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What is known about Bermuda Triangle? We've all heard that Bermuda Triangle is a mystery: it's a section in the ocean where numerous ships and planes are said to have vanished. Some of the theories claim there's a space-time rift in this region. But are these true facts or mere myths we've chosen to believe?
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00:00Some people are still afraid of sailing through this region because more than 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared
00:06here since the mid-19th century.
00:09You won't find this place on a regular paper map, as it's not an official region of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:14It's just an imaginary area of water in the shape of a triangle near the southeastern coast of the U
00:21.S.
00:21Right now, we're going there to debunk all the myths and fairy tales about this place.
00:27The most popular theory says that the ancient city of Atlantis was once located where the Bermuda Triangle is now.
00:34It was inhabited by a more advanced civilization than the rest of the people on Earth.
00:39In this area, some mysterious crystals were installed that generated infinite energy and powered the entire city.
00:46Then the city sank, and its ruins still lie on the bottom of the Atlantic.
00:51But among its ruins, there are still places where crystals work.
00:55They're the reason for most disappearances.
00:58Crystals randomly release beams of energy towards the surface and disable the electronics of planes and ships.
01:05There are no facts to support this theory.
01:08Someone once wrote this legend in a book about the Bermuda Triangle, and some people have been supporting it ever
01:14since.
01:14However, there's some oddity associated with electronics.
01:18Astronauts of the International Space Station noticed the Earth's magnetic field is weakened in the Bermuda Triangle area.
01:25This field is a shield that protects us from solar radiation.
01:29Above the triangle, the particles of the sun's rays move faster than in any other part of the planet.
01:36This causes unstable work in the electronics of satellites flying in the atmosphere of Earth.
01:41It doesn't apply to ships and planes, though.
01:44There's also a theory that the Bermuda Triangle is the center of a magnetic anomaly causing navigation errors.
01:50But regular checks of the magnetic map of this region don't reveal any issues.
01:55You arrive at the place.
01:57The water is calm, and there's no coming storm in sight.
02:00You look at the compass and see the arrow moving from side to side.
02:04Oh no, it's begun!
02:06Panic rises within you, and you quickly turn the steering wheel of the ship to sail away from this place.
02:13Oh stop!
02:14There has long been an explanation for the strange compass behavior in this area.
02:18The Bermuda Triangle is one of the rare places on the planet where True North and the Magnetic One are
02:24in the exact same direction.
02:26True North is the geographic north pole of our planet.
02:29Magnetic North directs to the North Magnetic Pole, which constantly wanders around the Earth.
02:35Sometimes, these poles coincide, and the straight line that connects north and south is called the Agonic Line.
02:42If you fall into this line, your compass will behave strangely.
02:46It won't point exactly to the north.
02:48Imagine that you're the captain of a ship sailing in the Bermuda Triangle at the beginning of the 20th century.
02:54You need to know where north is to get to the shore.
02:57You look at the compass, and it points incorrectly.
03:00Simply, you're deviating from your original course and sailing in the wrong direction.
03:05There's the Caribbean Sea, near the Triangle, peppered with small islands.
03:09The sea floor here isn't deep.
03:11The ship can get in shallow waters.
03:14And now, the ship is stuck on a shoal, and you have no idea where you are.
03:19If this were the 21st century, the ship's captain would be able to reach the shore using GPS and other
03:25modern navigation.
03:25But the most interesting thing is that the compass would work correctly this time,
03:31since the magnetic north pole hasn't already coincided with the true one for a long time in the territory of
03:37the Bermuda Triangle.
03:38The Agonic Line is somewhere far away from here.
03:42There are no problems with navigation now.
03:44But for some reason, this is where ships disappear.
03:48In fact, not just here.
03:50Throughout the Atlantic Ocean, there are places where many more ships have gone.
03:54The Bermuda Triangle is not even in the top 10 of such places.
03:58One of the main reasons why many ships are lost here is that one of the most popular shipping routes
04:03in the Atlantic passes through the Bermuda Triangle.
04:06And the more ships in one place, the more shipwrecks.
04:09Simple probability.
04:11Other theories say there's a space-time rift in this region.
04:15Ships and planes fall into this rift and end up in the past or the future.
04:20But for some reason, there's not a single proof of this myth.
04:23There's no reason to think that the rift is hidden somewhere here.
04:28The base of an extraterrestrial civilization is located in the Bermuda Triangle.
04:33Visitors from other galaxies steal sea vessels along with the crew, so no one finds the wreckage of the ships.
04:40This is also a popular myth that has no scientific justification.
04:45Sunken ships are not found here, as there's one of the deepest trenches in the world.
04:49Any sinking ship will sink to a depth of about 19,000 feet.
04:54The enormous pressure and distance makes it difficult to find the ships.
04:58Also, the Puerto Rico Trench is nearby.
05:01In some spots, it's as deep as 27,500 feet.
05:06The Kraken lives somewhere in the Triangle.
05:09It's a huge squid that sinks ships, and is also a legend that sailors tell each other.
05:14However, gigantic squids live in the depths of the ocean.
05:18They can grow to the size of half a train car, but no cases have been recorded where they have
05:23sunk a large vessel.
05:25And in the area of the Bermuda Triangle, they've never even been seen.
05:29People in the past didn't know about the existence of these creatures, so when they saw them for the first
05:35time, they described them as huge, terrible monsters.
05:39Giant squids are some of the most elusive creatures on Earth, and scientists had to use sonar equipment to find
05:45them.
05:46They don't like to leave the dark depths, and are likely to be afraid of the sound of any ship.
05:51A more realistic hypothesis about the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is methane.
05:56Large deposits of this gas can be found under the seafloor of this region.
06:02From there, methane is released into the water.
06:05It takes the form of huge bubbles that quickly rise to the surface.
06:09Then, the gas makes the water almost boil, creating waves that sink shifts.
06:15The theory is quite realistic, but numerous studies still haven't confirmed the presence of an increased concentration of methane in
06:22the region.
06:22Last time this phenomenon occurred was 15,000 years ago.
06:27Another credible theory implies the appearance of rogue waves.
06:31Imagine a clear, calm sea without wind.
06:34Suddenly, you hear a loud hum.
06:37In just a few seconds, a huge wave, 100 feet tall, appears from the calm surface and falls on your
06:44ship.
06:44Some scientists believe rogue waves are created by a surface sea current colliding with a strong headwind.
06:50There's a version claiming the wave is born because of the collision of warm and cold currents.
06:56But the most interesting theory says the waves are formed by kinetic vampirism.
07:02Under certain natural conditions, waves can exchange kinetic energy.
07:07And among all the waves, there will be one, the vampire, that gets the energy of all the others.
07:13When it accumulates enough energy, the vampire wave spills it out.
07:17This explains the force of the impact and its sudden disappearance.
07:22This phenomenon is observed in all the waters of the world's oceans, but there's no evidence that it occurs most
07:28often in the Bermuda Triangle.
07:30If rogue waves appeared there, it was not during a calm.
07:33A restless sea is the main reason for ship disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.
07:39Severe storms and hurricanes are a frequent thing there, because the Bermuda Islands is an area of high pressure that
07:46diverts thunderstorms towards the triangle.
07:48Huge waves simply overturn ships, and thunder and lightning flashes disable planes' electronics.
07:55There's nothing mysterious about this.
07:57Storms and ship disappearances occur in all oceans.
08:01But a lot of legends were made exactly about the Bermuda Triangle.
08:05It all started in the middle of the 20th century, when a book was published that tells us that Atlantis
08:12lies in the waters of the triangle.
08:14No proof was given, but people liked this mysterious theory so much, they began to build upon it.
08:20They started making documentaries about it and writing new books.
08:24Each material devoted to the fantastic nature of the triangle was based not on facts,
08:29but the theories of other written books and films.
08:32And, when a topic is popular, you can make money on it.
08:36Readers enjoy it, and authors are rewarded.
08:41If you draw up a map, trace a line connecting the island of Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Miami, and back to
08:48Bermuda, what do you get?
