Columbus was lucky. After several days and nights of turbulence, the ship finally didn't sink. To his surprise, the storm that fell from the sky came to an abrupt end, and it ended when the storm said it was over, and it was calm immediately. Columbus wrote all this in detail in his diary. In his letter to the king of Spain, he also talked about this unforgettable experience-at that time, the waves rolled and we couldn't see the sun and stars for eight or nine days in a row ... I have seen all kinds of storms in my life, but I have never met such a long and violent storm. The problem is that Columbus came back to life, and his experiences at least belong to those that can be explained. So, what happened to those who didn't survive? Of course, it was an unexplained experience that no one saw-in August 184, a French sailing ship "Lochari" was sailing off Bermuda. The ship is pulling the sails, and the sails are full, which shows that it is sailing calmly. What is puzzling is that it seems to be floating in the wind without a goal. People were surprised and rowed up. They found the ship quiet. After boarding the ship, I found that there was no one on board, but the goods such as silks and satins in the cargo hold were intact, and the fruit was still fresh and no one touched it. However, why did all the sailors on board run away? No one can answer, the only living creature on board is a canary half starved, but it can't talk. No one knows what happened on the ship, but everyone knows that an incredible thing must have happened on the ship. In 1872, another strange thing happened in this area. A two-masted ship, Maria Celeste, is floating 1 nautical miles west of the Azores. When it was discovered, the ship was empty, and there were delicious dishes on the table in the cabin, and the cups were filled with unfinished coffee and water. The wall clock on the wall moves normally, and there is a small bottle of oil on the sewing machine table. All this can't explain why the owner abandoned the ship except that the ship didn't encounter wind and waves. In 1944, the Cuban cargo ship "Rubicon" also had a strange case of people leaving the ship empty in the same sea area When people boarded the floating ship, only one dog was lying alone on the deck. In 1963, the American tanker "Marlin Case" crossed this sea area. On the second day of sailing, the operator on board also informed the shore that "the voyage was normal, with the position of 26 degrees 4 minutes north latitude and 73 degrees west longitude." But this was the last message sent to the world by the "Marlene Case", and it has disappeared since then. No one can imagine that such an oil tanker equipped with modern navigation and communication equipment disappeared from this sea area without leaving any oil flowers. The American cargo ship "One Eye" is a giant cargo ship with a length of 542 feet and 39 sailors. In March 1918, it was filled with manganese ore in Brazil and disappeared on the way back to Norfolk, Virginia. At that time, the weather was fine, and there was no possibility that the wind and waves would overturn the ship. It was speculated that the "One Eye" was probably attacked by German submarines during the war. However, after the war, people consulted the wartime records of the German navy and found that no German submarine had appeared on the "one-eyed" route at that time. Such a huge ship with radio communication equipment, how did it disappear without even sending out a "SOS" signal? In August 1935, the sailors of the Italian cargo ship Lex witnessed the American schooner Radhomer being gradually swallowed up by the waves, and they tried their best to rescue the drowning sailors of Radhomer from the sea. But five days later, the sailors of Lex were surprised to find that Radhomer was floating on the sea. This is not an illusion, because the sailors on the Lex, together with the sailors on the Radhomer rescued by them, boarded the schooner Radhomer. A sunken ship, how can it drift on the sea again? People can't explain it 5. Scientists' explanations It seems that scientists all over the world will not allow the mystery of Bermuda Triangle to continue. They use all kinds of knowledge they know to explain all kinds of strange things that happened in the Bermuda Triangle. Among the various explanations, the following are more representative: (l) Magnetic field theory. Among all kinds of strange events in Bermuda Triangle, compass failure is the most common one. This makes people associate it with geomagnetic anomalies. It has also been noticed that the accidents in the Bermuda Triangle are mostly at the beginning and middle of the lunar month, which is the time when the moon has the strongest effect on the earth's tides. The earth's magnetic field has two magnetic poles, namely the geomagnetic south pole and the geomagnetic north pole. But their positions are not fixed, but constantly changing. Geomagnetic anomalies are likely to cause compass errors and make aircraft and ships get lost. There is also a view that there is a huge magnetic field at the bottom of Bermuda Triangle, which can cause compass and instrument failure. In 1943, a doctor named Isaac made an interesting experiment with the cooperation of the US Navy. They set up two magnetic generators in Bermuda Triangle and lost more than ten times the magnetic force to see what would happen. At the beginning of the experiment, strange things appeared. Green smoke immediately surged around the hull, and the ship and people disappeared. After the experiment, all the people on board were stimulated. Some people recovered to normal after treatment, while others were insane because of it. Afterwards, Dr. Issa committed suicide inexplicably. Before he died, he said that what happened in the experiment was related to Einstein's theory of relativity. He left no other exposition, so that even the experiment itself became a mystery. (2) Black hole theory. Black hole refers to the phenomenon of high magnetic field and super density of those late stars in celestial bodies. Although it is invisible, it can devour all substances. Many scholars have pointed out that the disappearance of aircraft and ships in the Bermuda Triangle is quite similar to the phenomenon of cosmic black holes, but it is difficult to explain why it suddenly disappeared without a trace. (3) infrasound. Sound comes from the oscillation of objects. The reason why people can hear the sound is low and crisp is due to the different oscillation frequencies of objects. A sound with a frequency less than 2 times per second is an infrasound that is inaudible to human ears. Although infrasound is inaudible, it is extremely destructive. The complexity of the terrain in Bermuda sea area has caused the generation of infrasound and intensified its intensity. Infrasound is caused by submarine volcanic eruption near the coast of Puerto Rico, wave and sea temperature fluctuation. (4) water bridge theory. It is believed that there is an undercurrent at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle which is generally different from the tidal current at the surface. Because, someone found the wreckage of the missing ship in Bermuda off the coast of Santa Dadu Island in the southeast Pacific Ocean. Of course, only this undercurrent can push the wreckage of this ship to Santa Dudu Island; When there is a conflict between the upper and lower currents, it is a shipwreck. After the shipwreck, the wreckage of those ships was dragged far away by the undercurrent, which is why the wrecked ships could not be found at the scene of the crash. (5) The theory of clear-sky turbulence. Clear-sky turbulence is a very special wind. This kind of wind is generated at high altitude. When the wind speed reaches a certain intensity, the angle of the wind direction will change. This sudden change of wind speed direction is often accompanied by infrasound, which is also called "cavitation". The flying plane will tremble violently when it meets it. Of course, when it is serious, the plane will be torn to pieces by it.