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The Bermuda Triangle is one of the most mysterious places on Earth, where countless ships and planes have vanished without a trace. But what if there is something lurking in the depths of the ocean that is responsible for these disappearances? In this video, we will explore the evidence and theories about the terrifying creature that devours submarines in the Bermuda Triangle.
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0:05 The monster eating holes in submarines
10:10 Giant creatures sinking ships
19:11 What lies under Bermuda triangle
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:05 The monster eating holes in submarines
10:10 Giant creatures sinking ships
19:11 What lies under Bermuda triangle
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00:00If you draw up a map, trace a line connecting the island of Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Miami, and back to
00:07Bermuda, what do you get?
00:08The infamous Triangle, known for swallowing thousands of ships and aircraft over the centuries.
00:15But there's a new mystery to this already enigmatic place.
00:20Something's lurking deep in the waters below, and it's leaving bizarre clues of its existence.
00:27Splash! Your submarine hits the water's surface.
00:31You descend 100, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 feet.
00:36It's getting darker. The sub's walls creak as the pressure grows.
00:41Over 1,400 psi. It's like the weight of a grand piano squeezing every square inch of your body from
00:49all sides.
00:50You've made it to your destination. All that's left is to spot the beast.
00:56Just in time. Among the black void, you see a bright green glow off in the distance.
01:03It's getting closer. As it approaches, it gets bigger.
01:07This is it! The creature that's been leaving strange circular markings on fish, dolphins, whales, and even other sharks.
01:16Behold! The cookie-cutter shark!
01:18Don't let its size fool you. It may be no longer than a bowling pin, but this creature is a
01:25parasite.
01:26It attaches itself to other marine animals using its neatly arranged serrated teeth.
01:31With one bite, it fills its belly, detaches, and goes on about its day.
01:38Its mobile snack also swims away with its life.
01:42The only evidence of this rendezvous? A cookie-shaped mark on its body.
01:49Don't assume you're safe in your submarine.
01:51These bold little guys have been known to go after subs, too.
01:55You decide not to risk the shark punching a hole in the only thing keeping you from being squished to
02:01a pulp by the surrounding water.
02:03You journey on to meet other bizarre creatures lurking in the Bermuda Triangle.
02:09At twice the depth, you'll find the dragonfish.
02:13Unlike other deepwater inhabitants, these things produce light in the infrared range.
02:19Blue and green is what other fish stick to.
02:22This gives the dragonfish a huge advantage.
02:26It provides itself with light that other marine dwellers just can't perceive.
02:30Things that want to eat the dragonfish can't detect this light, as well as the critters the dragonfish likes to
02:38feed on.
02:39A truly unique deep-sea dweller is the vampire squid.
02:44Neither vampire nor squid, or octopus, this thing is a unique species of its own.
02:51It has the largest eyes compared to body size of any animal on the entire planet.
02:56When the vampire squid feels threatened, it curls its arms up and around its body.
03:02Essentially, the thing turns itself inside out.
03:07Another animal to avoid down here is the terrifying bobbit worm.
03:11It buries itself in the seafloor, leaving a small part of its body out.
03:16It waits for dinner time, with its pincer-like mouthparts open.
03:21What's on the menu?
03:23Other worms and fish that can be seven times bigger than the bobbit.
03:27It uses its five antennas to sense when lunch is close enough to...
03:32Snap!
03:33In an instant, the worm launches forward and grabs its lunch with its mouthparts.
03:39It's not done yet.
03:41Once it's got its jaws locked onto its lunch,
03:44the worm injects it with venom and pulls it down into the burrow to feast.
03:49One of the deepest trenches in the Bermuda Triangle is the Tongue of the Ocean.
03:55This is also the secret breeding grounds of tiger sharks.
03:58You'll instantly recognize them,
04:01thanks to those darker gray tiger stripes on their sides.
04:05They're the second largest predatory shark species after the Great White.
04:09And with a big size comes a big appetite.
04:13Marine mammals, smaller sharks, stingrays, and green turtles are all on the menu.
04:19If you ever come face to face with a tiger shark, hopefully not,
04:24remember this.
04:25You can tell the fish's age by looking at its stripes.
04:28They fade over time.
04:30So the younger the shark, the more pronounced its stripes.
04:35There's plenty of zooplankton in the Bermuda Triangle.
04:38These are, usually, small organisms that are essential to the ocean's food chain.
04:43But get this, if nothing ate them and they were left to grow out of control,
04:49zooplankton would cover the entire world in layers and layers in just four months.
04:55Oh, and the largest type of zooplankton is the jellyfish.
04:59Jellyfish were around long before dinosaurs.
05:02You probably know your body is 60% water.
05:06A jellyfish is 95%.
05:08So if it gets washed onto the shore,
05:11after a few hours, most of its body just evaporates into the air.
05:17There's also a jellyfish that lives forever.
05:20The immortal jellyfish can revert itself back to its polyp stage and then grow again.
05:25Sounds like something from another planet, but it's no space jelly.
05:31Those do exist, by the way.
05:33Back in the 1990s, NASA raised jellyfish in space to see what zero gravity does to them.
05:40They were just fine living up there in the cosmos.
05:43When they came back down to Earth, though, they had trouble adjusting.
05:47The European eel hasn't been to space, but it is quite a globetrotter.
05:52It travels all the way from Europe to the Sargasso Sea, where the Bermuda Triangle is located.
05:58In the larval stage, it just drifts around the ocean for as long as three years sometimes.
06:04It's also the chameleon of the sea.
06:07Over the years, the European eel changes color,
06:11going from translucent to yellow to metallic silver.
06:15They're nocturnal and secretive,
06:17pretty much the ideal companion to have when you raid the fridge at midnight.
06:23A giant squid over half the length of a football field once washed up on a Florida beach.
06:29Researchers suspected this behemoth came from the Atlantic Ocean near the Bermuda Triangle.
06:36Giant squids are the longest invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone.
06:41They also have the biggest eyes on Earth ever.
06:44However, they're as large as a soccer ball.
06:48Another creature found near the Bermuda Triangle is Starrer's cave shrimp.
06:53They were so good at keeping to themselves that no one knew these creatures even existed until 2011.
07:00Some female cave shrimps carry an impressive number of eggs along with them.
07:05Scientists discovered one female had around 2,000 eggs attached to her body.
07:11The Bermuda Petrel is the national bird of, yes, you guessed it, Bermuda.
07:17It's the second rarest seabird on the planet.
07:20In fact, people thought it was extinct until 1951 when they spotted a few on the island.
07:26It has an eerie cry that'll send shivers down your spine.
07:32The Nassau Grouper can only be found on the coasts of South Florida.
07:37This fish lies in wait and ambushes its lunch of other fish, crabs, and lobsters.
07:44It's sort of like a vacuum cleaner because it inhales its food through its huge mouth.
07:50The fish has a cool defense mechanism, too.
07:53Like the chameleon, it changes color when it feels it's in danger.
07:58Sometimes it takes on a lighter or darker shade of its own color to blend in with the environment.
08:03So, you may spot a Nassau Grouper, or you may not.
08:09If you happen to visit the Bermuda Triangle, you'll probably see a hammerhead shark.
08:15They use that iconic hammer-shaped head to pin their lunch, stingrays, onto the ocean floor.
08:22The shape of their head also gives them better vision.
08:26They can see almost 360 degrees all around, above and below them.
08:31Well, save for one blind spot right in front of their nose.
08:37The hawksbill sea turtle may not look intimidating, but this guy will eat anything it can get its bird-like
08:44beak around.
08:45Sea sponges, algae, and even venomous jellyfish.
08:49A lot of the stuff on their menu is inedible for most.
08:53But their body fat can absorb the venom and toxins, so they go unscathed.
08:59The Bermuda Triangle is also home to green glowworms.
09:03They're not really worms, but larvae.
09:06They produce that bright light from an organ near their tail.
09:10This light makes smaller creatures come toward them, making it easy for them to catch their lunch.
09:17Most of the time, they look pretty ordinary, but they have an oddly fixed schedule.
