In the Western part of the Atlantic ocean, off the South-East coast of the United States of America, there is an area that is roughly shaped like a triangle. Side of it are drawn from a point North of Bermuda South Florida, then along the Bahamas to the island of Puerto Rico, where again turn to the North and returned to Bermuda about 40 degrees West longitude.

This is one of the most wonderful and mysterious places on Earth. In this area, commonly referred to as the Bermuda triangle, have disappeared without a trace (after 1945) more than 100 aircraft and vessels (including submarines), and more than a thousand people.

Chronicle of disappearance:

In 1909 in the Bermuda triangle disappeared captain Joshua Slocum, the most famous and skilled seaman his time. He was the first in the world to sail around the globe. 14 November 1909 he set sail from the island of Martha's vineyard and headed for South America; from that day on he had no information.

Versions explaining the continuing disappearance of people, ships and aircraft, has been invited to many.

Among them: the sudden tsunami earthquake; cars, blowing up aircraft; and attack sea monster; the curvature of space-time, thrilling in another dimension; funnel of electromagnetic waves and the forces of gravity, causing the court to wander, and airplanes to drop; the collection of samples living creatures of the Earth, carried out by underwater or air UFO operated by surviving representatives of ancient civilization, or cosmic being, or people from the future, etc.

Of course, every year over the triangle flies a lot of aircraft, it is crossed by many courts, and they remain unharmed.

Besides all the seas and oceans of the world for various reasons suffer distress ships and aircraft (here I would like to clarify that "disaster" and "disappearance" are different concepts. In the first case in the water remain the rubble and corpses; in the second, there's nothing left). However, there is no other place under very unusual circumstances would have been so much unexplained, sudden disappearance.

A librarian from Arizona Lawrence D. Kush in his book "the Bermuda triangle: myths and reality "shows" the mystery of the area. He believes that this sensation, which is covered with legends. He only selectively reject some cases, leaving out the most mysterious disappearances, to which he never managed to pick up the keys.

And absolutely do not fit within the concept of Kush, which explain all cases of disappearances of ships and aircraft "usual" reasons, strange ship-phantoms left by the teams. After all, from 1940 to 1955 such courts here was met about fifty! The French ship "Rosanna" near the Bahamas (1840). Schooner "Carroll A. Deering" raised sails, with cooked food in the galley, with two live cats (1921). The vessel Rubicon with one dog (1949).

But such a case 1948 L. Kush refuses to interpret.

In the early morning of January 30, captain Macmillan, aircraft commander, "the Old tiger" type "Tudor-IV", belonging the company "British South American, Airways" (BSAA), requested managers in Bermuda and reported information about your location. Confirmed that on Board all right and that he should be right on schedule. That was the last thing I heard about "the Old Tiger". The search began. Ten vessels and about thirty aircraft was combed the area of the ocean along the route. Could not find anything: neither oil spots on the surface of the water, no wreckage, no dead bodies. In conclusion, the Commission stated that never before the investigation has not stood before the decision of the more difficult tasks.

"It's really an unsolved mystery of the sky", is forced to admit L. Kush.

Among pilots and sailors many of those that believe that "in the area with such heavy traffic naturally, you can imagine the plane, a boat or a yacht, which was lost due to a combination of circumstances - a sudden squall, haze, breakdown".

They claim that the triangle does not exist, that this very name of the error or idle invention for too keen fiction readers. Their opinion is supported by airlines serving the region. About the existence of the Bermuda triangle and its boundaries argument continues. What is his true form, as were born among the crews of aircraft, ships, boats, submarines legends about the disappearances? Maybe because of the popularity of these legends any unexplained accident immediately interpreted as a disappearance? Is not this the reason?

Radio and television bombarded with questions of the witnesses, launched in this area, bringing them to anxiety and psychosis. Usually during such stressful question and answer in the end were following: "Flew through the triangle many times and nothing happened. In no kind of danger".

The people who organize the trip, passengers traveling to the side of the triangle, the question is often asked: "will Fly through the Bermuda triangle?" And because the exact boundaries no, the answer to this should be negative. Sometimes the excuse to late arrival of the plane's passengers is this argument: "But you have to fly around the Bermuda triangle".

Despite this, strange accidents and disasters in the triangle and surrounding areas continue. In the 1970s in close proximity to the Miami airport, over land, several aircraft suffered a crash, which did not find explanations. One of them - flight 401 at Easton (Lockheed L-102), on Board of which was more than 100 people, disappeared on December 29, 1972. Investigation of circumstances of disappearance of flight 401, perhaps sheds some light on many previous sudden disappearance over the ocean.

It is known that the plane during the last 7-8 seconds of the flight was falling so fast that he could keep no managers in Miami, nor pilots. Since all altimeters worked, under normal reduce the pilots have had enough time to level the plane. But the decline occurred so quickly that managers in Miami have been able to fix is just one reflection during rotation radar (40 seconds). For the next rotation of the plane with 300 meters has already dropped below 100, and may already crashed into the water.

