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Devil's Bermuda Triangle: Notable Incidents
Devil's Bermuda Triangle: Notable Incidents
Notable incidents
USS Cyclops
The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of
the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier Cyclops,
carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of
action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after
March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados. Although there
is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent
theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some
suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.
Flight 19
One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a
PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the
coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion and observing a
widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The
weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.According to
contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due
to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been
for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation.