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Sam: When I was a kid I drew
all over the wall with a marker,
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I'm sure I had a good reason,
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Although it escapes me now,
but I did realize that I was
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Going to get in a ton
of trouble and so I hit on
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The perfect alibi,
the easter bunny did it.
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That was airtight, you
can't poke holes in that.
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No one knows where
the easter bunny is.
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Problem was my parents didn't
believe in the easter bunny anymore,
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I was busted.
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I learned a hard lesson that
day about the nature of magic.
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Now sadly I'm an adult
and I envy my younger self,
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The one who believed in magic.
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Did the wrinkles and
gray hair grow an adverse
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Relationship to wonder.
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So what does the easter bunny
have to do with the bermuda triangle?
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We miss that wonder,
we long for a world with magic in it.
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So here I am on the edge of
a boat in the bermuda triangle
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And I'm hosting a tv
show about curses,
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So maybe all hope isn't lost.
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There's a desire to believe in
something beyond our understanding,
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Can a science minded skeptic,
like myself,
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Reignite the spark of magic?
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Is there an intersection point
between science and myth?
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Wait, what was that?
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Dude,
that was a (bleep) shark, man.
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Oh there he goes.
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There goes the genius.
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Sam: I used to be a
professional sailor and at
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Some point I've crossed
most of the world's oceans on
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Various sail boats,
and I've seen some
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Pretty strange things.
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Cheers guys. Nobody knows.
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If you wanna hear some stories
just mix sailors and alcohol
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And you'll turn on a spigot
you wish you could stop.
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Who's got like a good
bermuda triangle story?
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Sam: Deep underneath it? Man:
Yeah. Sam: It's probably godzilla.
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Man: Yeah. Sam:
What's the vortex?
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Neal: It's a spot where all
the instruments go crazy and
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It's like a portal to another
dimension or something.
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Sam: Have you guys seen
anything like that around
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Here, like, weird stuff?
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Neal: I mean, there's no way.
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Neal: I mean,
you guys all know steve nolands, right,
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Like his story about they're
were like 40 knots or so,
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You got three or
four guys on the boat.
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One green light came
screaming up behind the boat and
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Then it came around
to the side of the boat,
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They're still doing 40 knots,
lit up the whole side of the
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Boat and then they say it took
off like a rocket in front of them.
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Man: (bleep)...
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Sam: That's crazy,
man. Neal: Yeah.
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Sam: What do you guys
think happened to flight 19?
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Sam: Right.
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Sam: Right.
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Sam: The story of the bermuda
triangle really has three chapters,
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Plane crashes,
ship wrecks and the
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Mysterious disappearances
of entire crews.
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We call those ghost ships.
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But are any of these
chapters truly anomalist?
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Is the bermuda triangle
more dangerous than the rest
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Of the world's oceans?
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We'll analyze the planet's
most infamous curse with a
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Skeptical forensic mind.
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So here it is, this is it,
this is the bermuda triangle.
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You know, florida,
bermuda to puerto rico.
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You know,
it's about 500,000 square miles.
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The fact is there have
been countless incidents,
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Millions on the world's
oceans since the first
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Seafaring people set out
nearly 50,000 years ago.
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Most of these are easy to explain,
you know,
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Bad weather, human error,
faulty equipment.
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The ocean's a big bad place,
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But I'm interested in the
events here that have some
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Mystery surrounding them,
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Where it's harder to put
your finger on the cause.
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So I've hand selected some
of the most cryptic occurrences
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And created incident maps
of the areas surrounding the
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Bermuda triangle.
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You can see there's hundreds
and hundreds of ship wrecks
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And plane crashes.
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This cluster here
has gotta be flight 19.
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The disappearance of flight
19 is the foundation of the
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Bermuda triangle legend.
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In early December in 1945,
five navy planes took off from
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Florida on a training
mission with 14 men on board.
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Those planes,
the infamous flight 19,
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Disappeared without a trace,
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But then one of the rescue
planes that goes looking for them
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Also completely vanishes
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And now you have
the seeds for a mystery.
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300 boats and planes
searched the water for five days,
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Not one shred of
wreckage was ever found.
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This concrete shipwreck
off the coast of bimini is the
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Last witness to
the missing planes.
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While it can't tell
its story in words,
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I'd love to find some shrapnel
of evidence of what happened
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To flight 19,
something to ease my skeptic mind and keep
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The hope for a
magical world alive.
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Sam: As lovely
as this location is,
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As lucid and clean the water,
I can't help but think that of
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The 27 young men who flew
over this stretch of unforgiving
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Ocean and vanished forever in
the darkness of the coming night,
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All those families ripped apart,
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Children left behind without
ever knowing what happened,
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Without closure,
without understanding.
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Did those young men
fall victim to a mysterious
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Geo-physical curse?
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What happened out
there in the darkness?
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Terry: This is actually
the lead ship of flight 19.
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Sam: Wow,
the exact same plane as this as flight 19?
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Terry: Yes.
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Sam: The final words of the
men on flight 19 have been
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Studied and poured over.
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Every sentence and word
analyzed in depth by the
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Navy's after-action report.
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And then, of course,
reanalyzed by armchair
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Historians and hacky
cursed tv shows.
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Walk me through it, what
happened to flight 19, what's the deal?
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Terry: It was a training
flight for navigation
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Training, believe it or not.
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Sam: So we just back from the sapona,
which we dove on.
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That was their target.
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So we know they dropped
their bombs on the sapona.
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What was their path after that?
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Terry: Due east. Sam: Due east.
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Terry: For another
60-70 miles. Sam: Okay.
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Terry: Then make a turn to the north,
northwest.
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Sam: What happened? Terry:
It's a big mystery to this day.
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Nobody knows exactly
what happened to them.
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Sam: Nobody knows,
but there are theories.
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Colleen stirling is the
lebron james of aviation
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Probability analysis.
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You maybe didn't know there
was a lebron james of that.
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After two years of searching
for air France flight 447,
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Colleen was brought in as part of
a small team to reanalyze the data,
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They found the wreckage
in less than five days.
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Colleen: Well the first
thing we did is looked at the
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500-page navy
report that came out.
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The communications,
all the radar hits that they had,
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And we wrote a chronology.
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The key transmissions.
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Everything is mapped based,
right.
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So I'll put like where they
launched from and the time,
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And then I'll draw the line
where they were supposed to go
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And then I can calculate with
the wind and their heading how
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Long it should have
taken them to get to their
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First turn point.
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I thought about that first
turn point and then I said,
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Well,
where could they have gone from there?
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They were trying to go
back to the northwest,
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But the wind was blowing them
and they may have not made the
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Turn sharp enough and might
have got significantly blown
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To a different heading.
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Man (over radio): Powers.
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What is your compass reading,
powers?
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Powers (over radio): I
don't know where we are.
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Must have gotten
lost after that last turn.
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Man (over radio): Mt-28,
this is ft-74,
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What is your trouble?
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Powers (over radio): Ah,
both my compasses are out and
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I'm trying to find fort lauderdale,
florida.
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Sam: So this is
the compass here.
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Terry: That's the magnetic compass.
Sam: That's the magnet compass.
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So he would be looking at this,
what else would he be looking at?
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Terry: He would look at
that and then hit down on
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His instrument panel.
