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00:01The Bermuda Triangle, an area off the Florida coast made famous for the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes.
00:12Normally you would find a life vest, a life preserver or something, but not a trace.
00:18Here, engines and instruments go haywire, pilots and captains get lost, and passengers and crew are never seen again.
00:28There must be some really powerful and terrifying forces involved.
00:32Now investigators unravel the real and terrifying forces at play.
00:38Jeez! Look at that!
00:43To solve this mystery, we dive deep into the Bermuda Triangle, digitally deconstruct the strange disappearances,
00:53to reveal a hidden world, and an extraordinary landscape like no other, and unravel the curse of the Bermuda Triangle.
01:17Off the eastern seaboard of the United States is an area known as the Bermuda Triangle.
01:25On average, four planes and 20 ships are reported to go missing in this region every year.
01:34Its victims vanish without a trace.
01:39There's still things that are unanswered. We still today conclusively and definitively don't know what happened with a whole host
01:46of ships and aircrafts.
01:50The Triangle covers half a million square miles of ocean, stretching between Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico.
02:01Its a graveyard of lost wrecks.
02:05Among its victims, the USS Cyclops, a huge freighter that disappears under mysterious circumstances.
02:15Flight 19, five bombers that vanish into thin air.
02:21And most recently, El Faro, a cargo ship lost at sea with no survivors.
02:29What makes this empty patch of ocean so deadly?
02:35Flying in the Bahamas on a weekly basis, it sits in the back of my mind, Flight 19 and other
02:40aircraft and ships that have disappeared in there.
02:44Aviator Charlie Bericci is fascinated by the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.
02:49He investigates one of the Triangle's most famous incidents, the disappearance of Flight 19.
02:57There's not a shred of evidence suggesting where they went down.
03:02No shred of evidence as far as aircraft wreckage.
03:08Winter of 1945, Flight 19, a squadron of US Air Force TBM Avengers, fly out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
03:19Its five pilots and nine crewmen are on a routine navigation and combat training mission.
03:27Shortly after takeoff, things start to go wrong.
03:31As the planes fly over the western corner of the Bermuda Triangle, their twin compasses suddenly stop working.
03:43Disoriented and unable to navigate, the crew now looks for landmarks to guide them home.
03:50The flight leader spots a group of islands that he identifies as the Florida Keys.
03:57He changes course based on this landmark, and his trainee pilots follow him.
04:07All five planes vanish.
04:14Searching for clues, Charlie flies into the Bermuda Triangle.
04:21This is where the trouble started.
04:23Flying over open water, as you can see, there's nothing outside right now to use as a landmark.
04:28And it would definitely be hazardous if you had your compass go out.
04:33From his cockpit, Charlie thinks Flight 19's leader makes a mistake in his identification of the Florida Keys.
04:41These airmen were in the same exact position we're in right now with deteriorating weather conditions.
04:48As these cumulus clouds begin to devour the horizon, how do we know which side is up and which side
04:55is down?
04:58Charlie believes the flight leader is confused and completely lost.
05:03It was impossible. There's no way. There's no way they ended up in Key West.
05:09If the patrol isn't in the Florida Keys, where is it?
05:15Charlie flies on, searching for clues.
05:2040 minutes later, and over 200 miles away, he spots a chain of islands north of the Bahamas that bears
05:27a striking similarity to the Keys.
05:30The great Abaco Islands looks like Key West.
05:33I can understand now what we see ahead of us kind of looks like Key West as you start going
05:40southbound.
05:43So at this point in time in our investigation, I'm starting to see what they saw and how this could
05:49become even more confusing.
05:52If Charlie is right, Flight 19 is in terrible trouble.
05:57It's hopelessly lost in the Atlantic with their fuel running low.
06:10Back safely on the ground, Charlie works with fellow pilot Donny Diddy to investigate his theory.
06:17That Flight 19 mistakes its position and flies in the wrong direction.
06:23Donny is a retired U.S. Army attack helicopter pilot with over half a century of flying experience.
06:31The real question is, where is Flight 19 right now? Where did it go down?
06:37Plotting its flight path from the Abaco Islands where it gets lost, Donny and Charlie piece together what could be
06:43Flight 19's final moments.
06:45They flew a course of 091. We are talking about roughly 26 minutes.
06:52Because the flight leader believes the squadron is in the Florida Keys, they fly northeast to get back to Fort
06:59Lauderdale.
07:01Somewhere around two hours of flight, he established a northeast heading.
