Incredible facts
The ocean is full of secrets. People are traditionally afraid of the ocean and prefer to admire it from the shore. There are places in the oceans that people are particularly afraid of. Planes and ships disappear there without a trace. There are also giant whirlpools, waves and mysterious glowing circles on the water. However, in addition to the well-known Bermuda Triangle, there are several other such frightening places.
Sargasso Sea
Many people confuse the Sargasso Sea with the Bermuda Triangle. The sea is to the southeast of the triangle. Moreover, there are many who are trying to find answers to the mysteries of the triangle in this sea. However, the sea is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There is a certain feature that gave the sea its name. Ocean currents move clockwise.
However, the sea is a giant whirlpool that lives according to its own laws. The water temperature inside the pool is much higher than outside. During their stay in this place, people often see wonderful mirages, for example, it may seem that the sun rises in both the east and the west at the same time.
Richard Sylvester, a scientist at the University of Western Australia, suggested that the giant whirlpool of the Sargasso Sea is a centrifuge that creates smaller whirlpools that reach areas of the Bermuda Triangle. Whirlpools are the cause of mini-cyclones in the air. Cyclones support the spiral movements of water, which is why they appear. This may be the cause of small aircraft crashes.
Devil's Sea
This is the Pacific Ocean region around Miyake Island, which is about 100 kilometers south of Tokyo. This “relative” of the Bermuda Triangle cannot be found on any map, however, sailors prefer to stay away from this sea. The storm there can start quite unexpectedly, and end as well. This region is home to no whales, dolphins, or even birds. Since the early 1950s, nine ships have gone missing in this region. The most famous incident is the disappearance of Kaiyo Maru No. 5, a Japanese research vessel.
This area is also highly seismic. The seabed is constantly moving, volcanic islands appear and disappear. The region is also known for very active cyclonic activity.
Cape of Good Hope
This area off the coast of South Africa is also known as the Cape of Storms. Over hundreds of years, many ships have been wrecked in this region. Most of the disasters were due to bad weather, in particular, killer waves. Scientists also call them solitary waves. They are very large, reaching up to 30 meters in height. They are formed using two coherent waves and become one huge wave. They don't change their shape as they move, even if they encounter other similar waves along the way. They can “travel” very long distances without losing their power. Such huge waves create very deep cavities in front of them, the depth of which corresponds to the height of the wave.
There are many other places in the oceans where similar waves form, but in this regard, the region near the Cape of Good Hope is extremely dangerous.
Eastern Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf
This area is known for a very spectacular and mysterious phenomenon — giant, glowing and rotating circles on the water surface. German oceanologist Kurt Kahle believes that glowing circles appear as a result of underwater earthquakes that make plankton glow. This hypothesis has been criticized recently because it fails to explain the logic of the round shape. Modern science can't explain this either. Moreover, scientists are unable to explain the origin of the rays that come from the center of the circles. In this case, the UFO version comes to the fore.
Malstrom Whirlpool
This whirlpool has no planetary significance like the whirlpool in the Sargasso Sea. However, sailors know dozens of chilling stories about this amazing phenomenon. This whirlpool happens twice a day in the western part of the Norwegian Sea, off Norway's northwest coast. The word “malstrom” was popularized by Edgar Poe in the short story “The Fall of Malstrom”. A whirlpool is a very strong and large body of “swirling” water that has a significant downward flow of air. The water surface of the cavity in the center of a powerful vortex is tens of meters below the ocean surface. The power of the whirlpool is ten times greater than the strength of the total current.
Oddly enough, the whirlpool reverses its direction every 3-4 months. Malstrom whirlpools can also occur in other areas, including the Bermuda Triangle. Malstrom is believed to be a vortex that rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, due to the rotation of planet Earth.