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He'd have what's called the
gyrocompass here that you set
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This with this knob
to agree with this.
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Sam: To agree to that.
Terry: This bounces around.
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Sam: Sure. Terry:
That one is very stable.
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Colleen: Taylor,
who's the flight lead was talking about
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The compass didn't look right.
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He was starting to get confused.
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Sam: Don't they know
they have to get back?
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Colleen: Taylor thought
that they needed to fly to the
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Northeast because he
thought they were over
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The florida keys.
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Sam: How did he think he was?
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Colleen: It's very hard to
imagine him getting that lost.
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He doesn't seem to have his
wits about him on this flight.
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Then you hear them
arguing on the radio,
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It's really sad.
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Sam: I bet.
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Taylor (over radio):
We've just passed over a
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Small island and we
have no other land in sight.
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Man (over radio): Turn on
your emergency iff gear or
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Do you have it on?
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Taylor (over radio):
Iff gear was off,
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I'm turning it on now.
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Sam: What's iff gear?
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Terry: Iff is an acronym for
identification friend or foe.
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Sam: Okay.
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Terry: Right here, for example,
see this says 1,200.
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In an iff they would have
given them a code to squawk.
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Sam: To put as friend.
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Terry: Put in there and they
would be picked up on their radar.
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Sam: He didn't have it on.
Terry: He didn't have it on.
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Sam: Should he have had it on?
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Terry: Especially if I want
help in finding out where I am.
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Sam: Right.
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Taylor (over radio):
Ft-28 to (inaudible) three,
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One of the planes in the flight
thinks if we went 270 degrees
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We could hit land.
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Terry: 270, that's due west.
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Sam: So that's somebody with a
descent compass or somebody else is like,
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Hey we just go 270
we're gonna hit land.
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Terry: 'cause to get to
their bombing target they
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Flew due east.
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Sam: Right.
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Terry: Well just fly due west and it
will take you back where you came from.
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Sam: Right,
we'll hit land some point.
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Terry: Yeah.
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Man (over radio): Ft-28,
all planes in flight
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Change course to
0-90 for one minute.
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Sam: So now they're going...
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Terry: Back east again.
Sam: Back eat again.
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Powers (over radio):
Dammit if we just fly west we
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Would get home.
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Hold it, head west. Dammit
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Colleen: Powers,
who was the ranking guy on the flight,
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He kept saying
we need to go west.
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And then it gets
corroborated with a radar track
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That came from the
solomon's aircraft carrier.
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Sam: And where
did that see them?
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Colleen: The radar track
showed aircraft going south,
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Sam: Hm colleen: Over land.
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There's a good chance
that it could be somewhere in
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This mid peninsular,
east coast of florida region.
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Sam: So that wouldn't
surprise you at all?
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Colleen: No,
the model supports that.
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Sam: Wow.
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Taylor (over radio): We
are now flying 2-70 degrees.
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We will fly 2-70 degrees
until we hit the beach or
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Run out of gas.
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Sam: And now they know
they're in trouble cause it's like...
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Terry: They're out of time.
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Sam: They're
gonna run out of gas.
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Terry: And they just don't
have a clue where they are.
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Taylor (over radio):
When the first plane drops
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Below ten gallons we
all go down together.
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Everyone understand that?
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Five planes flown by navy
pilots vanished into the night.
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Then one of the rescue
planes that went after
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Suffered the same fate.
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Collectively the strange
event is known as flight 19.
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Taylor (over radio): We have
just passed over a small island and
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We have no other land in sight.
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Sam: It's the single biggest
event that gave the cursed
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Triangle its name.
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But here's a question,
what if the planes didn't
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Really go down inside
the bermuda triangle?
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Does the curse
dissolve into thin air?
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Taylor (over radio):
When the first plane drops
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Below ten gallons,
we all go down together,
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Does everyone understand that?
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Colleen: There's a good chance
that it could be somewhere
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In this mid peninsular,
east coast of florida region.
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They actually could have
made it back and started heading
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South in the time that
they had before they
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Ran out of fuel.
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Sam: Wow.
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For 70 years this
disappearance gripped the
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Imagination and people
assumed they crashed at sea,
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And what this model is showing
me is that there is this whole
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Other search area that
no one's even looked at.
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Colleen: There are still
corners of florida that
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Nobody's been in
because it's inaccessible for
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One reason or another.
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Sam: I don't usually follow
up on leads when they involve,
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Like, some dude who heard
something from another guy
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Who may or may not
have seen something.
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But colleen's identified a
search zone near a turtle
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Preserve in central florida,
and there just happens to be a
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Guy with a story about
a crashed airplane.
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How do you know that this
is the plane we're looking for,
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Flight 19?
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Nate: Well john myhre,
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One of the leading
researchers for flight 19,
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His theory was that the
five airplanes separated
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At some point in time off the
eastern coast of florida when
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They were trying to find land.
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Sam: Right,
when they got real low on fuel.
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Nate: Right,
john thought the ft-81 actually made it
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Back over land.
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Sam: Right.
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Nate: And the diagram that he drew,
based on his theory,
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Put ft-81 in this particular
area of florida at about the
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Time it ran out of gas.
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Sam: Really?
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Nate: So, we've been out
here looking for this particular
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Wreck site for a while because
we've been out here choppering
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Around in basically
everglades type of conditions.
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Sam: As horrific
and sad as it sounds,
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Planes crash all the time.
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If we find out where any part
of flight 19 actually went down,
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Well,
then the planes didn't disappear at all,
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And definitely not in
the bermuda triangle.
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And they're just part of a
tragic list with thousands and
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Thousands of other entries.
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Nate: When john passed away,
we're not really sure what
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Happened to his notes
and we had hurricane dorian
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This fall and it really
flooded the area.
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Without john's notes we're
looking for the proverbial
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Needle in the haystack,
but we're not even sure which
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Haystack to look in.
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Sam: With colleen stirling
confirming this area as the
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Most likely location
that flight 19 went down,
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We decided to bring
in some technology to
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Speed up the search.
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So, this is a lidar drone,
what does that mean?
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John: So it is a multirotor
quadcopter and it has a lidar unit on it.
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Sam: Right.
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John: Basically the same principle
as a police man with a speed gun,
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Shoots out a laser,
hits something solid,
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The return comes back
and then it highly accurately
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Marks those points.
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It's millions of
points of rotation,
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Thousands of rotations a second.
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And when it's all said and
done mike he'll filter it out
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So we can actually get
the vegetation away and
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Look for the impressions.
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Sam: Great,
well let's get it done.
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John: Arming the props.
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Alright taking off.
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Michael: Since we have
that high level of accuracy,
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All of those like bottom points,
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We're going to be really
highly confident that those
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Are actually ground.
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That's what's gonna, you know,
allow us to give you guys some
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Awesome representation of
this landscape as if we had just,
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You know,
burned all the vegetation down.
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So,
basically what we're looking for is
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Artificial features.
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Right down in here
is a nice little cross,
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You see this impression
here that creates this line?
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It's pretty darn straight,
and then you have another one
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Right here.
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It's very unusual for a
natural feature to have such
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Pretty geometry, right?
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I think this is the best
place to look for this wreck.
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Sam: Alright.
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Nate: Straight ahead here.
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Just head a little bit left.
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We should be
getting pretty close.
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There's a break in
the weeds right there.
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Sam: There's something
there. Nate: What you got?
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Sam: Something burned up. Oh yeah,
that's it man.
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Nate: There we go. Sam:
Right that's gotta be it.
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Nate: That's,
that's gotta be it. Look.
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That would have been
attached to a back of an engine.
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There's the tire.
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Sam: Cool.
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Nate: It came in pretty steep.
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There's all kinds
of debris in here.
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That would have
been the iff unit.
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The friend or foe unit.
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Sam: Okay, yeah.
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Taylor (over radio):
Iff gear was off.
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I'm turning it on now.
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Sam: What would be
the next step for you?
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Nate: The rest of the
airplane is probably buried.
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What we're looking for is a data
plate on the front on the engine,
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But to dig in the wildlife
management area,
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We have to have a
separate permit to do that,
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But it is something that
we can come back and do.
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Sam: While we need a serial
number to say if this wwii era
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Wreck is one of the
plants from flight 19,
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There's a chance that at
least one of them is not lost
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In the bermuda triangle at all.
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Nate: You know,
this could be ft-81.
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Sam: Which would mean some of them,
at least,
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Made it back to land.
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Nate: Right.
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Sam: The truth is the
psychological grip of the
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Bermuda triangle's curse
extends well beyond six
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Missing planes.
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So while nate works on
digging out the engine block.
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Sam: My investigation moves to phase two,
ghost ships.
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Yourself sitting in a
dark room at 3:00 am,
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Half eaten turkey sandwich,
typing bermuda triangle
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Mysteries into
the search engine.
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What you tend to find are
long lists of disappearances,
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Ships and planes vanishing
and there's a list of theories
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That goes along with it.
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Magnetic fields, mermaids,
gigantic undersea methane bubbles,
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But it goes way out to alien
wormholes and time vortices,
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Atlantis,
were they sucked under by the kraken?
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Now some of these
theories are fairly bonkers,
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But others, you know,
they seem pretty plausible.
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And then sometimes you find
something that does seem real
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And fascinating and
truly inexplicable,
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Something that on the surface
defies any rational explanation.
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Here's maybe the most
interesting incident map.
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This is ghost ships.
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So ghost ships were
ships that are just floating,
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Drifting in the ocean
with nobody on them.
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And this is from the
us hydrographic survey.
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They documented
1,600 ghost ships.
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Yeah, there's something
very sort of eerie and terrifying
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In this idea of 1,600 ships out here and,
you know,
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You don't know what
happened to the crew.
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I mean, where did everybody go?
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Or where are the bodies?
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How this is happening?
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During a seven year
survey starting in 1887,
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The us hydrographic
office found the existence of
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1,600 ships floating
a sea without a single
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Soul on board.
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1,600 floating ships
and zero sailors.
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That math seems off.
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Now,
I'm not saying that it's not aliens,
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Cause it could be,
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But let's see how a
scientist who studies the
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World's oceans explains it.
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Arthur: They call this
area the doldrums.
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Sam: The doldrums.
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Arthur: The atmospheric
circulation starts with a lot of
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Warm moist air rising from
the pacific in the tropical area,
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And once it reaches high
altitudes it starts heading
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Towards the poles,
and at a certain latitude,
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Which is in this area,
the air starts sinking.
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Sam: Yeah.
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Arthur: And associated
with them is very little wind.
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So pre-19th century
all the ships were sails.
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Sam: Right.
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Arthur: So these sail boats
required wind to move.
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Sam: Right,
so it just sort of sits there.
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Arthur: And it just sits there,
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But other things like large
mats of sargassum weed,
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Which are less buoyant than water,
they float.
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You had these mats of
sargassum weed that you just
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Literally got stuck in,
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Big mats,
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100 yards wide and
almost a mile long.
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Sam: Wow.
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Arthur: You're stuck.
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Sam: Yeah, you imagine six
weeks of it or seven weeks of it,
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Running out of water.
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Arthur: And you're
hoping for some wind,
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You're hoping to
find some current.
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00:21:24,884 --> 00:21:25,916
Yeah.
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Sam: You're hoping for something to blow,
right?
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00:21:27,854 --> 00:21:32,757
Well I can't imagine anything
creepier than running into a ship
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Arthur: In the
middle of nowhere.
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Sam: With nobody on
it. What's your theory?
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Why would all these
boats end up empty?
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Arthur: There are some people out
there that believe aliens are involved.
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00:21:41,567 --> 00:21:42,567
Sam: Sure.
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Arthur: But you know,
I'm a scientist,
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I'm waiting to see the first true
documented case of the alien abduction.
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Sam: Right.
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Arthur: But they do have
these ocean vortices.
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If you got caught in those,
you go, oh great...
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Sam: I'm going somewhere.
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Arthur: I'm finally in
some decent curent
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Arthur: But they spin around
and in the order of nine,
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Ten days, they basically bring
you back to the same location.
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Sam: Which would be tough
if you're running out of water.
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Arthur: And as you know,
if you drink salt water,
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Over time it makes
you a little crazy if
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You're getting dehydrated.
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Sam: You can hallucinate
and things like that. Yeah.
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Arthur: And that,
it helps to add to all the great legends...
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Sam: Right.
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Arthur: About mermaids and
monsters and maelstroms and...
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Sam: The bermuda triangle,
right.
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Arthur: And the
bermuda triangle.
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Sam: You can sort of imagine
the mariners out here during
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The age of sail being stuck,
but I think that's why sailors
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Get so superstitious cause
they have so little control
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00:22:38,491 --> 00:22:40,791
Over the weather
and so many things.
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So you never sail on a Friday,
you gotta be careful whistling
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On a boat cause you
can whistle up a breeze.
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You know, there's a trillion
sailor superstitions and it
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Probably comes from a
sense of powerlessness
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And being trapped.
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We were at hamilton harbor
in bermuda and I was anchored
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There in an 85 foot steel ketch.
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A tail end of a hurricane
came through and we heard
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On the radio six vessels,
you know, calling for help,
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Abandoning ship.
483
00:23:18,097 --> 00:23:21,532
These were inexperienced
sailors and to them it felt
484
00:23:21,567 --> 00:23:23,701
Like the world was ending
and water's coming in,
485
00:23:23,736 --> 00:23:25,703
And you know it's intense.
486
00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:29,640
You could hear on the
radio fear just warping their
487
00:23:29,675 --> 00:23:35,579
Perception and putting them
in a bad spot where, you know,
488
00:23:35,615 --> 00:23:36,892
If they had been
through it one time,
489
00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:39,617
If they had lived through it one
time they would have known,
490
00:23:39,652 --> 00:23:41,663
They're gonna survive
it and that their other
491
00:23:41,687 --> 00:23:43,854
Options are worse.
492
00:23:43,890 --> 00:23:48,659
So many times, you know,
these vessels turn up floating and
493
00:23:48,694 --> 00:23:50,861
The crew died and
they could have stayed,
494
00:23:50,897 --> 00:23:52,674
And they would have
been wet and miserable,
495
00:23:52,698 --> 00:23:54,498
But they would have lived.
496
00:23:55,101 --> 00:23:57,835
Sam: Listen,
inexperienced sailors make mistakes,
497
00:23:57,870 --> 00:24:02,606
But for that to be
replicated 1,600 times,
498
00:24:02,642 --> 00:24:05,409
Come on, that's a mystery.
499
00:24:07,947 --> 00:24:11,515
Humans are a complex animal
and there's a lot of variation
500
00:24:11,551 --> 00:24:13,417
Within our species.
501
00:24:13,453 --> 00:24:16,720
If you walk down the street and
go into a bar or a grocery store,
502
00:24:16,756 --> 00:24:17,833
Everybody acts different.
503
00:24:17,857 --> 00:24:20,691
Some people are loud,
some are quiet, some walk fast,
504
00:24:20,726 --> 00:24:22,493
Some walk slow.
505
00:24:22,528 --> 00:24:24,695
But if something scary happens,
506
00:24:24,730 --> 00:24:26,831
Then boom in the face fear,
507
00:24:26,866 --> 00:24:30,801
Instincts kick in and
we all move in unison.
508
00:24:31,571 --> 00:24:34,738
But is that enough to
explain how 1,600 crews
509
00:24:34,774 --> 00:24:37,741
Of stranded sailors all
repeated the exact same
510
00:24:37,777 --> 00:24:40,911
Behavior time after time,
after time?
511
00:24:40,947 --> 00:24:44,782
Dr. George everly wrote the
book on the human stress response
512
00:24:44,817 --> 00:24:47,852
And you know what's super stressful,
abandoning ship.
513
00:24:47,887 --> 00:24:53,757
George: What would cause a seasoned
professional, a professional sailor...
514
00:24:54,794 --> 00:24:55,860
Sam: Right.
515
00:24:55,895 --> 00:24:59,864
George: To lose rationality
and abandon the ship?
516
00:24:59,899 --> 00:25:04,802
Now we do know extreme
stress does allow a part of
517
00:25:04,837 --> 00:25:08,606
The brain to hijack your
more rational centers.
518
00:25:08,641 --> 00:25:10,808
There's a part of the
brain called the amygdala.
519
00:25:10,843 --> 00:25:15,779
And the amygdala is the home of what we
sometimes call the fight or flight response.
520
00:25:15,815 --> 00:25:17,047
Sam: Right.
521
00:25:17,083 --> 00:25:19,817
George: And every once and
a while the amygdala can hijack
522
00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:21,763
Executive functions,
it overrides it if you will.
523
00:25:21,787 --> 00:25:22,853
Sam: Okay.
524
00:25:22,889 --> 00:25:25,623
George: So we begin to
do irrational things and it
525
00:25:25,658 --> 00:25:28,459
Begins mildly irrational.
526
00:25:28,494 --> 00:25:30,839
If I can drink some salt water
maybe it will buy me enough
527
00:25:30,863 --> 00:25:33,597
Time for maybe a miracle.
528
00:25:34,901 --> 00:25:36,867
The brain is concerned
about survival.
529
00:25:36,903 --> 00:25:40,437
It could lead one
to do anything in a
530
00:25:40,473 --> 00:25:41,872
Moment of desperation.
531
00:25:41,908 --> 00:25:45,543
I'm dry, that's wet,
I'll try it out.
532
00:25:45,578 --> 00:25:48,812
So going overboard
seems like a really good idea
533
00:25:48,848 --> 00:25:52,716
Until you go overboard
and find out it's not.
534
00:25:52,752 --> 00:25:54,796
Sam: Your kidneys can only
handle so much salt in your
535
00:25:54,820 --> 00:25:56,787
Diet and salt water
from the ocean has
536
00:25:56,822 --> 00:25:59,523
Four times that amount.
537
00:25:59,559 --> 00:26:01,725
So drinking salt water
basically starts a doomsday
538
00:26:01,761 --> 00:26:03,894
Clock in your body.
539
00:26:03,930 --> 00:26:07,765
The minute you take your
first sip you start dying.
540
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,601
The marine core came
up with condition black,
541
00:26:10,636 --> 00:26:13,470
Catastrophic failure of
your cognitive abilities
542
00:26:13,506 --> 00:26:16,440
Because of stress.
543
00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:19,677
You know the classic line from
the rhyme of the ancient mariner is,
544
00:26:19,712 --> 00:26:22,680
"water,
water everywhere and not a drop to drink."
545
00:26:22,715 --> 00:26:24,548
It was a real thing.
546
00:26:25,751 --> 00:26:29,720
I think dehydration plays a
bigger role as dehydration
547
00:26:29,755 --> 00:26:32,590
Gets into people they
start drinking salt water and
548
00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:35,459
Eventually they start
getting off the boat.
549
00:26:35,494 --> 00:26:37,539
To me the ghost ships
aren't some sort of symptom
550
00:26:37,563 --> 00:26:39,830
Of a cursed bermuda triangle,
551
00:26:39,865 --> 00:26:41,799
It's a weather pattern
that causes ships
552
00:26:41,834 --> 00:26:45,769
To get stuck and then
human instinct causes people
553
00:26:45,805 --> 00:26:48,505
To make bad decisions.
554
00:26:48,541 --> 00:26:50,808
It's the perfect storm
repeating over and over.
555
00:26:50,843 --> 00:26:53,777
Maybe the real mystery
isn't some dark external force,
556
00:26:53,813 --> 00:26:57,481
But something inside
of our own minds.
557
00:26:57,516 --> 00:26:59,817
Maybe we're a species of
mammal that was never meant to
558
00:26:59,852 --> 00:27:01,385
Be on the ocean at all.
559
00:27:08,794 --> 00:27:10,160
Tuff has been happening in the
560
00:27:10,196 --> 00:27:12,997
Bermuda triangle
for a long time,
561
00:27:13,032 --> 00:27:15,633
Some people think it
goes all the way back
562
00:27:15,668 --> 00:27:18,902
To christopher columbus who
saw strange lights in the sky,
563
00:27:18,938 --> 00:27:21,972
And he later lost his flag ship,
the santa maria.
564
00:27:22,008 --> 00:27:25,075
In the five centuries since
countless other ships have
565
00:27:25,111 --> 00:27:29,913
Vanished in this 500,000
square mile stretch of ocean,
566
00:27:29,949 --> 00:27:32,916
But is there really something
supernatural happening here or
567
00:27:32,952 --> 00:27:36,654
Is the open ocean just a
dangerous place to be?
568
00:27:36,689 --> 00:27:39,757
I'd really like to get into
some of these ship wrecks.
569
00:27:39,792 --> 00:27:42,860
I'm curious as to whether we can find,
you know,
570
00:27:42,895 --> 00:27:47,965
Some kind of root cause
for this pattern of ship wrecks.
571
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,100
You know, it could be currents,
572
00:27:50,136 --> 00:27:52,903
It could be shallow
water in here,
573
00:27:52,938 --> 00:27:56,774
This is all the bahamas and
there's a ton of huge sections
574
00:27:56,809 --> 00:28:00,811
Of 1 foot,
2 foot sand banks and all kinds of reefs
575
00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:03,113
That aren't even marked today.
576
00:28:03,149 --> 00:28:05,683
And some of that
might be the explanation,
577
00:28:05,718 --> 00:28:08,986
But I think we need
to dig a little deeper.
