What happened in Bermuda Delta?

Why do planes, ships and people mysteriously disappear?

Bermuda Delta, located in the Atlantic Ocean, covers an area of 450,000 square miles. The bad weather here will destroy planes and ships. Even in a calm time, this triangular water area with Miami in the north, Bermuda in the north and Puerto Rico in the south has taken many lives.

Some people disappeared out of thin air without sending out any distress signals, and no survivors could tell us what happened. Others were buried under the waves and in graves made up of planes and ships. We don't know the exact statistics. But some planes, ships and people did mysteriously disappear.

Recently, the National Geographic Channel conducted a detailed survey of Bermuda. Their investigation will help people understand the real reasons behind these bizarre disappearances.

Event replay (1) 19 The mysterious disappearance of the flying team.

A disappearance can best add to the mystery of Bermuda Delta. One day after the end of World War II, it was sunny. Five naval planes carrying 14 young air force soldiers disappeared out of thin air. The mysterious disappearance of the US Navy Flying Team 19 aroused people's infinite reverie and became the first mystery in Bermuda Delta. There are many strange stories about the mysterious disappearance of the 19 flight unit. But what is the truth?

Both compasses failed, and the pilot lost his way.

No one knows this tragedy in Bermuda Delta better than Gian Coussa, an expert who is keen on studying Bermuda and the author of Bermuda Delta. Coussa studied all the historical data about the 19 flying team and heard the accounts of witnesses.

Led by Charles Taylor, an experienced old pilot, the 19 Flying Team took off from Fort Lauderdale International Airport. There are three people in each of the four planes, and the other plane has only two pilots. It is expected to fly four times, taking off from Fort Lauderdale, flying to Bimani Islands, Dagang Reef and Grand Bahama, and then returning to the base.

60 years ago, the first trouble encountered by the 19 Flying Team was that Captain Charles Taylor reported by radio that he was not sure of his position. Jim Ward, the radio operator, is on a nearby warship. He heard the radio communication between 19 flying teams. Jim Ward said: "We heard the flight monitor calling the tower and asking if the other party could determine the position of the fleet by radio, because he could not determine his own position."

The accurate record of radio communication shows that Taylor is in trouble. Taylor said, "Both compasses are out of order. I'm looking for Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Below me is scattered land. I'm sure this is the Florida keys, but I don't know how far it is and how to fly to Fort Lauderdale. "

Fuel is in a hurry, followed by night.

It's been three hours since take-off, and the fuel is enough for at least another three hours. The crew began to argue endlessly. At this point, the 19 flying team may have lost its direction. The fuel is in a hurry, and night falls.

Finally, the 19 flying team never turned west. In this way, the five planes continued to fly, seeing that the fuel was about to run out, and continued to fly eastward, flying to the open ocean, getting darker and darker.

Taylor said: "We will fly at 270 degrees until we see land or run out of fuel. Because the fuel of a certain plane is 10 gallon, we have to land at sea together. Is everyone clear? "

Jim Ward said, "That was their last radio call. The tower asked him how much oil he had left, and he said he could fly for about twenty or thirty minutes. We waited half an hour, but the radio stopped working. We know that they have crashed, but we don't know the specific location, so we dispatched all the ships and planes to search. "

The navy stipulates that in the event of a similar crisis, all aircraft in the formation will have to land. No one knows what happened to the 19 flying team. Why can't you find a crew member, a life jacket or a piece of debris?

After 60 years of go-around, the instruments of the two planes failed twice.

If I had flown along the route again, could I have obtained new information?

Obi-O 'Brien (retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US Navy) said: "We decided to take the Avengers aircraft that served during World War II for this unprecedented go-around, completely following the flight route of the 19 flying team and crossing the Bermuda Delta."

Obi-O 'Brien is a former navy pilot and war hero. He will be responsible for flying the same "Avenger" torpedo bomber as the five planes of the 19 flying team.

Obi-O 'Brien said: "The pilots of the 19 Flying Team and other pilots have been using the basic navigation method for many years, which relies on the compass and the island below to determine the position. In order to make this flight more convincing, our plane will use the same method. We took off from the same runway in Fort Lauderdale, just like the 19 Flying Team. The time is 2 pm 10, but the weather is better than then. After a period of smooth flight, our plane also had problems. Surprisingly, the failure time is almost the same as the instrument failure reported by Taylor, both at around 3: 50. Our' Avenger' torpedo bomber's turning sideslip instrument began to fail, which made it difficult for the pilot to turn smoothly and effectively. "

Obi-O 'Brien's imitation flight passed another hour smoothly. The Dagang Reef below is safe in sight. Obi-O 'Brien said, "Let's turn left and fly north to Grand Bahama. It's the northernmost part of our flight, and there's still an hour's flight. 19 flight team should have turned west and returned here, but it didn't turn west in the end. But continue to fly eastward and fly to the open ocean, getting darker and darker. "

Incredibly, another problem happened in this simulated flight. The turning sideslip instrument on the plane following the Avengers bomber is also broken and has completely failed.

