Limbo of the Lost-Today [antikvár]

Introduction More than a thousand people and over a hundred ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean that I call the Limbo of the Lost. Ghostly derelicts have been found floundering there, without a clue as to the whereabouts of | the crews and passengers. '{ ' Extensive air-sea searches have been conducted i without the satisfaction of finding enough evidence h leading to a realistic answer. The few clues uncov- ¦ ered only add to the mysteries. The area in question is not desolate, to the contrary: to outline the region, draw an imaginary line due east out from Cape May, New Jersey to the continental shelf line. Go due southward along the shelf, arc around Bermuda's 360 islands, continue westward encompassing the entire Gulf of Mexico. Within its boundaries lies Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the West Indies, the Bahamas' twenty inhabited islands, Nassau, Great Abaco, Andres Island and the hundreds of smaller islands too numer- ' ous to mention. Air and sea lanes in the Limbo area are in use both day and night by military, commercial and private aircraft, and all types of ships and boats. Because sea distances in the Limbo of the Lost are relatively short, it is probably safe to say that the waters are in constant use by craft of one kind or another. Many titles have been attached to this deadly portion of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean: Bermuda Tri- v angle (writers - Vincent H. Gaddis - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey - Charles Berlitz), The Hoodoo Sea (writer -John Godwin) and the Devils Triangle (writer -Richard Winer). , i ix