578
00:28:11,090 --> 00:28:14,925
An estimated three million ship
wrecks litter the ocean bottom
579
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,896
And less than 1% have
ever been explored.
580
00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:22,700
There are logical explanations
for the wrecks around bermuda,
581
00:28:22,735 --> 00:28:23,967
The knife edge reefs,
582
00:28:24,003 --> 00:28:26,970
The high traffic,
even hurricanes.
583
00:28:27,006 --> 00:28:29,940
But most armchair bermuda
triangle experts will point to
584
00:28:29,975 --> 00:28:33,711
The more mysterious
events like the disappearance
585
00:28:33,746 --> 00:28:35,946
Of the uss cyclops.
586
00:28:35,981 --> 00:28:37,781
The cyclops is to ship wrecks,
587
00:28:37,817 --> 00:28:40,718
What flight 19 is
to plane crashes.
588
00:28:40,753 --> 00:28:42,019
In March of 1918,
589
00:28:42,054 --> 00:28:44,755
The last transmission
the ship sent on its way
590
00:28:44,790 --> 00:28:47,958
Through the triangle gave the
impression of bright sunny skies,
591
00:28:47,993 --> 00:28:52,763
Fair weather and then she
disappeared without a trace.
592
00:28:52,798 --> 00:28:53,964
No distress call.
593
00:28:53,999 --> 00:28:55,866
No sign of wreckage.
594
00:28:55,901 --> 00:28:58,736
309 men vanished.
595
00:29:03,776 --> 00:29:05,153
Sam: What do the conditions
down there look like?
596
00:29:05,177 --> 00:29:07,711
Neal: They're good, I mean,
you can definitely see it's
597
00:29:07,747 --> 00:29:08,879
Snapped in half.
598
00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:11,615
There's half of a wreck
sitting on the bottom.
599
00:29:11,650 --> 00:29:12,916
It's the stern portion of it.
600
00:29:12,952 --> 00:29:17,988
It was a shipping boat that
went down in the early 90s.
601
00:29:18,023 --> 00:29:19,823
Sam: It's not the cyclops,
602
00:29:19,859 --> 00:29:21,759
But neal found a much
more recent wreck
603
00:29:21,794 --> 00:29:23,794
That may offer a clue.
604
00:29:23,829 --> 00:29:26,930
A ship that appears
to be snapped in half.
605
00:29:26,966 --> 00:29:28,877
You said it was the tail
end of hurricane andrew?
606
00:29:28,901 --> 00:29:31,646
Neal: It was shortly after the
hurricane. They were bringing supplies.
607
00:29:31,670 --> 00:29:32,948
Sam: They didn't
hit anything out here?
608
00:29:32,972 --> 00:29:36,073
Neal: There's
nothing to hit out here.
609
00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:39,643
Sam: Who knows what happened. Neal: Yep,
who knows.
610
00:29:39,678 --> 00:29:40,756
It took a little while
for us to find it,
611
00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:43,113
But we fixed a mooring
on it and there's a
612
00:29:43,149 --> 00:29:46,750
Temporary chain and
line that we'll follow down.
613
00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:55,103
Sam: So if I don't make it back,
tell my mom I love her,
614
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:56,727
Okay you guys? Thanks.
615
00:29:58,097 --> 00:29:59,997
Sam: Yes. No. Man: No come on.
616
00:30:00,032 --> 00:30:02,032
Sam: No. None of
you get my vuarnets.
617
00:30:42,908 --> 00:30:45,020
Sam: I can understand how
bad weather can make a ship
618
00:30:45,044 --> 00:30:49,012
Capsize or a torpedo or boiler
room explosion could knock a
619
00:30:49,048 --> 00:30:54,852
Hole in the side,
but to crack so cleanly in half,
620
00:30:54,887 --> 00:30:57,054
How would that happen?
621
00:30:57,089 --> 00:30:59,857
And could this be a clue as to
how the cyclops and so many
622
00:30:59,892 --> 00:31:02,693
Other ships have been lost?
623
00:31:05,164 --> 00:31:07,998
Tim janssen is a physical
oceanographer and he has a
624
00:31:08,033 --> 00:31:12,636
Scientific theory that might explain
all these sudden disappearances.
625
00:31:12,671 --> 00:31:14,872
It's something I heard rumors
about when I was sailing
626
00:31:14,907 --> 00:31:20,644
Around the world in my 20s,
the terrifying rogue wave.
627
00:31:22,715 --> 00:31:24,125
What's your definition
of a rogue wave?
628
00:31:24,149 --> 00:31:25,994
Tim: The general definition
that everybody understands,
629
00:31:26,018 --> 00:31:28,819
It's a very,
very big wave and then there's the sort of
630
00:31:28,854 --> 00:31:31,822
Scientific version of that,
which doesn't like big or
631
00:31:31,857 --> 00:31:33,735
Large because
it's not very precise.
632
00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:34,858
Sam: Okay.
633
00:31:34,894 --> 00:31:36,071
Tim: So you measure for a while,
634
00:31:36,095 --> 00:31:37,339
You pick the highest
one third of the waves,
635
00:31:37,363 --> 00:31:40,797
You average that number and
that's the significant wave height.
636
00:31:40,833 --> 00:31:44,768
A wave that is twice as big as that,
that's formally called a rogue wave.
637
00:31:44,803 --> 00:31:46,003
Sam: Right.
638
00:31:46,038 --> 00:31:47,249
Tim: So the draupner wave
was the first time that we
639
00:31:47,273 --> 00:31:51,041
Actually measured a wave
that was qualifying as a literal
640
00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:53,744
Rogue wave, like, you know,
two times the significant wave
641
00:31:53,779 --> 00:31:56,880
Height in an already
very large wave field.
642
00:31:56,916 --> 00:31:58,093
Sam: Where was it? What was it?
643
00:31:58,117 --> 00:32:00,817
Tim: This was off the coast of norway,
the north sea.
644
00:32:00,853 --> 00:32:01,752
Sam: When was that?
645
00:32:01,787 --> 00:32:02,920
Tim: This was in 1995.
646
00:32:02,955 --> 00:32:03,999
Sam: So pretty recently.
647
00:32:04,023 --> 00:32:05,800
Like,
they've only had a real scientific proof of
648
00:32:05,824 --> 00:32:08,191
Any of this in '95.
649
00:32:08,227 --> 00:32:10,928
For centuries the scientific
community wrote off the
650
00:32:10,963 --> 00:32:15,799
Concept of rogue waves as just
tall tales told by drunken sailors,
651
00:32:15,834 --> 00:32:17,968
Exaggerations
that are unreliable.
652
00:32:18,003 --> 00:32:20,837
Then in the mid 90s the
draupner oil platform was
653
00:32:20,873 --> 00:32:23,974
Being battered by some
run of the mill 40 foot waves
654
00:32:24,009 --> 00:32:26,109
When a monster
came out of nowhere,
655
00:32:26,145 --> 00:32:28,145
Nearly 90 feet tall,
656
00:32:28,180 --> 00:32:32,082
A rogue wave smashed
into the draupner oil platform.
657
00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:35,919
Recently a nasa study
determined that any given time
658
00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:38,689
There are as many as ten
rogue waves happening in
659
00:32:38,724 --> 00:32:39,957
The world's oceans.
