Benjamin Boster

Berlitz claimed that the nine modern ships and several hundred crews were lost without traces between 1950 and 1954.

In 1955, the Japanese government sent Kayomaru No.

5 to the sea for investigating unexplained ship losses.

but this ship vanished as well.

After the incident, Japanese authorities have labeled the sea as a danger zone.

In 1989, Berlitz claimed that the Devil's Sea is also called the Dragon's Triangle in his book, The Dragon's Triangle.

Berlitz continued by theorizing that five Japanese military vessels disappeared while on maneuvers near Japanese shores in early 1942.

In 1975, American author Larry Kusha published The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, debunking the Devil's Sea legend.

Kusha sent letters to government offices which were related to the sea, but nobody knew about the Devil's Sea or such a danger zone.

The actual danger zone where the Maritime Safety Agency of Japan warned not to approach was only 10 miles to Myojin-cho.

The Kayomaru No.

5 was sent to Myojin-sho for investigating activity of an undersea volcano and lost in 1952.

The loss of the Kayomaru was accounted for, undersea volcano eruption.

One of eight other lost ships also was accounted for.

Most of the nine ships were small fishing boats with poor or no radio.

In 1995, Kush's research claimed that Berlitz's military vessels were actually fishing vessels, and some of those listed by Berlitz sank outside the area defined by the Dragon's Triangle.

Kuja also wrote that the Japanese research vessel carried not 100 personnel, but only 31, and that an undersea volcano destroyed it on the 24th of September, 1952.

In Daniel Cohen's 1974 book, Curses, Hexes, and Spells, it's reported that legends of the Danger of the Dragon's Triangle go back for centuries in Japan.

Its most famous casualty was the No.

5 Kayomaru, a scientific research vessel which disappeared with the loss of all hands on September 24, 1952.