This speed reduction due neither to the failure of an automatic control system, no loss of speed or inexperience pilots or arising at half power flutter. To do this, undoubtedly, had to be some reason connected with the atmosphere. Perhaps some anomaly magnetic field.

The first of the known witnesses, who recorded their observations glows in the area, was Columbus. on October 11, 1492, two hours before sunset, from the Board of "Santa Maria" he observed, in the Western part of the Sargasso sea surface water in the Bahamas was glowing white light. The same luminescence bands in water (or current) observed a Millennium later, the American astronauts.

This strange phenomenon is explained by various reasons, such as: raising peat flour jamb of fishes; by school of fish and other organisms. Whatever the reason, so far unconfirmed, this amazing light continues to occur from the surface of the sea, and it is especially beautiful from the sky.

Another strange phenomenon in the triangle, first seen also by Columbus during the first expedition, still remains an object of disputes and causes surprise. September 5, 1492 in the Western part of the Sargasso sea Columbus together with the concerned members of the team watched as the huge fiery bolt flashed across the sky and whether fell into the sea, or simply disappeared.

In a few days I noticed that the compass shows something strange, and it's all scared. Perhaps in the area of a triangle in the sky and the sea - electromagnetic anomalies affect the movement of ships.

Another version suggests a connection between the disappearances of ships and aircraft with other phenomena. Call them by different names-"anomalies of air protection", "hole in space", "splitting unknown forces", "celestial trap, "the pit of gravitation", "seizure of aircraft and ships living beings" and so on. But this is only an attempt to explain the strange incomprehensible.

In most cases of disappearance in the Bermuda triangle was not a single living person and never found a body. But in recent years some pilots and sailors have violated the stored still silent and began to tell how they managed to escape from some of the forces in this and other areas. Study their experience, even the way by which managed to escape, might help to explain something in this puzzle.

Often in disputes about the essence of the phenomenon of the Bermuda triangle come up with an argument ships and aircraft are dying everywhere in the world, and if enough of a triangle to impose on a map of any area of the heavy traffic of ships and aircraft, it appears that in this area there have been many accidents and disasters. So, no mystery, no?

And even add: the ocean is great, the ship or aircraft is in it speck on the surface and in the depth of moving different trends, and therefore there is nothing surprising in the fact that the search does not yield results. In the Gulf of Mexico speed Northern reaches 4 knots an hour. The aircraft or vessel suffered distress between the Bahamas and Florida, since the last message can be in an entirely different place that it looks like the disappearance.

However, we must not forget that these currents are known and the coast guard and the organization of search must be taken into consideration and during the wind in the area of loss. Search big ships are within 5 miles of the aircraft is within 10 miles, small ships - in a radius of 15 miles. Searches are conducted in the band "trace-travel", that is considered a direction of movement of the object, the speed of currents and winds.

Moreover, the sunken part of the ships and aircraft easily get sludge, they can put up a storm, and later again to throw away, they can detect submarines and swimmers.

Mel Fisher, the diver, who worked in SABA (organization dedicated to the rescue vessel and cargo), at one time spent underwater searches on the continental shelf of the Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean sea in the area of the triangle. At a time when the "neofantasy" has developed a rabid activities in tracing the Spanish galianov of gold, of which there has sunk quite a lot, he found at the bottom of the other amazing trophies. Once they obviously intensively wanted, but then forgot about them. Such accumulations of metal are usually detected using minicameras, a thousand times more sensitive than the compass that responds to the accumulation of metals under water. It is through these devices Fischer often find other items instead coveted Spanish treasure divers down to the ocean floor on the testimony of minicameras, often found old fighters, private jets, various court.

Once at the bottom a few miles from the shore was discovered locomotive. Fischer left it untouched for historians and oceanographers.

In his opinion, the reason of extinction of some courts in Florida - Bahamas - unexploded bombs dropped during the exercise of the air force in the last war, as well as torpedoes and floating mines, used in modern teachings.

Fisher found a lot of debris, whose origin could not be determined. He concluded that hundreds of ships during storms hit the reefs, many of them are absorbed by the sludge. Indeed, the current in the Gulf of Mexico in the area of the tip of the Florida Peninsula carries a lot of sludge, which can absorb even large vessels lying at the bottom.

Perhaps, sea currents and are also guilty of fruitless searches of the lost ships and aircraft. But the Bermuda triangle there is another feature. This so-called "blue" caves scattered across the shallow area of the Bahamas, a bottomless abyss in the limestone cliffs. Several thousand years ago, these caves were stalactite caves on the land, but after the next ice age about 12-15 thousand years ago, the sea level rose and "blue cave" steel housing fish.

These limestone caves go to the edge of the continental shelf and permeate the entire limestone layer, some of them reaching the depth of 450 meters, others are drawn to the underground caves in the Bahamas and is associated with lakes and bogs.

"Blue caves are located at different distances from the surface of the sea. Divers, niraula in these underwater caves, drew attention to the fact that their halls and corridors as complicated as halls and corridors of the earth's caves. In addition, some "blue cave" currents so strong that are dangerous for submariners. Because of the tides large mass of water at a time starts to absorb, forming on the surface of whirlpools. It is possible that such whirlpools suck small vessels together with the team.

