Bermuda Triangle: Science of the Abyss Page #2

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the Bermuda triangle.

Was I lucky that day?

Yeah.

It was fate, really.

The extraordinary events

he experienced

have convinced him

that forces unknown to science

are to blame for disappearances

in the area.

Could he be right?

In December 1970,

23-year-old Bruce

took his father

and his father's

business partner

on a short hop from

andros island to bimini island

in the Bahamas.

It was exactly 3:00 P.M.

when we lifted off.

Ten minutes into the journey,

Bruce encountered

a gathering storm.

You can probably go over that.

Yeah, we can probably

go over it.

He attempted to fly over it,

but the storm clouds

below expanded,

engulfing the tiny plane.

It's just a few clouds,

don't worry about anything.

I kept climbing up

and I got caught in this cloud,

and this went on

for another ten minutes

until I got to 11,500 feet,

and then I finally

broke free of the storm.

Looking back

at the storm clouds,

Bruce was amazed

to see them curling,

forming a horseshoe around them.

- Do you see this?

- Ahead of Bruce,

the two ends of the horseshoe

appeared to be closing shut...

I'm going to go through them.

I have no choice.

Leaving just a tunnel of

clear sky to fly through.

And so I figured

I could shoot through that

since it was aiming toward Miami

and it looked like clear skies

the whole way.

As they flew through,

the tunnel filled with

a swirling vortex of fog.

What the hell is this?

And then the tunnel started

to collapse around them

as they left the cloud.

It felt like zero gravity,

like we were floating.

All the electronic instruments

started to malfunction.

Dad. Dad,

I can't see my compass.

Bruce broke free from the storm,

but the fog still

clung to his plane.

Disorientated and unable to see

beyond his windscreen,

he called Miami air traffic

control for help.

We're 80 miles east of Miami,

10,500 feet.

Bruce assumed

he was over bimini, bahama,

but the radio controller

told him he was actually

over Miami beach, 50 miles away.

It's impossible.

Looked at my watch,

I'd been flying for 33 minutes,

and it's like... and I told him,

"no, that's impossible."

And after about ten seconds,

all the fog was gone.

And I look down and I see

Miami beach right below me,

so I told the radar controller

he's right.

We're right over Miami.

Bruce's tiny aircraft

appeared to have covered

the extra 50 miles

in no time at all.

It's impossible.

This makes no sense.

Somehow I was traveling faster

through space and time.

Bruce is convinced

he was the victim

of an abnormal, energized fog

that he believes transported him

to Miami beach

in the blink of an eye.

He calls this strange

time-shifting weather phenomenon

"electronic fog."

Somehow it attaches itself

to the aircraft

and it almost blurs your vision.

And then your instruments

start to malfunction

and you can't navigate by

instrument flight rules, either.

According to Bruce,

the electronic fog

latched onto his plane

as he left the storm cloud.

It jammed his instruments

and caused his tiny plane

to glitch through

space and time.

I believe this is

the main reason

of the mystery

of the Bermuda triangle.

It's what happened to flight 19

and any other planes

and boats that have

also been in it.

Bruce's story

sounds fantastical,

but how does it stack up

to science?

Well, in Bruce gernon's story,

he talks about two thunderhead

anvils coming together,

and that's certainly

entirely possible.

If you have two thunderstorms

drawing next to each other

and their anvils spread out

at the top of the atmosphere,

you could see them converging

and creating a tunnel

through which you could fly

an airplane quite safely.

The cloud tunnel

may have been real,

but what about Bruce's claim

that he jumped through

space and time?

What Bruce thinks

happened when he...

his plane was going along

and he was here

and then somehow

he goes through a fog

and he gets confused

and he finds himself over here

is that he didn't just

fly the normal way

that airplanes go like this.

But, in fact, that somehow

if this was treated

as like the fabric

of space and time

and it crumpled up like that,

you could cover

the same amount of space

in a much shorter period of time

and so that would be kind of

a warping of space and time.

Traveling vast distances

by warping space and time

is a staple of science fiction.

You mean, you come

and go just like that?

Without anyone ever seeing you?

Surprisingly, the laws of

physics say it is possible,

but only if you have access

to phenomenal amounts of energy.

In terms of the laws

of physics, you would...

you would have to have

so much energy

to warp the space time

around you

that it would be more

than all of the energy

that humanity has used in

10,000 years of civilization.

So where Bruce got that energy

for his little airplane

or where this would have

happened naturally

inside the Bermuda triangle,

it's...

it's pretty much impossible.

If Bruce wasn't warped by fog,

what else might have happened

over bimini 40 years ago?

In terms of what's more likely,

that a person who gets lost

and disoriented ends up

in a place

that he didn't expect to be

or that this almost

impossible thing happened,

this warping of space

and time happened to him

and him only in this

one particular instance,

what's more likely?

We know all about human error,

human confusion.

We've all gotten lost before.

We've all ended up in places

where we weren't expecting

because we got orien...

disoriented.

That's a very common thing.

The warping of space and time,

we know of no place

where that's ever happened.

The most natural explanation

for Bruce's time-hopping flight

seems to be that he was blown

out of a storm by high winds

and he lost track of time.

But even if he's right,

and electronic fog

is downing planes

in the Bermuda triangle,

it's hard to imagine

how the same fog

could sink an enormous ship.

One of the most

enduring mysteries

of the Bermuda triangle

is its seeming ability

to swallow up individual ships

without affecting

the other craft around them.

Large, industrial,

military-grade ships

disappear without a trace

while fishing vessels

and pleasure craft

in the exact same area

leave port and return

with no problems.

Why are these boats

being targeted?

Is it specific or just bad luck?

Some scientists

believe the secret

to this apparent targeting

is actually the chance release

of huge methane gas deposits

hidden under the seabed.

Geologist Martin pepper

has come to

a commercial diving center

in Florida

to find out if there's

any truth to this theory.

So the idea is that

methane is coming

from basically the decomposition

of all this old dead matter.

So it could be really deep

within the sediment.

And as the decomposition

happens, methane is formed,

and it basically kind of rises

its way through the sediment.

Just below the seabed,

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