The disappearance of ships associated with currents in antiquity. Mysterious disappearances. Bermuda Triangle. Hypotheses of what is happening in the Bermuda Triangle

A sailor is one of the most romantic professions. Just imagine - you wake up in the morning, and instead of a boring gray city in front of your eyes there is an immense ocean space, clean air. Comrades are always ready to keep you company in raids on taverns, and in each port they expect a beautiful girl ... This is a profession that seems to any uninitiated person.

But there is also back side medals - anything can happen to the ship during a long voyage. You can get caught in a storm or be captured by pirates, who, oddly enough, have not died out in the 21st century. And sometimes there are mysterious disappearances of ships, and then the ships disappear without a trace. Some blame supernatural forces and legendary inhabitants of the deep sea for this, such as the giant octopus kraken, while others blame the Maelstrom maelstrom, the Bermuda triangle and other natural phenomena.

1943 - disappearance of the ship Capelin (SS-289)

Capelin (SS-289) - submarine launched on January 20, 1943. On November 17, 1943, the ship patrolled the waters of the Selebs and Molucca Seas, with special attention paid to Davao Bay, Morotai Strait, as well as trade routes located near the island of Siaoe.

An American submarine was last seen on December 2, 1943, reported by the Bonefish (SS-223). The official reason for the disappearance of the ship is believed to be enemy minefields, which could have been located in the patrolling area of ​​the submarine. There was no exact confirmation of this fact.

There is another version of this catastrophe, which official sources rejected due to its fantastic nature. According to her, Capelin (SS-289) could have become a victim of an unidentified sea monster, which was repeatedly reported by local fishermen. According to the sailors, the animal resembled the enormous size of an octopus.

1921 - the disappearance of the ship SS Hewitt

This dry cargo ship flew along the coast of the United States. On January 20, 1921, a fully laden ship left the Texas city of Sabin. The ship was under the command of Captain Hans Jacob Hensen. The last signal from this vessel came on January 25th, and the radio call reported nothing unusual. The ship was then sighted 250 miles north of Florida-based Jupiter Inlet. Further, the thread breaks, and SS Hewitt, like other disappeared ships, became a part of history.

A thorough check was carried out along the entire route that the ship followed, but it did not give any results - the mystery of the disappearance of the SS Hewitt ship has not yet been solved. There were many rumors and speculations about this incident. It was even suggested that the ship's crew was the victim of a rare natural phenomenon, as curious as the Maelstrom maelstrom - the voice of the sea.

for reference: the voice of the sea is a natural phenomenon that affects the psyche and human health. The sea generates infrasound, which is below the limit of a person's auditory perception, but affects his brain. Infrasound can have a variety of effects, from auditory and visual hallucinations to nausea and other symptoms of motion sickness. Strong exposure to infrasound can be fatal - vibrations lead to cardiac arrest.

Who is responsible for the disappearance of the ships?

It is considered one of the most dangerous areas on the sea surface is the Maelstrom whirlpool. Literary sources describe this natural phenomenon as possessing terrifying power and detrimental to any ship that finds itself in its zone. In fact, Maelstrom's danger is somewhat exaggerated.

If this whirlpool was dangerous for ancient ships - wooden sailing boats, then modern ships, once in these waters, do not receive any damage. The flow velocity of the Maelstrom whirlpool does not exceed 11 km / h. And yet, one should not be careless about this phenomenon of nature - the direction of movement of water can change in the most unpredictable way. Therefore, even modern ships avoid the strait located to the north of the Moske Island, there is a danger of crashing against the coastal stones.

The Maelström Maelstrom is located between the islands of Moskenesøy and Førø. It is formed at certain hours due to the collision of ebb and flow waves; the formation of a whirlpool is facilitated by a complex bottom topography and a broken coastline. Maelstrom is a vortex system in the strait. But despite all the dangers, tourism in Lofoten is very popular. The guidebooks state that "winter fishing in the archipelago is an incomparable pleasure."

Bermuda Triangle - secrets of the deep sea

The Bermuda Triangle is one of the most famous anomalous zones located between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami in Florida. Its area covers over a million square kilometers. Until 1840, this zone was unknown to anyone, until the mysterious disappearance of ships and then aircraft began.

For the first time they started talking about the Bermuda Triangle in 1840, when the crew completely disappeared from the ship "Rosalie", which was drifting near the capital of the Bahamas - the port of Nassau. The ship had all the rigging, the sails were raised, but the crew was completely absent. True, as a result of checks, it was established that the ship was called "Rossini" and not "Rosalie". The ship ran aground while sailing near the Bahamas. The crew was evacuated in boats, and the ship was carried out to sea by the tidal waves.