08:50The infamous triangle, known for swallowing thousands of ships and aircraft over the centuries.
08:56But there's a new mystery to this already enigmatic place.
09:01Something's lurking deep in the waters below, and it's leaving bizarre clues of its existence.
09:09Splash!
09:10Your submarine hits the water's surface.
09:12You descend 100, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 feet.
09:17It's getting darker.
09:19The sub's walls creak as the pressure grows.
09:23Over 1,400 PSI.
09:25It's like the weight of a grand piano squeezing every square inch of your body from all sides.
09:32You've made it to your destination.
09:34All that's left is to spot the beast.
09:38Just in time.
09:39Among the black void, you see a bright green glow off in the distance.
09:44It's getting closer.
09:46As it approaches, it gets bigger.
09:48Here, this is it.
09:49The creature that's been leaving strange circular markings on fish, dolphins, whales, and even other sharks.
09:57Behold, the cookie cutter shark.
10:01Don't let its size fool you.
10:02It may be no longer than a bowling pin, but this creature is a parasite.
10:07It attaches itself to other marine animals using its neatly arranged serrated teeth.
10:13With one bite, it fills its belly, detaches, and goes on about its day.
10:19Its mobile snack also swims away with its life.
10:24The only evidence of this rendezvous, a cookie-shaped mark on its body.
10:30Don't assume you're safe in your submarine.
10:33These bold little guys have been known to go after subs, too.
10:37You decide not to risk the shark punching a hole in the only thing keeping you from being squished to
10:43a pulp by the surrounding water.
10:45You journey on to meet other bizarre creatures lurking in the Bermuda Triangle.
10:51At twice the depth, you'll find the dragonfish.
10:55Unlike other deepwater inhabitants, these things produce light in the infrared range.
11:00Blue and green is what other fish stick to.
11:03This gives the dragonfish a huge advantage.
11:07It provides itself with light that other marine dwellers just can't perceive.
11:13Things that want to eat the dragonfish can't detect this light, as well as the critters the dragonfish likes to
11:19feed on.
11:20A truly unique deep-sea dweller is the vampire squid.
11:25Neither vampire nor squid, or octopus, this thing is a unique species of its own.
11:32It has the largest eyes compared to body size of any animal on the entire planet.
11:38When the vampire squid feels threatened, it curls its arms up and around its body.
11:44Essentially, the thing turns itself inside out.
11:48Another animal to avoid down here is the terrifying bobbit worm.
11:53It buries itself in the seafloor, leaving a small part of its body out.
11:58It waits for dinner time, with its pincer-like mouthparts open.
12:03What's on the menu?
12:04Other worms and fish that can be seven times bigger than the bobbit.
12:09It uses its five antennas to sense when lunch is close enough to...
12:14Snap!
12:15In an instant, the worm launches forward and grabs its lunch with its mouthparts.
12:20It's not done yet.
12:22Once it's got its jaws locked onto its lunch, the worm injects it with venom and pulls it down into
12:29the burrow to feast.
12:31One of the deepest trenches in the Bermuda Triangle is the Tongue of the Ocean.
12:36This is also the secret breeding grounds of tiger sharks.
12:40You'll instantly recognize them, thanks to those darker gray tiger stripes on their sides.
12:45They're the second largest predatory shark species after the Great White.
12:50And with a big size comes a big appetite.
12:54Marine mammals, smaller sharks, stingrays, and green turtles are all on the menu.
13:01If you ever come face-to-face with a tiger shark, hopefully not, remember this.
13:06You can tell the fish's age by looking at its stripes.
13:10They fade over time, so the younger the shark, the more pronounced its stripes.
13:16There's plenty of zooplankton in the Bermuda Triangle.
13:20These are, usually, small organisms that are essential to the ocean's food chain.
13:25But get this, if nothing ate them and they were left to grow out of control,
13:31zooplankton would cover the entire world in layers and layers in just four months.
13:36Oh, and the largest type of zooplankton is the jellyfish.
13:41Jellyfish were around long before dinosaurs.
