Sea of ​​devils

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Map of the Izu Islands , the center of the Devil's Sea legend
View from Kōzu-shima to Miyake-jima , about 100 km south of Tokyo

The Devil's Sea ( Jap. 魔の海 , Ma no Umi ), or Dragon Triangle (Dragon's Triangle) is an area in the Pacific Ocean about 100 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Miyake Island . The island of Guam is considered to be one corner of the triangle . Although the name Devil's Sea is used by Japanese fishermen, it does not appear on nautical charts .

meaning

In the USA in particular , the Devil's Sea, like the Bermuda Triangle , is considered the place where ships and planes disappear under mysterious circumstances. The Japanese, on the other hand, do not consider the Dragon Triangle to be more mysterious or dangerous than other marine areas in Japan . One of the special features is probably the fact that the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Sea are on the same geographical latitude and almost opposite geographical longitude . The phenomena supposedly taking place in the Devil's Sea include the disappearance of ships and airplanes, and the appearance of ghost ships and UFOs ; even the disappearance of Amelia Earhart is associated with the Devil's Sea.

Charles Berlitz's Claims

Charles Berlitz claims in his book The Bermuda Triangle that Japan lost five military ships with a total of more than 700 crew members between 1952 and 1954. The Japanese government has therefore sent over a hundred scientists to explore the Devil's Sea on a research ship that has also disappeared. Japan first declared the area dangerous and then a prohibited zone.

According to Larry Kush's research, the military ships were fishing boats, some of which disappeared 1000 km south of the Devil's Sea near Iwojima . Around Japan, hundreds of fishing boats went missing every year at that time.

The research ship named by Berlitz, the Kaiyo Maru No 5 with 31 people on board, monitored the activity of the underwater volcano Myojin-sho about 300 km south of the Dragon Triangle and was probably destroyed when it erupted on September 24, 1952.

Recent incidents

An aircraft of type Boeing C-97 of the US Air Force disappeared on 22 March 1957, 67 soldiers without a trace.

Between January 1969 and February 1970 three large Japanese cargo ships sank in the Devil's Sea (January 5, 1969: Bolivar Maru ; February 7, 1970: Antonio Demades ; February 10, 1970: California Maru ). A commission of inquiry later found that this was due to design defects in all of the inferior ships built as part of a state-accelerated large shipbuilding program.

When a typhoon rages in the Teufelsmeer, the sea can pile up to waves 10 meters high. This storm can also be dangerous for modern, large cargo ships. On September 9, 1980, the freighter Derbyshire sank off the east coast of Okinawa in a typhoon. The downfall remained a mystery at first; but an investigation carried out by Paul Lambert in 1994 came to the conclusion that the freighter sank in the troubled sea due to a design flaw and the 44-person crew drowned.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article cracked giants , in: Der Spiegel 25/1970, pp. 105-106.