The simulated 19 flight team flew for nearly two hours, and two planes and two instruments failed. No one knows why these two strange instrument failures happened. The pilot said, maybe there is something wrong with the instruments of our two planes?

Event replay (2) Several other mysterious disappearances

The mysterious disappearance of Flying Team 19 and the media frenzy that followed made the legend of Bermuda Delta more unbreakable.

1948 On February 27th, a McDonnell Douglas DC3 passenger plane took off from San Juan, Puerto Rico and was expected to fly to Miami, but mysteriously disappeared on the way.

1963 On August 28th, two giant KC- 135 military aerial tankers crashed while returning to Homestead Air Force Base near Miami. The two planes were 500 feet apart, but they crashed at the same time, with an altitude of about 36,000 feet. But the two planes did not disappear, and their wreckage was finally found. But did the two planes collide in the air? Is it just the pilot's mistake? We will never know the truth of the incident. It is easy to be shrouded in fog, and this flight has become a part of the Bermuda Delta legend.

Nouns explain the origin of Bermuda Delta.

19 18, the American supply ship Cyclops has not been contacted since it left Barbados. 1963, the American Queen of Ocean Sulfur made a routine call from near key west, and there was no news from then on. Scientists think there is nothing strange about Bermuda. However, as time goes on, there are more and more stories and legends.

After the end of World War II, the Cold War began. The possibility of nuclear war scares people. This kind of suspicion and fear also breeds many mysterious mysteries, which are full of movies and popular culture. At the same time, with the increase of air and sea traffic, casualties are also increasing greatly.

In the mid-1960s, an author of Merchant Marine magazine coined the term "Bermuda Delta", which made the mystery more complicated.

Bermuda Delta is still a magical region.

hurricane

Science provides some reasonable explanations for the mystery of Bermuda Delta. The most common explanation is related to the weather. Extreme weather all over the world will bring great disasters to shipping and air transportation, and Bermuda Delta is no exception. The huge cloud and rain air mass will evolve into the most violent storm on earth, with a width of 100 miles and a wind speed of 200 miles per hour. Wherever the hurricane goes, there is no plane or ship but can only escape bad luck. Hurricane is so destructive that it has become one of the most studied weather phenomena. Perhaps this is the most reasonable explanation for the tragedy in Bermuda Delta.

Today, satellite technology can warn Bermudians in advance of the impending hurricane. Satellite technology combined with more advanced navigation system may be the reason for the decrease of casualties and disappearances year by year.

But this explanation is not comprehensive. The hurricane season lasts only six months, that is, from June to 165438+ 10, but many disappearances occur outside these six months. So, are there any other natural phenomena that can explain the mystery?

Tornadoes, Thunderstorms and Lightning

Tornadoes are tornadoes formed at sea and often appear on the southern coast of Florida. Just as deadly. Sometimes, the wind speed is as high as 1 10 miles per hour. Robert Rogers, a meteorologist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said: "There are often tornadoes in southern Florida. This is a very interesting phenomenon. There are often several sea dragons, one after another, which can last about 5 to 10 minutes. "

Although it is dangerous and unpredictable, the tornado is very weak. It can't overturn a big ship or shoot down an airplane at high altitude.

What about those familiar phenomena, such as thunderstorms? Does Bermuda's mystery have anything to do with this?

When the warm and humid airflow rises and meets the cold airflow, thunderstorms will form. Because there is always rising warm air flow, Bermuda Delta and other areas are excellent places to breed thunderstorms. Thunderstorms can quickly form on the sea surface, releasing great destructive power and attacking unknown planes and ships. Thunderstorms are usually accompanied by lightning, which is always a threat in this area.

Lightning can make people lose their sense of direction and even die. But larger ships and planes are usually equipped with protective devices to avoid a single lightning strike.

Like tornadoes and thunderstorms, lightning can only provide a partial explanation.

The pilot lost his sense of direction due to human factors.

To solve the mystery of Bermuda Delta, we must not let go of any subtle clues. The researchers first studied the possibility of mechanical failure or pilot human error. Are human errors and spatial disorientation the reasons for the disappearance of some planes?