660
00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:43,071
Tim: Most people were
sort of like discarding that
661
00:32:43,095 --> 00:32:45,729
As sort of like, you know,
mermaid type stories.
662
00:32:45,764 --> 00:32:46,830
Sam: Right.
663
00:32:46,865 --> 00:32:48,944
Tim: A rogue wave is rare,
but it's not impossible.
664
00:32:48,968 --> 00:32:50,712
Like, you know, three in 10,000.
665
00:32:50,736 --> 00:32:51,435
Sam: Right.
666
00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:52,948
Tim: You know, a 100 foot wave,
667
00:32:52,972 --> 00:32:53,937
We see them all the time.
668
00:32:53,973 --> 00:32:54,973
Sam: Really?
669
00:33:05,250 --> 00:33:07,918
I didn't have a plan,
but then an old family friend
670
00:33:07,953 --> 00:33:10,954
Offered me a job fixing up
a yacht and then sailing it
671
00:33:10,990 --> 00:33:12,756
Around the world.
672
00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:14,124
I mean, he was gonna pay me.
673
00:33:14,159 --> 00:33:17,761
Well, I knew that opportunity
could never come again,
674
00:33:17,796 --> 00:33:20,163
So I kept my mouth shut
and he never realized how
675
00:33:20,199 --> 00:33:23,200
Clueless I was,
and I took the job.
676
00:33:23,235 --> 00:33:26,770
Three and a half years on
the ocean will teach you a lot,
677
00:33:26,805 --> 00:33:29,139
But luckily during
all that time we never
678
00:33:29,174 --> 00:33:31,942
Hit one of these.
679
00:33:31,977 --> 00:33:34,978
Tim: A rogue wave is rare,
but it's not impossible.
680
00:33:35,014 --> 00:33:36,157
Like, you know, three in 10,000.
681
00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:37,181
Sam: Right.
682
00:33:37,216 --> 00:33:38,893
Tim: You know, a 100 foot wave,
683
00:33:38,917 --> 00:33:40,028
We see them all the time.
684
00:33:40,052 --> 00:33:41,785
Sam: Really?
685
00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:43,832
Now I've never (bleep)
myself as an adult,
686
00:33:43,856 --> 00:33:45,900
But if I was sailing along
and I looked up into the
687
00:33:45,924 --> 00:33:49,960
Shadow of an eight
story high wave,
688
00:33:49,995 --> 00:33:51,895
That might be the time.
689
00:33:51,930 --> 00:33:55,132
Tim: If you have a significant
wave height of say 17-18 meters,
690
00:33:55,167 --> 00:33:56,845
That means that in that
wave field there's going
691
00:33:56,869 --> 00:33:58,179
To be waves that are going
to be way bigger than that.
692
00:33:58,203 --> 00:33:59,336
They have to be.
693
00:33:59,371 --> 00:34:00,382
Sam: There has to be a
wave twice that at some point.
694
00:34:00,406 --> 00:34:01,883
Tim: Absolutely otherwise
you wouldn't get the
695
00:34:01,907 --> 00:34:03,774
Average of 17 meters, yeah.
696
00:34:03,809 --> 00:34:05,042
Sam: Right, wow.
697
00:34:05,077 --> 00:34:06,043
That's a lot of water, man.
698
00:34:06,078 --> 00:34:07,044
Tim: It is.
699
00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:09,780
Sam: Okay,
here's where we get to the good part.
700
00:34:09,815 --> 00:34:13,183
You're on your freighter
and you're in a storm and a
701
00:34:13,218 --> 00:34:18,021
100 foot wave is coming at you
from some unknown direction.
702
00:34:18,057 --> 00:34:19,990
What kind of things
might happen?
703
00:34:20,025 --> 00:34:21,970
Tim: A single large wave
could put stresses on a
704
00:34:21,994 --> 00:34:23,894
Vessel that you
normally wouldn't have.
705
00:34:23,929 --> 00:34:25,996
You would have like just one very wave,
say,
706
00:34:26,031 --> 00:34:28,209
In the middle of the vessel
lifting it up and you have two
707
00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:30,200
Sides that aren't supported,
708
00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:32,047
Putting a lot of
stress in the middle.
709
00:34:32,071 --> 00:34:37,040
Sam: And that's how a 550
foot long steel ship snaps in half
710
00:34:37,076 --> 00:34:40,177
Just like a baseball bat
over bo jackson's knee.
711
00:34:40,212 --> 00:34:42,946
How cool was bo jackson,
by the way?
712
00:34:42,981 --> 00:34:45,226
Tim: Whether or not boats
disappear because of rogue waves,
713
00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:48,819
Undoubtedly yes. How often,
we don't know.
714
00:34:48,854 --> 00:34:50,153
Sam: Sure
715
00:34:50,189 --> 00:34:51,866
Tim: And whether or not all these
vessels are due to rogue waves?
716
00:34:51,890 --> 00:34:53,001
I think that question is open.
717
00:34:53,025 --> 00:34:54,124
Sam: Yeah.
718
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:55,770
No, I mean,
it's like the mystery of the sea, right.
719
00:34:55,794 --> 00:34:59,162
There's a lot of
unknowns out there still.
720
00:35:02,034 --> 00:35:05,869
A curse can be a powerful
weapon for those who lack power.
721
00:35:05,904 --> 00:35:08,972
A supernatural vow to take
revenge beyond the plane we
722
00:35:09,007 --> 00:35:12,142
Exist in,
but the bermuda triangle isn't a singular
723
00:35:12,177 --> 00:35:15,846
Event brought on by magic
or an angry voodoo priest.
724
00:35:15,881 --> 00:35:18,115
It's something in the
collective consciousness,
725
00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:20,884
An agreement made by
millions of strangers as a way to
726
00:35:20,919 --> 00:35:22,986
Explain the inexplicable.
727
00:35:23,021 --> 00:35:25,822
There are plausible scientific
explanations for all these
728
00:35:25,858 --> 00:35:29,726
Events that have given the bermuda
triangle its mythical cursed status,
729
00:35:29,761 --> 00:35:32,729
And I know I'm not smarter
than those who believe.
730
00:35:32,764 --> 00:35:33,942
I mean,
my ask my sixth-grade teacher,
731
00:35:33,966 --> 00:35:35,899
Miss sadowski
and she'll tell you.
732
00:35:35,934 --> 00:35:38,735
So why do so many people
believe that it's cursed when
733
00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:41,883
Science says there's nothing
special about this area?
734
00:35:41,907 --> 00:35:44,808
So michael, I've been doing
some investigation and I know
735
00:35:44,843 --> 00:35:45,954
You've written about this.
736
00:35:45,978 --> 00:35:49,179
So the bermuda triangle,
what do you think?
737
00:35:49,214 --> 00:35:52,983
Shermer: Our brains are not well
wired to understand randomness.
738
00:35:53,018 --> 00:35:55,886
Our brains are wired to
find patterns and meaning,
739
00:35:55,921 --> 00:35:58,922
Hidden forces at work,
conspiracies,
740
00:35:58,957 --> 00:36:01,825
Somebody is behind the
scenes pulling the strings.
741
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:02,993
Sam: Right
742
00:36:03,028 --> 00:36:05,006
Shermer: And reproductive
success is the key to evolution.