This hypothesis was confirmed by the discovery in one of the caves at a depth of 25 meters of the fishing vessel. He was found oceanographer Jim Sleep during underwater research. Were found boats and small ships and in other caves at a depth of 20 meters.

But the cause of the loss of large ships in the area, apparently, should be considered a sudden tornadoes and tsunamis. Sweeping Grand tornadoes arise in a certain season of the year and raise huge mass of water in a funnel. Countless tornadoes, like sweeping over land to tornados, lifting into the air roofs, fences, cars, people completely destroy small vessels and low-flying aircraft.

Day tornado visible, and there is an opportunity to avoid them, but at night and in poor visibility aircraft is very hard to Dodge them.

But the main suspect in a sudden sinking ships in the sea - tsunami, born at normal underwater earthquakes. Sometimes, tsunami reach a height of 60 meters. They appear suddenly, and when meeting with their ships in the blink of an eye sink or turn over.

Such a huge destructive power of the so-called "landslide" wave. They are the result of the offset at the bottom of a mass of soil, resulting from the detachment of the deposits. Landslide waves do not reach such a height as the tsunami, but they have great energy and evoke powerful tidal currents. Especially dangerous are they for sailors because they do not differ in the eye. If such a wave comes unexpectedly, the vessel can be instantly broken and debris scattered over a great distance.

Can something similar happen with the plane in the air?

In General in the air also arise strain like the tsunami. Especially often they arise when the aircraft is moving at high speed. At the height of the wind is changing, and often flying or falling planes collide with the wind blowing in a different direction, which specifies the airport. If the wind was extremely strong, and he has on the plane adverse effects.

The phenomenon of "modified wind" is an important factor disasters in the air, and strengthened this phenomenon - "swirl of pure air" (SVC) - can be compared with landslide waves arising in the calm sea. With the rapid change of ascending and descending high speed flows in contact with them, the plane is almost equivalent to a collision with a stone wall.

Usually such occurrence is unpredictable. Many aircraft in distress on the edge of the air flow with the speed of 200 knots (100 m/s) over the earth. This phenomenon is, apparently, can to some extent explain the disappearance of the light aircraft in the triangle. In this case, light aircraft or torn unusual pressure, or because suddenly arising depression it clings to the surface and throw it into the sea.

Another hypothesis links the disappearance of the aircraft with the failure of their equipment under the influence of electromagnetic phenomena. For example, an electrical engineer Hugh brown adheres to the following opinion: "the Connection between these phenomena and the field of terrestrial magnetism is very likely. The earth many times has undergone threatening changes in the magnetic field. Now, it seems, yet another change, and as its forerunners happen magnetic "earthquakes".

Comes to mind the reason for the departure of the aircraft and their fall due anomalies magnetic forces. Although to explain the disappearance of ships using this hypothesis fails.

In 1950 Wilbert B. Smith, who participated in the program of studies of magnetic and gravitational forces, organized at the direction of the canadian government, have found specific, relatively small areas (with a diameter of about 300 metres), extending up to a great height. He called their areas of concentrated ties. "In these areas of magnetic and gravitational forces are so disturbed that can easily break the plane. Therefore, when entering these invisible and not marked on the map of the areas anomalies magnetic-gravitational forces, without knowing it, the planes come to a fatal outcome". And further: "...these are areas of concentrated links or simply disappear - unknown... in 3-4 months we again tried some of them to find, but no traces..."

The most detailed research into the triangle and other suspicious areas Ivan Sanderson. As a result, he put forward the hypothesis of "the twelve devil graves in the world." Mapping the location of the most frequent disappearances aircraft and ships, he and his assistants, first drew attention to the fact that most of them are concentrated in six regions of the world.

They all had about the diamond shape and were located between 30 and 40 Parallels North and South of the equator.

According to the version Sanderson, "strange areas are located at 72 degrees in longitude centers are located at a distance of 66 degrees latitude from each other - five North and five South of the equator. Including both poles, they form a network covering the whole Earth. Here the most intensive traffic, in other areas it is less, but the evidence anomaly magnetic field, and possibly anomalies of space-time, definitely there.

Most of these "strange areas" is located in the Eastern part of the continental plates, places collision warm North and South cold currents. These areas coincide with places where directions of the deep and the shallow tidal currents different. Volatile powerful underwater currents under the influence of different temperatures form violate radio magnetic, and perhaps gravitational forces - "magnetic funnel"which, under certain conditions, the sea can move the objects that are in the air or in space, in the points located in another time.

As an indirect confirmation of such processes in these areas Sanderson leads amazing phenomenon "of late arrival of the aircraft." As is known, the arrival of aircraft way ahead of time under normal conditions, if there is strong wind, impossible. Such cases, though they can be explained uncommitted strong wind, the reason most often occur in the area of the triangle and other "craters", as if these aircraft met with the "funnel" and passed it successfully passing the "heavenly hole", to swallow so many lives.