Bermuda Triangle: Science of the Abyss Page #4

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so we're not bringing

in the air too fast,

not vacuuming the sky.

Comes in through, accelerates,

goes up, goes through

some sound attenuators

so we're not too noisy,

comes around this big turn,

and then we have to

compress it down

so we just have a nice, smooth,

well-behaved airflow

as it compresses down

and comes in over the tank.

Goes shooting through

at up to 150 miles an hour,

and then it exits through

that like trumpet bell mouth.

As it goes out, it slows down.

Brian uses the simulator

to take measurements

that would be impossible

to carry out safely inside

a high-category hurricane.

He's concluded that

in hurricane season,

the Bermuda triangle is deadly.

You know, the ocean

surface of these conditions

would be incredible

to see from the ship,

but it would also

be incredibly dangerous.

The Bermuda triangle

is situated right over

the heart of hurricane alley

in the Atlantic,

so it's really vulnerable

to storms.

And you see, you know,

many, many of the ships

that were lost were lost

during hurricane season.

Hurricanes do sink

ships in the Bermuda triangle,

but it's hard to file

these disasters as mysterious.

Far more intriguing are reports

of vessels sinking due to

hurricane-force winds

that appear without

a dark cloud in sight.

These bizarre, frightening gusts

are called white squalls,

and their destructive power

is legendary.

One phenomenon that has been

known for centuries by mariners

is something they called

a white squall.

This was a sudden,

violent windstorm

without associated dark clouds

or heavy rainfall

which normally accompany

a squall at sea.

But for many centuries,

meteorologists sort of

dismissed the idea as sort of

a mariner's urban legend,

you know, a...

a tall sea tale

that the old salts

would tell the...

the pollywogs

to kind of scare 'em.

Scientists now believe

that white squalls are real

and that they're sinking ships

in the Bermuda triangle

without a dark cloud in sight.

Their victims are

mostly sailboats.

Well, there are several

recent examples

of sailing ships

going down in white squalls.

The famous case

is the albatross in 1961.

There was also

the marques in 1984

and the pride of Baltimore

in 1986.

Now, these ships had survivors,

so we know

what happened to them,

and they all described

sort of the same phenomenon,

a wind without a...

a sudden violent wind

without warning.

Scientists believe white squalls

originate from

distant rain clouds

when they pass over warm,

dry air.

The falling rain

cools the air around it,

making the air heavier.

The cold air then

drops like a stone

and spreads out

over the ocean surface

in a powerful,

rolling vortex of wind.

This is the white squall.

The vortex can travel

for tens of miles

and still pack enough punch

to knock down a ship.

You sometimes get 60,

70-mile-an-hour winds

out over the ocean,

miles away from

where the storm is.

The white squall will

hit them totally unawares.

They won't have time

to take down sail,

they won't have

time to point the ship

in the right direction,

and they'll get caught broadside

by these...

these Gale-force

and hurricane-force winds

and just get hove over

and they sink very rapidly.

These surprise winds

have also been implicated

in cases of light aircraft

that have gone missing

in the Bermuda triangle.

A small aircraft has no defense

against one of these

rolling vortices that...

that are associated

with a white squall.

You don't see these

dark clouds approaching.

You're given

very little warning.

All of a sudden,

you're in a violent windstorm,

and all they can do

is take the blow.

Extreme weather

offers a rational,

scientific explanation

for the disappearance

of ships and planes

within the Bermuda triangle,

but some people are convinced

these reports are just

a convenient cover story,

part of an elaborate

government conspiracy

to close our eyes

to the real reason

behind the disappearances...

aliens.

For hundreds of years,

this has been a location

that has been host

to many strange lights,

phantom fogs,

ships that go missing

with no wreckage,

people that disappear

into thin air.

Even though there's

plenty of logical

and rational explanations

for these disappearances,

the most common one

seems to be underwater aliens,

"u.U.O.S,"

unidentified underwater objects.

It sounds incredible,

but reports from

the former Soviet union

suggest the case

for underwater aliens

is stronger than you imagine.

The controversial reports

center on submarine commander

yury beketov,

who patrolled

the Bermuda triangle

during the 1980s.

Beketov claimed

that the instruments

on board his submarine

would suddenly malfunction.

At other times, they would jam,

as if being blocked

by a powerful technology

emanating from

outside the craft.

On more than one occasion,

beketov's sonar

is said to have picked up

unidentified objects

speeding at over 260

miles per hour underwater.

How is that possible?

The commander believed

these incidents

were evidence of alien activity.

It was like the objects

defy the laws of physics.

The creatures who built them

far surpass us in development.

But if the Caribbean sea

is really packed full of aliens,

why don't we see them today?

Bizarrely, some people

are convinced

flying saucers are hidden away

in a network

of underwater tunnels

called blue holes.

These blue holes,

people are theorizing,

might be portals

to another world,

another dimension.

This might be where

the aliens are based.

It could be a fold

in time-space.

Whatever it is,

it seems like sailors

and other vessels

are unwittingly

wandering into these areas

and potentially disappearing.

Blue holes actually do exist.

They can be found dotted

around the shallow waters

of the Bahamas.

They can descend to over

600 feet below the seabed

and branch into networks of

subterranean passages.

But were these tunnels

really built by aliens?

Geologist Martin pepper

isn't so sure.

Apparently a blue hole

is a portal

where aliens are able to

come from and abduct boats

and planes and other things.

So it's a cavity

that allows them to hide,

and that's where

they make their attack.

It's almost like

a funnel spider.

They wait down in the blue hole,

something comes over,

and got it!

Pepper thinks

there's a natural explanation

for these massive

underwater sinkholes,

and it involves limestone,

acid rain,

and a whole lot of time.

So here we have

a chunk of limestone,

and this is the surface

of our earth, basically,

around this area.

And what happens is sea level

changes a lot, hundreds

of feet throughout thousands,

maybe millions of years.

And so what we need

is we need sea level to drop.

That's in a cold time,

that's because polar ice caps

remove water,

dropping our sea level.

When the sea level

dropped over the Bahamas,

the exposed limestone

was open to its deadly enemy...

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