The greatest activity of the Bermuda Triangle in terms of the disappearance of ships or crew falls on the 20th century. For example, in the Atlantic Ocean on October 20, 1902, a German four-masted merchant ship "Freya" was sighted. The ship was completely absent from the crew. There is still no explanation for this incident.

In 1945, the body of water Bermuda Triangle scientists became interested. The data obtained by the researchers did not solve the mystery of this anomalous zone, but only added questions. Since the beginning of the tracking, there have been more than 100 cases of the disappearance of ships and aircraft, both civilian and military aviation... Most of the equipment disappeared in the most mysterious way - no oil stains, no debris, no other traces.

Yet scientists have managed to do one thing important discovery... In the zone of disappearance of ships, in the very center of the Bermuda Triangle, a giant pyramid was discovered. It was discovered by American researchers in 1992. It seems incredible, but its dimensions exceed the dimensions of the Egyptian Great Pyramid of Cheops by more than 3 times. The pyramid is interesting not only for its size. Its surface is in perfect condition - sonar signals showed that there are no algae or shells on the surface. It is likely that the ocean e could have any effect on this mysterious material from which the pyramid is made.

The Devil's Sea - Another Mystery of Nature?

Scientists - oceanologists believe that our planet is surrounded by a certain zone called the "Devil's Belt". It includes five "dead" places - the Afghan anomalous zone, the Bermuda Triangle, the Hawaiian anomalous zone, the Gibraltar wedge and the Devil's Sea. This sea is located about 70 miles from the east coast of Japan.

What are the characteristics of anomalous zones, and what is their danger? A person present in such a zone is prone to unreasonable panic attacks, it seems to him that he is being watched. At times he is seized by attacks of insomnia, which are replaced by deep sleep. Abnormal zones also negatively affect plants - the extremes of yeast respiration undergo changes, the germination of beans, cucumbers, peas, and radish seeds stops. Mice raised in such places are distinguished by numerous deviations - the development of tumors, underweight and even devouring their offspring! In addition, the disappearance of ships and aircraft is observed in anomalous zones.

Sailors became fearful of the Devil's Sea after a series of mysterious disappearances occurred in the area. At first, government officials were skeptical about the reports, as only small fishing boats were missing. But in the period from 1950 to 1954. in the Sea of ​​the Devil there were 9 cases of disappearance of ships. They were massive cargo ships equipped with reliable radios and powerful engines. A number of ship disappearances occurred against the backdrop of fine weather.

Such natural phenomena as Maelstrom are quite explainable from a physical point of view. And the phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle or the Sea of ​​the Devil has not been solved to this day. Who knows - technical progress will win, or the mysterious disappearances of ships will continue in the future? And who guilty of these disappearances - jellyfish - killers , anomalous natural phenomena or otherworldly mystical forces?

Ghost ships or phantoms that appear on the horizon and disappear, according to sailors' belief, portend trouble. The same is with the ships abandoned by the crews. Mysterious circumstances and an extraordinary veil of eerie romance accompany these stories. The ocean hides its secrets, and we decided to recall all these legends - from "The Flying Dutchman" and "Maria Celeste" to lesser-known ghost ships. You may not have known about many of them.

The ocean is one of the largest and most unexplored areas of the Earth. In fact, the ocean covers up to 70% of the earth's surface. The ocean is so little studied that, according to Scientific American, humans have mapped less than 0.05% of the ocean floor.

In this situation, all these stories do not seem so incredible. And there are a great many of them - stories about ships that are lost in the seas, and all these empty ships, drifting without a target and a team on board ... They are called ghost ships. The crew who died in full, or disappeared for some unknown reason ... there were a lot of such finds. The mysterious circumstances of the death or disappearance of these teams, even today, with all the technological advances and research methods, remain mysterious. And as before, no one can explain the disappearance of people from the aircraft. Why did the entire crew leave the ship, which remains to drift, and where did they all go? Storms, pirates, diseases ... maybe sailed away in lifeboats ... somehow, many of the crews mysteriously disappeared without explanation. The sea knows how to keep secrets, and is reluctant to part with them. Many disasters that have occurred in the sea will remain a mystery to everyone.

15. "Ourang Medan" (Orang Medan, or Orange Medan)

This Dutch merchant ship became known as a ghost ship in the late 1940s. In 1947, the Orang Medan was shipwrecked in the Dutch East Indies, about which an SOS signal was received by two American ships, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, sailing through the Strait of Malacca.
And the sailors of the two American ships received an SOS signal from the Orang Medan cargo ship. The signal was transmitted by a crew member who was extremely frightened and reported that the rest of his crew were dead. After that, the connection was interrupted. Upon arriving on the ship, the entire crew was found dead - the bodies of the sailors froze, as if in an attempt to defend themselves, but the source of the threat was never found.