07:07But if they're actually over the Abaco Islands, they're flying further out to sea.
07:11If he had three more hours of fuel, he would have gone roughly 400 miles into the North Atlantic.
07:26Donny believes Flight 19 runs out of fuel and ditches in the ocean.
07:32Probably been in a few hours. They were all unconscious.
07:36If Donny and Charlie are right, the location the planes go down and sink explains why no wreckage has ever
07:43been recovered.
07:44Just a few miles off of Abaco Island, there's a sheer cliff that drops down to 15,000 feet.
07:52The planes are now lost in the abyss of the Atlantic.
07:57We've got possible compass failure, losing track of time, we've got poor airmanship.
08:04I'm pretty confident that it is, it did just ditch and run out of fuel in the northeast side of
08:10the Abaco Islands in 15,000 feet of water.
08:13But there's another unsolved mystery.
08:17Following Flight 19's disappearance, a PBM Mariner seaplane is dispatched on a search and rescue mission.
08:24It, along with its 13 crew, also disappears without a trace.
08:32The Mariner is perfect for long searches.
08:36It has five fuel tanks that give it a massive 3,000-mile range.
08:44But some tanks are leaky, allowing fuel vapors to spread through the plane, turning it into a flying bomb.
08:53On that fateful night, the Mariner takes off from Florida.
08:58It plans to fly a search pattern across the Bahamas.
09:03But just 20 minutes after takeoff, a passing ship sees an explosion, with flames leaping 100 feet into the air,
09:13right where the Mariner goes missing.
09:16It was such a horrific explosion.
09:18They still, to this day, haven't found any part of it.
09:23The lack of wreckage is a common feature of many Bermuda Triangle mysteries.
09:30But at its north corner, hidden beneath the waves of Bermuda, the evidence of wrecks is very real.
09:38Could unearthing the island of Bermuda itself reveal more clues to the Triangle's hidden secrets?
09:54The Bermuda Triangle.
09:56A section of the Atlantic Ocean that stretches between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
10:04It cannot be found on any official map.
10:09But it's a place where ships, planes, and people simply vanish.
10:17At the Triangle's northern apex, in the blue waters of Bermuda, more than 300 wrecks form a ring around the
10:25islands.
10:27Many of their hulls have been torn apart, floundering on the huge coral reefs that surround the atoll.
10:35These reefs are formed by coral skeletons, which are essentially just little animals that want to grow as close to
10:40the surface of the water as possible.
10:42But these reefs are clearly indicated on maps.
10:47So what lures the ships to their doom here?
10:52Bermuda is an idyllic island group.
10:58The sea's smooth surface conceals an alien landscape shaped by volcanic forces.
11:05Surrounding the islands are a hidden barrier of jagged coral reefs, made from razor-sharp limestone, capable of tearing a
11:15ship apart.
11:18And deeper down, hidden inside an underwater mountain, is a mysterious iron-rich substance called magnetite.
11:30Could this explain why the Bermuda Triangle is so dangerous?
11:38When you form iron oxides, or essentially nature's rust, and you subject that to high temperatures, you form magnetite.
11:47And these high-temperature iron oxide conditions exist here, potentially forming billions of tons of this stuff offshore.
11:55Geoscientist Dr. Martin Pepper believes magnetite may be responsible for Bermuda's wrecks.
12:02Magnetite is the most magnetic, naturally occurring substance in the world.
12:08But how is a rock buried beneath an island luring ships to their doom?
12:13If we take a handful of magnetite, and we put our compass on top of that, like our ship would
12:19be trying to navigate over a giant deposit,
12:21you can actually see that the compass needle just swings round and round.
12:27If you desperately need to know where you're going, and you don't have a specific bearing, that means trouble.
12:34Martin wants to know if the magnetite beneath Bermuda has an effect on compass readings.
12:40Using a magnetometer, he tests the strength of a sample of magnetite.
12:46Here we go.
12:51With about a pound of magnetite, I'm getting about 12.4 gauss.
12:55That's about 40 times more powerful than the average magnetic field of the Earth.
13:00Martin does the math.
13:03Most of Bermuda's wrecks lie on a 65-foot volcanic plateau around the island.
13:09Magnetic fields are essentially a cubic function.
13:12So for every two feet you go away from it, it decreases its strength eight times.
13:17So you have to be pretty close to this stuff for it to mess with your compass.
13:21It leads Martin to an astonishing conclusion.
13:25If the magnetite lies beneath the volcanic plateau,
13:29there must be an enormous amount of the rock beneath Bermuda.
13:34It might be as much as 10 billion tons.
13:38In the shallows, this could totally explain those hundreds of shipwrecks.
13:44As a ship sails toward Bermuda, it passes over the ancient volcano that formed the islands.
13:54The magnetite in the rocks beneath could pull the ship's compass off true north.
14:05So the captain may think that Bermuda's reefs are miles away,
14:10when actually he is heading right for them.
14:17It's a mistake that sailors make through the ages, turning the waters around Bermuda into a ship's graveyard.
14:26Imagine being out to sea with no land in sight. In calm waters is when the danger begins.
14:33Bermuda's treacherous reefs and its compass-bending magnetite are a lethal combination for unsuspecting sailors.
14:41Lose your compass, and you can easily hit one of these.
14:46But Bermuda only forms one tip of the vast triangle.
14:51What strange forces explain other ships sunk beneath the waves of these deadly waters?
15:09The Bermuda Triangle.
15:11A stretch of sea off America's east coast where people, planes, and ships are said to mysteriously disappear.
15:24In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a massive coal freighter, steams out of Barbados, headed for Baltimore.
15:34The ship, along with its passengers and crew, vanish, never to be seen again.
15:43Cyclops' route takes it across the southern edge of the Bermuda Triangle.
15:49Hidden beneath the ocean here is a gigantic trench.
15:54Five miles deep, 60 miles wide, and a thousand miles long.
16:02It's the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.
16:07And Cyclops is not its only victim.
16:11In 1941, her two sister ships also go missing here.
16:19It's a remarkable coincidence.
16:21But how could a trench, however deep, possibly sink a ship?
16:29Oceanographers like to say we know the bottom of the ocean less well than we know the surface of the
16:34moon.
16:35Marine scientist Brian House is investigating how the Cyclops may have ended up at the bottom of the trench.
16:43He heads up the Sustain Lab at the University of Miami's Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
16:52It's a unique facility that can create freak weather conditions.
16:58At the time Cyclops sets sail, there are no reports of stormy weather.
17:05But Brian suspects the ship is hit by a rare phenomenon that, until recently, is considered a myth.
17:13Rogue waves.
17:15There are a reality on the surface, and they do occur a lot more frequently than we think.
17:22Rogue waves are normally formed when swells travel across the ocean at different speeds.
17:28When these swells pass over each other, their crests and troughs can coincide and intensify.
17:35Creating walls of water that can reach 100 feet.
17:39When two of these waves come together, they add up.
17:42That creates a very large wave at that location.
17:45Is the Cyclops struck by a rogue wave?
17:50Brian suspects rogue waves may occur naturally above the Puerto Rico Trench, where the Cyclops is heading.
18:00That's because the trench has a unique underwater landscape that turns ordinary waves into killers.
18:08Strangely, it's not the trench's immense depth that creates the killer rogue waves.
18:14It's the trench's shallow areas.
18:17It's got to be shallow enough that the waves will actually feel the bottom, and then having this sharp topography.
18:25Brian's study of rogue waves reveals they occur in shallow waters,
18:30where the length of the wave closely matches the water's depth.
18:34He searches the Puerto Rico Trench for these danger zones.
18:40This area of the Mona Trough, this area up over here by the Navidad Bank, and then again over off
18:47the Virgin Islands in these trenches over here.
18:51The waves are interacting as they come up onto the really shallow waters on the sides of the banks.
18:57Brian identifies several areas in the trench that could create monster rogue waves.
19:04But could the Cyclops survive the impact with such a wave?
19:10Brian and his team use a model of the ship to find out.
19:16So right now my team is in the tank, and they're getting the boat ready to have it get hit
19:22by the waves.
19:24The team first simulates a standard wave pattern.
19:30The ship easily rides the waves.
19:33You see that the boat is just bobbing up and down without having any issue in that wave field.
19:42Next, the team simulates a rogue wave.
19:48Okay, so now we see we've started this group of waves that are going to come together.
19:52The shortest waves are coming first. The boat is handling that okay.
19:57We see the larger wave coming up.
19:59And then, wow, it just broke and that ship just went right down.
20:04The model ship is overwhelmed.
20:09The scale would be equivalent to about a 90-foot-high wave, which breaking is just a tremendous amount of
20:16energy.
20:19The changing depth of the sea floor can trigger a rogue wave on the surface.
20:25Towering up to 90 feet tall.
20:30Traveling at 75 miles an hour.