13:43You probably know your body is 60% water.
13:47A jellyfish is 95%.
13:50So if it gets washed onto the shore, after a few hours, most of its body just evaporates into the
13:57air.
13:58There's also a jellyfish that lives forever.
14:01The immortal jellyfish can revert itself back to its polyp stage and then grow again.
14:07Sounds like something from another planet, but it's no space jelly.
14:12Those do exist, by the way.
14:15Back in the 1990s, NASA raised jellyfish in space to see what zero gravity does to them.
14:21They were just fine living up there in the cosmos.
14:24When they came back down to Earth, though, they had trouble adjusting.
14:28The European eel hasn't been to space, but it is quite a globetrotter.
14:34It travels all the way from Europe to the Sargasso Sea, where the Bermuda Triangle is located.
14:40In the larval stage, it just drifts around the ocean for as long as three years sometimes.
14:45It's also the chameleon of the sea.
14:49Over the years, the European eel changes color, going from translucent to yellow to metallic silver.
14:56They're nocturnal and secretive, pretty much the ideal companion to have when you raid the fridge at midnight.
15:04A giant squid over half the length of a football field once washed up on a Florida beach.
15:10Researchers suspected this behemoth came from the Atlantic Ocean near the Bermuda Triangle.
15:18Giant squids are the longest invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone.
15:22They also have the biggest eyes on Earth, ever.
15:26They're as large as a soccer ball.
15:29Another creature found near the Bermuda Triangle is Starrer's cave shrimp.
15:34They were so good at keeping to themselves that no one knew these creatures even existed
15:39until 2011.
15:42Some female cave shrimps carry an impressive number of eggs along with them.
15:47Scientists discovered one female had around 2,000 eggs attached to her body.
15:53The Bermuda Petrel is the national bird of, yes, you guessed it, Bermuda.
15:58It's the second rarest seabird on the planet.
16:01In fact, people thought it was extinct until 1951 when they spotted a few on the island.
16:07It has an eerie cry that'll send shivers down their spine.
16:14The Nassau Grouper can only be found on the coasts of South Florida.
16:19This fish lies in wait and ambushes its lunch of other fish, crabs, and lobsters.
16:25It's sort of like a vacuum cleaner because it inhales its food through its huge mouth.
16:31The fish has a cool defense mechanism, too.
16:35Like the chameleon, it changes color when it feels it's in danger.
16:39Sometimes it takes on a lighter or darker shade of its own color to blend in with the environment.
16:45So, you may spot a Nassau Grouper, or you may not.
16:51If you happen to visit the Bermuda Triangle, you'll probably see a hammerhead shark.
16:56They use that iconic hammer-shaped head to pin their lunch, stingrays, onto the ocean floor.
17:04The shape of their head also gives them better vision.
17:07They can see almost 360 degrees all around, above, and below them.
17:13Well, save for one blind spot right in front of their nose.
17:19The hawksbill sea turtle may not look intimidating, but this guy will eat anything it can get its bird-like
17:25beak around.
17:26Sea sponges, algae, and even venomous jellyfish.
17:31A lot of the stuff on their menu is inedible for most.
17:35But their body fat can absorb the venom and toxins, so they go unscathed.
17:41The Bermuda Triangle is also home to green glowworms.
17:45They're not really worms, but larvae.
17:48They produce that bright light from an organ near their tail.
17:52This light makes smaller creatures come toward them, making it easy for them to catch their lunch.
17:58Most of the time, they look pretty ordinary, but they have an oddly fixed schedule.
18:04Every third night, after the full moon, during the summer, at an exact time, the glowworm lights up.
18:11But back to more nightmarish creatures of the Bermuda Triangle.
18:15There's the goblin shark, known as a living fossil, because it's the only one left of its animal family.
18:24It's only about the length of your forearm, and looks like nothing special.
18:29But watch closely, as its lunch gets too close.
18:33Boom!
18:33The shark's jaw shoots out of its mouth, and grabs onto the unlucky creature.
18:40Once the teeth have locked in, the jaw goes right back in the shark's mouth.
