As a matter of argument we are quick to add that we have long tested the strengths of the magnetic field. They carried out their scheduled bombing practice at Chicken and Hen Shoals, headed farther east, then headed northwest. Disturbing as these numbers may seem, the circumstances surrounding many of the disappearances are what really give rise to the greatest alarm. Cox: Put the sun on your port wing if you are in the Keys and fly up the coast until you get to Miami, then Fort Lauderdale is 20 miles further, your first port after Miami. And even though the latter part of the book fades off the subject, it does discuss some very interesting phenomenons of history.

It was later asserted that the flight was over the Bahama Cays to the east of Florida and that therefore this direction took them dangerously far into the Atlantic, a point of view later shared by both the Board of Inquiry and Lieutenant Cox. An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves.Twins Sam and Niamh accompany their father to Florida each summer while he tries to unravel the mystery of their mother's disappearance at sea nine years ago. Both continue to transmit their automatic electronic maydays for days, even weeks, not only alerting rescuers to an accident but also guiding them to the precise point where it occurred. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and has spoken to numerous people who have escaped the terrifying forces of the Bermuda Triangle. But out of all the alarming elements in the statistics, it is not the isolated surges of losses that are the most intriguing.

Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water, [43] [44] [45] and any wreckage would be deposited on the ocean floor or rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. Just moments before, with a crackle of the mike, Verdi’s voice had come over the receiver at the flight center. Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958. A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.

On February 1, 2001, Casey Purvis was in his Cherokee Six playing radar tag with a Coast Guard aircraft as a practice maneuver.

The final chapters unwind into bonkers theorizing about Atlantis, alien abductions and the Philadelphia Experiment (to which Berlitz devoted a later book) which even devotees of pulp literature might find tiresome. Considering the brevity of the information, the nickname Brief is not a misnomer, especially prior to 1982 before the Board enlarged the scope of information contained on the sheets. On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic 300 miles (480 km) west of Bermuda. Because of the approaching hurricane, the owner strengthened the mooring ropes and put out two additional anchors.More detailed mapping of the ocean bottom, in particular the Bermuda Triangle, has been prompted by several unexpected events and has contributed to the mystery of its missing ships and planes. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. ProQuest has newspaper source material for many incidents, archived in Portable Document Format (PDF). Book was described as 'very good', however the pages were heavily tanned there are heavy creases down the spine. I remember this being a thing when I was a kid in the 80s, maybe into the 90s, but I can't think of a single instance where this has come up since the major computer era of today.

Not a great, grab ya' and keep you up all night kinda read, but has some very interesting parts and overall not a bad book. Sand's article in Fate described the area as "a watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico". Berlitz aims to prove that the Bermuda Triangle is connected to the mythical lost city of Atlantis, and this explains why so many vessels and aircraft disappear. Without this hydrosphere the sea bottoms are merely vast, dry deserts little different or less changeless than Sahara.Listening out over the ocean, both picked up sounds that can best be described as whispering and whistling. Out of those who have studied the phenomenon no two have agreed on a precise periphery, though most concur that the majority of disappearances occur within the triangle between southern Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. None of these are as in-explicable as reappearances, where a pilot’s radio messages are captured receding hundreds of miles beyond where he vanished and hours after fuel exhaustion. The explanations he finds seem to be impossible but no-one has found more plausible suggestions: Are UFO's responsible? Much to the embarrassment of his family, he thinks nothing of striping down to his skivvies and parading his fifty year old body on a beach full of twenty-something's.