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00:00There's a small triangle of water that doesn't exist on any map, and whose exact dimensions
00:08are not known. And yet we've all heard the stories that accompany the legendary Bermuda Triangle.
00:16Shrouded in mystery, and conjuring up some of the wildest conspiracy theories known to man,
00:22this geographical anomaly is widely regarded as the most deadly, dangerous and deceptive place
00:29on Earth. So how is it that a part of the ocean that isn't even officially recognised as part of the
00:37ocean has become so revered? The small body of water that makes up the invisible triangle has slowly
00:45filled with wreckage and disappearances over centuries, claiming the lives of those that
00:50have not just passed through it, but also over it. Books have been written, documentaries have been
00:58produced, and scientists have clamoured to try and explain the unexplainable in this perilous
01:04patch of ocean. What's caused this series of unfortunate circumstances to unfold?
01:11How can 20 planes, 50 ships and hundreds of people simply disappear? Is the location merely coincidence?
01:19Or is there something more sinister going on deep below the surface?
01:24I'm James Stewart and you're watching Astrum Earth.
01:27Join me for this most treacherous of adventures into the notorious Devil's Triangle.
01:34We'll journey back in time to the origins of the mystery to find out where it began and who
01:39was responsible for it. We'll visit some of the triangle's most infamous disappearances,
01:45examine each theory surrounding the mystery, all the way from Atlantis, to rogue waves, to magnetic
01:51declination, to hidden toxic gases rising from the depths, and bring you right to the heart of the
01:57matter to uncover the real culprit of the Bermuda Triangle. Can something inexplicable be explained
02:06after all?
02:09Whilst that may have sounded like the start of a murder mystery podcast, there is actually a fair
02:13amount of science and data to unpack here.
02:16But it is genuinely one of the weirdest and most fascinating videos I've ever made.
02:21As I've mentioned, the Bermuda Triangle doesn't show up on any maps,
02:25nor is it officially recognised as a location by the United States, with whom it's closely situated.
02:32So then, where is it?
02:34Unofficially, the Bermuda Triangle is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by the
02:41south-eastern coast of the US, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Interestingly, the exact boundaries of the
02:48Bermuda Triangle are not universally agreed upon. Approximations of the total area range between
02:54500,000 and 1,500,000 square miles. So there's about 1 million square miles worth of room for error there.
03:04The region has a vaguely triangular shape, but that triangle could end up being an isosceles,
03:09a scalene, or could even look more like a rhombus if you move the boundaries.
03:14Perhaps Bermuda Dodecahedron wasn't quite as catchy.
03:18And so, from the outset, you begin to see one glaring hole in much of the discourse that surrounds
03:24this subject. Undoubtedly, there have been incidents in this area, and some tragic ones at that.
03:30But because the boundaries don't actually exist, and they differ from historical account to historical
03:36account, it's really difficult to provide actual numbers of fatalities and disappearances,
03:41for an area whose boundaries are constantly shifting over the course of several hundred years.
03:48But it's what's happened inside this triangle throughout history that's most intriguing.
03:53And things begin half a millennium ago with Christopher Columbus.
04:01The year is 1492, and Christopher Columbus has set sail with three ships from Spain
04:07to find a western route to Asia and the New World. All very exciting.
04:13After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 10 weeks, land was sighted finally,
04:18and he set foot on a small island in the Bahamas, which he named San Salvador.
04:24To get there, he would have been the first person to have sailed through
04:27the Sargasso Sea, and therefore the Bermuda Triangle.
04:31Or at least the first person to return and tell everyone back home about it.
04:35You might say this is where the mysteries began, because tell everyone about it, eventually he did.
04:42Extracts from his log, which were compiled shortly after his death, have since been translated.
04:48The first indication that something might be wrong was in September 1492.
04:53Columbus's log reading suggested something was affecting his compass.
04:58On this day, at the beginning of night, the compasses north-wested, and in the morning,
05:04they north-easted somewhat. Several days later, he reported the sea rising to great heights, and
05:10most curiously, described seeing a light on the horizon, which he likened to that of a candle.
05:17So small a body that he could not affirm it to be land, a small wax candle that rose and lifted up,
05:26which for a few seconds seemed to be an indication of land.
05:30Imagine hearing about those incidents 500 years ago. I mean, America hadn't even been discovered yet.
05:39So little about the world was known.
05:42You can see how the stories, fables, mysteries, call them what you will, begin to garner intrigue.
05:48Later, in the early 1600s, a ship from England named Seaventure set off to resupply and revive the
05:57falling colony at Jamestown. Just off the coast of the uninhabited island chain of Bermuda,
06:03the fleet sailed into a hurricane, which destroyed the ship and marooned its crew.
