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Devil's Sea

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In 1995, Kusche's research claimed that Berlitz's military vessels were actually fishing vessels, and some of those listed by Berlitz sank outside the area defined by the Dragon's Triangle. Kusche also wrote that the Japanese research vessel carried not 100 personnel, but only 31 and that an undersea
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was sent to Myōjin-shō for investigating activity of an undersea volcano, and lost in 1952. The loss of the Kaiyo Maru was accounted for: undersea volcano eruption. One of eight other lost ships also was accounted for. Most of the nine ships were small fishing boats with poor or no radio. The weather
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that are very common in this area. It is quite characteristic for small islands in the Dragon's Triangle to frequently disappear and new islands appear due to both volcanoes and seismic activity. Because the location of the Dragon's Triangle is not plotted on any official world map, the area and
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showed a map of the sea with points of several other ships that had been lost in recent years, and stated that those ships were lost within the area that the Yokohama Coast Guard Office had classified as a special danger area.
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crossing the Triangle near the end of the war created more questions than answers. The last thing his message said was "...something is happening in the sky...the sky is opening up-".
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Research also explores natural environmental changes, as the cause of such controversial anomalies in the Dragon's Triangle. One of these explanations is the vast field of
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to the sea for investigating unexplained ship losses, but this ship vanished as well" ... "After the incident, Japanese authorities have labeled the sea as a danger zone."
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introduced this incident with the term "The Devil's Sea," where nine ships had been lost in perfect weather. Yomiuri Shimbun described the size of the
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series (aired in 2007) second arc called Umibōzu takes place in a luxurious ship that was set off course and left wandering in the Dragon's Triangle.
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for books, newspaper, and magazine articles on the Dragon's Triangle came up completely empty, until a full 20 years after the loss of the
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TOKYO GETS NEWS FROM MISSING SHIP; Faint Signal Ends Japanese Fears for Vessel's Fate -- All Aboard Are Safe - The New York Times
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A possible form of the Dragon's Triangle. Due to the Berlitz's claim having many inconsistencies, its exact form is unclear.
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and can easily sink a ship, leaving no trace of debris. Another explanation for this "paranormal" activity could be the
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where the coast guard classified as special danger area. The actual danger area was the red circle according to Kusche.
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is set on an island in the "Dragon's Triangle", which contains numerous wrecked ships and planes.
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In 1989, Berlitz claimed that the Devil's Sea is also called the Dragon's Triangle in his book
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has claimed the following areas as "ma-no umi" or "ma-no kaiiki" before 1954:
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supposedly went missing. A distress radio transmission from Zero F
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location, though the veracity of these claims has been questioned.
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present on the bottom of the ocean in the Dragon's Triangle area.
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Yomiuri Shimbun described that this blue quadrangle was the
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