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  • @MrWildbill
    @MrWildbill 4 роки тому +686

    When I was in the Navy I spent nearly two years in and around the triangle, I was on an oceanographic research ship that did detailed bottom mapping along with many other measurements, like gravity and magnetic, salinity & water temp / depth, and we used various navigation systems, inertial, LORAN, and pre-GPS NavSat.
    The only oddity so to speak is like you said, they can get some bad storms and what makes them sort of odd is that you can go from glassy water and still air, to serious waves and wind in no time, less than an hour and with little or no warning. These storms generally blew by quickly also but if you were on a prop plane or small ship or poorly navigated ship it would be easy to see how they could go down and not leave a trace. As far as storms at sea I saw a lot worse in the North Pacific so even the storms were not unusual in magnitude but they did come up faster than in most places.
    One of the reasons this has decreased I think is that there far better weather monitoring and reporting in the area, jets that can fly around and over the storms and ships getting a lot longer heads up to avoid them in the first place.

    • @atriciacannon4579
      @atriciacannon4579 4 роки тому +17

      Back in the 60'S My dad captained yaught's to the Bahamas from the Palm Beach's. I went along a few times crossing the triangle though we only experienced calm waters.

    • @alexoelkers2292
      @alexoelkers2292 3 роки тому +9

      @@atriciacannon4579 obviously the waters aren't always calm, its not called hurricane alley for nothing due to the gulf stream running through the area.

    • @justcallmelucky
      @justcallmelucky 3 роки тому +9

      @@alexoelkers2292 they never said they were

    • @jackfowler6249
      @jackfowler6249 3 роки тому +4

      Sounds like you were on a USNS ship of some kind. I was on one, doing mapping off the coast of Africa.

    • @MrWildbill
      @MrWildbill 3 роки тому +6

      @@jackfowler6249 -- I was, I sailed on the USNS Bowditch, USNS Dutton while in the Navy.

  • @russell_szabados
    @russell_szabados 4 роки тому +43

    I was also obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle (and other topics from my worn copy of Atlas Of the Unexplained) in elementary school. Until I was in 7th grade, and my mom pointed out I’d already flown through it 8 times - four round trips - going to see my cousins in Puerto Rico from our home in New York City. That took all the fun out of it.

  • @optimeus
    @optimeus 4 роки тому +838

    Sometimes i just want to see and hear something interesting fast, no matter what. Joe's channel provides just that.

    • @marbles7177
      @marbles7177 4 роки тому +17

      Except that one time..

    • @optimeus
      @optimeus 4 роки тому +12

      @@marbles7177 Yes, that one time.

    • @Scott_C
      @Scott_C 4 роки тому +11

      If you listen at 2x speed it's always fast. :D

    • @oleksiyalkhazov9201
      @oleksiyalkhazov9201 4 роки тому +11

      Inforgasm, I call it inforgasm :D

    • @AnilKumar-mp9hk
      @AnilKumar-mp9hk 4 роки тому +5

      @@marbles7177 what is that one time lol
      I'm curious

  • @calebcarpenter421
    @calebcarpenter421 4 роки тому +486

    "The entire world is the Bermuda Triangle" is a pretty good tagline for 2020.

  • @johnpossum556
    @johnpossum556 4 роки тому +1641

    You gotta love a guy who uses Scooby Doo as his historical source of information.

    • @hawkdsl
      @hawkdsl 4 роки тому +57

      That's how you know... it serious. SD, the greatest Great Dane of all time.

    • @moxdragon1857
      @moxdragon1857 4 роки тому +28

      Reminds me of when Duck Tales had a Bermuda Triangle episode 😁

    • @sharonrocks6502
      @sharonrocks6502 4 роки тому +5

      😂

    • @grandetaco4416
      @grandetaco4416 4 роки тому +14

      Middle of the sea, no rain gear, at night having a casual conversation.

    • @CharlesBosse
      @CharlesBosse 4 роки тому +4

      @@grandetaco4416 the rain IS pretty warm down there. But, um, yeah. At night too, right?

  • @madj.7379
    @madj.7379 Рік тому +5

    The thing I love most about this channel... Joe presents it calmly, without yelling, without talking at 297 mph. Yet, he still presents with solid facts, balanced with a touch of humor AND humility. Keep 'em coming, Joe!

  • @sergei_gruntovsky
    @sergei_gruntovsky 4 роки тому +368

    I like how you don't laugh at such topics, but rather tell an interesting story supported by facts, while avoiding pseudo-science speculations.

    • @classiclife7204
      @classiclife7204 3 роки тому +3

      I.e., LEMMiNO.

    • @skippy9214
      @skippy9214 3 роки тому +12

      He does go into speculation sometimes, but marks it well.

    • @jay-d8g3v
      @jay-d8g3v 3 роки тому +5

      @@skippy9214 yep, he acknowledges beforehand every time, nothing but quality

    • @officialshivertrip
      @officialshivertrip 2 роки тому

      I saw him laughing. You lied.

    • @psps6623
      @psps6623 Рік тому

      and Rickrolls us in the process...But yeah, I agree :D

  • @Eric-zn9qi
    @Eric-zn9qi 4 роки тому +6

    I've passed through the Bermuda Triangle many times while in the Navy. The only thing that every happen was riding out a tropical storm on an aircraft carrier. USS America CVA-66. (God Rest Her Soul). Now that's a memory I will never forget. We just headed into the 20-30 ft. waves at full steam ahead. The coolest thing was the rumble that would come down the main hallways and pass under your feet every time we cleared a wave. The main hallways were under the hanger bay. The big ship was like a tuning fork. Looked out one of the side doors at the back of the Carrier (Which was not good Idea!) at about 30 feet above water line and only saw walls of water passing by no sky. I had got off watch and rocking boat put me to sleep. hehe.

