Plot Synopsis

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: INTO CURSED WATERS is a one-hour documentary series that follows an elite team of underwater detectives anchored by underwater explorer and marine biologist Mike Barnette, as they attempt to identify wrecks found within the Bermuda Triangle -- a hotbed for unexplained disappearances dating back hundreds of years. The crew includes the SS Cotopaxi; investigators Wayne Abbot and David O'Keefe; U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jason Harris, an authority on aeronautical crashes and wreck diver Jimmy Gadomski. In early March 2022, the team first embarked on a series of scout dives to investigate several suspected wreck targets off the coast of Florida, with one of those targets being outside of the Bermuda Triangle, offshore from Cape Canaveral. The team was initially looking for the wreck of a PBM Martin Mariner Rescue Plane that disappeared without a trace on December 5, 1945, while searching for five US Navy torpedo bombers on a mission code named Flight 19 that had also disappeared earlier that day. Instead of WWII era plane debris, the team discovered a modern-looking aviation structure. After consulting with an outside expert and completing a second dive in May 2022, the team presented the full evidence to retired American astronaut Bruce Melnick who suspected it was a piece of the Challenger space shuttle. Based on this information, producers brought the discovery to the attention of NASA and in August 2022, Mike Ciannilli, confirmed this was a significant remnant of Challenger. Viewers get a first-hand look from the very first dive to the teams' meeting at NASA to see how this rare and important discovery unfolded. In addition to the Challenger wreckage, viewers can expect to watch the team uncover several other ship and plane wrecks this season, helping to bring closure and answers to decades-old disappearances.

The sophomore season of THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: INTO CURSED WATERS debuted on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10pm ET/PT on History Channel. The same dive team that discovered a 20-foot segment of 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger returns to the waters off the coast of Florida to make more underwater discoveries. In the Season 2 premiere, "Curse of the Carrier," the team discovers the lost remains of an A-3 Skywarrior jet that fatally crashed in July 1960 while trying to land on the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier. A thorough investigation by both land and sea results in a positive identification of the exact jet and the pilot and crew who lost their lives. The team meets with the pilot's sons to share some long-awaited answers to what happened in the moments leading up to that fateful crash over six decades ago. But it wasn't the only death -- the Saratoga lost eight men in three separate incidents on a single mission. Were these tragedies tied to Cold War patrols near Cuba in the lead-up to the missile crisis? Or does it have something to do with an old Bermuda Triangle curse?
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On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 10pm ET/PT, History Channel premiered "Bermuda Triangle's Greatest Mysteries," the Season 2 finale of THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: INTO CURSED WATERS. The team unveils the greatest mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle: its most perplexing vanished ships and planes, and the strange and powerful forces said to be behind the Triangle's deadly reputation. Wreck divers Mike Barnette, Jimmy Gadomski, and team investigators Jason Harris, David O'Keefe, and Wayne Abbot provide inside information on what may have happened to the most famous missing ships and planes, their plans to solve the mysteries, and how their quest for answers will continue to new heights.