743
00:36:05,030 --> 00:36:07,108
So we are the descendants
of those who are most likely to
744
00:36:07,132 --> 00:36:09,099
Find meaningful
patterns and infuse those
745
00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:11,134
Patterns with agency.
746
00:36:11,170 --> 00:36:13,970
You know,
let's look at some of these examples here.
747
00:36:14,006 --> 00:36:15,984
Sam: When you set out
to make a documentary,
748
00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:18,019
You're filled with hope
that all this cool stuff
749
00:36:18,043 --> 00:36:19,743
Is gonna happen.
750
00:36:19,778 --> 00:36:22,012
You're going to find
out that magic is real and
751
00:36:22,047 --> 00:36:24,748
Then you're forced
to confront reality.
752
00:36:24,783 --> 00:36:27,050
The world caged your b, bro.
753
00:36:27,085 --> 00:36:29,753
And you run into that
one guy at the bar and
754
00:36:29,788 --> 00:36:32,756
He ruins everything.
755
00:36:32,791 --> 00:36:34,202
Shermer: We're looking at,
you know,
756
00:36:34,226 --> 00:36:38,161
Regional shipwreck data since
2007 and of course you would expect,
757
00:36:38,197 --> 00:36:40,197
You know,
in the pacific ocean, and,
758
00:36:40,232 --> 00:36:42,199
You know,
the indian ocean and so on,
759
00:36:42,234 --> 00:36:45,035
But here's our triangle.
760
00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:47,804
There doesn't seem to be
a lot going on there, right.
761
00:36:47,839 --> 00:36:48,939
In other words,
762
00:36:48,974 --> 00:36:51,052
The number of accidents
here in the bermuda triangle
763
00:36:51,076 --> 00:36:53,910
Doesn't even reach this
level of the bay of bengal.
764
00:36:53,946 --> 00:36:55,946
And you know who
knows this statistic?
765
00:36:55,981 --> 00:36:56,947
Insurance companies...
766
00:36:56,982 --> 00:36:58,582
Sam: Right.
767
00:36:58,617 --> 00:37:02,852
Shermer: People who have to pay out if there's
a crash or some kind of financial loss.
768
00:37:02,888 --> 00:37:04,766
Sam: And they don't charge
anymore to travel through the
769
00:37:04,790 --> 00:37:05,188
Bermuda triangle.
770
00:37:05,224 --> 00:37:06,323
Shermer: Right.
771
00:37:06,358 --> 00:37:08,758
Sam: If there was something
happening the insurance
772
00:37:08,794 --> 00:37:12,762
Companies would hundred
billion trillion percent make
773
00:37:12,798 --> 00:37:13,997
You pay more.
774
00:37:14,032 --> 00:37:16,044
They're not gonna lose money,
like, that's not happening,
775
00:37:16,068 --> 00:37:17,068
There's no way.
776
00:37:17,102 --> 00:37:18,702
Shermer: That's right, yeah.
777
00:37:18,737 --> 00:37:21,938
Sam: So the reality is
crossing the atlantic anywhere
778
00:37:21,974 --> 00:37:23,840
Would be just as
dangerous as going through
779
00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:25,775
The bermuda triangle.
780
00:37:25,811 --> 00:37:27,811
And yet the name,
the bermuda triangle has
781
00:37:27,846 --> 00:37:32,148
Terrified generations of non-sailors,
but why?
782
00:37:32,184 --> 00:37:35,151
So where does the term
bermuda triangle come from?
783
00:37:35,187 --> 00:37:38,188
Shermer: The origin myth
begins in the early 1960s with
784
00:37:38,223 --> 00:37:42,192
An article by a guy
named vincent gaddis
785
00:37:42,227 --> 00:37:44,160
In the magazine, argosy.
786
00:37:44,196 --> 00:37:46,730
Argosy was one of
the largest pulp fiction
787
00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:48,098
Magazines ever published.
788
00:37:48,133 --> 00:37:50,800
Fiction. Okay,
that's it. Fiction, right.
789
00:37:50,836 --> 00:37:51,935
Sam: Right, right...
790
00:37:51,970 --> 00:37:53,781
Shermer: So that's your first clue,
right.
791
00:37:53,805 --> 00:37:56,906
And he was basing it on a
fake magazine article that
792
00:37:56,942 --> 00:37:59,943
Referenced this area around bermuda,
might be triangular.
793
00:37:59,978 --> 00:38:01,155
So he coined,
the bermuda triangle...
794
00:38:01,179 --> 00:38:02,179
Sam: Oh, okay
795
00:38:02,214 --> 00:38:04,158
Shermer: And that
meme really stuck.
796
00:38:04,182 --> 00:38:07,217
And that's where the fantasy
and imagination jumps in,
797
00:38:07,252 --> 00:38:11,187
Especially fantasy writers,
charles berlitz, for example.
798
00:38:11,223 --> 00:38:12,889
He was very popular writer.
799
00:38:12,924 --> 00:38:14,891
He wrote books on roswell.
800
00:38:14,926 --> 00:38:16,738
He jumped right in with
the bermuda triangle,
801
00:38:16,762 --> 00:38:19,696
And that's what kind
of put it on the map.
802
00:38:19,731 --> 00:38:21,743
Some writers go,
it all goes back to columbus.
803
00:38:21,767 --> 00:38:22,944
Sam: Columbus
saw all kinds of crazy.
804
00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:25,702
You know, those guys
crossing the ocean they saw lots.
805
00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:27,815
Shermer: Totally, of course,
and what did they know?
806
00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:29,706
Sam: Exactly.
807
00:38:32,978 --> 00:38:35,156
Ask any bermuda triangle
enthusiast and they'll tell
808
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:37,914
You that christopher columbus
was the first person to write
809
00:38:37,983 --> 00:38:41,084
About mysterious forces in the triangle,
apparently,
810
00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:45,055
He see saw a serious of
lights dancing in the sky.
811
00:38:45,090 --> 00:38:46,901
This could be the
genesis of the triangle's
812
00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:49,125
Larger than life reputation.
813
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,973
Sam: Every curse, every myth,
814
00:39:04,009 --> 00:39:07,210
Every mystery has a
moment where it began,
815
00:39:07,245 --> 00:39:10,013
A singular point in the
space time continuum
816
00:39:10,048 --> 00:39:12,315
From which
everything else follows.
817
00:39:12,351 --> 00:39:14,884
Was the bermuda triangle's
moment in the place just like
818
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,154
This, 528 years ago?
819
00:39:18,190 --> 00:39:24,828
Columbus, he was coming into the
caribbean and possibly san salvador,
820
00:39:25,430 --> 00:39:31,267
And he recounted seeing
lights hovering in the sky.
821
00:39:32,037 --> 00:39:36,940
You know, in some ways the
bermuda triangle goes back to that story,
822
00:39:36,975 --> 00:39:40,210
That's the first
mysterious incident.
823
00:39:40,512 --> 00:39:43,246
Armchair bermuda triangle
theorists often point to this
824
00:39:43,281 --> 00:39:47,083
Sighting as evidence of
something supernatural,
825
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:49,159
But is there something
else going on here?