  • @GigaFluxx
    @GigaFluxx 4 роки тому +120

    Get this: I often share your videos with my 72 year old mom, and yesterday I sent her the one on cold fusion. Last night we started talking about it and what she remembers growing up. The conversation eventually digressed into other sci-fi technologies and aliens but concluded on the Bermuda Triangle of all things. I told her that I'd send her some videos on the topic today, and of course what is the first thing I see when logging into UA-cam today? This video.
    You should do one on strange coincidences, lol!

    • @whatwhale5888
      @whatwhale5888 4 роки тому +12

      Your mom sounds like a really cool person

    • @justinhannan1713
      @justinhannan1713 4 роки тому +6

      He did one last year: ua-cam.com/video/NUZL_sUCZFY/v-deo.html
      10 Amazing Coincidences (And Why They're Not That Amazing Really) | Random Thursday

    • @GigaFluxx
      @GigaFluxx 4 роки тому +4

      @@whatwhale5888 She really is 🙂

    • @GigaFluxx
      @GigaFluxx 4 роки тому +3

      @@justinhannan1713 Sweet! I guess I should have looked first, since it was probable he did one already

    • @GoranKojadinovic
      @GoranKojadinovic 3 роки тому +1

      Strange coincidence... really?!

  • @angrysquirrel187
    @angrysquirrel187 Рік тому +18

    I grew up loving the old show, “In search of”. I was hooked on “spooky happenings” in the Triangle , Loch Ness, etc. thank you for the video.

  • @folkengames
    @folkengames 4 роки тому +541

    "You shouldn't put 8 year olds in charge of the military."
    Now you tell us....

    • @str.77
      @str.77 4 роки тому +7

      Or any government department. Or let one pick the minister.

    • @cidb.212
      @cidb.212 4 роки тому +21

      He'll be gone on January 20th.

    • @nishilsanghvi583
      @nishilsanghvi583 3 роки тому +2

      @@cidb.212 and a new one takes his place on the same day

    • @jacobe477
      @jacobe477 3 роки тому

      Oh slam that orange juice is out of here

    • @compositestechbb9087
      @compositestechbb9087 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah 18 is adult enough :(

  • @violetboo2877
    @violetboo2877 4 роки тому +110

    Idk why but joe feels like he’s my cool history teacher that tells his students to call him by his first name

  • @JackieOdonnel
    @JackieOdonnel 4 роки тому +147

    I, too, was always fascinated with the BT as a kid. Loved your Cold War idea, haha! Joe, you really are a joy to listen to. I've learned so much from your channel and am also amused by your quips and observations. Thanks for the lessons and entertainment. You are top-notch!

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 4 роки тому

      He's rather arrogant when he supposedly debunks non-leftist views. Never showing the evidence for non-man made warming, it is always our fault and he barely even touches the main strippers of life like the Chinese fishing fleets. Look at the top ten air polluters in the world we are not in the top 5. Yet the USA has actually kept the Paris Accords levels and even bested them. Yet not a word from Joe good about the country that protects him.

    • @marcusillanes6713
      @marcusillanes6713 4 роки тому

      @@MountainFisher ok, Satan..!

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 4 роки тому

      @@marcusillanes6713 Well it's true. I never hear him condemn China like he does his own country. He just comes across as "holier than thou" sometimes. Why would you call me satan? I'm just stating the obvious. I have never not once heard him condemn the rampant Organ harvesting the occurs in Xinjiang. He is too afraid of being demonetized by UA-cam I bet.

  • @jackfowler6249
    @jackfowler6249 3 роки тому +53

    As a retired sailor (Navy and Merchant Marine) I've sailed through the Bermuda Triangle several times. Nothing weird ever happened.
    Of course the worst storm I ever sailed through was coming out of Bermuda itself.
    But it is also one of the most storm ravaged parts of the ocean, so I'm sure that may play a large part of strange disappearances.

    • @BsedMan-if6tb
      @BsedMan-if6tb 14 днів тому

      The compass issues are because the magnetic waves of the earth will sometimes cause a compass to shift to true north from geographic north resulting in ships going off course.

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka 12 днів тому

      ​@@BsedMan-if6tb
      Isn't that close to the poles though? Bermuda is distinctly tropical.

    • @BsedMan-if6tb
      @BsedMan-if6tb 11 днів тому

      @@rustomkanishka the fact that Bermuda is tropical has no influence of the fact that a compass points north there. If you search for agonic lines on Google you'll see that they often pass over the Bermuda triangle. And the magnetic influence can pull a compass of course

  • @MTerrance
    @MTerrance 4 роки тому +853

    I hear the Bermuda Triangle is packed with missing socks, car keys, punch lines, screws, warrantees and the missing link.

    • @IntrepidFraidyCat
      @IntrepidFraidyCat 4 роки тому +87

      Don't forget the Tupperware lids!

    • @MTerrance
      @MTerrance 4 роки тому +53

      @@IntrepidFraidyCat and millions of passwords people have forgotten!

    • @promonto
      @promonto 4 роки тому +49

      And the message she send you after you told her that you love her.

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 4 роки тому +3

      Sounds about right

    • @shannonm7981
      @shannonm7981 4 роки тому +38

      And guitar picks.

  • @JacubanGecko
    @JacubanGecko 3 роки тому +22

    What about Bruce Gernon's experience with the "fog tunnel" that caused him to do a 75 minute flight in 48 minutes, despite seemingly taking a detour? That story always stuck with me because it was confirmed by the air control people who were able to detect his approach, and thus reliably determine his total journey time

    • @Tinil0
      @Tinil0 2 роки тому +9

      I know nothing about this story but isn't that just explainable by, you know, a good tailwind? I'm no pilot, but from what I can tell that would be a STRONG tailwind, but not like a physically impossible one. Especially in a storm that is generating whatever was misinterpreted as "fog tunnels".

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 4 роки тому +57

    Electrical shorts that occur on aircraft flying through the Bermuda triangle are referred to as bermuda shorts.

