SATAN'S TRIANGLE
WITHIN THE LAST THIRTY YEARS JUST OFF THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES
MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE VANISHED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
NO ONE KNOWS HOW, OR WHY.
THIS IS ONE EXPLANATION...
Search and rescue. Code 1, code 1!
All hands. Search and rescue. Code 1, code 1.
All hands. Search and rescue.
Code 1! Code 1!
COAST GUARD MIAMI RESCUE
You are clear for take-off, 136.
You are clear for take-off.
you are clear for take-off.
What is your problem, 136?
Alright, buckle in. Buckle in.
Miami Rescue, this is 136.
We are now ready for take-off.
What was it this time? Red-head?
Blonde? Brunette?
Never got a chance to find out.
What... and where?
Mayday.
Grid 7-2-5.
You won't believe this.
The Devil's Triangle.
Dead center.
Both units are red. One is soaring and proceeding to mayday.
I love you truly,
yes I do.
More than any other girl I ever knew.
I love you truly
Yes, I do.
I love...
Pagnolini!
Pagnolini, drop it down.
What for?
- We're more that 100 miles from target. - Just drop it down.
Not bad.
Is that all you want to think about 24 hours a day?
Day in and and day out?
No! No, sometimes I think about you, Pagnolini.
- And your foul temper and... - Hey, watch it!
Yes, sir.
But not too shabby, though.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
I love you, truly.
Truly I do.
Call 137 to Miami Rescue.
Go ahead, 137.
The bottom just dropped down of our thermometer here and the index is rising up.
We got to return to base immediately.
Miami to 137. You're clear to return to base.
How about 136?
I don't know what that guy is talking about. The weather is beautiful up here.
Everything looks clear to mayday.
I see the light below.
Any sign of those two keepers?
I'm serious.
Explain how the keepers vanished off that island?
Can you explain any of those spooky things that happened?
In the Triangle. Explain them to me. Eh?
You know, we'd be famous.
Haig and Pagnolini! I mean, Pagolini and Haig!
You could be in the newspapers, talk shows, the whole enchilada.
Well, I told you what I think.
Yeah...
Trouble is that not many people believe in the Devil these days.
When you believe in God,
you believe in the Devil.
I believe in God.
God, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny...
A devil...?
On that I can't quite swallow.
Pagnolini and Haig.
I like that.
I love you truly, Pagnolini.
136 to base. Did 137 return safely?
Yes, 136.
We've given full mechanical check down but found no evidence of reason.
Do you need any assistance, 136?
No. Approaching target area now.
Roger. The Venturous will be there 08:00 tomorrow morning.
Roger and out.
There is the flare.
And there she is.
She's a motor schooner. Big one. 80-85 foot easy.
You see anyone?
Not yet.
She looks abandoned.
No, wait...
Is that a body hanging from the main mast?
I got it is.
There is another one on the forward hatch.
I can't tell that he's alive.
Looks like somebody moving inside.
Give me the horn.
- Take the stick. - Got it.
Hello, "Requite"! Please respond!
This is the Coast Guard, "Requite".
Please respond.
Hello, "Requite"! Please respond!
This is the Coast Guard!
Better notify Miami.
Miami Rescue, this is 136. Come in, please.
Miami Rescue,
this is 136.
Come in, please!
We've lost contact.
- I better go down. - Okay.
Hey...
Watch yourself.
Right, buddy.
Ready?
Roger, and take it easy. I'm in a 15 knot wind.
The man on the hatch is dead.
What about the one on the mast?
He is dead too.
And he's a priest.
I'm going inside.
Right.
- Pagnolini, do you read me? - Yes. Do you see anybody inside?
No. Nobody's in the salon. I'm going below.
Looks like it is blowing pretty bad out there.
It is. So get going.
And you stay away from those masts.
Wind is getting rough up here.
Sky is full of electricity. Whole area looks screwy.
And my engine is acting up.
The crew's quarters and the fore cabins are all empty.
All I have left is aft.
Well, hurry it up!
Pagnolini?
Go ahead.
- Make sure that tape recorder is working. - It's been working. What do you got?
I... I found another one.
A man.
And he's floating in the air.
What's the matter with you? Cut the jokes!
I'm not joking, Pagnolini.
He's floating in the air, and he's dead.
Haig?
You gotta get out of there!
My fuel pressure is dropping.
Haig?
Come in, Haig.
Hey, Haig!
Come in!
Haig!
Come in!
Haig, get your tail out of there, or I'll leave without you!
Be ready to take up a survivor.
Easy now.
You're gonna be all right. We're gonna get you out of here.
Hold on. You'll be allright.
You're allright?
Allright.
Hold on.
You're okay?
Go on inside. And get some dry clothes on.
Go on.
Pagnolini!
Pagnolini, can you read me?
Haig?
Pagnolini, do you read me?
This thing is shorted out.
Pagnolini?
Can you read me now?
Pagnolini, can you read me now? Over.
The both of you are ok?
Is anybody hurt?
Haig?
No, no, no. We're alright.
Don't know what happened to that cable.
It looks like we're stuck here.
I'm afraid you are.