An article written in the late 1960s by the US Coast Guard states that no visible signs of damage were found on the bodies. The freighter was reportedly transporting sulfuric acid, which was irregularly packed. After the crew of the Silver Star quickly evacuated and the Americans left the ship, they hoped to tow it to the shore. But a fire suddenly broke out on the ship, an explosion followed and the ship went down, which led to the final death of the merchant ship. The widow of one of the sailors who died on Ourang Medan has a photograph of the ship and crew.

14. Copenhagen

One of the mysteries of the sea is the disappearance of one of the newest and most reliable ships of the 20th century, the five-masted Copenhagen. In the entire history of the sailing fleet, only six ships were built, similar to Copenhagen, and it was the third largest in the world in the year of construction - in 1921. It was built for the Danish East Asia Company in Scotland - at the shipyard of Romage and Fergusson in the small town of Leith near Aberdeen. The hull was made of high-quality steel, on board had its own ship power station, all deck winches were equipped with electric drives, which significantly saved time on sailing, and even a ship's radio station. The double-deck steel Copenhagen was a training and production vessel, making regular voyages and carrying cargo. The last radio communication session with Copenhagen took place on December 21, 1928. There was no reliable information about the fate of the huge sailing ship and 61 people on board.

A reward has been announced to anyone who points out the whereabouts of the missing ship. Requests were sent to all ports: to inform about possible contacts with "Copenhagen". But the captains of only two ships, the Norwegian and British steamers, responded to this call. Both said that, passing the southern part of the Atlantic, they got in touch with the Danes, and they were all right. To search for the missing ship, the East Asian company first equipped the Ducalienne (but it returned with nothing), and then Mexico, which also found nothing. In 1929, in Copenhagen, a commission to investigate the disappearance of the ship came to the conclusion that "a training sailing ship, the five-mast bark Copenhagen, with 61 people on board, died due to the overwhelming forces of the elements ... the ship suffered a disaster so quickly that its crew was unable to broadcast the SOS distress radio signal, nor to launch lifeboats or rafts. "

In late 1932, in southwestern Africa, in the Namib Desert, one of the British expeditions discovered seven withered skeletons, dressed in tattered sea jackets. By the structure of the skulls, the researchers determined that they were Europeans. According to the pattern on the brass buttons of the pea jackets, experts determined that they belonged to the uniform of the cadets of the Danish merchant fleet. However, this time the owners of the East Asian Company no longer had any doubts, because until 1932 only one Danish training ship, the Copenhagen, suffered a disaster. And 25 years later, on October 8, 1959, the captain of the cargo ship from the Netherlands "Straat Magelhaes" Pete Agler, being near the southern coast of Africa, saw a sailing ship with five masts. It appeared out of nowhere, as if it had surfaced from the depths of the ocean, and in full sail went straight to the Dutch ... The crew managed to prevent a collision, after which the sailboat disappeared, but the crew managed to read the inscription on board the ghost ship - "København".

13. "Baychimo"

The Baychimo was built in Sweden in 1911 for a German trading company. After the First World War, it passed to Great Britain and transported furs for the next fourteen years. In early October 1931, the weather deteriorated sharply, and a few miles off the coast near the city of Barrow, the ship was stuck in ice. The crew temporarily abandoned the ship and took refuge on the mainland. A week later, the weather cleared, the sailors returned on board and continued sailing, but on October 15, Baychimo again fell into an ice trap.
This time it was impossible to get to the nearest town - the crew had to arrange a temporary shelter on the shore, far from the ship, and here they were forced to spend a whole month. In mid-November, a snow storm broke out, which lasted for several days. And when the weather cleared on November 24, Baychimo was not there. The sailors believed the ship had died in the storm, but a few days later a local sealer reported seeing Baychimo about 45 miles from their camp. The team found the ship, removed the precious cargo from it and left it forever.
The story of Baychimo did not end there. For the next 40 years, he was occasionally seen drifting along the northern coast of Canada. Attempts were made to board the ship, some were quite successful, but due to weather conditions and the poor condition of the hull, the ship was abandoned again. The last time Baychimo was seen in 1969, that is, 38 years after the crew left it - at that time the frozen ship was part of the ice massif. In 2006, the Alaskan government attempted to locate the Arctic Ghost Ship, but in vain. Where Baychimo is now - whether it lies at the bottom or is overgrown with ice beyond recognition - a mystery.

12. "Valencia"

Valencia was built in 1882 by William Cramp and Sons. The steamer was most often used on the California-Alaska route. In 1906, "Valencia" was on a flight from San Francisco to Seattle. A terrible disaster occurred on the night of January 21-22, 1906, when the Valencia was near Vancouver. The steamer ran into the reefs and received large holes through which water began to flow. The captain decided to run the ship aground. 6 out of 7 boats were launched, but they fell victim to a powerful storm; only a few people managed to get to the shore and report the disaster. The rescue operation was unsuccessful and most of the crew and passengers were killed. According to official information, 136 people became victims of the shipwreck, according to unofficial information even more - 181. 37 people survived.