  • @johnlshilling1446
    @johnlshilling1446 Рік тому +4

    The truly remarkable thing, is the quality of marketing for the Bermuda Triangle. Hats off to that team!

  • @MySerpentine
    @MySerpentine 4 роки тому +200

    A ghost ship re-disappearing makes me laugh for some reason

    • @CivilEngineerWroxton
      @CivilEngineerWroxton 4 роки тому +16

      A ghost-ship ghost-ship. 👻

    • @_Darkhitect_
      @_Darkhitect_ 4 роки тому +1

      thumbing up uhhhhh

    • @adambrain8365
      @adambrain8365 4 роки тому +7

      Sounds like a magician ship to me.

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 4 роки тому +12

      @@CivilEngineerWroxton Re-ghosting, kinda like re-gifting but not really

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 4 роки тому +8

      While vacationing in Nags Head NC, I bought a beautiful map of all the ship wrecks along the coast of NC, and wow! It looks like you couldn’t throw a rock in the water without hitting one of them! Literally hundreds and hundreds of ships. I find it hard to believe that more ships per square mile sank in the Triangle? Just more famous ships maybe? Black Beard hung out in Nags Head, his pirates sunk many ships back in the day, and he even scuttled his own ships at Oregon Inlet.

  • @modgeosys
    @modgeosys 4 роки тому +15

    "...cuz, you know, all the hurricanes..." Love your style, Joe!

  • @jamesi1338
    @jamesi1338 4 роки тому +146

    “Dogs and cats, living together, Mass hysteria!” Love the Ghostbusters reference!

    • @flatbill2
      @flatbill2 4 роки тому +3

      My favorite quote!

    • @catcat2662
      @catcat2662 2 роки тому

      I came here for this comment.

  • @fooleythawise
    @fooleythawise 4 роки тому +1

    The fact that they can never find the wrecks..damage, nor anybody at all is what's keeping the legend alive...

  • @AkhilSinghKhyalia
    @AkhilSinghKhyalia 4 роки тому +35

    Seafarer here, have passed through this triangle multiple times. Saw multiple ships. nothing happened.

  • @CivilEngineerWroxton
    @CivilEngineerWroxton 4 роки тому +2

    LOVE the Bill Murray Ghostbusters reference: "Dogs and cats living together! MASS hysteria!"
    It's so great to watch videos created by someone at least within a few years of my age (I'm 53) that knows and remembers most all of the trivia/entertainment things that I do. We get get to have inside jokes that go right over the heads of the young whipper-snappers.
    Ive always LOVED the legend of the Bermuda Triangle, too. I didn't get to go to southern Florida until just six years ago and I just stood there looking out across the water thinking about how I was actually standing on one of the vertices of the Bermuda Triangle. That just blew my mind. Then friends of mine that lived there and went deep-sea fishing often decided we all needed to go straight out and do some fishing. Even though I know that there is a 99.99% chance nothing would happen to us, I was a little apprehensive and afraid at first. But once we got out there (We went out about 12 miles) it was relaxed and I felt something I've never felt before. I think I experienced just the tiniest taste of what sailors experience that makes them love the sea so much.
    I got to see Dolphins, Sharks, Jellyfish, and so many others and it was spiritual. We caught some fish that we ate for dinner that evening after we got back to my friend's house and it was just spectacular.
    So I've been in and fished in the Bermuda Triangle and lived to tell the tale. It was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had.

  • @ryantwombly720
    @ryantwombly720 4 роки тому +238

    I hereby demand the immediate repopularization of the term “Push-Button Age”.

    • @jerryonlychild7003
      @jerryonlychild7003 4 роки тому +2

      I kinda wanna have “sea mystery at our back door” instead.. lol

    • @adamwest8711
      @adamwest8711 4 роки тому

      *wishgranted*

    • @arnenl1575
      @arnenl1575 4 роки тому +14

      We're living more in a 'swipe-screen age'

    • @unclebrat
      @unclebrat 4 роки тому +1

      What's a push-button.

    • @divinedriftofficial
      @divinedriftofficial 4 роки тому +3

      Is that the time of the jetsons? All they did was push buttons.

  • @callmerob__
    @callmerob__ 3 роки тому +1

    Obscure Ghostbuster quote makes this instantly my favorite video of yours.

  • @josephdavis9204
    @josephdavis9204 4 роки тому +433

    "I'm not saying it was the aliens... but it was the aliens"

    • @mumblic
      @mumblic 4 роки тому +3

      Could it be you have watched a Spielberg movie :-)

    • @acehighjohn1759
      @acehighjohn1759 4 роки тому +2

      obv, its a triangle!

    • @acehighjohn1759
      @acehighjohn1759 4 роки тому +2

      @Hussam Almahdwai pmsl, that company spend lot extra on fuel for superstition

    • @adamwest8711
      @adamwest8711 4 роки тому +1

      You are docked 2 points for use of ‘the’ twice.

    • @steveDC51
      @steveDC51 4 роки тому +2

      No, I’ve asked around and it wasn’t us.

  • @glazierblue573
    @glazierblue573 Рік тому +4

    I worked on a cruise line that sail along side the triangle every week as part of it root to an island in the Bahamas. (No ships go through the triangle) but we went along side it, pretty close. At the same point every week it was like passing through an invisible wall. The atmosphere was eletric. I cant explain it... but it was always completely silent... Computers, digital clocks... internet all would just go crazy.. even DVD player were suddenly faulty. Mobile were working but there was background sound. No clear calls until we went to the island. All scientists explained, am sure. But still creepy as hell. Something strang is going on out there.