06:10Although there wasn't anything particularly mysterious about this occurrence, as those desolate
06:15sailors clung to the remains of their once proud ship, it must have felt like a callback to the
06:20mysterious events that had already happened in this area. It's believed that this shipwreck actually
06:26inspired Shakespeare's play The Tempest, in which he refers to Bermuda or Bermuths as a vexed or cursed
06:33place. So Bermuda had found a great place to rise to fame. One of the spookiest encounters must have
06:41been in 1881, when, as legend has it, the Ellen Austin, a cargo ship sailing from Liverpool to New York,
06:48carrying passengers hoping to emigrate to the United States, sighted a ghost ship in the Bermuda Triangle.
06:55Their captain took a shortcut through the stormy Sargasso Sea, again where the Bermuda Triangle is
07:00located, and it was here that they encountered an eerily silent sailing vessel with no crew on board,
07:07but strangely plenty of plunder. Almost like bait waiting for someone to find it. And the crew of the
07:14Ellen Austin took that bait. Wanting to salvage the ship and its goods, they decided to take it to New York
07:21with them and sent some of their bravest men over so they could sail both ships back together.
07:27As they carried on their journey across the Sargasso Sea, however, they were caught in a huge storm.
07:33The howling winds and treacherous waves tore the ships away from one another, and the Ellen Austin lost
07:40sight of the now-manned ghost ship. When the weather finally cleared, the surviving sailors started
07:47searching for their friends and their comrades. Captain Griffin spotted the vessel and called to
07:52his crew, but there was no answer. The eerie silence had returned to the other ship once again.
08:00A number of sailors went to investigate, but found no signs of life on board. Their mates had
08:06disappeared without a trace. This didn't stop Captain Griffin from ordering a second team to board the
08:13ghostly unnamed vessel to New York. For several nights it seemed like they were getting away with it.
08:20The ships were on course for their destination. But their luck ran out when a thick blanket of fog
08:26started to settle across the water. The Ellen Austin came to a standstill as everyone waited for the fog to
08:32disperse. Once again, they were separated from the unnamed ship, left to wait, practically blind,
08:39and with no sound but creaking planks and the waves quietly licking at the bow. After the fog cleared,
08:45the ghost ship had disappeared completely, taking with it the entire crew and its treasures, never to be seen again.
08:55It makes for a good story, doesn't it? But is there actually something to it? Well, we know there was a
09:01ship called the Ellen Austin that sailed between Liverpool and New York. However, the journey in 1881
09:07was confirmed to have gone without incident in Lloyds of London's Register of Ships.
09:13Still, historical accounts keep mentioning mysterious happenings in this region even up to our modern age,
09:20well into the 20th century. It gained serious attention after an especially infamous tragedy occurred
09:26in March 1918. The USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of
09:37manganese ore which was used in steelmaking, left Rio de Janeiro bound for Baltimore. After an unplanned stop
09:44in Barbados, she headed north and was never seen again. The ship's disappearance was the largest loss of
09:52life in US naval history that wasn't directly related to combat. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress
10:01call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. US President Woodrow
10:09Wilson later said, only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship. In 1941, two of the
10:17Cyclops' sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route. One quote from
10:25the Santa Fe magazine in 1920 described the incident. She disappeared as though some gigantic monster of
10:32the sea had grabbed her, men and all, and sent her into the depths of the ocean, and the sadness of
10:39her destruction is amplified by the absence of any wireless calls for help being picked up by any ship
10:46along the route that the Cyclops followed. Sadly, one military tragedy followed another in the same
10:53part of the world years later, doing nothing to dispel the growing theories that something strange was
10:59afoot, or rather afloat. In December 1945, five navy TBM-advented torpedo bombers carrying 40 men took off
11:10from a Fort Lauderdale airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shores.
11:16But with his compass apparently malfunctioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19,
11:22got severely lost, radioing to the control tower, we cannot be sure where we are.
11:29Twenty minutes later, after turning over command to a new flight leader for reasons unknown,
11:35the final words of Flight 19 were spoken. It looks like we are entering white water. We are completely lost.
11:45All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea.
11:53That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive week-long search
12:01failed to turn up any evidence, the official navy report declared that it was as if they had flown
12:08to Mars. No wreckage or trace of the pilots or their planes has ever been found. Things were becoming
12:16more and more suspicious. No longer was this strange area just claiming ships. It now seemed to extend
12:22upwards to include anything that flew over it too. In December 1948, just a few years after Flight 19 had
12:30gone missing. A British passenger plane carrying around 30 people disappeared on the 30th of January
12:37while flying over the Azores to Bermuda. One year later, the BSAA Star Aerial, the same type of plane as
12:44the previous one, disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Kingston in Jamaica. Neither plane was ever found.