In 1933, boat # 5 was found near Barkley. Her condition was good, the boat retained most of its original paint. The lifeboat was found 27 years after the disaster! After that, local fishermen began to talk about the appearance of a ghost ship, which outlines resembled "Valencia".

11. Yacht SAYO; Manfred Fritz Bayorat

A 12-meter yacht SAYO drifting 40 miles from Barobo, lost seven years ago, was discovered by Filipino fishermen. The boat's mast was broken, and most of the cabin was filled with water. Climbing aboard, they saw a mummified body by the radiotelephone. From photographs and documents found on board, it was quickly possible to establish the identity of the deceased. It turned out to be the owner of the yacht, a yachtsman from Germany, Manfred Fritz Bayorat. Bayorat's body was mummified under the influence of salt and high temperatures.

The drifting ship with the captain's mummy, discovered off the coast of the Philippines, surprised many. German explorer Manfred Fritz Bayorat was an accomplished sailor who has traveled on this yacht for 20 years. Judging by the position in which the captain's mummy froze, in the last hours of his life he tried to contact rescuers. The cause of his death is still a mystery.

10. "Sleepwalker"

In 2007, 70-year-old Jure Sterk from Slovenia went on a trip around the world in his Lunatic. He used his own radio to communicate with the coast, but on January 1, 2009, he stopped communicating. A month later, his boat washed ashore in Australia, but there was no one on board.
Those who have seen the ship believe that it was approximately 1,000 nautical miles from the coast.
The sailboat was in great shape and appeared to be intact. There was no sign of Sterk's presence. No note, no journal entry about the reasons for his disappearance. Although the last entry in the journal is dated January 2, 2009. And at the end of April 2019, the Lunatic was spotted at sea by the crew of the Roger Revelle research vessel. He drifted about 500 miles off the coast of Australia. Its exact coordinates at the time were Latitude 32-18.0S, Longitude 091-07.0E.

9. "The Flying Dutchman"

Several different ghost ships from different centuries are called "Flying Dutchmen". One of them is the real owner of the brand. The one with whom the trouble happened at the Cape of Good Hope.
This is a legendary sailing ghost ship that cannot land and is doomed to sail the seas forever. Usually people observe such a ship from afar, sometimes surrounded by a glowing halo. According to legend, when the Flying Dutchman meets another ship, his crew tries to send messages to the shore to people who have long been dead. In nautical beliefs, a meeting with the Flying Dutchman was considered a bad omen.
Legend has it that in the 1700s, Dutch captain Philip Van Straaten was returning from the East Indies and carrying a young couple on board. The captain liked the girl; he killed her betrothed, and made an offer to her to become his wife, but the girl threw herself overboard. While trying to round the Cape of Good Hope, the ship was caught in a severe storm. The navigator offered to wait out the bad weather in some bay, but the captain shot him and several disgruntled people, and then swore by his mother that none of the crew would go ashore until they rounded the cape, even if it would take forever. The captain, foul language and blasphemer, brought a curse on his ship. Now he, immortal, invulnerable, but unable to go ashore, is doomed to plow the waves of the world's oceans until the second coming.
The first printed mention of "The Flying Dutchman" appeared in 1795 in the book "Journey to the Botanical Bay".

8. "Hi Em 6"

This ghost ship reportedly left a port in southern Taiwan on October 31, 2002. Subsequently, on January 8, 2003, this Indonesian fishing schooner High Em 6 was found drifting uncrewed near New Zealand. Despite careful searches, no trace of the 14 team members has ever been found. The captain reportedly last contacted the ship owner, Tsai Huan Chue-er, at the end of 2002.

Ironically, the only crew member who showed up later reported that the captain had been killed. Whether there was a mutiny and its reasons are unclear. Initially, the entire crew went missing, and when the ship was discovered, no one was found. According to the results of the investigation, there were no signs of a disaster or fire on the ship. However, it was said that this ship could carry illegal immigrants. Which doesn't explain anything either ...

7. Phantom Galleon

Legends about this ship began in the late 1800s when it was built. The ship was going to be built from wood. Once in the sea, among the ice, the wooden ship was frozen into a part of the iceberg. Eventually, the water began to warm up, the weather changed, it got warmer, and the iceberg sank the ship. The White Fleet searched for their ship throughout the winter, each time returning to port empty-handed, under cover of fog. At some point, it got so warm, the ship thawed and separated from the iceberg, and rose to the surface, where it was discovered by the crew of the White Fleet. Unfortunately, the galleon's crew was killed; the remains of the ship were towed to the port.

