History’s Greatest Mysteries: Expedition Bermuda Triangle

HISTORY CHANNEL - Premiered September 7th, 2021. Streaming now online.

Expedition Bermuda Triangle is Lone Wolf Media’s contribution to the History Channel series History’s Greatest Mysteries which is executive produced and hosted by Laurence Fishburne.

A team of investigators unlike any other assembled is taking on one of modern history’s most enduring mysteries: the Bermuda Triangle. This enigmatic 500,000 square miles patch of ocean between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico has been blamed for the disappearance of over a hundred ships and planes in recent history. None are more famous than the loss of Flight 19. On December 5, 1945, just months after the end of World War Two, five TBF Avenger Dive Bombers took off on a training mission designated Flight 19. The mission should have lasted less than three hours. Instead, these five planes along with 14 crew members disappeared somewhere into the Bermuda Triangle. Hours later, a 13-man search and rescue plane went out after the lost squadron. It too vanished. Altogether it’s as if 27 men and 6 planes fell off the face of the earth.      

The largest Naval search and rescue mission in history failed to turn up even a single shred of evidence. Countless search efforts over the ensuing 7 decades have also found no trace of the crew or aircraft. But today, a true game changer: a team of deep-sea explorers and accident investigators is taking on this mystery with a combination of high tech tools and proven expertise.

Deep-sea explorer Rob Kraft has led the RV Petrel--the most advanced ship of its kind--into the Bermuda Triangle. Kraft and the Petrel bring a long and distinguished track record to the table: they’ve discovered the final resting place of over 30 World War Two ships previously considered lost forever, including the USS Indianapolis. Kraft’s team will comb a deep-water target area for any sign of the lost squadron. At the same time a dive team led by scientist and explorer, Mike Barnette, is examining hundreds of unidentified wrecks off of Florida’s coast. Barnette is no stranger to the Bermuda Triangle--in 2020 he discovered the legendary Bermuda Triangle Disappearance, the Cotopaxi, made famous in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’. And finally historical investigators Wayne Abbott and David O’Keefe are on land peeling back decades of coverups, conspiracy, and missing evidence to find answers. 

From the deep to the coast to the swamps of interior Florida, the team will pursue every lead. Can they finally solve the mystery of Flight 19? 

See the story on the TODAY SHOW.

See the episode’s producer Joseph Sousa interviewed on News Center Maine.