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet 4 роки тому +11

    A few eons ago, NOVA did a great show on The Bermuda Triangle. The short summary is that there’s just nothing particularly unusual going on there.
    As you alluded, it’s a very busy shipping and tourism route, so there are bound to be lots of accidents there.
    But even proportionally, there haven’t even been all that many incidents there either. There are considerably more airplanes downed over a comparable land area of the continental US that have never been found, than over the Bermuda Triangle.
    Also, all of these cases where they emphasize that no wreckage of airplanes have been found is way far from mysterious: Airplanes are (get this!) *not boats* , and their parts tend to sink. Even more importantly, it’s really really hard to find anything on an open ocean! Wreckage tends to get obscured among white cap waves. Plus TBMs (the airplanes they were flying) were painted navy blue - camouflage, essentially.

  • @alexgospodinov2588
    @alexgospodinov2588 4 роки тому +4

    We watched this video in class today and everyone enjoyed it and we had a discussion about it. It was great keep up the amazing work!

  • @andrewjohnson6716
    @andrewjohnson6716 4 роки тому +18

    One of the more interesting postulations I have heard has to do with methane. For some reason the area of the the Bermuda Triangle frequently has intense plumes of methane gas express out of the ocean bottom. This would lead to the appearance of green luminescence under the water, possible balls of flame if it should ignite, and crew members going missing due to passing out. If there is enough it can have even weirder effects. Bubbles of methane can cause the water to because extremely thin and sink ships rapidly. It can thin the air causing planes to rotate in the air without a sensation of turning causing the pilots perception of motion and the compass to seem to disagree. (As you mentioned, GPS would eliminate this problem completely.)

    • @ADHJkvsNgsMBbTQe
      @ADHJkvsNgsMBbTQe 4 роки тому +2

      I was hoping someone would mention bubbles from methane hydrates which may produce conditions that can almost instantly swamp large vessels and suddenly change lift characteristics of aircraft.
      e.g. www.wired.com/2003/10/it-came-from-beneath-the-sea/

  • @bridgetsclama
    @bridgetsclama 3 роки тому +4

    When I was in high school, I had the coolest geometry teacher ever. About halfway through the year, almost everyone in the class had an A or B average (and this was before honors or gifted classes), so he decided to shake things up and every Friday, for as long as we maintained the average, we could pick any subjet that was math/geometry related for discussion that day.
    Of course, the Bermuda Triangle came up. And one of the students said that she didn't believe anything was too special about it. (This is about 1976 or so, a very challenging statement on the topic.) When asked why, she said that you can take just about any place on the planet that size and there will be just as much crazy stuff happen there.
    Looking at Florida Man stuff, I think I agree with her LOL

    • @dowdayjing8442
      @dowdayjing8442 2 роки тому

      We need more teachers like that. Keeping it on subject but allowing the students interests to guide it. I’m sure he’d have been thrilled to know the impact his teaching had :)

  • @JohnSmith-qq7fm
    @JohnSmith-qq7fm 4 роки тому +81

    "RIMMER: All right, then, the Bermuda Triangle. Go on, explain that one.
    You know all the answers.
    LISTER: No, I agree there. That is a genuine mystery. How did a song
    like that ever become a hit? It defies all reason."

    • @PaulaBean
      @PaulaBean 4 роки тому +1

      The bermuda triangle is an urban legend. It doesn't exist. The area is heavily trafficked and of course there happen accidents, not all of which are clear (it's an ocean out there). See: Flight 19 skeptoid.com/episodes/4417, Bermuda Triangle and Devil's Sea skeptoid.com/episodes/4337, Mystery of the Ellen Austin skeptoid.com/episodes/4699.

    • @sixstanger00
      @sixstanger00 4 роки тому +4

      Rimmer, everything with you is aliens. You lose your keys, it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens.

    • @ShneekeyTheLost
      @ShneekeyTheLost 4 роки тому +1

      @@PaulaBean Plus the place is lousy with breakers, not all of them have been marked, either. You've got an entire underwater mountain ridge, with Bermuda Island basically being the peak of one of the tallest of them. Volcanic activity from subduction along the Puerto Rico ridge, much like the Cascadia ridge on the eastern coast producing the cascadia mountain range. You can easily rip a hunk out of your hull on one of those things, capable of taking down even a Panamax cargo hauler. For aircraft, downdrafts and microbursts are a huge problem in the area, much as is found in the so-called 'Sierra Triangle'. Back in the 50's and 60's, they didn't know about them, and they would cause a false positive on instrumentation, warning a pilot he was in a dive and to pull up, which would stall the aircraft.
      There are many hazards of navigation, even in the modern era. We don't own the planet, we merely reside upon it at the planet's bemused tolerance. With as many shipping lanes that move through that stretch of water, a certain number of accidents are inevitable. Breakers, rogue waves, operator error, weather... there are many things that can bring a ship down to rest beneath the waves. There's nothing mysterious or supernatural about it.

    • @PaulaBean
      @PaulaBean 4 роки тому

      @@ShneekeyTheLost That 'underwater volcano' has been thoroughly debunked by James Randi in his book 'Flim-Flam'. That ridge is actually a cherrypicked fragment of a sonar trace where the depth calibration was done.

    • @ShneekeyTheLost
      @ShneekeyTheLost 4 роки тому +1

      @@PaulaBean Please read before rebutting. I never said it was a volcano, I said it was an underwater mountain range, and it is. They used to be volcanic, several million years ago, but are now extinct. And there's not just one 'cherrypicked fragment', there's literally hundreds of them. It's an entire ridgeline on a tectonic plate boundary, although thankfully not a particularly active one, seismically speaking.
      Don't believe me? Check it out on the USGS site, or just go diving and see for yourself. That's the thing about science, and what differentiates it from religion... you don't have to take anyone's word for it. The data is there, go do the research for yourself and see if you come to the same findings.

  • @MasterShake9000
    @MasterShake9000 4 роки тому +1

    Was just reading yesterday in the book The Unidentified about how the term “Bermuda Triangle” was lifted from the earlier concept of a London Triangle of spooky things in England

  • @matthewslome4786
    @matthewslome4786 4 роки тому +101

    I know this is presumptuous of me to assume, but I totally suggested this a little while back, and it makes me happy to think I played any part in this. 😋

    • @joescott
      @joescott  4 роки тому +84

      It might have been you! Someone suggested it along the way and I realized somehow I'd never covered it.

    • @musashi939
      @musashi939 4 роки тому +4

      @@joescott im kinda surprised you're talking about that topic since I thought it was already discussed at lengths what the cause is. Methane and strong currents

    • @TheStonedEvo
      @TheStonedEvo 4 роки тому +9

      musashi939 I think the fact that the triangle is in the path of heavily frequented shipping routes increases the chance of accidents happening. The more boats that travel through the area the more accidents will occur.

    • @simonscott5104
      @simonscott5104 4 роки тому +6

      @@musashi939 Methane gas escaping from cracks in the sea bed floor & travelling up through the ocean in columns, sinking boats .Then moving up through the air as streams or pockets of gas .Causing planes to plummet out of control.. Maybe the methane gas even ignites in a ball of fire.🔥 Gone !

    • @musashi939
      @musashi939 4 роки тому +1

      @@TheStonedEvo I'm not disputing the fact that it is a happening I'm just disputing the fact that this is a still a mystery to some that needs talking about it

  • @comcerveja3230
    @comcerveja3230 4 роки тому +10

    "Dogs and cats living together..." 😂😂😂 Bill Murray, right? I love that guy!

  • @CleetusGlobin
    @CleetusGlobin 4 роки тому +108

    1:29 “When I was a kid, the Cold War was still going on.”
    It’s messing with me that you’re almost the same age as my dad wtf

    • @1FatLittleMonkey
      @1FatLittleMonkey 4 роки тому +3

      Imagine how much it's messing with him.

    • @chrisbrown7499
      @chrisbrown7499 4 роки тому +2

      Aww, you kids are both so cute...
      (old...haha
      Ha)

    • @CleetusGlobin
      @CleetusGlobin 4 роки тому +10

      @@chrisbrown7499 the Queen of England: allow “me to introduce myself”

    • @VideoAssaultSaturday
      @VideoAssaultSaturday 3 роки тому +5

      you could be 30 and the cold war was still "happening when you were a kid", does he look less than 30? (and 30's not old lol)

    • @CleetusGlobin
      @CleetusGlobin 3 роки тому +3

      @@VideoAssaultSaturday when I made this comment, I thought that the Cold War ended in the 60s.
      It mostly did, but it technically continued until the USSR fell in the 90s.

  • @gitteherdinandersen6117
    @gitteherdinandersen6117 3 роки тому +2

    Hey Joe.
    Love your channel. The science, the fun, the weird stuff, your humour.
    Being danish it can sometimes be a challenge to find stories like yours presented in af form that is understandable. Sometimes scientific english is hard. But you nail it. It is almost as easy to understand as my native tongue. Thanks.

  • @diyeana
    @diyeana 4 роки тому +72

    My young self was also obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle. Also the Loch Ness Monster. My adult self knows the truth and has promised not to tell my younger self.

    • @xKapnKrunch
      @xKapnKrunch 4 роки тому +8

      Bermuda triangle is real though... I even hear that the internal angles add up to more than 180°

    • @t4ky0n
      @t4ky0n 4 роки тому +2

      @@xKapnKrunch 🤨🤨🤨

    • @joescott
      @joescott  4 роки тому +10

      Adult self always wants to ruin it for young self.

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 4 роки тому +3

      Don't forget bigfoot.

    • @diyeana
      @diyeana 4 роки тому +1

      @@stephenolan5539 oh yes! Obsessed!

  • @aggonzalezdc
    @aggonzalezdc 4 роки тому +2

    There are a couple of little points which you could also add about a couple of those examples:
    With Flight 19 there was another factor, the airman in charge of leading the exercise, even though he was experienced, was used to flying over the Florida Keys. He had been stationed in the Keys most of his career and had only been transferred to Ft. Lauderdale very recently (I think it may have actually been his first flight from Ft. Lauderdale, but I could be misremembering that). Being so used to flying over the Keys, he thought the broken land under him was the keys, which would have sent him in the wrong direction as you mentioned. Also the Star Tiger, that type of plane was known to have an issue where the cockpit heater could potentially catch fire (it ran off of the same fuel as the plane), and it was also located under one of the pilots' seats. And as you mentioned, they had issues with the heater, and they were probably flying in warmer air because they had no heat in the cockpit. If the heater did catch fire the pilots may have had an emergency causing them to drop, especially if one of the pilots was badly burned, and in such a sudden emergency they may not have had time to make a radio call. There is also the possibility that the heater only barely caught fire, potentially silently filling the cockpit with carbon monoxide, causing both pilots to pass out. There are pretty rational explanations for everything that happens in the "Triangle".

  • @Bofner
    @Bofner 4 роки тому +4

    I really dig this style of video of yours, specifically the ones where you tell stories. You've got a really good way of getting a story across and giving potential rational situations at the end

  • @petunia8425
    @petunia8425 4 роки тому

    This is why I love your Channel, Joe, excellent information sprinkled with great humor and common sense. I like the whole GPS explanation as to why we don't hear about happenings anymore

  • @BirdfluDracula
    @BirdfluDracula 4 роки тому +16

    This is all well and good but where is the rational explanation for that dreadful Barry Manilow song

  • @bluestrife28
    @bluestrife28 3 роки тому

    Videos like this remind me of the tapes they used for teaching in old CJ Cherryh sci-Fi novels. You didn’t need teachers or parents you just learned everything from the tapes. So cool how that evolved similarly. I wish I’d had YT as a kid.

  • @bovinejonie3745
    @bovinejonie3745 4 роки тому +30

    You're my favorite UA-cam channel, Joe. That's saying a lot.

