The Dragon's Triangle

A roll call of disappearances. Great ships that sailed into oblivion. Planes that never landed. Cult author Charles Berlitz – whose The Bermuda Triangle stunned millions of readers – now reveals the secrets of another, more menacing, infinitely more dangerous body of water. Thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean from Bermuda, in the area between Japan, the Mariana Islands and Guam, is a region known as “ma-no Umi” – the Dragon’s Triangle, or the Devil’s Sea. Hundreds of ships of all sizes have vanished here, including military ships, armed nuclear submarines, research and scientific expeditions, and even tankers – one over 200,000 tons. Moreover, the vessels have disappeared without any trace of shipwreck flotsam. In calm seas, without any distress messages and with remarkably few survivors, none of whom can explain exactly what happened to them. Planes, too, have vanished – including three US military aircraft in a period of ten days. Why do pilots flying over this triangle report strange mists and a disorienting sense of accelerated time? What causes the ocean current in the Dragon’s Sea to create three-sided waves? And why was this section of the Pacific designated a ‘Danger Zone’ by the Japanese government? Charles Berlitz, master of the unexplained, answers these and many other questions in this compelling and exciting examination of one of the world’s truly great natural mysteries.