ARE SUPERNATURAL FORCES AT PLAY?
OR CAN SCIENCE EXPLAIN THIS
WHOLE THING?
HERE'S NBC'S KERRY SANDERS.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: VAST, OMINOUS,
MYTHICAL.
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, ONE OF THE
GREATEST MYSTERIES OF OUR TIME.
POPULARIZED IN HOLLYWOOD.
&gt;&gt; IT'S NOT GETTING BETTER.
IT'S GETTING WORSE.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: DRIVING THAT
MYSTERY, STORIES LIKE THE LOST
SQUADRON, FIVE U.S. NAVY
AIRCRAFT THAT VANISHED OVER THE
TRIANGLE IN 1945.
WE'RE IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGEL.
&gt;&gt; YOU'RE IN THE BERMUDA
TRIANGLE.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: I HEAD INTO THE
DEPTHS WITH DR. BRIAN BERMUGA.
&gt;&gt; THERE'S SPOTS AROUND BERMUDA
WHERE YOU GET TWO, THREE, FOUR
SHIP WRECKS, ONE ON TOP OF THE
OTHER.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: BERMUDA IS AN
ISLAND SETTLED BY SHIP WRECK
SURVIVORS, LITTERED WITH 300
SUNKEN BOATS.
WHY?
EXPLANATIONS ABOUND FROM ALIENS
TO SEA MONSTERS, TO SUPERNATURAL
FORCES.
HE HAS A MORE GROUNDED THEORY.
BERMUDA IS SURROUNDED BY A
NETWORK OF REEF, STUNNING REEF
THAT COME RIGHT TO THE SURFACE.
WHEN SHIPS ENCOUNTER THOSE, THEY
BREAK THEM APART.
YOU GO BACK TO WOODEN SHIPS AND
STUFF, THOSE SHIPS HAD NO
CHANCE.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: STORIES OF THE
EARLY WRECKS FUELED THE
MYTHOLOGY THAT FOLLOWED.
USING THE TERMINOLOGY TODAY, YOU
WOULD CALL THE TRIANGLE --
&gt;&gt; THIS IS THE OLDEST FAKE NEWS
STORY IN THE WORLD.
THIS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG
TIME.
PEOPLE BUILD ON IT.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: SO MANY THEORIES.
&gt;&gt; YES.
WE'RE STILL RESEARCHING THEM.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: LANA, AN EXHIBIT
DESIGNER FOR THE OCEAN DISCOVERY
CENTER, HAS DELVED INTO MANY OF
THEM.
&gt;&gt; IT'S A MATTER OF HOW THEY
DISAPPEAR.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: SCIENTISTS AGREE.
OUR OCEANS REMAIN THE TRUE
MYSTERY.
DR. SIMON BOXALL MADE A SPLASH
WITH ONE THEORY.
&gt;&gt; SUDDENLY, WE GET THAT PEAK
HALVING RIGHT THERE.
THE ROGUE WAVE IS WHERE SEVERAL
SYSTEMS COME TOGETHER AND CREATE
A SUPERWAVE.
THEY'RE RARE AND THEY DON'T
OFTEN HAPPEN.
BUT YOU CAN GET ONE THAT SWAMPS
A SUPERTANKER.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: A POTENTIAL
EXPLANATION IN THE TRIANGLE'S
WATERS.
THERE'S NO MORE LOSSES IN THE
BERMUDA TRIANGLE THAN ANYWHERE
ELSE IN THE OCEAN.
AND YET -- WHAT IS IT ABOUT
HUMAN NATURE?
LIKE FOR THE SKEPTICS, JUST
MAYBE.
&gt;&gt; WE'RE ALSO STORY TELLERS.
WE'RE THE STORY TELLING ANIMAL.
THAT'S THE WAY I LOOK AT IT.
WE WANT TO BE PART OF A BIG
STORY.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: WE WANT TO BELIEVE?
&gt;&gt; WE WANT TO BELIEVE AND IT'S
IMPORTANT THAT WE TRY TO
BELIEVE.
&gt;&gt; Reporter: IN THIS CASE,
PERHAPS WE SHOULD EMBRACE FACT
AND FICTION.
WOW.
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MANY WRECKS
WE SAW.
&gt;&gt; IT'S THE STORY OF BERMUDA.
IT'S A SHIP WRECK ISLAND.
FOR "TODAY, K" KERRY SANDERS,
BERMUDA.
&gt;&gt; SCIENCE OR SUPERNATURAL?
&gt;&gt; I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO BERMUDA
AND FIND OUT.
&gt;&gt; IF YOU COULD