  • @DavidJones-tp7td
    @DavidJones-tp7td 4 роки тому

    I watched a special on the truth behind the Devil's Triangle many years ago. They suggested that the number of accidents in the area were only a little higher than would be expected. But I still love a good Bermuda Triangle myth.

  • @alexrd8146
    @alexrd8146 4 роки тому +16

    This is insane. Literally a week ago I was thinking; 'Did Joe ever make a video on the Bermuda Triangle?'. When I noticed you didn't I was a little bumped, because I was curious what you could find about it. And now a week later you posted this!
    Anyway I think this was a very interesting and educational video, eventhough I secretly hoped aliens were involved ;)

  • @wilderfrompr
    @wilderfrompr 4 місяці тому

    Being from one of the 3 corners of the Bermuda triangle (Puerto Rico) and having taken many flights across it, I've always been super skeptical of anyone talking about weird, mysterious things in the triangle. I just unsubscribed to another UA-cam channel as they were bringing up a lot of ridiculous speculation. I saw Joe had a vid about it and was happy to cleanse the pallet. Thank you Joe for being logical and engaging. I just subscribed and I'm now watching a bunch of your old videos.

  • @jannettb7930
    @jannettb7930 4 роки тому +59

    Joe: "the plan for the three hour flight...."
    Me: "...a three hour tour... A THREE HOUR TOUR"

    • @diyeana
      @diyeana 4 роки тому +4

      I did the same thing. 😆

    • @Krokoklemmee
      @Krokoklemmee 4 роки тому

      what?

    • @dankuchar6821
      @dankuchar6821 4 роки тому +6

      @@Krokoklemmee
      It's the theme song to a television show called Gilligan's island. Look it up somewhere I'm sure you'll find it.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  4 роки тому +5

      Yeah, I thought it too. :)

    • @RRW359
      @RRW359 4 роки тому +1

      @@Krokoklemmee Now sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

  • @maxsmodels
    @maxsmodels 4 роки тому +1

    The Mariner was a flying gas tank and known to be a real fire hazard. The Tudor series was also a very trouble prone aircraft. Staying low would have kept the temperature comfortable if the heater pooped-out again or it may have caught fire (those old heaters were prone to that). Also the Tudors pressuraztion systems were so bad that they were often disables. People do not appreciate how unreliable these surplus WW2 aircraft were, especially when operated by 2nd and 3rd tier carriers.

  • @renchesandsords
    @renchesandsords 4 роки тому +28

    I guess it's time to start my dream airline company called "Starliner Stellar Star Fate Flights"!

  • @linzalabamaawake5230
    @linzalabamaawake5230 Рік тому

    That beginning story was freaking adorable.

  • @bimblinghill
    @bimblinghill 4 роки тому +5

    All those shoals too! When I was a kid in the '80s I spent many hours playing Sid Meier's original Pirates & I was always grounding my ships around there.

    • @dongately2817
      @dongately2817 4 роки тому +1

      I spent countless hours on my Amiga playing Pirates.

  • @DragonsinGenesisPodcast
    @DragonsinGenesisPodcast Рік тому +1

    The man in charge of Flight 19 had spent most of his career flying over the Keys. He was used to that side of Florida and had only recently been transferred to Fort Lauderdale. When he became disoriented his instincts kicked in and he tried to find land by using the small islands beneath him as a guide. But they weren’t the islands he thought they were.

  • @Workof
    @Workof 4 роки тому +7

    I heard theres a lot of methane ice in the bermudas and when lots of that melts at once it can cause bubbling that sucks ships underwater and the methane cloud can not keep airplanes in the air.
    I dont know if there is any sense to that

    • @Abadan83
      @Abadan83 4 роки тому +1

      Read an article years ago about a sailor expierencing just that. Bubbeling water dont support schips or boats and burns when ignited

  • @kz6fittycent
    @kz6fittycent 4 роки тому

    I think Joe is just destroying every mystery he ever entertained, one video at a time. I swear I can see hope fading from his eyes more and more.

  • @rafaelroriz36
    @rafaelroriz36 4 роки тому +15

    11:50 Someone must tell Elon to never fly Starship over there...

  • @SamSchott1
    @SamSchott1 3 роки тому +1

    @JoeScott Valid points, but include in your research the definitive 1970's documentary series The Fantastic Journey.

  • @tjzambonischwartz
    @tjzambonischwartz 4 роки тому +56

    "Marine Sulphur Queen" is the name of my next band.

    • @zaptowee6625
      @zaptowee6625 4 роки тому +1

      Your "next" band? So your planning on your current one failing? Bro, plan for success & act as if that's the only option.

    • @NefariousKoel
      @NefariousKoel 4 роки тому +2

      Nautical Brimstone Empress

    • @ronschlorff7089
      @ronschlorff7089 4 роки тому +1

      @@NefariousKoel nice one, but I hear that "Pandemic" is now a "leading new name" for a band!! Kinda "catchy",... don't you think? ;D LOL

  • @misterbuklau4053
    @misterbuklau4053 4 роки тому +1

    5:35 USS Cyclops sank near the chesepeak bay about 40mi northeast of cape charles, Her engine was damaged and she was way overloaded, A storm came through and she got tossed around by the storm missed the entrance and sank probably due to rolling over... A Navy salvage diver dean hawes found her wreck in 1968 describing a blocky looking ship with a bridge on stilts with arms running along the deck, he said it looked like the skeleton of a skyscraper, It was about 160ft down lying at an angle with its bow covered in silt, he later confirmed it to be the cyclops, He was forced to leave due to bad weather but when he and the Navy returned he couldnt relocate it...

  • @meeshkingaming2473
    @meeshkingaming2473 4 роки тому +4

    I lived in Bermuda and most people never talked about it but whenever I mentioned it (I was young when I moved away) everyone asked what the Bermuda triangle was like so

  • @paulheffernan7769
    @paulheffernan7769 3 роки тому

    There was a study that showed gas trapped under the ocean in that region sometimes is released which causes rapid sinking of ships and also the downing of planes.