826
00:39:49,187 --> 00:39:51,287
San salvador's got
indigenous people,
827
00:39:51,323 --> 00:39:56,159
The taĆno people that might
have had fires on a hillside,
828
00:39:56,194 --> 00:40:00,130
And it's possible that
columbus mistook fires on a
829
00:40:00,165 --> 00:40:03,933
Hillside for something else.
830
00:40:06,304 --> 00:40:09,939
So I think I'm gonna go
up there and build a fire and
831
00:40:09,975 --> 00:40:12,142
We'll pull out and
see what it looks like.
832
00:40:12,177 --> 00:40:14,144
It's not exactly hard science,
833
00:40:14,179 --> 00:40:17,347
But my time machine
only goes back to 1493
834
00:40:17,382 --> 00:40:20,917
And this is the best we can do.
835
00:40:21,453 --> 00:40:24,053
So people when they see
something they don't understand,
836
00:40:24,089 --> 00:40:27,123
They make up a myth,
mythology, superstition
837
00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:30,293
And curses are ways of
dealing with uncertainty.
838
00:40:30,328 --> 00:40:34,097
The bermuda triangle,
weird stuff happens here,
839
00:40:34,132 --> 00:40:38,134
But it could be that columbus just
saw something as simple as this,
840
00:40:38,170 --> 00:40:40,904
You know, a fire on a hillside.
841
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:46,342
So we'll take a boat out
and look back at this and say,
842
00:40:46,378 --> 00:40:48,211
Would you have been fooled?
843
00:40:49,381 --> 00:40:52,382
So we're not exactly sure
where columbus was when he saw
844
00:40:52,417 --> 00:40:55,351
Lights in the sky and
anyone says that they knew
845
00:40:55,387 --> 00:40:57,987
For sure is full of it.
846
00:40:58,023 --> 00:41:00,423
In a sample of ten articles
about columbus's sighting
847
00:41:00,459 --> 00:41:02,170
Will give you ten
different interpretations
848
00:41:02,194 --> 00:41:04,360
Of what happened.
849
00:41:04,396 --> 00:41:07,030
But that's irrelevant because
even though that event is
850
00:41:07,065 --> 00:41:11,267
Pointed to as the origin of the
bermuda triangle's supernatural power,
851
00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:13,436
The point isn't to
perfectly recreate a
852
00:41:13,472 --> 00:41:16,139
Well-documented
historical event,
853
00:41:16,174 --> 00:41:19,142
It's to see if columbus's
mysterious light could be have
854
00:41:19,177 --> 00:41:22,245
Been caused by something
extremely un-mysterious,
855
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:23,357
That's a word by the way.
856
00:41:23,381 --> 00:41:28,251
That's the fire I set
earlier on the hill.
857
00:41:28,286 --> 00:41:30,353
Columbus has
done the unthinkable,
858
00:41:30,388 --> 00:41:34,991
He's crossed the ocean,
he's been at sea for months,
859
00:41:35,026 --> 00:41:36,971
He was all the way in
the caribbean even though,
860
00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:39,229
You know,
he thought he was in indonesia.
861
00:41:39,264 --> 00:41:44,968
And he sees lights
floating in the sky.
862
00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:47,281
One man's sighting of lights
in the sky is another man's
863
00:41:47,305 --> 00:41:51,374
Proof of the supernatural,
but this happened 500 years ago
864
00:41:51,409 --> 00:41:54,043
So it's probably worth
asking the question,
865
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:56,412
What did columbus actually see?
866
00:41:56,448 --> 00:41:59,415
Well his journal says it
looked like candlelight rising
867
00:41:59,451 --> 00:42:02,285
Up and down, look familiar.
868
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,288
When we run out of
rational understanding,
869
00:42:05,323 --> 00:42:08,258
When we can't explain
something to ourselves,
870
00:42:08,293 --> 00:42:10,193
We look for causation,
871
00:42:10,228 --> 00:42:13,329
Quite possibly columbus
was just so fried,
872
00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:16,299
And it had been so
long that he couldn't
873
00:42:16,334 --> 00:42:20,270
See what was there.
874
00:42:20,572 --> 00:42:24,340
He might have seen what
is behind me right now.
875
00:42:24,376 --> 00:42:26,254
For a lot of people that is
where the bermuda triangle
876
00:42:26,278 --> 00:42:30,113
Myth starts,
all the way back to columbus.
877
00:42:31,950 --> 00:42:34,384
He was lost and something
as simple as some indigenous
878
00:42:34,419 --> 00:42:37,954
People starting a fire
on a hill could be the
879
00:42:37,989 --> 00:42:40,123
Origin of the bermuda triangle.
880
00:42:40,158 --> 00:42:43,092
Columbus jotted it in a
journal and then people played
881
00:42:43,128 --> 00:42:46,262
The telephone game
for five centuries.
882
00:42:46,298 --> 00:42:48,409
The lights in the sky,
the promise of land in the
883
00:42:48,433 --> 00:42:52,035
Distance turned into
indisputable evidence of the
884
00:42:52,070 --> 00:42:57,040
Supernatural for those
who wanted to believe.
885
00:42:59,210 --> 00:43:02,111
Occam's razor says that
the simplest explanation is
886
00:43:02,147 --> 00:43:06,182
Usually correct and yet when it
comes to catastrophe or death,
887
00:43:06,217 --> 00:43:07,417
The terrifying unknown,
888
00:43:07,452 --> 00:43:10,286
We rarely accept
the low hanging fruit.
889
00:43:10,322 --> 00:43:13,256
If ships disappear,
well maybe it's aliens.
890
00:43:13,291 --> 00:43:16,092
When planes disappear,
obviously there's a vortex
891
00:43:16,161 --> 00:43:17,293
To another dimension.
892
00:43:29,975 --> 00:43:33,009
Sam: Alright,
so we didn't solve a 75 year old mystery in
893
00:43:33,044 --> 00:43:35,278
The two weeks we
had to film this show,
894
00:43:35,313 --> 00:43:37,947
But still when it comes
to the bermuda triangle,
895
00:43:37,983 --> 00:43:39,349
There is no curse.
896
00:43:39,384 --> 00:43:42,986
If there was some statistical
measurable impact then we
897
00:43:43,021 --> 00:43:46,055
Would see it in insurance
rates and maritime practice
898
00:43:46,091 --> 00:43:48,024
And in government orders.
899
00:43:48,059 --> 00:43:50,271
Believing in a supernatural
stretch of ocean is a little
900
00:43:50,295 --> 00:43:53,296
Like believing in the easter
bunny and we want magic
901
00:43:53,331 --> 00:43:56,032
In the world, we need it.
902
00:43:56,067 --> 00:43:59,202
If some older kid tells your
toddler the truth about a
903
00:43:59,237 --> 00:44:03,206
Certain magical holiday
you get enraged because
904
00:44:03,241 --> 00:44:06,242
The world is a better
place with magic in it.
905
00:44:06,277 --> 00:44:11,948
The curse of the bermuda
triangle is a sociological construct,
906
00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:14,183
Not a marine confluence
and in some ways it
907
00:44:14,219 --> 00:44:19,989
Speaks to man's need
for myth, for gods, for devils
908
00:44:20,025 --> 00:44:22,869
And for the unknown
to remain unknowable.
909
00:44:22,893 --> 00:44:25,733
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