Kennedy (Smyth’s intended destination), they continued to follow the jet and attempt contact for 10 minutes without any response. ” In the radar plot of the carrier John F. The last words of the pilot, Lieutenant Paul Smyth, were: “Stand By, we have a problem right now. With similar suddenness, mystery also befell a Navy KA-6 attack bomber in 1978 while 100 miles off Norfolk.
But now change the scenario from a single man to a large ship or airplane, and you can see why so many puzzle over the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. What happened to him that night will never be known.”ĭisappearances like this boggle the mind. No one saw him surface, though many men were watching the water at all times. Sharks were seen at any time, and there was no disturbance in the water, nor any evidence of a struggle. Three varied shapes: The Trapezium of Richard Winer extends far into the Atlantic Charles Berlitz’s triangle extends close to South America and the broken line represents John Spencer’s “Limbo of the Lost.” Commander Hinnant had been working beneath a large light, and a shark could have come in while he was busy working on the screw. There are many large man eaters in that area, and they are attracted to light. Many speculated that he had been hit by a shark. It is a simple and basic maneuver for a diver. Waters finishes the narrative: “What could have happened to an experienced diver only 10 feet below the surface? Had his retaining line and air hose fouled? If so, he had only to release his weighted belt, take a deep pull of air, flip off the mask, and surface. The search for Hinnant was intense, but in the end it offered no clues but this: his air hose and line were found fouled in the propeller. The OD ordered it hauled in, yet it would not budge. After a while they tugged his line to see if he was OK.
Dozens manned the rails and watched the brightened water, glowing from the underwater spot light. Suited up, he went over the side to the propeller. He was an experienced diver and was even commended for his diving under fire in the Philippines during WWII. He ordered diving gear and search lights. About 300 miles off Cape Hatteras, near the Sargasso Sea, the Rockaway’s propeller became fouled. He was commander of the Coast Guard cutter Rockaway. Waters, once head of Coast Guard Search and Rescue in Washington D.C., wrote in his Rescue at Sea (Van Nostrand, 1966) about the curious disappearance of a Coast Guard commander, James Reed Hinnant. Derring, ghosted up upon the shores here in 1921, totally shipshape but mysteriously deserted.Ĭaptain John M. The freighter Southern Districts passed by here in 1954 and vanished utterly, as have several yachts en route to Bermuda, like Windfall or Dancing Feathers or L’Avenir. The coasts of the Carolinas are in perfect juxtaposition to put them in daily interplay with the greatest seaways of the Triangle.īut though these are hard waters, several mysteries share an uneasy grave here with the rusted relics of the sea. All the ships coming or going to Panama and the East Coast pass by here, to Canada, New York, off to Europe, wherever. The seas off Norfolk are, of course, the Gulf Stream and the routes to Bermuda or south to the Bahamas and Caribbean. But disappearance means no trace is found, implying destruction on a complete and total scale, something beyond even the great reefs and shoals of Cape Hatteras and her wild seas. While Gaddis sought to catalogue sea mysteries, Sanderson tried to use them to verify his theories of areas of electromagnetic anomalies and underwater UFO civilizations.įoundered here. Above this is superimposed the “vile vortex” of Ivan Sanderson. The standard triangle of journalist Vincent Gaddis. Many famous vessels can still be found on the bottom, slammed by the great gales and thrashed by the reefs, like the Union ironclad, Monitor, which This calls to mind that Cape Hatteras has been known for centuries as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic.” However, graveyard implies a burial place for ships, where their rotting carcasses can still be seen. Some have proposed alternate nodal points. No two researchers or authors ever agreed, although most were in accord that the area of the strict triangle between Miami, San Juan and Bermuda embodies the greatest part. With all you’ve read and heard about the location of missing ships and planes, you might be wondering just exactly what shape is the “Triangle” anyway? You would not be the first.
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