Also gone were some of the crews extra clothing. The captains personal belongings were also gone, along with a large trunk. It wouldn't have been possible to put such a heavy object into a life boat. .
They were never able to move the Carroll A Deering from the shoals where she had run aground. A few months later, a storm tossed her about until be broke up. No member of her crew was ever heard from again. Unless the entire crew was killed and thrown over board by pirates, they too had disappeared into the Triangle.
Seafarers have known about the Triangle for centuries. But it wasn't until World War II that people realized that airplanes flying over the same area could also vanish from the sky.
In January 1948, a four-motor passenger plane disappeared while flying from Bermuda. When the plane was 380 miles northeast of Bermuda, the pilot radioed that the weather was excellent and they would arrive on schedule. But the plane never arrived, nor was an SOS received. By the following day, a thorough search operation was underway. Some boxes and empty oil drums were found Northwest of Bermuda two days later. But if they belonged to the plane, it would mean that it had flown hundreds of miles off course. That seems impossible, since the pilots last message said nothing about being lost. Another passenger plane going from San Juan to Miami, had disappeared in the same area two weeks earlier. The facts of this flight's disappearance could not be explained. The plane took off from San Juan at 10:30pm. At 4:13am, the Miami tower received the message that the plane was approaching the field only fifty miles to the South and that they would land soon.
The plane never landed. A land-and-sea search found no wreckage of the plane. If the plane was truly fifty miles South of Miami, why were there no SOS or flares? The plane was simply vanished over the Florida Keys. The waters there are shallow and clear.