Benjamin Boster

The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.

According to contemporaneous sources, the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation.

GAHNP Star Tiger disappeared on the 30th of January 1948 on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda.

G-A-G-R-E Star Aerial disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica.

Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways.

Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range, and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island.

On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC-16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami.

No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people on board was ever found.

A Civil Aeronautics Board investigation found there were insufficient information available on which to determine probable cause of the disappearance.

A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on September 26, 1955.

It is usually stated in the stories that the crew vanished while the yacht survived, being at sea during three hurricanes.

The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season shows Hurricane Ion passing nearby between the 14th and 18th of September, with Bermuda being affected by winds of almost gale force.

In his second book on the Bermuda Triangle, Weiner quoted from a letter he'd received from Mr. J.E.

Chalonor of Barbados.

On the morning of September 22nd, Connemara IV was lying to a heavy moor in the open roadstead of Carlisle Bay.

Because of the approaching hurricane, the owner strengthened the mooring robes and put out two additional anchors.

There was little else he could do, as the exposed mooring was the only available anchorage.

In Carlisle Bay, the sea in the wake of Hurricane Janet was awe-inspiring and dangerous.

The owner of Connemara 4 observed that she had disappeared.

An investigation revealed that she had dragged her moorings and gone to sea.