Missing Planes, Sunken Ships And Unexplained Mysteries

In December 1945, five Navy aircraft disappeared off the Florida coast, and so did the search plane sent after them. In March 1918, the Navy cargo ship Cyclops vanished en route to Baltimore with 309 crewmen aboard. These are just two of the mysterious disappearances that have made the Bermuda Triangle so notorious. An estimated 300 vessels have sunk in the nearly 500,000-square-mile expanse of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico — giving rise to supernatural explanations that blame everything from aliens to the lost continent of Atlantis.

So what’s really behind these unexplained mysteries? The National Geographic Channel special “Drain the Bermuda Triangle,” premiering Dec.7, provides some practical explanations, using computer simulations based on sonar mapping of the ocean floor to reveal the hidden landscape below the waves.

Source: Mother Nature Network