12:54So many incidents in such a small space that all begin with Columbus noticing something strange about his
13:00compass with no real evidence or explanation as to why. Someone needed to connect the dots and give this
13:08space a name. The deadly Bermuda Triangle was the name American author Vincent Gallis went for in the
13:16February 1964 edition of Argosy magazine. Draw a line from Florida to Bermuda, another one from Bermuda to Puerto
13:24Rico and a third line back to Florida through the Bahamas. Within this area known as the Bermuda Triangle,
13:31most of the total vanishments have occurred. In the absence of any hard facts there was frenzied
13:36speculation about this idea and unsurprisingly it captured the imagination of the world. Suddenly,
13:44like a great detective solving a serial murder, the mysteries had been connected. The article was a
13:50masterpiece of conspiratorial fantasy, suggesting that dark forces were at work. For context here,
13:58this was the era of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, when conspiracy theories and
14:03hearsay loomed large. It was also a time when NASA, and science more generally, was increasingly filling
14:10in the blanks, providing answers to many of life's great unsolved questions. Yet here in the Bermuda Triangle
14:17was a phenomenon that tantalizingly defied explanation. Others were quick to cash in on
14:24the Bermuda Triangle fever. Scores of books were published, many became international bestsellers,
14:29with the most popular of all being Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974.
14:36It sold 20 million copies in more than 30 languages, an extraordinary feat for a work that offered up some
14:44mind-blowing suggestions as to what was really going on. Nothing was off limits. Berlitz's theories
14:50were so popular that when Steven Spielberg made close encounters of the third kind, he depicted the
14:56Flight 19 aircrew as having been abducted by aliens. Berlitz aimed to prove that the Bermuda Triangle was
15:04connected to the mythical lost city of Atlantis, pulling ships, planes and people into its murky depths,
15:12explaining why so many vessels and aircraft had disappeared. He also leaned heavily on paranormal
15:18or supernatural phenomena, to explain what he says cannot be mere coincidences. For example,
15:25most interesting to Berlitz is that most of the missing aircraft and ships didn't send out distress
15:30calls before disappearing. Something he suggests is evidence of extraterrestrial interference, or at least
15:38paranormal activity. Pricking the ears of Spielberg, evidently. But he doesn't stop there. Oh no, he
15:44suggests that the Triangle may be a portal under the sea, transcending time and space to another dimension,
15:51or some other unearthly place. Similarly, he says, this might be the spot on Earth reserved for aliens to abduct humans.
16:01To Berlitz, the possibilities were endless, the wilder the better. Even if critics, and us,
16:09hold serious doubts about his methodology. We know so much these days, even in the 70s, gaps in knowledge
16:16were being filled in. So to cling on to something that we might not have all the answers to is
16:22intoxicating. And it's why the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has stood the test of time. It's exhilarating to
16:29think that despite all these great scientific minds and database analytics in the world today,
16:34something somehow slipped under the net. It's like a riddle that can't be solved with pretty much the
16:41entire rest of the planet mapped out. Bar this small triangle of mystery. Although we haven't heard much
16:50about it recently, have we? But the truth is, we do have the answers. We can finally explain what's going on
16:57in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a really strong answer too, not one of those could be this or maybe
17:03that. We're an Earth Science Channel first and foremost, and as much as I'd love to make a video
17:08on Atlantis, ghost ships and alien abductions, maybe one day, there are some more plausible science-based
17:14theories that exist about the Bermuda Triangle and its disappearances. One of the things that comes up
17:21time after time is navigational issues. We touched on a couple with Columbus's compass going awry, and
17:27Flight 19 essentially being unable to identify where they were during their training run.
17:32In almost every account of the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, you'll see reference to the
17:38fact that it's one of only two places on Earth, the other being the Devil's Sea just off the coast of
17:43Japan, where a compass points to true north rather than magnetic north. Could this cause compasses
17:51to malfunction so that ships and planes get terribly off course?
17:55A quick compass refresh if, like me, you've forgotten how to use one because your phone does it for you.
