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Berlitz's 'The Dragon's Triangle'
In 1989 Charles Berlitz, author of 'The Bermuda Triangle', published 'The Dragon's Triangle', claiming that an area of the Pacific south of Japan swallows ships and aircraft.
1989 CE · 29.00, 140.00 · status: claim
The account
The book drew on the 1952 loss of the research ship Kaiyō Maru No. 5 and claimed the Japanese government had declared the area a danger zone.
The sceptical view
Larry Kusche and others found that losses there are no more frequent than in other busy, stormy, volcanic waters; the Kaiyō Maru was destroyed by an undersea eruption.
Connections in the atlas
- MV Derbyshire lost in the 'Devil's Sea'
- The loss of the Kaiyō Maru No. 5
- The Dragon's Triangle (Devil's Sea)
- Sanderson's 'Invisible Residents'