Solved The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Explained

Somewhere in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean lies a stretch of water that has captured imagination for decades. A place where ships have vanished, planes have disappeared, and stories have taken a life of their own. This is the Bermuda Triangle. Behind me is one of the most mysterious areas of the ocean. We're here in the Bermuda Triangle and today our goal is to dive and survive. We're going to go for a double dive exploring a wreck of the Bermuda Triangle and a reef and if we make it back alive you're seeing this video and we've brought you along with us. We're also going to explore some of the Bermuda Triangle exhibit at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, also known as BUEI, which will tell us about all the history of the Bermuda Triangle and how it got this name. So come along, join us. The triangle is formed by three points, Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. It forms a loosely defined triangle which is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the entire world and yet it remains one of the most talked about. For decades, the region has captured human imagination as being a place where ships sink, planes disappear, and answers are never to be found. Among the most famous incidents is flight 19 in 1945. On December 5, 1945, a group of five torpedo bombers took off from Florida for a routine training flight. The day posed no extreme weather risks and the flight took off for training at 2 10. A radio message regarding incorrect and confusing compass readings was intercepted. The 14 airmen involved were never seen from or heard from ever again. One of the planes involved in the search disappeared off the radar. To this day, there has been no trace of these six planes. Stories like these have been passed down, retold, and reshaped over time. Some accounts are well documented, but others blur the line between fact and fiction. Altogether, they've built a reputation that continues to fascinate people across the world. Despite its reputation, the Bermuda Triangle remains an active and important part of global travel. Thousands of ships and aircraft pass through the area safely every single year. For many, it's just another stretch of ocean, and for some, it's even our home. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, states that there is no evidence of higher frequency of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle compared to other heavily trafficked ocean areas, and it was indicated in 2013 that it is not in the top 10 most dangerous shipping areas either. It's actually quite the opposite. The waters around Bermuda tend to be calm and relaxed, not dangerous at all, and that's why we have such amazing diving, snorkeling, and free diving. Take this wreck, for example. This is the King George Dredger, which was purposefully sunk after being decommissioned because it couldn't dredge channels deep enough for the increased shipping needs in Bermuda. Now, having managed to dive this wreck without becoming another statistic of the Bermuda Triangle, it's time for us to look at some of the theories behind why the Bermuda Triangle causes all these disappearances. So let's head Lucky for us, we've made it through our two dives here in the Bermuda Triangle. So we're at BUEI, and we're going to unlock the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle and look at why on earth this is a thing anyway. Now, in this area of the world, we're pretty much in the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic, which means to get here you're spending long amounts of time on boats, on planes, and because of that, more and more human errors come into play. This is the Swiss cheese model for a caused by human error, and there's more and more layers and safeguards, but if you get through all these holes, it results in a disappearance or an accident, and potentially that's why the Bermuda Triangle is such a mystery. There's huge amounts of methane gas trapped on the ocean floor, and changes in pressure can release this trapped gas, which in turn can sink vessels. Crazy stuff. Compass malfunctions are often reported in the Bermuda Triangle, and if you look at this compass, as you move it along, it gets completely thrown off, and that's something that happens so regularly when we're diving as well, which makes compass navigation really difficult in this area of the world. So another theory is our hurricanes. Now in Bermuda, we get so many hurricanes every year, and as we get hurricanes, it brings with it strong winds, strong rains, which can cause problems if you're a vessel on the sea. Now hurricanes tend to start over here, and as they come across, they grow in intensity, and they hit the warm water of the Gulf Stream, which makes them even more intense. Lots of hurricanes come through the hurricane belt and beeline straight for Bermuda, which is where we are now, all in that area, making the Bermuda Triangle more likely. Now in here are some of the less likely theories that plenty of people still believe. Things like aliens, wormholes, military cover-ups, all these things that could result in the Bermuda Triangle making lots of things go missing, but I think are quite unlikely. Now there's lots of theories about the Bermuda Triangle, and we'll never know exactly what caused it, but it's great for us because it means there's loads of shipwrecks in our seas here. You've seen one. I showed you today. We've got plenty other ones on the YouTube channel that you can check out, but there's so much to see underwater and so much history about these shipwrecks as well, and we're super lucky to be the shipwreck capital of the Atlantic, so if you want to see shipwrecks, come to Bermuda.