  • @thugTaters
    @thugTaters 4 роки тому +21

    There's obviously a GIANT SEA MONSTER. Haha that's what I thought as a kid. I used to rent out the bermuda book from my school library every other week, along with other "mystery books"

  • @maggsbufton1969
    @maggsbufton1969 3 роки тому

    Joe, you would have made a great teacher...the kids would love your delivery and sense of humour and they would LEARN things...I really enjoy your content and sense of humour..So happy I found your channel and subscribed.👍🏻

  • @lomasloco70
    @lomasloco70 4 роки тому +5

    Down to earth and soo enlightning!! Fun to watch, two qualities so hard to find put together nowadays!! ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 4 роки тому

    I love the explanation of there being a high amount of magnetic dust in the area. It's actually supported by science, craps on all the wacky theories, and is still pretty interesting in of itself.

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 4 роки тому +20

    "Cats and dogs living together"
    Why do I suddenly craves marshmallows?

    • @crispychickin
      @crispychickin 3 роки тому +1

      because there is no Dana. Only Zuul!

  • @michaelbrown1627
    @michaelbrown1627 2 роки тому

    This was a favorite topic when I was a kid. It’s basically a lot of storms.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 роки тому +43

    “Without science, everything is a miracle.”
    -- Lawrence Krauss

  • @redfern6013
    @redfern6013 16 днів тому +1

    My dad told me that when he was a kid everyone was TERRIFIED of the Bermuda Triangle, and I thought that was hilarious for some reason.
    I guess the real Bermuda Triangle was the friends we made along the way.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 роки тому +31

    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan

    • @evolutionarydeadend6812
      @evolutionarydeadend6812 4 роки тому +1

      @Vlasko60 That's a weirdly pointless comment.
      Carl Sagan was absolutely correct.
      "Except" lol gtfoh

  • @centauri9458
    @centauri9458 3 роки тому +1

    Remember the when an Avenger torpedo bomber exactly like the ones flight 19 was found by a group searching for flight 19's aircraft? The numbers didnt match and the plane hadnt ever been listed missing

  • @ComputerGarageLLC
    @ComputerGarageLLC 4 роки тому +25

    "Perhaps the scarier thought is the whole world is a Bermuda Triangle."
    Definitely sums up this year. LOL

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 4 роки тому

      The irony is that you'd have the be a Flat Earther to be able to believe this!

    • @ComputerGarageLLC
      @ComputerGarageLLC 4 роки тому

      @@paulhaynes8045 please explain so I understand where you are coming. I was implying that this year has been crap, but mostly explainable. thank you.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 4 роки тому +1

      @@ComputerGarageLLC it was an attempt at a joke - a globular world can't be triangular, but a flat one can be.

    • @ComputerGarageLLC
      @ComputerGarageLLC 4 роки тому +1

      @@paulhaynes8045 awww, i see now. that you for clarifying. I see the humor. Sometimes I am completely dense.

  • @wayneolsen8965
    @wayneolsen8965 Рік тому +1

    Joe, I was a Bermuda Triangle “fan” as well. I was convinced the Amityville Horror was somehow connected.

  • @GrandKai9
    @GrandKai9 4 роки тому +8

    I always thought it has a lot more to do with our magnetic field messing with our instruments. You have increased my suspicion seeing how GPS relies on information from satellites. Still I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the Devil’s Sea,(the pacific’s Bermuda Triangle) and the Similarities. Maybe another fun video idea?

  • @jasonhare8540
    @jasonhare8540 Рік тому

    One of my favorite theories about the ships is the rogue waves . Apparently a lot of weather systems from different directions for multiple regions converge there . Kind of like the tip of South Africa .

  • @dailydoseofmedicinee
    @dailydoseofmedicinee 4 роки тому +4

    Some ships were discovered completely abandoned for no apparent reason; others transmitted no distress signals and were never seen or heard from again. Aircraft have been reported and then vanished, and rescue missions are said to have vanished when flying in the area. However, wreckage has not been found, and some of the theories advanced to explain the repeated mysteries have been fanciful.

    • @jars6230
      @jars6230 4 роки тому

      Yeah, that happens everywhere there are lots of boats.

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 4 роки тому

      The Great Lakes triangle is deadlier.

    • @snarf2400
      @snarf2400 2 роки тому

      @@jars6230 agreed... But planes as well?

    • @jars6230
      @jars6230 2 роки тому

      @@snarf2400 Planes go down everywhere too. The defining feature of this mystery is every airplane that crashes is immediately 'mysterious'. It is one of the most heavily trafficked areas in the world, by air and boat. The number of tragedies isn't excessive given this and the weather in the area. A plane disappears in the triangle, big mystery, 2 disappear somewhere else, big accident.

  • @DoItMyselfGarage
    @DoItMyselfGarage 4 роки тому

    I had that Bermuda Triangle game as a kid! That "storm" had magnets that would pick up your pieces if it got too close.

  • @mromagnoli
    @mromagnoli 4 роки тому +5

    Joe: ruining my exciting childhood mysteries one video at a time.

  • @somethingelse4878
    @somethingelse4878 4 роки тому

    Yeah as a kid I was terrified of the Bermuda triangle and used to think why aren't they doing more to investigate it.
    The American flight of training aircraft that went missing hooked me

  • @buddhalovechild
    @buddhalovechild Рік тому +4

    I'm canceling my Bermuda vacation.

  • @DiariesOfaPhOenixRiSinG
    @DiariesOfaPhOenixRiSinG 2 роки тому +2

    One story I always found fascinating concerning the Bermuda triangle is that of pilot Bruce Gernon who seemingly flew through a time warp. I'm pretty sure I've traveled through the Bermuda triangle myself departing from Miami and visiting many carribean islands...I'm not sure but very likely. Definitely a strange and unsettling happening these mysteries. Not sure if you've ever covered it as I am new to your channel and seeing as we are on the topic of triangles with this episode... can you cover its chilly counterpart known as the Alaskan triangle?

