BBC: The Bermuda Triangle - The mystery of the depths of the ocean




It is believed that the Sargasso Sea discovered by Christopher Columbus in September 1492. He left the first completely realistic description of the area.
On the way to the coveted Indian caravel Columbus got into this, the most godforsaken part of the Bermuda Triangle. Two weeks - not a drop of rain, the slightest wind. The sailors on the decks at night reading by candlelight. ... And seaweed porridge slowly and terribly moving in a circle. Passing through the accumulation of floating algae, Columbus feared running aground, believing that they herald the proximity of land. Portuguese sailors, bulge of the earth together with Columbus, these algae called "Sargassum". In the floating green algae had balls - bubbles filled with air, which reminded the Portuguese Sargassum small grapes growing in their homeland.

But on this planet there is a place much more dangerous than the Sargasso Sea of ​​the Atlantic. It is located on the right-the opposite side of the globe, in the Pacific Ocean.

At the Discovery channel, you dive into the depths of the bottomless blue graveyard of ships and planes! Godforsaken place where energy on nonlinear combined quantum equation formula ...