Chapter 65: Survival on an Island
"All the sails are lowered, the boilers are turned off, the tools on the deck are tied, there is only one observation hand left on the deck, and it is rotated every half an hour, go ahead!"
Captain Li Ran and the four crew members have already put life and death on the line.
The wind was still very strong, and in broad daylight it was already covered with black clouds, and the rain and lightning seemed to destroy the world.
The 8-meter wave hit the deck of the pirate ship again and again.
Wang Yong is better in the submarine, the submarine towed by a 100-meter cable has been lowered to a position of 50 meters, and the oscillation of the sea water here is more than half small, which is a great luck.
Bermuda triangle? Did we really run into it?
Survival luck is death?
The strange phenomenon of the Bermuda Delta for nearly a hundred years seems to have been solved by the "vortex hypothesis".
Its explanation is almost perfect, but it still needs to be further verified because it is only a hypothesis.
Regarding the mystery of the Bermuda Delta, many scientists have made other hypotheses, such as the sea cave theory, the water bridge theory, the secondary theory, and the black hole hypothesis.
These hypotheses are now only hypotheses and have not yet been truly scientifically verified. Some scientists have used some credible experimental methods to determine the presence of a strong underwater magnetic field in the Bermuda Delta, which seems to provide some scientific explanation for why airplanes disappear as soon as they fly there.
The plane flew over the Bermuda Triangle, and under the influence of a strong magnetic field, the navigation was out of control, the aircraft operating system was out of control, and then the plane was buried in the ocean with the passengers on it. It's possible! Others believe that there are pyramids underground, which have a long history and cannot be accurately identified.
There are many other questions about the Bermuda Delta that need to be argued. The "Vortex Theory" gives us a plausible explanation, and this theory has at least some hypothetical experiments to support its views, while other theories have few experiments that can be understood. Therefore, the explanation is almost perfect.
The Bermuda Triangle is located in the southeast of the Florida Peninsula in North America, specifically refers to an eastern Atlantic triangle formed by the Bermuda Islands, Miami of the United States and San Juan of Puerto Rico, with a length of about 2,000 kilometers on each side.
Because of the fact that this sea area often occurs supernormal phenomena that are difficult to explain by existing scientific and technological means, or according to normal thinking logic and reasoning, it has become synonymous with mysterious and incomprehensible disappearances in modern times.
The first person in human history to venture through the Bermuda Triangle was the world's famous navigator Christopher Columbus. In 1502, the ocean-going fleet led by Columbus made its fourth voyage to the Americas.
As the fleet approached Bermuda, a sudden strong wind blew on the sea, and the ships seemed to sail between the gorges, barely visible of the day. Columbus, who had extensive seafaring experience, hurriedly reverted the fleet and approached the coast of Florida to avoid the ferocious storm.
To Columbus's astonishment, all the ship's navigational instruments were out of order, and the helmsmen and sailors were so confused that they could not make out their directions.
As luck would have it, the fleet eventually staggered out of danger between the crests and troughs. Subsequent inspection revealed that the pointer of the ship's magnetic compass had deviated by 36° from due north to northwest.
A distraught Columbus recounted this perilous experience in a letter to the king. In the letter, Christopher Columbus described this thrilling voyage as follows: "At that time, the waves were rolling for eight or nine days, and I could not see the sun or the stars with either eye...... I've seen storms in my life, but I've never seen a storm so long and so violent!" Because Columbus's experience was at least one of those that could be explained, it did not attract enough attention at the time.
What is the geography of the Bermuda Triangle Why do these things happen in the Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is located between Bermuda on the western side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Florida Strait, and the island of Puerto Rico at the eastern end of the Greater Antilles. Most of them are located between 20°~30°N latitude and belong to the northern tropics.
It is mainly controlled by tropical air masses throughout the year, and northeast trade winds prevail. Summer and autumn tropical hurricanes, the wind roars, often forming a wall of water more than 10 meters high, and can often encounter seaspouts, which can suck the sea water to a height of several thousand meters, casting a terrible shadow on navigation.
Moreover, the Bermuda Triangle is located on the northern edge of the crustal fault zone between South and North America, with very strong volcanic and seismic activity, and a very complex seabed topography.
Underneath the Bermuda Triangle is mostly the North Asian American Basin, which is 6,000 meters deep; To the north is the Bermuda Terrace, which juts out of the surrounding abyssal basin, to the west and southwest is a vast continental shelf close to the mainland and archipelago, and to the south is the Puerto Rico Trench, which is 9,215 meters deep.