6. "Octavius"

One of the first ghost ships, Octavius ​​became one because its crew froze to death in 1762, and the ship drifted for another 13 years with the dead on board. The captain tried to find a shortcut from China to England through the Northwest Passage (sea route through the Arctic Ocean), but the ship was covered with ice. Octavius ​​left England and went to America in 1761. Trying to save time, the captain decided to follow the then unexplored Northwest Passage, which was successfully passed for the first time only in 1906. The ship got stuck in the Arctic ice, an unprepared crew froze to death - the remains of the discovery say that this happened quickly enough. It is assumed that some time later, Octavius ​​freed himself from the ice and drifted with a dead team in the open sea. After meeting with the whalers in 1775, the ship was never seen again.
The British merchant ship Octavius ​​was discovered drifting west of Greenland on October 11, 1775. The crew from the whaler Whaler Herald boarded and found the entire crew frozen. The captain's body was in his cabin, death was found at the time of recording in the logbook, he remained sitting at the table with a feather in his hand. There were three more numb bodies in the cabin: a woman, a child wrapped in a blanket, and a sailor. The whaler's boarding team left Octavius ​​in a hurry, taking only the logbook with them. Unfortunately, the document suffered so much from the cold and water that only the first and last pages could be read. The journal ended with an entry in 1762. This meant that the ship had been drifting with the dead on board for 13 years.

5. Corsair "Duc de Dantzig" (Duc de Dantzig)

This ship was launched in the early 1800s in Nantes, France, and soon became a corsair. Corsairs are private individuals who, with the permission of the supreme power of the belligerent state, used an armed vessel to seize the merchant ships of the enemy, and sometimes neutral powers. The same name applies to the members of their teams. The concept of "corsair" in the narrow sense is used to characterize precisely the French and Ottoman captains and ships.

The corsair captured several ships, some were plundered, some were released. After the capture of small ships, most often the corsair left the captured ships, sometimes setting fire to them. This ship mysteriously disappeared in 1812. Since then, he has become a legend. It is believed that shortly after mysteriously disappearing, this corsair may have been a cruiser in the Atlantic Ocean or possibly in the Caribbean. Rumor has it that a British frigate might have captured it. Napoleonic "Gallego" reported the discovery of this ship, drifting at sea completely aimless, and the deck was covered with blood and strewn with the corpses of the crew. However, there were no visible signs of damage to the vessel. The frigate team allegedly found and took away the logbook, covered in the captain's blood, and then set this ship on fire.

4. Schooner "Jenny"

Schooner Jenny, originally English, is said to have left port on the Isle of Wight in 1822 for an Antarctic regatta. The journey was to follow the ice barrier in 1823, then enter the ice in the southern waters, and reach the Drake Passage.
But the British schooner got stuck in the ice of the Drake Passage in 1823. And they discovered it only 17 years later: in 1840, a whaling ship called "Nadezhda" stumbled upon it. The bodies of crew members "Jenny" are well preserved due to the low temperatures. The ship took its place in the history of ghost ships, and in 1862 it was included in the list of Globus, the popular German geographical magazine of the time.

3. "Sea Bird"

Most of the "encounters" with ghost ships are pure inventions, but there were also quite real stories... Losing a ship or ship in the infinity of the world's oceans is not so difficult. It's even easier to lose people.
In the 1750s, the Sea Bird was a merchant brig commanded by John Huxham. A merchant ship ran aground in the Rhode Island area of ​​Easton Beach. The crew disappeared to no one knows where - the ship was left by them without any explanation, and the lifeboats were missing. It was reported that the ship was returning from a voyage from Honduras, carrying goods from the southern hemisphere to the northern, and it was expected to arrive in the city of Newport. Upon further investigation, coffee was found boiling on a stove on an abandoned ship ... The only living things that were found on board were a cat and a dog. The crew mysteriously disappeared. The history of the ship was recorded in Wilmington, Delaware and made headlines in the Sunday Morning Star in 1885.

2. "Maria Celeste" (or Celeste)

The second most popular after the "Flying Dutchman" is a ghost ship - though, unlike it, it really existed. "Amazon" (as the ship was first called) was notorious. The ship changed owners many times, the first captain died during the first voyage, then the ship was thrown aground during a storm, and, finally, it was bought by an enterprising American. He renamed the "Amazon" to "Mary Celeste", believing that the new name would save the ship from trouble.
When the ship left the port of New York on November 7, 1872, there were 13 people on board: Captain Briggs, his wife, their daughter and 10 sailors. In 1872, a ship en route from New York to Genoa with a cargo of alcohol on board was discovered by the ship Dei Grazia without a single person on board. All the personal belongings of the crew were in their places, in the captain's cabin there was a box with his wife's jewelry and her own sewing machine with unfinished sewing. True, the sextant and one of the boats disappeared, which suggests that the crew left the ship. The ship was in good condition, the holds were filled with food, the cargo (the ship was carrying alcohol) was intact, but no trace of the crew was found. The fate of all crew members and passengers is completely shrouded in darkness. Subsequently, several impostors appeared and were exposed, posing as crew members and trying to cash in on the tragedy. More often than not, the impostor posed as the cook of the ship.

The British Admiralty conducted a thorough investigation with a detailed examination of the vessel (including below the waterline by divers) and a thorough interview of eyewitnesses. It is the materials of this investigation that are the main and most reliable source information. Plausible explanations for what happened boil down to the fact that the crew and passengers left the ship of their own free will, differing only in the interpretation of the reasons that prompted them to make such a decision. There are many hypotheses, but they are all just assumptions.

1. Cruiser USS Salem (CA-139)

The cruiser USS Salem was laid down in July 1945 at the Bethlehem Steel Company 's Quincy Yard, launched in March 1947, and entered service on May 14, 1949. For ten years, the ship served as the flagship of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and the Second Fleet in The ship was put into reserve in 1959. It was withdrawn from the fleet in 1990 and opened to the public as a museum in 1995. The USS Salem is now docked in Boston, Massachusetts at Quincy Harbor.

Boston, one of the oldest cities in the United States, has several chilling historic ships and buildings on display. This ship, being an old warship, is a bunch of stories - from the dark sights of the war to the death of people, if you have the opportunity to get there on an excursion, you can experience the thrill and chills from all the ghosts of this ship. Nicknamed "The Sea Witch," he is rumored to be so creepy that you can feel the chill just by looking at a photo of him online.

Many of them disappeared without a trace, and some were found, but not a single living soul remained on board. All crew members seemed to have disappeared into thin air or were dead. The reasons for the disappearance or death of the team still remain a mystery. The only version is that the missing ships fell victim to horrible supernatural phenomena. There is no other rational explanation yet.

Seabird

An unusual find at the end of the 19th century was discovered by the inhabitants of the coastal regions of Rhode Island (USA) - the ship "Seabird", crashing into the rocks. When eyewitnesses of the incident decided to inspect the ship, they were amazed: despite the fact that there were traces of the recent presence of people on board (food boiling on the fire, fresh food leftovers in plates), none of the crew members were found on the sailing ship. The only living thing is a frightened dog. It seemed that the sailors in a hurry left the ship. But what made them flee and where they disappeared is not clear.

"Maria Celeste"

The ship, which was named earlier "Amazon", from the first days of its existence was considered cursed. Tragic events haunted the sailors who worked on the ship. For example, the first captain of the Amazon died accidentally falling overboard. In order not to tempt fate, the ship was renamed. However, the ship, now "Mary Celeste", was doomed. In 1872 he mysteriously disappeared. The missing ship was found a month later, but there was not a soul on board. All the sailors' belongings remained in place. But where have their owners gone?

"Beichimo"

The story of the cargo ship is reminiscent of the story of the mystical Flying Dutchman. From 1911 to 1931 the ship made nine very successful voyages. But, one day, he got stuck in the ice of the Arctic. The team decided to wait out the bad weather in the nearest Eskimo settlement. Leaving the ship, the captain hoped to return there as soon as the situation returned to normal. But after another winter storm, the ship was not in place. Assuming that "Beichimo" sank, the command stopped searching for it. However, there were eyewitnesses who claimed that they not only saw a mysterious ship in the waters of the Arctic, but even boarded it. Their testimonies were very plausible, as they could accurately describe what "Beichimo" looked like. For many decades, the ship has disappeared, then reappeared in the field of vision of sailors. How a ship without control was able to cruise in the waters of the ocean for so many years - no one can explain.

An Australian fishing yacht that set sail in the spring of 2007 was found abandoned a week later. There was no damage to the vessel, but all three crew members disappeared. Items found on board (radio turned on, a working computer, a set table) indicated that no one was going to leave the yacht. The search for the team did not bring any results. According to the official version, one of the fishermen suddenly began to drown, and his two friends rushed to help the drowning comrade. All three were killed. But no direct evidence of this version has been found. Any explanations for the incident have no confirmation.

On May 22, 1968, the USS Scorpion nuclear submarine sank in the Bermuda Triangle with its entire crew of 99. The reason for the death of the ship has not yet been established. About this and other mysterious incidents at the "Antarctic cemetery" - in our material

"Scorpion"

On May 21, 1968, the Scorpion nuclear submarine, located near the Azores, reported its coordinates to the base in Norfolk. This was the last radio communication session. Curiously, no distress signals were sent from the submarine. When the submarine did not arrive at its destination by the estimated time, an entire expedition was equipped to search for it (it included several dozen rescue boats and aircraft).

Ten days later, the US Navy declared the submarine "presumed dead," and the rescue ships and aircraft were recalled. Later, the records of the hydroacoustic stations of the anti-submarine defense were analyzed, due to which a signal was found that is characteristic of the destruction of the strong hull of the boat by hydrostatic pressure.

Five months later southwest of the Azores, at a depth of 3,047 meters, the Scorpion's mangled hull was found. Subsequently, the area of ​​death was examined by the "Trieste-2" bathyscaphe. The cause of the tragedy has not yet been finally established; the most likely version is the explosion of a Mark-35 torpedo.

"Cyclops"

On March 4, 1918, the American ship USS Cyclops disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. It en route from Rio de Janeiro with 306 passengers and a crew on board. The vessel also transported 10 thousand tons of manganese ore. The last message about the Cyclops came from Barbados, where the ship made an unscheduled stop. After leaving Barbados, the ship headed for Norfolk, but never reached its destination. Before disappearing, the Cyclops did not send any distress signals.

There have been suggestions that the ship was sunk by a German submarine, but Germany has strongly denied this information. A more common version is that the ship sank in an unexpected storm. Opponents of this assumption insist that the elements would have left at least some evidence of a catastrophe, besides, on the day of the ship's disappearance, the weather was fine calm. Thus, the reason for the disappearance of "Cyclops" has not been established.

Link "Avengers"

Perhaps the most famous case cited in connection with the Bermuda Triangle is the disappearance of a flight of five Avenger-class torpedo bombers. From Fort Lauderdale in Florida, 14 pilots took to the air, an hour later the planes headed towards the Bahamas, after which the dispatchers received a message that the planes had lost their bearings and did not know how to return to shore.

It is noted that in radio communications with the base, the pilots allegedly talked about inexplicable failures of navigation equipment and unusual visual effects - "we cannot determine the direction, and the ocean does not look the same as usual," "we are sinking into white waters." After the disappearance of the Avengers, other planes were sent in search of them, and one of them - the Martin Mariner seaplane - also disappeared without a trace.

The American military leadership blamed the loss of aircraft and crews on Lieutenant Taylor. According to the US Navy, at the estimated time he passed the Bahamas and in fact led a link to the northeast, being over the Atlantic Ocean. The disappearance of the Martin Mariner aircraft was explained by an explosion in the air.

Subsequently, under pressure from Taylor's mother, who claimed that the naval department accused her son of the loss of five planes and the death of 14 people, without sufficient grounds, the conclusion about the lieutenant's guilt was replaced by the wording "cause unknown."

Here ships disappear without a trace and planes mysteriously disappear. Expeditions in search of missing sea and air liners never return. Sailors prefer to bypass the disastrous place, and airliners prefer to fly around it for many hundreds of kilometers. For more than half a century, no one has been able to unravel the mystery of the dangerous and mysterious anomaly called the "Bermuda Triangle".

One of the first documented cases of the mysterious disappearance of people in the Bermuda Triangle occurred back in 1840. Then the ship "Rosalia" was discovered near the Bahamas, but there was not a soul on board. No signs of a pirate attack, no signs of damage were found on the ship: it was completely safe and sound. Even supplies of fresh water and food were left untouched.

Unable to really explain what happened, the authorities of the Bahamas put forward a very eccentric hypothesis. They announced that the ship's crew had fallen into mass insanity and had thrown themselves overboard in full force. And among the people, "Rosalia" was christened a ghost ship. Since then, a whole chain of ghostly disappearances of sea vessels began in the Bermuda Triangle.

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It is noteworthy that in the 20th century, the loss of ships began to acquire even greater mystery. In 1918, a cargo ship naval forces USA "Cyclops" seemed to vanish into thin air, heading from South America to the shores of the United States. The search for the ship, which was carrying 306 crew members, did not bring any results. Tellingly, the crew did not send a distress signal. Whatever happened at the moment of disappearance, one thing is clear - the team was taken by surprise. Not that she didn’t have time to save her — she wasn’t even able to report the incident. Subsequently, this will happen with many ships that ended up in the Bermuda region.

But the devil's triangle was not only swallowing ships. On December 5, 1945, a squadron of five torpedo bombers took off from the US Naval Airfield at Fort Lauderdale. On that day, there was a clear sky over the Atlantic, calm at sea, and the planes were under the control of experienced pilots. Nothing extraordinary should have happened.

However, the pilots suddenly failed their navigation equipment. Moreover, both the main devices - magnetic, and additional - gyroscopic ones were out of order. The crews have completely stopped navigating in space, and the last words recorded in radio communications still baffle even experienced pilots. The disappeared crews reported that the ocean did not look the same as usual, and they were sinking into white waters.

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The disappeared "Cyclops"

Other aircraft were sent in search of the squadron, but this did not bring any results. Moreover, one of the search engines - the Martin Mariner seaplane - disappeared without a trace.