I gotta get out of here fast. My engine started acting up again.
My fuel to get back is borderline.
You're going to be ok?
Yeah.
You promise to light me some candles when you get back to the base.
Haig?
Haig!
Pagnolini?
We're gonna die on this boat now.
Just like the others.
I'm not ready to die yet.
She's solid and she's sound.
She'll ride it out.
And so will we.
So why don't you make us some coffee, while I...
I try to find some dry clothes.
You'll find some in here.
Underneath the mirror.
Here.
Thanks.
Do you wanna tell me what happend?
It doesn't matter.
I told you we're gonna die, so...
There is no way out of this damn boat.
"All hope abandoned, ye who... board the "Requite"."
Here. Sit down.
Sit.
Look, we're gonna be alright.
Sea's calm.
Pretty soon the stars gonna be coming out.
Don't you know where we are?
Haven't you seen what's happened on this boat?
You see...
They will wanna know what's happened.
They will wanna know what's happened to...
the man on the deck...
the priest,
and the man in the aft compartment.
So...
So, why don't you tell me?
Alright.
I'll tell you.
We came here for a fish.
Not just any fish.
Hal's fish had to be a striped marlin,
and had to weight at least a 180 pounds.
Come on!
Come on, baby!
I got him, Captain! I got him!
Get him once drag, Hal.
Man, look at him!
Look at him! Isn't he beauty?
Come, my baby!
Come on now! Come on, baby!
Slow down, Salao! Slow down!
Better slow down! He's gonna sound.
How big do you think he is?
- Think he's heavy enough? - Aye, it's pretty big.
Baby, I'm gonna wear you out if it's the last thing I do.
Come on now!
The weight was the most important thing.
That, and it had to be caught from a power sailer.
Not a regular fishing boat. It had to be a power sailer.
That's the way Hal's stepbrother did.
So that's the way Hal had to do with.
Kill the panther in Africa.
So Hal had to kill an even bigger one.
It was that way with everything.
Including the marlin?
Including the marlin.
I've never seen Hal so happy.
He and Strickland were like little boys.
Hey, ok, stop reeling. Open it up a little, Salao.
Now pull back in the rod, and take that hook as deep as you can.
That's it.
My mouth is like cotton. You got any water?
Juano.
Juano, water!
Keep up on that rod, now.
You got him. That's it.
You got your bonus, too, huh, Jack?
- We haven't landed him yet. - Oh, we will, we will.
He's coming up now.
Pick up that line!
Yeah, he's turning, all right.
Open up, now. Take up the line.
That's enough. Get away, get away!
Get the slack out of the line. Get the slack out.
- Just slack this out! - That's it!
- Juano, take a look at the wheel. - Easy does it.
Bring him in.
What is it, Salao?
A man adrift.
Salao, what do you see?
Holy Mother of God!
Come on, this is where all the action is, man!
Hard right rudder!
Slow it down! Slow it down!
Mr. Bancroft, there is a man adrift off the starboard bow.
We're gonna have to let your fish go.
- The hell we do! - We gotta pick him up!
Radio the Coast Guard Let them pick him up.
Hal, we've got to pick him up!
Let it go!
Strickland!
If we lose that fish...
then you lose $5,000.
Now, you let that sink in.
A man is worth more than any fish.
What the hell are you doing. Get out of here!
A man of God is worth all the fish in all the seas.
Strickland...
That's gonna cost you,
and you better believe it.
Let's pick that man up!
Hal came so close.
I couldn't help feeling sorry for him.
Hey, give me that!
Get out of my way!
Juano, reverse engines!
Quick, get the ladder down.
On the moment he came aboard
a strange lightning started
and the weather had suddenly changed.
You're ok, father?
I almost...
lost hope.
Get him alone. Get him some dry clothes and show him where he can rest up.
God bless you all.
His face was filled with despair,
yet there was a kind of inner strength.
That is what you need, baby. Priest!
What's wrong?
The crew!
What do you mean?
- Where do you think you're going? - We can't stay, capitan.
What do you mean, you can't? You get back on board.
No, we cannot stay.
We cannot stay for a priest be on this place.
What does he mean?
I said, get back on board now!
No!
No. We cannot stay, capitan, because it's gonna be a battle.
This gonna be a big battle!
See all this? All this is the devil's place!
And the priest will be tested, and my men will die, so we cannot stay!
You will die if you don't get back on this boat.
Whatever you want, capitan.
We will not stay cause we gonna die anyway.
- You understand? - Get back on this boat!
I'm telling you, get back on this boat!
No! Don't!
Hold your fire!
No!
That's not the way.
Do not blame them for they have beliefs.
Two days without food and this is the best I can do.
It's hard to believe.
I hope you'll excuse me.
I've read that happens to people.
I mean, when they go without eating for a while.
Yes, my child. I've read it in a book.
Well, I wouldn't tell you that is one book that I haven't read.
Evie, why aren't you eating?
He was handsome.
Too handsome.
It would have been easy to forget he was a priest.
You contact the Coast Guard?
I can't raise them.
There is too much weather between us and the coast.
That's the way it was before we crashed.
There was a storm.
We lost radio contact.