In addition, the Bermuda Triangle is close to more than 1,200 islands, including the Florida Peninsula and the Yucatan Peninsula, as well as the relatively closed Gulf of Mexico, which is surrounded by peninsulas, and numerous islands and straits: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.
The islands face the vast Atlantic Ocean and shield the Caribbean Sea, greatly increasing the complexity of ocean currents.
The North Equatorial Current turns northwest over most of the Antilles and passes through the Bermuda Triangle. In addition, the Florida Current, which flows out of the Gulf of Mexico through the Florida Strait, is very strong, with a width of 150 kilometers and a depth of 800 meters, with a flow speed of 130~150 kilometers per day and night.
Such a "mighty army" also passed through the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is characterized by complex currents and strong currents, and even if the planes and ships in distress do not sink to the bottom of the ocean, they will be swept away by the strong currents.
The Bermuda Triangle is also part of the Sargassum Sea, and the sea surface is covered with brown algae, mainly sargassum, which is not conducive to navigation.
Different writers have different theories about the location of the Bermuda Triangle, and the area of the Bermuda Triangle varies from work to work.
According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, 28 oceanographic experts from 14 countries conducted a 20-day expedition in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle in April 2006 to "wipe out" plankton living at a depth of 4.8 kilometers from the surface to the bottom of the sea.
Of the thousands of organisms captured, scientists have categorized 500 and analyzed the genetic sequences of more than 220 of them. The results showed that at least 20 species of plankton were discovered for the first time. In addition, scientists have discovered more than 120 species of fish, several of which are also "specialty" of Bermuda.
So far, the interpretation of the "Bermuda Triangle" can be summarized as follows:
The first type of view: these disappearances are caused by supernatural causes, thinking of whether it is an alien flying saucer at work.
The second type of view: This is caused by natural causes, such as geomagnetic anomalies (caused by magnetic fields), ocean floor cavities, and even some people put forward the bubble theory, the clear sky turbulence theory, the water bridge theory, the black hole theory, etc., and use some strange natural phenomena to explain the Bermuda Triangle.
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Some scientists believe that the sudden disappearance of ships passing through the Bermuda Triangle may be due to the presence of some kind of powerful and magical whirlpool in this area.
The Bermuda Triangle is home to the amazing and famous Sargassum Sea, which is hydrodynamically a place of thermal energy. The currents around this sea are complex, and its boundary is not land, but a counterclockwise circulation of several currents in the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf Stream, Canary Current, and North Equatorial Current).
A scholar in the United States who studies whirlpools believes that the direction of rotation of whirlpools is related to the rotation of the earth, and the direction of whirlpools in the northern hemisphere is counterclockwise. The Gulf Stream flows through the Florida Strait and merges several small currents in different directions in the Bermuda Triangle to form a large current, which is extremely unfavorable for ship navigation. It is said that a wave of 25 meters can break a large ship in two and swallow a ship that is caught off guard.
However, meteorologists in some countries retorted: "There will be no such demon-like waves, and it is impossible to hit a large ship of thousands or even tens of thousands of tons to the bottom of the sea without leaving a trace." Unless something mysterious and powerful drags them to the bottom of the sea. ”
Some scholars believe that there may be two or more opposite currents in the Bermuda Triangle, resulting in a phenomenon with different interfacial water densities, which is the so-called "inner wave", in the process of tidal reflux, the seawater produces a vortex and seismic current, which is manifested as a large-scale vertical whirlpool.
Some scholars believe that the strong northerly winds blowing from Puerto Rico and the rough waves of the deep ocean can sometimes occur "inner waterfalls" that are thousands of meters high and gradually descending huge currents, which are almost invisible on the surface of the sea, so that they cannot be seen from the surface of the ocean.
However, under certain conditions, the liquid with huge mass will reach a very high speed when it descends, and sometimes the rotation speed can reach 0.5 m/s, which will form a huge vortex with a diameter of 150~200 kilometers and a depth of 500 meters. This whirlpool foot can bury a giant ship at the bottom of the sea.
Secondly, the Greater Antilles are often hit by terrible hurricanes, which come from the direction of the Bermuda Triangle. Hurricanes whip up huge waves, often forming walls of water more than 10 meters high, and sometimes you can encounter seaspouts, which can even suck seawater hundreds or thousands of meters into the air. If ships and planes sailing in the Bermuda Triangle encounter these terrible and strange phenomena, they will not escape the fate of being crushed.
According to an article published in the Macau Daily News on May 6, 1984, a foreign scholar who studies whirlpools believes that a mesoscale whirlpool is equivalent to a concave mirror, and when sunlight shines on the whirlpool (concave mirror), the focus of the light can produce a high temperature.
He conducted an experiment in which a strong light was incident into a simulated vortex at an angle of incidence of 60°~75°, and the result was that the concentrating focus of the vortex (which acts like a concave mirror) could ignite a thin piece of paper. Based on the results of this experiment, he concluded that there are many huge whirlpools in the Bermuda Triangle, which are many huge "concave mirrors." The angle of incidence of sunlight is 60°~75°. , irradiating a whirlpool with a diameter of 1 km, the diameter of the focal point is about one meter, and the temperature can reach tens of thousands of degrees.
Such a high temperature is enough to melt or explode an airplane or ship in an instant. The larger the diameter of the vortex, the higher the temperature of its focal point. At night, when there is no sunlight, although the whirlpool cannot concentrate light, due to the extremely fast rotation speed of the huge whirlpool, it will inevitably cause electromagnetic field disturbances, which in turn will cause the magnetic compass and other navigation instruments to malfunction, so that the aircraft and ships lose control and die on the bottom of the sea.
In 1992, a team of American, Soviet and French scientists investigating the mystery of Bermuda's Mysterious Triangle used artificial satellites operating in space for reconnaissance. According to the photographs scanned by the laser, there is a giant turbulent vortex in this triangle. Dr. Akol, the chief scientist who led the team, said the giant vortex appeared for only three seconds, but it was immensely powerful.
Its attraction is far greater than that of any hurricane, earthquake or volcanic eruption on Earth, and comparable to the gravitational pull of the Moon that affects Earth's tides, which can affect the weather on the Moon. When this huge whirlpool appears, it is erratic and unpredictable, and finding it in the Atlantic Ocean is like looking for a needle in a haystack. When a huge whirlpool suddenly appears, the invincible ships at sea and the planes in the sky will be swept to the bottom of the sea, causing the loss of planes and ships.
This discovery provides a realistic basis for the vortex theory. Some scholars believe that in ancient times, during the process of continental drift, after millions of years, some craters or cavities formed in the seabed crust of the Bermuda Triangle, and in modern times, the earth's crust movement here is still frequent, and earthquakes often occur in the Greater Antilles. When an earthquake occurs, the top of such a cavity may collapse and sink down, as if the ocean floor is "opening its mouth".
The sea rushed into its open mouth. If the ship encounters this situation sometimes, it will be swallowed up with it. As a result, there will be no debris, oil stains, crew corpses, or any other traces left on the surface of the sea, and nothing will escape the fate of being swept into the abyss of the seabed. However, many scholars are skeptical of this speculation.
This is because the network of seismic stations has shown that there has been no "open mouth" or violent activity in the crust of the Bermuda Triangle that could engulf ships on the surface of the sea. In the 70s of the 20th century, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union jointly investigated the structure of ocean currents in the Bermuda Triangle and obtained a lot of fresh information that scientists did not know in the past, but they did not find such an astonishing phenomenon as the "opening of the mouth" on the seabed.
Some scholars have put forward a unique and novel view: although the Bermuda Triangle is far from the island of Sentador in the eastern Pacific, there is an undersea "water bridge" between the two. This idea began with a serendipitous discovery.
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Anyway, Wang Yong and his 28 people and 52 pirate captives were lucky to meet
Unknown Events.
Two days later, the two masts of the pirate ship had broken, but only a little water had entered the ship.
I have to say that the quality of this ship is really good, I heard that it was made by the Germans, and then it was robbed by pirates only twice near the sea.
Day 3.
The sky was still overcast.
But the torrential rain has stopped, the wind has lessened, less than level five, and the waves have dropped below 4 to come.
Devilish three days and three nights.
Of the 80 people, 4 of the captives were killed and 20 were injured, and 8k of the 28 Chinese were injured and there were no deaths, fortunately.
In the afternoon, the sky gradually turned rotten.
"Wow!!!!! There is land! There is land! ”
The navigator Xiao Yang (Yang Ke) shouted loudly and excitedly.
In the end, Li Xiaoyu took Yang Ke with him, and Zhao Xiaodao got on an inflatable speedboat to investigate.
Two hours later, they returned, a small island 20 miles long, 12 kilometers, fortunately, two-thirds of the island was woods, a 300-meter hill, and a long stream on the mountainside, which was solved by 100 people with water.
Wang Yong said to Li Ran
"Having withstood the storm in Bermuda, God has finally given us another chance to be born again!"
"That's right, our fighters won't give up easily, come on, comrades!"
Yes.
If you don't experience wind and rain, how can you see a rainbow!