18:45And yes, you share the planet with this thing.
18:50More than 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared here since the middle of the 19th century.
18:56You won't find this place using an ordinary paper map, since it's not an official region of the Atlantic Ocean.
19:02It's just a small area of water in the shape of a triangle, located not far from the southeastern coast
19:09of the U.S.
19:10In the 20th century, this place became a legend.
19:14Some believe it's home to a secret base.
19:16Others are positive it's a time portal.
19:19Ships get caught in a strong storm, and move to the past, or the future.
19:23There's also a theory that the city of Atlantis is located right under the Bermuda Triangle.
19:29Its technologies create bursts of energy, and destroy ships.
19:33Even airplanes have a chance to disappear in this area.
19:37All this has gone so far, that if something strange happens in the ocean,
19:42everyone thinks it's somehow connected with the Bermuda Triangle.
19:45The fear of the triangle has been made popular through books and movies.
19:49Directors, writers, and journalists like to use this theme.
19:53But in their works, you only see a few correct answers.
19:58You can find the truth about this place yourself, if you look closely.
20:02But first, let's refute the weakest theories.
20:06Space objects, Atlantis, time travel, all these myths appeared in the middle of the 20th century.
20:12There weren't any records about mysterious phenomena before this time.
20:17People just noted that a lot of ships were sinking here.
20:20But then, one author wrote a book about Atlantis lying in the waters of the Triangle.
20:25The author didn't provide any evidence, but he described this hypothesis very convincingly.
20:30People read it and liked it.
20:33The human psyche likes to read something secret.
20:36When you learn something that no one knows about, it makes you feel special.
20:40And of course, you begin to believe in this secret.
20:44So, this was one reason why the Bermuda Triangle book has become so popular.
20:48It brought the author a lot of money.
20:51And other people also wanted to enrich themselves the same way.
20:54Some other fantastic theories about time travel and secret bases have appeared since then.
21:01After that, people started making documentaries.
21:04All those works devoted to the mystical nature of the Triangle were based not on real facts,
21:09but on theories from other books.
21:11It's impossible to find the truth in this chaos.
21:14Some people like to learn secrets, even if they're fake.
21:18But you can always find the truth if you really want.
21:21Just take any myth and try to find sources proving its reality.
21:25Most likely, you'll find nothing but non-scientific books and movies.
21:30There are also more realistic things about the Triangle, but they are no less interesting.
21:35One hypothesis says that ships disappear there because of methane.
21:40Deposits of this gas are under the seabed of this region.
21:43Sometimes it releases from there and rises to the surface.
21:46As soon as methane comes into contact with water, it takes the form of giant bubbles.
21:52Then these bubbles foam the water and create large waves that flip the ships.
21:57This theory is quite real, and such a natural phenomenon exists, but not in the Bermuda Triangle.
22:04None of the numerous studies have confirmed the presence of an increased concentration of this gas here.
22:09The last methane eruption occurred here about 15,000 years ago.
22:15Another realistic theory is rogue waves.
22:18They form without storms and winds.
22:21The calm water's surface can transform into a big wave, the height of a five-story building, in three seconds.
22:28It sinks the ship and then quickly disappears.
22:31The sea is calm again, as if there were no waves at all.
22:35Some scientists believe a surface sea current colliding with a strong headwind creates this phenomenon.
22:40But some recorded cases involved no wind.
22:44Another version says the wave is born thanks to the collision of warm and cold currents.
22:49But the most exciting theory talks about kinetic vampirism that forms the waves.
22:56Under certain natural conditions, waves get the ability to exchange kinetic energy.
23:01And among all the waves, there will be the biggest, the vampire one.
23:05It absorbs the energy from all the others.
23:08When the power is accumulated, the vampire wave splashes it out.
23:13This explains the force of the impact and its sudden disappearance.
23:17All theories seem logical, but scientists still can't figure out the nature of this phenomenon.
23:23Yes, rogue waves can carry ships underwater, but not only in the Bermuda Triangle.
23:29They rarely appear in all the waters of the world's oceans.
23:33So, let's move on to the next theory.
23:36Some of those who sailed through this place reported their navigation devices had become unstable.
23:42The compass and electronics broke down.
23:44The signal and radio communications were lost.
23:47We need to look at the triangle from space to find out the reason.
23:51If you use special sensors and devices, you'll see that the Earth's magnetic field is weakened above the Bermuda Triangle.
23:59This field is a shield that protects us from solar radiation.
24:02The ISS astronauts said that the Triangle gets more of the Sun's particles than any other part of the planet.
24:09Therefore, electronics are unstable in this area.
24:13But such failures don't occur with satellites and other space objects flying within our planet's atmosphere.
24:20Areas with a weakened magnetic field appear all over the world, and they hardly ever disrupt navigation.
24:26This means that ships and planes work stably in such conditions.
24:30But, all the same, a compass doesn't work correctly in the triangle area.
24:36Could it be that some magnetic anomaly affects the navigation systems?
24:40This theory was quickly refuted.
24:42Scientists regularly check the magnetic map of this region and don't find any deviations from the norm.
24:48The reason for the unstable functioning of a compass is not an anomaly.
24:53The Bermuda Triangle is one of the few places on the planet where the true north and magnetic poles coincide.
25:00True north is the geographical north pole.
25:03The magnetic pole is constantly moving around the globe directly to the north.
25:07Sometimes, these poles collide and cause such a phenomenon as agonic lines.
25:13If you fall under this line, your compass will behave strangely and won't point you to the true north.
25:19That's why so many ships disappeared in this place at the beginning of the 20th century.
25:24People used an ordinary compass.
25:27They didn't have modern navigation technologies.
25:30And the misfunctioning of the compass could have led to disastrous consequences.
25:35Imagine that you're a ship's captain in, let's say, 1901.
25:39Your compass is guiding your way.
25:41You know you always need to sail north to get to land.
25:44Then you get into the Bermuda Triangle.
25:47You look at the compass and notice the arrow position has slightly changed.
25:51Now you need to move in another direction.
25:54This direction is the wrong one, but you don't know about it yet.
25:58You take the wrong path and end up in the Caribbean region.
26:02This area is full of tiny islands.
26:04And the seabed is not deep here.
26:06Your ship gets on a shoal.
26:08You're stuck and have no idea where you are.
26:11That's how some ships disappeared in this region.
26:15But if you had GPS, you wouldn't have lost your route and would have sailed safely to land.
26:21By the way, now in the 21st century, you can use a compass here without problems,
26:26since the magnetic north pole doesn't meet the true one on the territory of the Bermuda Triangle anymore.
26:32The agonic lines are somewhere else right now.
26:35But still, for some reason, ships get lost here.
26:39And now we come to the most unexpected solution to the Bermuda Triangle problem.
26:44Yes, boats sometimes disappear in this region.
26:47And the reason for this is water, ocean, nature.
26:52Call it whatever you want.
26:53Unfortunately, ships sink all over the world.
26:56Don't be afraid of just one triangle.
26:58There are places in the Atlantic Ocean territory where more boats disappear.
27:02And the Bermuda Triangle is not even in the top 10 of them.
27:06But why does no one know about them?
27:08Well, it's because people wrote fairy tales about one particular place.
27:13One of the most popular ship routes of the Atlantic passes through the Bermuda Triangle.
27:18Can you guess where most shipwrecks occur statistically?
27:21In a place with many sailing ships.
27:23That is, in this region.
27:25The only true statement about the Bermuda Triangle is frequent storms.
27:30But even bad weather and a raging sea doesn't always sink ships.
27:35Also, hurricanes often form in the Triangle territory.
27:39The Bermuda region has high atmospheric pressure.
27:42This pressure diverts storm clouds away towards the Triangle.
27:45Strong winds and large waves can sink ships.
27:49And lightning flashes can damage planes.
27:51But this is not unique.
27:53So, don't blame the Triangle for all the problems.
27:56It's a beautiful and picturesque place that attracts many tourists.