20:34It strikes Cyclops without warning, leaving no time for an SOS.
20:42And the trench here is so deep that the wreck sinks to oblivion, never to be seen again.
20:5223 years later, her two sister ships sail in the same waters,
20:59and may suffer the same fate.
21:03Brian believes a rogue wave is a solution to a 100-year-old mystery.
21:09The USS Cyclops could have been hit by a rogue wave.
21:12It's in an area where these are likely to occur, and it's very consistent with the available evidence in this
21:18case.
21:21Today, the Cyclops lies somewhere on the seabed.
21:25Now, researchers are investigating a strange alien-like substance that lies beneath the ocean bedrock.
21:33One that may be responsible for other unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.
21:50The Bermuda Triangle, a deadly patch of ocean that claims the lives of thousands.
21:55In a lot of these cases, there's no distress calls, no sign of wreckage, nothing.
22:01Now scientists are investigating a strange alien-like substance on the ocean floor,
22:08that some believe can swallow entire ships without warning.
22:16The waters of the Bermuda Triangle hide an explosive danger.
22:22Buried just below the sea floor,
22:25lie immense ice domes of methane hydrate.
22:30Methane gas trapped in water frozen solid by crushing pressure and icy temperatures.
22:40But the ice crystals are unstable.
22:44So if they're disturbed, they can collapse and release the gas in a huge eruption.
22:53Could these monster bubbles have the power to sink a ship?
22:59When you look at the methane molecule, it is one of the weirdest solids you've ever seen,
23:03because it literally takes ice, merges it with methane,
23:07and you can store up to 80 times the volume of methane gas locked into this ice.
23:14Geoscientist Dr. Martin Pepper suspects that methane hydrate ice
23:18may explain the disappearance of dozens of ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
23:25Methane ice forms in very deep or very cold water,
23:29where microbes in the clay sediment produce methane gas.
23:34But the real problem is when the methane is trapped beneath the seabed,
23:38and the gas builds over thousands of years.
23:43As the methane deep below tries to boil out,
23:46that pressure is held in until finally that clay can't take it,
23:50and then...
23:54But can a methane ice blowout in the Bermuda Triangle sink a ship?
23:58The problem is, as scientists, we don't know how much is down there.
24:02But the Bermuda Triangle here is not immune, and we know there's a lot.
24:10Martin conducts an experiment to investigate.
24:17He fills a 70-ounce bottle with 15 ounces of dry carbon dioxide ice.
24:23We're using dry ice, which is essentially just the solid form of carbon dioxide.
24:28And we're using that for safety purposes,
24:30because we want to build pressure to explode the bottle,
24:34but we don't want the flammability that we have in methane.
24:38These bottles typically rupture at about 200 to 300 psi.
24:42That is a huge amount of pressure,
24:44which also gives us a large volume of air coming to the surface.
24:49Martin plans to release a large bubble beneath a model ship
24:53to simulate a methane ice explosion in the Bermuda Triangle.
24:58To really tease out what happens,
25:00I've put these little action cameras all over everything.
25:03So after the experiment, we can break it down just like a crime scene.
25:08Martin adds a little water to speed up the reaction,
25:13and then seals the bottle.
25:15The reel is on.
25:20He positions it beneath the model ship,
25:25and waits for the pressure to build.
25:28We're starting to see some bubbles,
25:30and that's because the bottle is expanding
25:32and forcing it out of the foam underneath.
25:35That's always the sign it's about to go off.
25:43Jeez! Look at that!
25:46That was insane!
25:50The explosion releases a huge bubble that sinks the model in an instant.
25:59Martin reviews high-speed footage of the experiment.
26:04This is impressive, because you can actually see the shock wave kicks the boat up,
26:09then the boat falls back down.
26:11You can literally see the weight of the cargo in the air,
26:14but then the bubble rises and throws the boat way up in the air,
26:18and then it literally just falls right through the hole created in the water.
26:24It is less than a second this whole thing transpires.
26:30Just 15 ounces of dry ice is enough to sink a three-foot model.
26:37But how much methane ice does it take to sink a large ship sailing through the Bermuda Triangle?
26:44If we were to scale this up, you'd only need about as much methane as the size of a container
26:50to do the same thing on a full-size cargo vessel.
26:56The Bermuda Triangle may conceal a minefield of methane ice.
27:02It's not a big deal for this amount of methane to be in one spot.
27:06These methane clathrates could literally be ticking time bombs of bubbles just bursting out from under the oceans.
