In Search Of... Season 3 # 8, THE GREAT LAKES TRIANGLE

There is a body of water from which the cry of distress comes more often per square mile than from any of the bodies of water in the world. ... it is an area where the search and rescue capabilities have no equal. .. A triangle formed by the Great Lakes, locked in the heart of industrial North America.  The Great lakes surpass the so called Bermuda Triangle.

A ten second lapse will launch a full scale search and rescue.

On April 23rd 1973 Bob Joy jr. watched his father vanish. He was in another plane a few 100 feet away. They were over shallow Lake Erie. The water was not rough. There was no cry for help. And his plane suddenly disappeared.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest of the Great Laker boats.  She sailed from Minnesota in 1975. The Anderson radared the Fitzgerald 9 miles ahead of her. When sight cleared, she could not be seen. When she was found every lifeboat was still securely fastened.

Meteorologists report that siege-waves have sunken ships in the Lakes, but cannot explain them. Most cases of missing planes are fully documented. A co-pilot who survived a crash reports that the readings were normal and the next moment the plane crashed in the trees. After investigation the cause of the crash as undetermined.

On May 15th 1956 a military plane took of over the Great Lakes. Only seconds after its last routine transmission it disappeared off radar. It was subsequently learned that the pilot had dropped 32,000 feet to his death without uttering a single word of distress.

The Argonic line is a line along which magnetic north and true north are precisely the same direction. Now how this would be related to a transportation accident or how it could cause such a tragedy has never been explained. But the fact remains that a number of accidents have occurred on or near this line. Jay Goorly examined 85 air disasters and 45 shipping disappearances in the area.