- -  Doyou bélieve i in sea .
_monsters,.

as in U. F.0.’s

or the, mysteries. of the.
‘Bermuda’ © Triangle? —
_. Have ‘you’ ever had an.
. unexplained.”

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ve *

ex-_

“ripped: sails while: becalmed,

“© | strange sightings and enor-

“Last week i ‘was s involved i in '
an exhausting. debate with a .
North Vancouver couple who
had spent two years cruising .-

the’ Bahamas.
tumerous encounters in the
Bermuda» ‘Triangle. .

They had .

Unex- .

mous compass errors. They.

were:.. affected. by these .

phenomenon to’ the- point -

where they now believe in

intelligent life i in ‘outer space..

This week I’ll be heading

‘to Florida for. a “four-week
film assignment and ¥ ‘shall

£

sail ‘through .the’ Bermuda:

Triangle. .1¥- thought Vd

‘refresh your: memory on

historic events and the
present rumours about this
‘part of the world.

and ships have mysteriously
disappeared | in this area;

over 40 ships and a'thousand -

beings - during. the last
century...Most of them are

well documented in files of.

the’ U:S. Navy,

Many of us know that men

in. sight

day and neyer emerged from.
the’ Bermuda Triangle.

‘Incidents continued un-
abated. In December 1957
publisher Harvey: Conover,

Jone of America’s best known

|

Yachtsmen.along withseveral
relatives, left Key West on

‘the 150 mile trip to Miami in .

his racing yawl, the Renovoc.
Although their intended path —
would have always kept them
of land,

Page 17, March 4, 1979 - Sanday News

.they

not, a vessel may well end up

hundreds. of miles from’

where it is supposéd to be;
‘perhaps in the Path of a
hurricane.

Part 2 to be continued next
week.

"74 SANGSTER
20°5*" jauched Mar.
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Tn 1909. Joshua Slocum, at

» that time the world’s: best
- known sailor, vanished while .
crossing the triangle. Eleven

years before he had gained
enduring fame by being the
first man to sail alone around
the world.

He and the Spray sailed
north from Massachusetts one

SAILING II INTO ETERNITY, Joshua Slocum and the ‘Spray’ ‘leave Martha's Vineyard
on November 14, 1909, bound for South America. After reaching the Bermuda
Triangle, Slocum and his ship vanished.

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