25 years later, in 1970, an event occurred in the sky over the Bermuda Triangle that enveloped the Bermuda anomalies in even greater fog. A light single-engine aircraft piloted by pilot Bruce Gernon flew from the Bahamas to Florida, to Palm Beach International Airport. There were two more passengers on board. At 160 kilometers from Miami, the weather turned sharply worse, and Bruce Gernon decided to get away from the rapidly approaching thunderstorm front. The pilot did not have time to turn the steering wheel when he saw a real tunnel in front of him. The plane was wrapped in spiral rings, and the passengers experienced a feeling of weightlessness. As in the case of the squadron, all navigational instruments of the winged aircraft failed, and the plane disappeared from radar. Later it turned out that this happened exactly at the moment when Bruce Hernon was passing through a mysterious tunnel.

But even more surprising was the fact that three minutes later the car was over Miami. It is incomprehensible, but in such a short time, a single-engine propeller-driven aircraft covered a distance of 160 kilometers. No one could explain what happened, because the cruising speed of the Beechcraft Bonanza 36, ​​piloted by Bruce Hernon, did not exceed 320 kilometers per hour.

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After that strange incident, the public in the United States remembered another mysterious incident that happened in 1928. The famous American test pilot Charles Lindbergh was flying over the Bermuda Triangle when suddenly a dense cloud enveloped the plane. Like a thick fog. All attempts to fly out of it did not lead to anything, and the compass arrows seemed to go crazy and began to rotate in all directions at the same time. Only high skill helped Lindbergh stay whole and tell the world about a strange phenomenon.

Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle for decades. One of the hypotheses says: aliens are hiding at the bottom of the ocean. This version is adhered to by the famous UFO expert David Spencer. He believes that aliens formed a colony at the bottom of the ocean and began to kidnap people, ships and planes. Radio amateurs testify in favor of this assumption. Once they caught the conversation of the crew commanders and heard a strange voice say to someone: "Don't follow me."

It is curious that forces from space can have an impact not only from the seabed. Charged particles from solar storms can bombard electronic equipment in ships and cause damage.

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A number of researchers urge to look for a clue in the history of Atlantis that went under the water. Have ancient civilization there was a huge crystal that now sends infrasound to the crews of ships and aircraft. As a result, people go crazy and lose control over sea and air liners. Or thrown overboard in full force, as suggested by the authorities of the Bahamas. It is noteworthy that they were not far from the truth, because science speaks in favor of this version.

Infrasound is fraught with another threat: it can have a destructive effect on the human psyche, - says Boris Ostrovsky, a Russian scientist, researcher of the Bermuda Triangle. - In other words, being under the influence of infrasound, pilots and sailors could lose their minds and commit rash acts. This can explain the ships found in the Bermuda Triangle, abandoned by their crews.

According to another hypothesis, the lost ships could have been swallowed up by a wandering wave. For a long time, scientists refused to believe in a strange phenomenon and ranked it as supernatural. But numerous facts of meeting with a wandering wave have left no trace of the skepticism of scientists. According to eyewitnesses, the height of such a wave can reach 30 meters, but it appears literally out of nowhere. However, the phenomenon, mysterious at first glance, has a simple explanation. Several waves converge in the ocean, resonate and form one giant wave. And in the Bermuda Triangle, conditions are such that it is precisely conducive to the formation of such monster waves.

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But what about the fact that the missing ships cannot be found? Perhaps the matter is in the complex bottom topography and the enormous depth of the ocean in anomalous zone... The triangle is crossed by a depression, the depth of which reaches eight kilometers. In addition, the Gulf Stream sea current, passing near the place of disappearance of ships, can carry away the wreckage of ships hundreds of kilometers from the place of possible death. So to find at least something in such conditions is almost impossible.

However, neither the monster waves, nor the difficult topography of the seabed explain the loss of the aircraft. Therefore, scientists put forward another assumption, according to which the reason for the disappearance of ships and winged machines lies in methane bubbles. They form at the bottom of the ocean and rise to the surface from time to time. The density of such bubbles is extremely low. So much so that the ships cannot stay afloat and instantly go under water. When methane is released into the air, the density of the air masses drops sharply. The plane suddenly loses its lift and crashes. The ocean literally swallows ships and airliners, leaving no trace.

But how to explain the facts of incredible movement in space, which the surviving pilots told about? Some theoretical physicists believe that the Bermuda Triangle is clear evidence of Albert Einstein's general and special theory of relativity, on which the building rests. modern physics... In other words, space here gets a curvature, and planes seem to pierce it, falling into a space-time cataclysm.

Be that as it may, none of the hypotheses has yet been confirmed. Renowned science fiction writer Arthur Clarke predicted that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle will be solved by 2040. Well, wait and see.