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Post by Gian on Dec 8, 2009 14:48:07 GMT -5
The numbers above are necessary for doing a comparative with NTSB and CG for all districts, which the publication office and the FAA can lead you onto. In comparision to other areas of ocean as covered by districts, there are still more disappearances in the Triangle and certainly as you say more strange happenings. A dead spot also exists south of Everglades City. Dead Spots are old news in the Triangle and especially around Bimini. Zink, Keefe, et al have noted unexplained compass variations, etc.
I was told the wreck of the DC-3 was known to date from the 1980s.
Thanks for the info!
Gian
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Post by greglittle on Dec 9, 2009 14:40:48 GMT -5
The DC3 "from the 1980s" is the one off Bimini, just to the south of the island, about 150 yards offshore. It was shown on the MysteryQuest show and has been on lots of other shows. And yes, the story of that one is known and it was involved in drugs. It is so visually appealing and easy to get to that just about every show wants to film it. Oddly, there is another crashed plane inside the islands, in water less than 1-foot deep.
The one from the Nat Geo show had been discovered about 7 miles south of Bimini about 3 months before we went there with them to investigate it. A local who works with us had unexpectedly found a piece of that plane a week before we went to Bimini and told us about it. He was able to refind it when we were there (3 months before the Nat Geo show) and we took some film and photos of it, but had a lot of other things to do so we didn't take any real time with it. (Further south we found another 5-6 planes, but still haven't investigated those.) I sent Nat Geo the film when they asked to see it, and they arranged a date to meet us there. The weather stopped us from taking our boat over...actually we got swamped by a huge wave, and we turned back and luckily made it back to Florida in a water-filled boat. We then flew to Bimini and chartered Bill Keefe's boat for a 1-day excursion to the plane. Keefe had never been in that area and didn't know about it---it is way too dangerous getting to it because of shallows. We asked the other 2 local charter operatorsif they knew about it, and said no, and were surprised it was there. From the engine and size of the wing I figured it was a DC3. (I am a pilot also.) To my knowledge no one else has ever looked at it.
I'm not a BT skeptic at all. I just think that the planes and ships are there, somewhere, waiting.
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Post by Gian on Dec 14, 2009 16:34:53 GMT -5
This is the one I was referring to. I recall Keefe saying that the plane wreck had been known for some years. Steve Baker had informed me of some of the other stuff of the shoot. I recall identifying the aircraft as a DC-3 for him from a picture he showed me of cowling flap. But I recall asking him what color the plane was, and I think he said dark and I asked "like olvie?" and he confirmed that. That sounds like a C-47 to me, not NC16002. You brought up a Beldon wire, is that not so?
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