I haven't heard any storm reports within miles of here for the past week.
Why don't you...
just tell us about it, father?
The weather reports were all clear when we left Santo Tomas.
The sea was like glass.
I asked pilot to call Miami,
so the ambulance will be ready for little Miguel, when we arrived.
The child was dying,
and the parish
poor as they are
raised the money for the operation that would save his life.
Suddenly we were surrounded by the strange clouds.
The pilot lost control of the plane.
We tried to get off a mayday, but the radio was dead.
And then we crashed.
Little Miguel and the pilot
were dead instantly.
The Cortinezes were badly hurt.
But I'd managed to put them onto a piece of a wing.
But with little Miguel gone,
they just didn't care.
They just let themselves be swept into the see.
How long you were in the air before it happened, father?
15, 20 minutes.
Well, how in God's name did you get the way out here?
Where are we?
Well, you're about 250 miles northeast of Saint Thomas.
In the Triangle.
What do you mean, "the Triangle"?
The Devil's Triangle.
Well, at least that's...
what people call it.
Why?
Strange things happen here.
Come on, father. Come on.
What kind of things?
Well, the crash.
Things like...
what's happening right here now.
Strange lightning.
Storm's approaching, out of nowhere.
The radio not working.
The rain, the lightning. Come on, father, that's conected with the...
What they call that thing? The northern light, that's it? The northern ligh.
As far as the radio is not working,
everybody knows the Earth's magnetic field is completely out of whack out here.
Yeah.
That's it.
Perhaps.
Some people believe that the Triangle is the devil's place.
And when it is time for one to die,
he tests us here,
as he did the Lord in the wilderness.
That's why the crew abandoned us.
Marlin off the stern!
Let's go Strickland, we got the fish to catch.
It's heavy. I bet it's bigger than the one we had to cut loose.
You might get that 5000 yet.
We've still go that line out. Strap up and hook in!
Salao!
Salao, start the engine!
- What's the matter? - I can't get it started.
Let me try.
Taggin it! He's taggin it!
We better move in with the sail!
Come on, Strickland, let's not lose this one!
Oh, what a baby! Up!
Hey, Salao, let me do it.
Hold us steady.
Strickland!
Then that strange lightnig started again.
Maybe the crew was right. We were in the devil's place.
It was insanity.
Absolutely insane.
There we were, hundreds of miles from anywhere,
in this dreradful place called the Devils' Triangle.
No crew, no radio.
The engine wasn't even working.
The storm was getting worse by the minute and all that anybody could think about was that damned fish.
Got him!
- Don't let him get away. It could get rougher. - Don't you worry about me, Strickland.
You just take care of the boat. I'll take care of the fish.
It's too freeze.
Father,
Tell me more about this place.
It's been called "The Devil's Triangle" by seamen for hundreds of years.
The natives call it "El lugar del Diablo", "The Place of the Devil".
Many people have been lost here.
People,
ships,
small boats,
even planes.
vanished without a trace.
Yet you survived.
There have been survivals before.
Some claim they had seen the Devil himself.
You said that this is a place where the devil tests us.
Yes.
You could say that the Cortinezes and I were tested.
And you passed the test.
But the Cortinezes, their baby and the pilot...
they didn't. Why?
It's not a test of living or dying.
It is a test of faith.
In God or in the Devil.
What the hell did you shoot him for? He was already tied up!
I had to! We would have lost him!
All right, let's get him aboard before we lose him.
All inside now! It's slippery!
Ok, ok... That's a kind of a monster!
Ok, I'm grabbing him all now.
It seems your friend...
has caught his marlin.
You're alright? Are you ok?
Let's go!
I said, give me a hand!
Hal and Strickland finally pulled the fish on deck.
Strickland got his $5.000 bonus.
And Hal had beaten his stepbrother once again.
We better get him below or we loose him.
- Then let's do it now. - Go over there and ask the father.
Hey, father! Give us a hand!
Of course!
You better stay inside, my child.
What they went through was madness.
Madness.
Here, you drink it.
You'll need it.
It took them nearly an hour.
With father Martin's help...
they finally managed to get it secured below the deck.
They stored it below the deck?
Yes, there's... a refrigerator room
right by the storage compartment.
Anyway,
by the time that they were through,
the rain had stopped,
as suddenly as it had started.
And the wind had reached hurricane proportions.
When Strickland and father Martin came back
Hal wasn't with them.
Where is Hal?
He's down below trying to imagine how it will look in his trophy room.
Hal was more likely imagining the expression on his stepbrother's face,
when he realized that Hal had beaten him once again.
We are not got to be able to hold her.
We've got to get the sails down!
Father, will you take the wheel and keep current into the wind?
Yes.
Alright, Salao, cut the sail!
I gotta get the engine started.
Salao, get those sails down.
I'm gonna start the engine!
Don't worry. Everything will be alright.
Father Martin kept telling me everything was going to be alright.
And then it happened.
And then we saw Strickland.
I ran.
I was scared but I ran to see if I could help him.
Then I saw Salao.
I tried to call for help,
but there was a flash of lightning,
and he was gone.
- It was a nightmare. - