00:00You probably saw a viral video where YouTubers hid a huge treasure in the Bermuda Triangle
00:06and a random guy dared to go after it.
00:09He scored $10,000, but let's be real, his biggest win was getting out of there alive.
00:15This dangerous stretch of water between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda is notorious for
00:21its chilling and unexplained events.
00:23They say that more than 50 ships and 20 airplanes have mysteriously disappeared in the Bermuda
00:29Triangle.
00:31This leads to many theories, suggesting that this area is somehow linked to mystical powers
00:36or vortices that pull objects into other dimensions.
00:40But an Australian scientist named Carl Krushelnicki might have actually cracked the code on the
00:45Bermuda Triangle mystery.
00:47According to him, most popular legends and eerie disappearances can be explained by two
00:52main factors.
00:56The first factor is human error.
00:58One theory debunked by Krushelnicki was about the doomed Flight 19.
01:03Back in 1945, a group of five planes from the U.S. Navy took off on a routine training
01:08mission from Florida.
01:10Everything was going well until, 90 minutes into the flight, the troop commander reported
01:15that they were lost, and then poof, they just disappeared.
01:21One of the largest air and sea searches in history was conducted to find them.
01:26To this day, no one has found any trace of Flight 19 or the 14 men on board.
01:34What still makes people scratch their heads about this event is that the weather conditions
01:38when they took off were actually great.
01:41A relatively warm day, fluffy white clouds drifting across the sky, and a breezy wind
01:46coming from the southwest.
01:48Pretty standard for training flights, really, nothing out of the ordinary.
01:52So what happened?
01:56Turns out that despite the flight leader having over 2,000 flying hours, he was a bad pilot.
02:03Actually a really bad pilot.
02:05According to Krushelnicki, the commander was such a poor navigator that he had gotten lost
02:09at sea on at least two previous occasions before the Flight 19 incident.
02:14On that doomed day, he even tried to get someone to cover his shift but was unsuccessful, to
02:20the misfortune of his entire team.
02:23After their training flight exercise was completed successfully, both compasses on board stopped
02:28working.
02:29On the patrol's radio, his anxious voice said they were over land, or precisely, he
02:34was sure they were flying above the Florida Keys.
02:37But that didn't make any sense.
02:40He had made his scheduled pass over hens and chicken shoals in the Bahamas less than an
02:45hour earlier, but now he believed his plane had somehow drifted hundreds of miles off
02:50course and ended up in the Florida Keys.
02:53He couldn't have been more wrong.
02:57According to the most plausible theories about this case, what he thought was the Florida
03:01Keys was actually some small islands in the Bahamas.
03:05And here's where the real mess happened.
03:08Instead of turning back to the west, toward Florida, he kept flying east, deeper into
03:12the Atlantic Ocean.
03:14His plane eventually ran out of fuel, and you already know the rest of the story.
03:21Some theorists might argue that a malevolent force somehow interfered with the two compasses,
03:27causing them to fail while they were flying this supposedly cursed stretch of water.
03:32But let's face it, even if that were true, human error was the main factor here.
03:37The pilot shouldn't have mistaken the Bahamas islands for the Keys.
03:41End of that story.
03:45Now let's talk about the second factor that, according to Krushalinsky, explains many of
03:49the strange disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.
03:52And that's related to bad weather.
03:56A lot of Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes actually pass right through the Bermuda Triangle.
04:02So before we had advanced weather forecasting, these storms had caused a bunch of ships to
04:06go missing back in the day.
04:08On top of that, the Gulf Stream runs through the area too.
04:12That's a super strong ocean current that can make the weather change quickly and, sometimes,
04:17pretty dramatically.
04:18So when you think about it, natural factors like these could explain many, if not most,
04:23of the disappearances.
04:26Take the USS Cyclops, for example.
04:28Back in 1918, this massive 500-foot cargo ship carrying about 11,000 tons of manganese
04:36just disappeared without a trace.
04:38It was sailing from the West Indies to Baltimore, with 309 people on board.
04:44What makes this event extra eerie is that not a single distress signal was sent.
04:49Over a hundred years later, we still have no idea what happened to it.
04:53No wreckage has ever been found.
04:56Of course, people have come up with all kinds of theories about the USS Cyclops.
05:01One popular idea is that it ran into a sudden violent storm.
05:05With all that heavy manganese on board, it might've capsized and sunk really fast.
05:10Others speculate about underwater events, like landslides, or even a rogue wave.
05:19This is not such a crazy theory if you think about it.
05:22According to Krushelnicki, the Bermuda Triangle isn't just a bad weather zone, it is about
05:27the raw power of the ocean itself.
05:30The ocean floor there is way deeper than most people realize, going down nearly 30,000
05:35feet.
05:36That's basically like Mount Everest in reverse.
05:40When the ocean water gets that deep, it tends to hide things, making it the perfect place
05:45for ships and planes to just disappear without a trace.
05:49The expert confirms that there is also a tiny chance that even stranger events could be
05:54happening beneath the waves of the Bermuda Triangle.
05:58That is related to methane clathrate.
06:01This is a fancy name for an ice-like compound that forms underwater or in really cold places
06:06with methane gas trapped inside.
06:09Sometimes these structures can break free, creating bubbles on the surface.
06:13And this bubble shower can be fatal, at least for ships.
06:18Some experiments done with model ships showed that if enough bubbles rise up, the water's
06:23density drops, and this can mess with the ship's ability to float.
06:28If a large number of bubbles come up and cover a large area quickly, the ship could lose
06:32enough buoyancy to sink or tip over.
06:35But to be fair, the chances of something like that happening are very remote.
06:41So human error and bad weather – those are the two factors that likely explain all the
06:46mysteries surrounding this so-called malevolent stretch of water.
06:50But the truth is, the Bermuda Triangle isn't all that special.
06:55Although this region is very popular, there are no official maps that clearly outline
07:00its exact boundaries and say, look, here precisely is the Bermuda Triangle.
07:06And that is part of the problem.
07:08Disappearances and unexplained events that happen far from the actual region end up being
07:13lumped into the Bermuda Triangle's list of unexplained mysteries.
07:17Like the Mary Celeste's fate.
07:19In 1872, this ship was found completely intact, but with no sign of the captain, his family,
07:25or the crew.
07:27People thought, okay, creepy fact, ghost ship, so it must be related to the Bermuda Triangle.
07:33But one thing doesn't add up.
07:35The Mary Celeste was abandoned about 400 miles east of the Azores, so we're talking about
07:41a completely different part of the Atlantic.
07:43By this time, the Triangle has morphed into a trapezoid to cover that huge chunk of the
07:49North Atlantic.
07:51What I'm trying to say here is that once people start believing in a danger zone, confirmation
07:56bias takes over.
07:57But the facts are that the Bermuda Triangle sees tons of daily traffic every single day,
08:03both by sea and air.
08:05And according to experts, the number of incidents that happen there is pretty much the same
08:09as anywhere else in the world, percentage-wise.
08:13Some years the number is a bit higher, some years lower, but it averages out the same.
08:18With that in mind, it seems like it's time for us to finally move on from wild theories
08:23involving the Bermuda Triangle.
08:25Well, at least until the next bizarre disappearance comes along.
08:30That's it for today, so hey, if you pacified your curiosity, then give the video a like
08:39and share it with your friends.
08:40Or if you want more, just click on these videos and stay on the Bright Side!
Comments