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1.0 Preamble
T
his web page is about that famous and strange place that has been variously
called the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Triangle. Let's see if there really
is a Mystery here ...
2.0 YouTube Videos & Brief Notes
F
irst and foremost, let us see if this Mystery is of
any
importance to anyone ...
Well ... consider this:
does the loss of 13 young American pilots and crewmen as well as the 5 Navy
Avenger bombers of any importance to anyone?
Here are two
YouTube
video clips about Flight 19 ... one is a segment of a FirstScience.tv
documentary, the other is the beginning sequence from the 1977 movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
...
Documentary (FirstScience.tv)
- Loss of Flight 19 in Bermuda Triangle
Note that if JavaScript is not enabled within your browser settings, then
instead of either of the above videos, this is what you will see (reproduced
for illustration purpose):
Javascript must be enabled!
Required at least Flash 8 ...
Here is the story as described in the Discovery Channel:
Probably the most attention-getting Bermuda Triangle disappearance occurred on
Dec. 5, 1945, when five Navy Avenger bombers and 13 crewmen took off from Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and disappeared. Their destination was a nearby reef, where
they were to conduct a simulated bombing run. According to U.S. Naval
Historical Center records, there was light rainfall, with a cloud level of
2,500 feet, visibility of between six and 12 miles, and wind gusts of 31 knots
— not ideal weather, but later judged by investigators to be safe enough for a
training exercise.
Nevertheless, at around 4 p.m., according to a transmission intercepted by the
Fort Lauderdale base, the instructor leading the flight radioed one of his
pilots and said that he had lost track of the Florida coast. Other planes
reported that their compasses were malfunctioning, and that they were similarly
disoriented. The flight tried to ask Fort Lauderdale for help, but interference
— possibly caused by the weather and radio signals from Havana — made it
difficult for them to get through. Somewhere east of land, they lost radio
contact and were never heard from again.
At 7:30 that evening, a search and rescue plane took off in an attempt to
locate survivors. It also promptly vanished, along with its 13-man crew. That
evening, two Navy ships spotted a brief flash of flames and oil slicks out at
sea, but despite several days of searching, no trace of the lost planes was
found.
Historian Michael McDonnell, who reexamined records of the incident in a 1973
article for Naval Aviation News, hypothesized that the flight instructor, who
had recently been assigned to Fort Lauderdale and was unfamiliar with the
coast, may have inadvertently led his students astray. McDonnell suspected that
the instructor and his students struggled to find their way back until they
were nearly out of fuel, and then were forced to bail out into the stormy
waters, where survival was nearly impossible.
But while wreckage of other aircraft lost in the Bermuda Triangle has been
recovered, Flight 19's final resting place remains a mystery.
Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am
in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That
would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this
website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in
... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever
really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the
Mysteries of the World
.
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond.
[...]
— Katya Walter,
Tao of Chaos
Sub-title:
Merging East and West
(1994, 1996)
Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda,
Our Secret Planet
(2005)
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