  • @DavidNagy03ER
    @DavidNagy03ER 4 роки тому +5

    “Never fly over the Bramuda triangle with a plane with the name Star on the side”
    Maybe that’s what happened to starliner

  • @OMADRevolution
    @OMADRevolution 4 роки тому

    You forgot to mention the methane pockets that are regularly released from under the sea in this area, which have been known to bring down planes.

  • @promonto
    @promonto 4 роки тому +14

    youtube tells me this video is 1 minute old, the video only appears on the front site of yt but not on his channel, and comments are 11 hours old. This is the biggest mysterie on youtube

    • @christianzupp
      @christianzupp 4 роки тому +4

      these videos are shown on Joe's Patreon page before the go public

    • @alanlee1355
      @alanlee1355 4 роки тому

      @@christianzupp beat me to it.

    • @promonto
      @promonto 4 роки тому

      @@christianzupp ah ok. UA-cam is still weird.

    • @brianswelding
      @brianswelding 4 роки тому +1

      @@christianzupp Sure, that's what they want you to think, but we all know it's time travelers! MWAH HA HA!

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 4 роки тому +1

      Not really LoL.

  • @EvanBear
    @EvanBear 3 роки тому

    When I was very young I saw a movie or documentary (can't remember) about the bermuda triangle and it scared me so much that for years I forbid myself to even think of it. Every time I thought of it I got scared and what followed were usually nightmares. I was an abused kid so I could not go to my parents so it took me until I was an adult and out of the household when I was brave enough to actually confront this irrational fear of a place on the other side of the world. Doing research helped, especially about lost pilots and how people get so easily disoriented at sea. What also helped was to realize that I literally live in a landlocked country in the middle of europe and even if there was something odd going on, I would never be affected by it anyway. Phobias are crazy sometimes.

    • @hareecionelson5875
      @hareecionelson5875 3 роки тому

      And at least now you know that there are 3 factors which increase the likelihood of disappearances in the Bermuda: high traffic, adverse weather conditions and compass 'declination'
      And, Bermuda isn't even the most dangerous place in the sea.
      I hope you're getting the support you need for after the abuse.
      And as for nightmares, they're not fun at the time, but they're basically adventures in your sleep. You get to do and experience crazy dangerous situations that would probably never happen to you in real life. That thought certainly helps me view nightmares in a more positive light.

  • @tobydawson7887
    @tobydawson7887 4 роки тому +13

    You should do a thing with Kurzgesagt!
    Uniting my two favorite channels!

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet 3 роки тому +1

    There was a really excellent NOVA episode on the Bermuda Triangle, I think from the 1990s. Strongly recommended! There’s just nothing particularly mysterious going on.
    Regarding Flight 19, what most likely happened is that Taylor sighted Great Sail Cay peeking through the clouds, and mistook it for the Florida Keys, and believed that mistaken identification so strongly that he mistrusted his compasses and other instruments.

  • @mrsconley666
    @mrsconley666 3 роки тому +9

    I have a cousin who went into the Bermuda Triangle in a lifeboat with a bottle of Jack Daniels hoping to get abducted by aliens.......she got drunk.....and returned home.

  • @AstroRamiEmad
    @AstroRamiEmad 4 роки тому +1

    Add to everything you mentioned the Cold War and the Cuban Missile crisis and the role of secret military ships and operations there.

  • @DiyEcoProjects
    @DiyEcoProjects 4 роки тому +3

    *Joe Scott* hi there, any validity in the theory that its methane gas coming up from the ocean floor? this would account for ships sinking (loss of buoyancy) and planes crashing (loss of air pressure)

  • @louf7178
    @louf7178 4 роки тому

    You described that phobia perfectly.
    Just today I looked at an unnamed video I have - it was on the Bermuda Triangle. I saved it for some lesson to remember.

  • @JLocke573
    @JLocke573 4 роки тому +5

    I really appreciate the skeptical non "woohoo" approach that was taken on this topic.

  • @jakrispy3005
    @jakrispy3005 3 роки тому

    I haven’t listened to Dear Theodosia I’m such a long time, and I just listened to it again and I cried. It’s such a beautiful song, but also brings me back to 2016. Wow!

  • @darkartsleather5586
    @darkartsleather5586 4 роки тому +26

    "This is why we shouldn't put 8 year olds in charge of the military" --- Literally AND figuratively.

  • @lachiem
    @lachiem 4 роки тому +1

    Love the casual Neil Breen drop 👌

  • @likebot.
    @likebot. 4 роки тому +27

    "This is why you shouldn't put 8-year-olds in charge of the military".
    Riiiight.
    Now... just who's got that football, huh?

    • @rimckd825
      @rimckd825 4 роки тому

      But trump IS in control of the military. OMG.

    • @willyolio9590
      @willyolio9590 4 роки тому

      don't insult 8-year-olds like that

    • @jimthompson4132
      @jimthompson4132 4 роки тому

      A person who is emotionally 8 yrs old.

  • @nicolemeiner6903
    @nicolemeiner6903 2 роки тому +1

    Years late, but your fears about the Bermuda Triangle were mine about Lake Superior. My parents tried to take me on a tour on a boat when I was about ten and I full on refused to go because "don't you know how many boats have sunk in the lake?" They did, of course, and they knew that the lake wasn't a black hole, it was just dangerous IN BAD WEATHER and skilled captains on boats in calm water would be absolutely fine. But I was way older than I'd like to admit when I wrapped my head around that.

  • @JerBuster77
    @JerBuster77 3 роки тому +4

    Bermuda Triangle: we are the best mystery ever.
    Flight MH370: hold my beer

  • @EarthenDam
    @EarthenDam 4 роки тому +2

    So close to that Gold Play Button Joe, keep it up :)