When flying over the ocean, it is easy for pilots to lose their sense of direction, sometimes even up and down. Humans are not suitable for moving quickly in the three-dimensional space in the air. Even on a clear day, they may mistake the ocean for the sky, especially when there is sunlight reflected on the sea. This phenomenon is very common in this area, and the problem will be more serious when there is fog. If you can't tell up from down, it is easy to fly into the sea.

Carol Collins, a flight instructor in Florida, is well aware of the danger of pilots losing their sense of direction. She believes that the reasons for the frequent accidents in Bermuda Delta may be simple.

Collins said: "During the day, if visibility is low, the horizon will become very inconspicuous. You can still see the horizon from this direction, but on the other side, it is not so clear. I want to tilt the plane slightly. If we slowly enter the climb turn. You will find that you don't really feel any change. I can let the plane descend slowly. If the speed of descent is not very fast, then your ears will not feel bloated, and then you will not know that you are descending. "

Obviously, she doesn't believe those Bermuda legends. According to Collins, many air crashes in Bermuda Delta can be attributed to stress, fatigue or loss of sense of direction in space.

Abnormal weather, human error or simple mechanical failure

But what about the missing boat? Is it also because of human error? Chris Ramsey, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, believes that most events have the same explanation. Chris Ramsey said, "If I were an ordinary person instead of a scientist, I would say that many accidents in Bermuda Delta were caused by human error. Many people have done stupid things, been trapped in stupid places and pushed the responsibility to others. "

An organization has exclusive first-hand information about the shipwreck in Bermuda. This is the United States Coast Guard. They must take part in the rescue work of American coastal accidents. As a helicopter crew member of the Miami Coast Guard, Chief Sergeant John guthrie is proud to be able to carry out rescue missions at sea in the busiest area in the world. He knows very well how easy it is to lose his sense of direction in the air.

John guthrie said, "Sometimes there is mist in the air. If it is calm again, you may not know where the sea is and where the sky is. "

The US Coast Guard analyzed the ship and plane accidents in this area in the past 60 years and found that almost all the casualties were caused by human error or mechanical failure. The US Coast Guard rescues 1 1 person on average every day, providing assistance to more than 130 people in distress.

In recent years, the proportion of people in urgent need of assistance is getting higher and higher. This is due to a newer and more accurate rescue equipment called emergency positioning radio beacon. The equipment was introduced in 1982, and has helped save more than 14000 people. There are thousands of rescue operations in Bermuda Delta every year, among which emergency positioning radio beacon plays an important role in determining the location of wrecked ships.

The United States Coast Guard does not publicly acknowledge the existence of the Bermuda Delta. But sometimes, even if there is an emergency positioning radio beacon on board, the Coast Guard still can't find the ship.

Magnetic field anomaly

As for the Bermuda Delta, we have long known a fact. Some people think that it may have caused navigation problems in this area-because it is one of the few places on earth where the magnetic North Pole and the geographical North Pole overlap. Another similar area is located on the coast of Japan, where ships are also mysteriously missing.

A discovery points out that the magnetosphere over Bermuda Delta is changing faster than anywhere else on earth. From this perspective, the Bermuda Delta is different from any other place in the world.

The evidence comes from space 400 miles away. 1999, NASA launched a small satellite made by Danish scientists, weighing 132 pounds. Since then, the Oster satellite has been 2.5

After more than 10,000 times over the waters of Bermuda Delta, the intensity of the earth's magnetic field was measured.

"We found that the main magnetic field, that is, the magnetic field from the earth's liquid core, has changed a lot in Bermuda," said Stenning of the Danish Meteorological Institute.

A group of Danish scientists compared their data with those obtained by American magnetic field satellites 20 years ago. This is the first time they have studied the Bermuda Delta and achieved amazing results.

"We compared the magnetic field data obtained by the magnetic field satellite and the Oster satellite," Dye said. They show that Bermuda's magnetic field has weakened by about 6% in the past 20 years. "

The magnetic field in Bermuda Delta is weakening faster than anywhere else in the world. This is an important discovery. But what has caused these changes in the past 20 years?

Scientists speculate that the change of magnetic field may come from strong turbulence, such as storms. It originated from liquid iron at the core of the earth, just below the Bermuda Delta.

But the researchers also said that it is hard to imagine that Bermuda's magnetic field changes so fast that it can affect navigation, ships and planes, or people on ships and planes. Although this is logical, people who believe in Bermuda's mystery have other questions.