09:22Every third night, after the full moon, during the summer, at an exact time, the glowworm lights up.
09:30But back to more nightmarish creatures of the Bermuda Triangle.
09:34There's the goblin shark, known as a living fossil, because it's the only one left of its animal family.
09:43It's only about the length of your forearm, and looks like nothing special.
09:47But watch closely, as its lunch gets too close.
09:51Boom!
09:52The shark's jaw shoots out of its mouth, and grabs onto the unlucky creature.
09:58Once the teeth have locked in, the jaw goes right back in the shark's mouth.
10:03And yes, you share the planet with this thing.
10:08The Bermuda Triangle is one of the most heavily traveled shipping routes in the world.
10:13Some skeptics believe that this fact solves the Bermuda Triangle mystery.
10:18Statistically, the busier the area, the higher the frequency of accidents and disappearances.
10:23While this makes sense, it's not the frequency of disappearances that's responsible for the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
10:30It's the lack of explanation or wreckage found.
10:34On his very first voyage to the New World in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed through the Bermuda Triangle.
10:41Columbus reported that one night, when he was on the deck of the ship, he noticed a giant light appear
10:47in the distance, unlike anything he'd ever seen before.
10:51Columbus looked at his compass for direction, and it gave off erratic readings.
10:55You might have noticed that the Bermuda Triangle doesn't appear on any world map.
10:59This is because official institutions refuse to acknowledge that the area actually exists.
11:06No one exactly knows how many ships and planes have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
11:11The rough estimate is 50 ships and 20 planes.
11:15Most of the time, the disappearances had no explanation and no wreckage has ever been left behind.
11:21When the TBF Avenger planes went missing, a massive search operation was conducted.
11:26Boats and planes searched the Bermuda Triangle for any signs of the aircraft.
11:31One of the boats searching was a PBM-5 Mariner airboat.
11:34The airboat took flight at 7.27pm and called in a routine radio message three minutes later.
11:40Then, it was never heard from again.
11:43No trace was ever found of the rescue airboat or the 5 Avenger aircraft.
11:49A huge investigation was launched into the disappearance of all these vehicles, but nothing was ever discovered.
11:56The Bermuda Triangle is home to some pretty intense and unexpected weather.
12:01Storms build up quickly and unexpectedly, then disappear soon after.
12:05If you blink, you might miss it.
12:07This could explain why few distress signals are issued.
12:10Pilots and sailors never saw the weather coming.
12:13A popular theory suggests that rogue waves are responsible for the many disappearances.
12:19Rogue waves are called extreme storm waves by scientists.
12:22They occur when different weather patterns take place at the same time and cause large, unexpected waves that reach up
12:29to 100 feet tall.
12:31Witnesses say that the waves look like giant walls of water.
12:34These waves could explain why ships go down fast and without leaving any trace.
12:40Just off the coast of Japan, you'll find the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific Ocean.
12:45They call it the Devil's Triangle.
12:48Between 1950 and 1954, nine ships disappeared in this area without leaving a trace.
12:54The ship Kayo Maroon 5 was sent to investigate these unexplained disappearances when it also vanished.
13:00After this incident, the Japanese authorities labeled the area as a danger zone, and sailors were encouraged to avoid it.
13:09Some people blame all disasters on the extraterrestrial paranormal activity.
13:14Others suppose it's all about raging natural phenomena.
13:18Some scientists believe the cause of anomalies is the environmental changes.
13:23Also, there's a really high concentration of methane hydrates on the bottom of the ocean in the Pacific Bermuda area.
13:30This gas tends to set off, and when it happens, bubbles start forming on the surface of the water.
13:36These gas eruptions can interrupt the ability to float and can easily sink a ship.
13:41Because of this chemical reaction, there won't be even a trace left.
13:46Underwater volcanoes are said to be another possible explanation for the Japanese Dragon's Triangle.
13:52In fact, they can take down even small islands.
13:55Luckily, nobody lives there.
13:58It's a pretty common thing in this area that some of them disappear underwater,
14:02and others appear out of the blue because of seismic activity.