17:59A compass works because its magnetic needle is attracted by the magnetism of Earth, which draws
18:05it to point to the constantly shifting magnetic north pole. The geographic north pole, on the other
18:11hand, is static and is located 1,200 miles north of the magnetic pole. The variation between these two
18:19readings is known as magnetic declination, or compass variation, which can change as you move across
18:25the globe. There's another piece of terminology that's relevant here as well, the agonic line. It's
18:32an imaginary line where true north and magnetic north are in perfect alignment. There is no magnetic
18:38declination. In the early 18th century, Edmund Halley noticed that the agonic line was slowly moving
18:46westwards. He came up with the idea of showing declination as contour lines on a map. At points
18:53west of the agonic line, a magnetic needle will point east of true north, positive declination. At
19:01points east of the agonic line, a magnetic needle will point west of true north, negative declination.
19:09Since then, scientists have noted a westward drift of the agonic line with an average velocity of about
19:150.2 degrees per year. This drift is not equal in all places, however. It's much stronger in the
19:22Atlantic Hemisphere than in the Pacific Hemisphere. Navigators must always compensate for magnetic
19:28declination when they chart their courses. While the agonic line once did pass through the Bermuda Triangle,
19:35it now falls within the Gulf of Mexico, rendering claims that it contributes to disappearances in
19:40the triangle largely inaccurate. The issue with the compass malfunction theory is that calculation
19:47errors anywhere could cause a plane or ship to go off course. It also assumes that experienced pilots
19:53and captains passing through the area were unaware of magnetic declination, which is unlikely. Not to
20:00mention that the vast majority of boaters and flyers pass through this area without incident.
20:05Another thing you'll have noticed about these instances, particularly at sea,
20:08is an absence of wreckage on almost every occasion. One plausible theory of this is quite simply good
20:15old-fashioned bad weather. Hurricane season, as we know, passes right through the middle of this
20:20exact location. Just look at 2024's devastation in this area. Some theorists cite Rogue Waves as being a
20:27reason so many ships haven't reached their destinations. Huge, abnormally large waves that
20:33can reach up to 100 feet in height. Rogue Waves are certainly real and account for roughly 1 in every
20:4010,000 waves. The first recorded by an instrument was on the 1st of January in 1995 in the North Sea.
20:47This particular wave, known as the Draupner Wave, was 84 feet tall. Let's not forget about the role of the
20:54Gulf Stream here too, a theory supported by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
21:01which says environmental considerations can explain away some of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances.
21:07The Gulf Stream travels along the western edge of the triangle and is extremely swift and very
21:13turbulent. It can pose extreme navigational challenges, especially for inexperienced sailors.
21:19The Gulf Stream has been reported to move faster than 4 or 5 knots per hour in some areas.
21:24That's 300 times faster than the Amazon River. This is more than enough to throw sailors hundreds
21:30of miles off course if they don't compensate correctly for the current. It can also quickly erase any evidence
21:37of disaster. An increasingly popular and in fact the newest scientific theory to come to light is based
21:45around methane. We know it mostly as a particularly potent greenhouse gas that comes from cows,
21:51but large amounts of methane are trapped in sediments beneath the ocean. In 2016 researchers at the
21:58Arctic University of Norway discovered craters off the coast of the country that were up to half a mile
22:04wide and 150 meters deep. They suggest the craters appear to have been caused by the explosive release of
22:12methane that was trapped in the sediment below, exploding upwards as giant burps of death.
22:19Despite their research making it very clear that they were not claiming any links to the triangle,
22:24other academics including Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov took it upon themselves to make the
22:30connection anyway. And of course many media outlets in particular have lapped up the theory.
22:35The Astrum Earth view? It's certainly possible but highly, highly unlikely to be the culprit.
22:41With methane gas, geomagnetism and the Caribbean's stormy weather systems it becomes apparent that
22:48this region can be treacherous for both planes and boats. These are plausible scientific explanations
22:55that demystify the Bermuda Triangle. The truth is though, putting said obvious environmental conditions
23:01aside, simply mentioning scientific terms like geomagnetism or methane blowouts doesn't equate to
23:08presenting irrefutable evidence. These are hypotheses or speculations, they're not definitive conclusions.
23:16So where's the real evidence? At the end of it all, a diary that was translated from 1492,
23:22a magazine article from the 1940s and even a best-selling book from the 70s, well they all tell one story.
23:29But when you examine the actual available aviation and marine casualty data over the last few decades,
23:35and you compare this to other regions across the globe, the data reveals a very different story.
23:42In fact, it's precisely the lack of a story that points us to the truth.
23:47There is nothing out of the ordinary going on in the Bermuda Triangle. It doesn't even make the top 10
23:55most dangerous ocean regions in the world. Utilising the marine casualty and pollution data for
24:01researchers dataset which covers 150,000 plus records from 1982 to 2015, you're left with around 9,000
24:10incidents for analysis. Of these, 361 were located within the Bermuda Triangle. Just 4%.