27:13But it's not just shipping that's under threat.
27:17Could deadly methane ice also explain the dozens of aircraft that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle?
27:27Just eight gallons of methane ice can release over 1,000 gallons of gas into the ocean.
27:38When the gas erupts at the surface and mixes with the air, it causes dangerous turbulence.
27:48And when methane floods a plane's engines, it can snuff out combustion, causing a deadly stall.
27:57Or even worse, a spark from the engine could ignite the methane.
28:09What happens to ships could actually happen to airplanes if they're flying low enough to the sea surface.
28:16Methane ice explosions may explain why some vessels in the Triangle can vanish without a trace.
28:23This is the perfect scenario, because we don't ever have signs of any SOS distress calls.
28:30And this points that it would be literally gone.
28:34But methane hydrate ice only exists in pockets of the Atlantic Ocean.
28:39It can't explain every strange disappearance.
28:44Today, scientists continue to investigate nature's most violent and destructive phenomena.
28:51And freak atmospheric events that may be responsible for numerous disappearances in the Triangle.
29:06The Bermuda Triangle.
29:09It's said to have claimed over 1,000 victims since the mid-19th century.
29:16But is the Triangle still a threat?
29:21September 2015.
29:24The SS El Faro.
29:26A 790-foot cargo ship with 33 crew sails from Jacksonville, Florida, bound for Puerto Rico.
29:34As the vessel steams south, Hurricane Joaquin gathers strength in the Atlantic.
29:42The El Faro's captain charts a course to avoid the storm.
29:49But less than 48 hours into the voyage, things suddenly go wrong.
29:56The ship takes on water and lists to one side.
30:05In its engine room, its 30,000 horsepower steam turbines are failing.
30:16With no power to its propeller, the El Faro is left adrift in the Bermuda Triangle.
30:26As the hurricane becomes even more powerful.
30:32All communications from El Faro are lost.
30:36The vessel vanishes from the radar.
30:40What goes wrong?
30:45Oceanographer Milan Kurčić works at Miami's Hurricane Lab.
30:51A Category 4 hurricane now rages.
30:56Milan wants to know...
30:59What creates a killer hurricane?
31:05That's still an unresolved problem.
31:07When you have a hurricane, you have these processes that are rarely observed.
31:11They're hard to measure and they're typically out of reach.
31:15At this state-of-the-art facility, Milan can create a hurricane in a box with the flip of a
31:21switch.
31:25It allows him to investigate hurricanes close up and study the transfer of energy between winds and waves.
31:35Over water, the hurricane wind whips up a rough sea.
31:39But ironically, it's also the friction from the rough sea that weakens the hurricane.
31:45The only braking mechanism is really just mechanical friction.
31:50And that is how rough the ocean becomes as winds pick up.
31:54Hurricane experts thought this friction constantly increases as hurricane winds gain speed.
32:01Basically, what we used to believe is the drag simply, you know, keeps on increasing with increasing wind speed.
32:10With this model, a hurricane eventually weakens due to the friction its wind generates on the sea's surface.
32:17But there's a problem.
32:20Because some hurricanes actually strengthen despite the increased friction.
32:29Now Milan has solved the puzzle.
32:33Data from his experiments reveal the model of how hurricanes intensify is completely wrong.
32:40These data from the lab show us that actually the roughness doesn't keep increasing with wind speed, but tapers off
32:49at this critical point.
32:52What causes this critical loss of friction?
32:57Could the answer help explain the disappearance of El Faro and other ships in the Triangle?
33:05Milan analyzes high speed footage of his own hurricane and unearths a clue.
33:12Spray in the air and bubbles in the water makes the transition from water to air smoother.
33:19Milan believes small bubbles and tiny droplets of water can help smooth out the ocean surface.
33:26Kind of like a smooth blanket of mixed water bubbles and spray, and that causes a decrease in the roughness.
33:37With less friction, a hurricane rapidly gains in power.
33:45As El Faro flounders, the hurricane becomes a killer.
33:54Current research suggests that El Faro has likely been caught in Category 3 hurricane winds going up to Category 4.
34:0830 days after El Faro's disappearance, a salvage ship discovers the vessel.
34:1415,000 feet down at the bottom of the ocean.
34:21The search team retrieves the El Faro's data recorder.
34:26It reveals further vital clues to the ship's tragic end.
34:34It all starts with a hatch the crew forgets to close.
34:38So now water can seep into the cargo hold.
34:45Here, cars break free on wet decks and smash through a water pipe, flooding the hold.
34:55As the ship leans over, its water-filled belly pushes the vessel into an extreme list.
35:07And in the machine room, oil drains away from the engine, which comes to a grinding halt.
35:16With no power, El Faro is left adrift.
35:20Just as the storm it sets course to avoid intensifies into a killer hurricane.
35:30But one mystery remains unsolved.
35:34Why does Hurricane Joaquin suddenly change course?
35:38It makes a beeline for El Faro as if it has a personal vendetta against the ship.
35:45Hurricane Joaquin provided a number of surprises for the forecasters, both in terms of the track and in terms of
35:52the intensity.
35:55Hurricane specialist James Franklin is a consultant to the official investigation into the sinking of the El Faro.
36:02He wants to understand why Joaquin dramatically changes its forecast path to head straight for the ship.
36:11The initial forecast for Joaquin had it moving off to the west and then to the northwest.
36:16It didn't do that at all, though.
36:19James believes Joaquin's path is so unusual because of the multiple weather systems that surround the hurricane.
36:26With Joaquin, the winds at the bottom are blowing very differently than the winds at the top.
36:32And so a forecaster then has to figure out, well, which of those winds is going to prevail?
36:39El Faro's captain believes he's charted a course south of the hurricane.
36:44Instead, he steams straight towards it.
36:48Joaquin was moving further south than forecast, basically cutting off that particular path.
36:59Joaquin overwhelms and sinks the ship.
37:03The captain and his entire crew of 32 men drown.
37:11The Bermuda Triangle is the hurricane capital of the world.
37:16Rapidly intensifying hurricanes veering off their predicted path could account for the disappearance of scores of ships.
37:26And now, there's evidence of an even stranger weather phenomenon.
37:39The Bermuda Triangle. An area of the Atlantic Ocean where numerous planes and ships mysteriously vanish.
37:50Now, there's evidence of a rare atmospheric event which can send planes plummeting to their doom.
37:57It is extremely hazardous to aircraft. It's not an easy thing to get out of.
38:02Pilot Charlie Bericci investigates the strangest weather phenomenon of them all.
38:08It's so unusual that until recently, scientists deny it even exists.
38:15It's called a microburst.
38:20Microbursts form when dry air mixes with rain from a thundercloud.
38:25This creates a column of cold air, which sinks and plummets to the ground at speeds of up to 100
38:31miles per hour.
38:34But can a microburst down an aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle?
38:38It's a very moist environment. It's a very hot environment.
38:42A lot of hot air rising, a lot of thunderstorm activity.
38:46So, it's possible that aircraft may have entered microbursts in that region.
38:52At South Coast Simulation Pilot Academy, Charlie uses a flight simulator to investigate if a microburst can crash a plane.
39:03A microburst is programmed into the simulation.
39:08Charlie's flying at 1,500 feet when it hits.
39:11And there's the wind shear autopiles coming off.
39:14Positive rate, gear up.
39:17Planes hit by microbursts first fly into a strong headwind.
39:22Then a downdraft, followed by a strong tailwind.
39:27Now we're getting a downdraft.
39:29This is not a wussy maneuver.
39:32The plane is robbed of lift.
39:35It can stall and nosedive.
39:40Charlie has to take immediate action to avert disaster.
39:44Class, we're going to go to 10. Speed brakes are stowed.
39:47And there we are. That was our maximum performance climb.
39:50And now we're out of it.
39:51Charlie's quick thinking and practiced response means he can outfly the microburst.
39:59But if it hits without warning, the outcome could be very different.
40:04We were expecting it. So we didn't have that human factor today where we had five to 10 second delay
40:10of a panic or uncertainty of what to do.
40:13So what we did today might not work out in the real world.
40:19According to Charlie, microbursts may be responsible for downing numerous planes in the Bermuda Triangle.
40:27It's an extreme hazard and it's a killer of aircraft.
40:33Microbursts have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle and aircrafts have disappeared in there.
40:36And that might be the cause for why they were never discovered.
40:41It's impossible to know for sure how many planes have been hit by a microburst in the Bermuda Triangle.
40:49The evidence lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
40:59The Bermuda Triangle has mystified both experts and the public for decades.
41:06But massive killer rogue waves, extreme methane hydrate blowouts, and violet microbursts have proved to be all too real.
41:21Advances in our understanding of Mother Nature's extreme and terrifying forces may one day reveal all of the Bermuda Triangle's
41:30secrets.
42:04You
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