14:06You'll never find the Dragon's Triangle on any official map of the world,
14:10so nobody's quite sure about how large it is in reality.
14:14In July 2015, two teenagers disappeared after setting sail off the coast of Florida.
14:21There's some mystery about what the two teens were really getting up to.
14:25They told their parents that they were just going to fish.
14:28But they told their friends that they were crossing to the Bahamas.
14:32Shortly after they left, a line of thunderstorms moved towards the area,
14:36and the boys were never heard from again.
14:38A massive search was conducted, but sadly, nothing was found.
14:42One year later, the pair's boat was found off the coast of Bermuda with a broken iPhone
14:48and some personal effects left inside.
14:52One of the most popular and bizarre theories trying to solve the Bermuda Triangle mystery
14:56comes from Charles Berlitz.
14:59He insists that the area is home to the lost city of Atlantis.
15:03The missing ships and planes and malfunctioning equipment, according to him,
15:07were all caused by rays of energy let out by the special energy crystals that power Atlantis.
15:13While this sounds silly, Berlitz's theory was convincing enough
15:16that over 20 million people bought his book worldwide.
15:21Previously, the compass wouldn't work well in the Bermuda Triangle
15:25since the lines of the two poles coincided here,
15:28true north and magnetic north.
15:30But if you fall into this line, your compass will behave strangely.
15:34But the magnetic north is constantly shifting,
15:37and now it's far beyond the triangle.
15:40No legend says pirates of the last centuries operate in the Bermuda Triangle
15:44or that the Flying Dutchman makes other ships disappear.
15:48A popular theory is that ships travel to the distant past or future
15:52through a time portal in the Bermuda Triangle.
15:55Fortunately, these are all myths.
15:57Just imagine hundreds of giant tentacles reaching out to a group of ships
16:02sailing through the Bermuda Triangle.
16:04In the past centuries, they could easily sink an entire fleet,
16:07since the ships were made of wood and were lighter.
16:10Squids wrapped decks with their strong tentacles,
16:13made holes in the ship's hulls with their sharp beaks.
16:16Toothy suction cups could break the masts and tear the sails.
16:20The water was filling the holes and slowly rising to the deck.
16:23The ship sank in a matter of minutes.
16:26Survivors reached the shore and told everyone about huge monsters.
16:30This is how the legends of the Kraken appeared.
16:33Fortunately, now people have sonars and equipment for monitoring the sea space.
16:37They say the main reason why this place is so enigmatic
16:40must be the magnetic fields that form this ominous triangle.
16:45Ocean floor is made of rocks containing a lot of magnetite.
16:48It's more like iron.
16:50Magnetic fields react to the high concentration of magnetite on the ocean floor,
16:55which may start a sort of conflict between the two.
16:58It can often lead to various weather anomalies and, as a result, navigation issues.
17:04And naturally, any changes in the ocean floor or the Earth's magnetic fields
17:08influence the Bermuda Triangle a lot.
17:12Magnetic fields tend to shift their position.
17:15So do tectonic plates and even the continents, even though we never notice it.
17:21The skies are usually very clear there.
17:24But back in 1883, some people witnessed abnormal things in the area.
17:28Some claim to have seen large blocks of ice falling from the skies,
17:33and the crew even managed to save one as hard proof.
17:35Seems like the Bermuda Triangle has an alternate not only on Earth, but even in space.
17:42Spacecraft usually don't disappear into thin air, though.
17:45Like, there's no air.
17:46This anomalous area is really large and stretches right above the South Atlantic.
17:51It occupies the area from Chile to Zimbabwe,
17:54and sits right at the point where Van Allen radiation belts
17:57are the closest to the surface of our planet.
18:00The Earth has two such belts,
18:02which come in handy trapping the particles that shoot in from the Sun.
18:06They do a great job protecting the Earth from radiation.
18:09The magnetic field there is lower,
18:11so it allows the Earth's radiation belt to come closer to the surface.
18:15Whenever a satellite passes by,
18:17it will be exposed to radiation, which might lead to serious damage.