24:20This reveals that the causes of casualties in the Bermuda Triangle closely mirrored the worldwide
24:25pattern, with a somewhat lower occurrence of capsizing events, likely due to the proximity to
24:31major trading ports where conditions are generally calmer. Interestingly, no incidents classified as
24:38disappearance were reported within the Bermuda Triangle between 1982 and 2015.
24:45YouTuber Johnny Harris obtained shipping data from 2021 via Lloyd's List, a global shipping publication,
24:52which took this a step further. Their data showed that in that entire year, 1.8% of all vessels
25:00everywhere in the world have some sort of casualty during their voyage, which included mysterious
25:06disappearances. Of the 8,634 boats that passed through the Bermuda Triangle, there were only two
25:14such casualties. 0.02%. According to the Lloyd's List dataset, the danger of disappearing in the Bermuda
25:22Triangle is actually 90 times lower than the global average. Whilst not committing to quite as low a number
25:31as Johnny's video does, Lloyd's of London and the US Coast Guard back this up, stating the number of
25:37ships that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle to be the same as anywhere else in the world on a
25:42percentage basis. Over the past decade, annual shipping losses have actually decreased by 70%.
25:49And regions around the Bermuda Triangle don't get a look in when there are incidents. For the past decade,
25:55the South China, Indio-China, Indonesia and Philippines regions have been by far the worst affected,
26:03and the East Mediterranean and Black Sea regions were the second top loss locations. But what about
26:09the planes flying over it? Turning our attention to aviation incidents, we can explore the Aviation
26:14Accident Database provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. This covers all investigated
26:21accidents from 1962 to the present, including both commercial and military flights. Here we find a
26:28very similar story, or lack thereof. While notorious incidents like the Flight 19 bomber's disappearance
26:36and various passenger aircraft mysteries have fuelled Bermuda Triangle legends, a closer examination of
26:42the data revealed that most incidents occurred during landing and takeoff, primarily in the Bahamas.
26:49Only a few incidents during flights resulted in fatalities, and the only documented commercial
26:55flight accident was attributed to poor weather-related decisions by the pilot. Since 1965 there's only been
27:03one aviation incident over Bermuda. JetBlue flight number N913JB experienced severe turbulence resulting in one injury.
27:13In the case of the infamous Flight 19, the transcripts show Lieutenant Taylor, the lead pilot, thought his
27:22compass had malfunctioned and that he was above the Florida Keys, a string of islands stretching to the
27:27southwest of the US mainland, when in fact later analysis by ground staff would show he was to the
27:34southeast near an island in the Bahamas. Instead of turning back west toward Florida, he kept flying east,
27:41deeper into the Atlantic Ocean. In other words, he'd gotten lost. This is something that, according to Australian
27:48scientist Karl Krzynetschke, has happened on previous occasions with the same pilot. In all likelihood, this
27:56tragedy was, sadly, as a result of human error. In the Triangle, the islands of Bermuda experience, on average, one
28:05damaging tropical cyclone once every six or seven years, with smaller, lesser systems affecting the
28:11island more frequently. Approximately 500 tropical and subtropical cyclones have affected the state of
28:17Florida. More storms hit Florida than any other US state. And since 1851, only 18 hurricane seasons have
28:27passed without a known storm impacting the state. Puerto Rico is hit by hurricanes on average about
28:33four or five times a year. Even in 2025, where we can track, predict, model, observe and plan against
28:40coming storms, they still cause tremendous devastation. So imagine what it would have been like when we
28:47couldn't. So there you have it. Maybe slightly underwhelmingly, but if your friends ever bring
28:53this up, you can confidently reassure them that there really isn't anything special about the Bermuda
28:58Triangle. It's undeniably one of the worst weather-affected regions on the planet. So it tracks that
29:04unfortunately, and over the course of several centuries, there would be incidents along the way.
29:10But the truth is, statistically speaking, you're at no more risk of travelling through the Bermuda
29:15Triangle than you are anywhere else in the world. In fact, it's significantly safer than me travelling
29:21from Dover to Calais for my boring summer holiday. Sadly, it seems that some of these tragic events
29:26come down to simple human error, and one of the worst weather-affected regions in the world.
29:32No more, no less. Sorry aliens, but the good news is, the curse has been lifted. The Bermuda Triangle is,
29:41well, relatively boring, or as I like to put it, fabulously unremarkable. And let's be honest,
29:47we could actually deal with things being a little more unremarkable in our lives right now.
30:02So, let's get started.
30:07So, let's get started.
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