18:21So, no satellite can take pictures of it.
18:24The South Atlantic anomaly is part of the Earth
18:27where natural radiation just flows out of control.
18:30Still, there is little evidence that all these triangles are really dangerous.
18:34Many believe the Bermuda Triangle itself has been proven time and again
18:39to be nothing but a work of fiction.
18:42In fact, some shipwrecks, such as the Ellen Austin,
18:45gained popularity in the middle of the 20th century,
18:48while nobody even thought of drawing a triangle in the Bermuda area before that.
18:52The mystery was popularized by science fiction writers and became a common myth,
18:57while no serious research proved it any more dangerous than other parts of the world's ocean.
19:02So, the crew of the Ellen Austin back in 1881
19:06weren't even aware of the Bermuda Triangle back then,
19:09let alone afraid of it.
19:11What do you think?
19:19Its ruins lie somewhere in the darkness of the ocean depths,
19:23covered in seaweed, damaged by the ravages of time.
19:27The city of Atlantis allegedly existed 12,000 years ago.
19:32Then, it sank, and over centuries, people have been passing stories about it.
19:38Many think it was just a regular island,
19:41but so many legends tell about a powerful empire.
19:45Atlantis supposedly was one of the wealthiest and most fascinating cities of its time.
19:50Your breath would have been taken away if you had stepped through its central gate.
19:55Amazing decorations and towering marble statues were all over the place.
19:59The rumor has it, the entire city is under the water now.
20:04Some people believe that it's on the seabed somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle.
20:09Some even claim that an underwater pyramid in the Atlantic
20:12is somehow responsible for all those planes, people, and boats that mysteriously disappear there.
20:18And no one can track them later.
20:21The story says that in the late 1960s,
20:25there was a group of treasure hunters that came across the ruins of an ancient city.
20:30It happened during one of their diving expeditions in the Bermuda region off the coast of Miami.
20:35They spoke about the intriguing remains of the city
20:38and mentioned a glass pyramid they also stumbled upon there.
20:42They claimed it was bigger than any other pyramid,
20:45even those discovered in Egypt.
20:47Of course, those were just stories.
20:50But unusual things do happen in that area.
20:54For example, volatile water currents or a strong vortex that occurs from time to time.
21:00The Bermuda Triangle is one of the best spots for researchers to explore.
21:04They go there to study minerals, the seabed, and the Gulf Stream.
21:08They study how the ocean influences weather.
21:11The geological structure of the planet's crust,
21:14deep down under the ocean floor, is especially interesting.
21:17The deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean lies in the Bermuda Triangle.
21:24Researchers have done a lot of studies and drilling there
21:27to find out what lies a couple of miles beneath the seabed in that area.
21:31There's an awesome variety of seabed landforms in the Bermuda Triangle.
21:35You can hardly see anything like that anywhere else on Earth,
21:39especially if you keep in mind that this is a relatively small ocean region.
21:44Look at this shelf with shallow banks.
21:47There are also plateaus, plains, and deep-sea trenches.
21:51If you believe the Bermuda Triangle is some sort of a trap,
21:55you're not wrong, considering its complex geological structure.
22:00There are a couple of groups of seamounts in the eastern and northern regions of the triangle.
22:05They're mostly unnamed.
22:07Some of them are up to 650 feet high.
22:10At such heights, they would be considered regular hills on the surface.
22:14But by ocean standards, these so-called underwater hills are like small mountains.
22:20They're either elliptical or round.
22:22You can see that if you take a look from above.
22:25There are more seamounts in the Pacific than in the Atlantic Ocean.
22:29The underwater world in the Atlantic is less diverse than in the Pacific,
22:33unless we're talking about the Bermuda Triangle.
22:36The limestone platform that forms the bottom of the triangle is nearly 3.7 miles deep.
22:42And this entire thick layer consists of the remains of small ancient creatures.
22:48In 2019, a big group of geologists published an article
22:53where they claimed that the triangle formed as a result of strong volcanic activity.
22:58For years, people believed there were ancient, long-extinct volcanoes
23:02that brought the Bermuda Islands from the sea bottom.
23:06So, one theory says the Bermuda Islands formed because there were disruptions and magma flows.
23:13Pieces of ancient plates that were already in the mantle went up to the surface.
23:17And then, they were mixed.
23:19That's how many volcanic islands in the oceans could form.
23:23Knowing this, science fiction writers let their imagination run wild.
23:27They told stories about scary creatures and mystical cities or islands hidden deep down beneath all those layers.
23:38All these mysterious stories encourage people to create their own theories.
23:43In the 15th century, a well-known man named Christopher Columbus
23:47was on what would later become one of the greatest and most important expeditions ever.
23:51He was one of the first people to tell stories about a mysterious region that was later called the Bermuda
23:57Triangle.
23:59This area was first known as the Summers Isles,
24:03named after British naval hero and privateer George Summers.
24:07But Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez discovered the island in 1505,
24:12and that's when the area got the name it has today.
24:16So, Columbus mentioned some pretty strange sightings within the area,
24:20starting with a light similar to that of a candle moving up and down in the distance.
24:26He immediately warned his crew and asked them to look at the light,
24:30which kept vanishing and reappearing.
24:32He spoke about stars that seemed to move around in the sky.
24:36The needle of their compass went crazy, too.
24:39But the most unusual thing he claimed he had seen
24:42was an unknown glowing object coming out of the sea and shooting toward the sky.
24:50Many people these days believe there was nothing really unusual there.
24:54Those must have been lights coming from another ship or from the shore.
24:58But Bermuda intrigues us today, too.
25:01It's a roughly triangular area where ships disappear without any trace.
25:06Sometimes they show up later, but empty and with not a single person on board.
25:12But more often, no one ever finds their wrecks.
25:15And it's not just ships.
25:17Planes go missing, too.
25:19The training sailing ship HMS Atalanta
25:22was one of the first cases in the string of mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.
25:26The ship left a dockyard in Bermuda and headed in the direction of England back in 1880.
25:32It never reached the British Isles.
25:34It actually never even left the Bermuda region.
25:37It just went missing, and no one ever found any trace of it.
25:41Some said the ship disappeared because of a powerful storm they came across on their route.
25:46The crew members probably didn't have enough experience to handle such a situation.
25:52Back then, everyone wanted to know what had happened to the ship.
25:56How could it just disappear like that?
25:58It made headlines.
26:00People were coming up with all kinds of possible theories about what could have happened.
26:05The story continued with the coal carrier Cyclops.
26:08In 1918, it sailed off the island of Barbados.
26:12And after a couple of days, the situation repeated.
26:16The ship disappeared without a trace.
26:18Along with more than 300 people on board.
26:21Three years later, in 1921, a Coast Guard on the Diamond Shoals near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina,
26:28discovered a massive commercial ship that ran aground.
26:32The Guard was prepared to help people in trouble, but they had no one to save.
26:36The ship was empty.
26:38None of the passengers or crew members were there.
26:41Some theories about this accident included pirates,
26:44but no one really found out what had happened.
26:48Flight 19 turned out to be one of the most famous incidents in that area.
26:53An entire group of aircraft disappeared in the area in 1945.
26:58A further rescue expedition didn't go well either,
27:01because one of the mariners with 13 crew members also went missing.
27:05And it's not that such things only happened a long time ago.
27:09A 29-foot-long ship with 20 people on board went missing a day after it was due to arrive
27:15at Lake Worth, Florida.
27:16There were neither any records of the ship nor any distress signal.
27:20The search mission involved boats and aircraft and lasted 84 hours.
27:25The rescue team covered an area that was nearly two times the size of the entire state of Massachusetts,
27:30but still nothing.
27:33The Bermuda Triangle is a place of great mystery,
27:36but the islands are a perfect spot for travelers.
27:39It's an excellent place if you're into golfing, for example.
27:43So, if you're lucky, you might easily run into some famous golf players or celebrities while there.
27:49And here's something interesting for music fans.
27:51John Lennon got inspiration for nearly 25 of his songs on one of these fascinating islands.
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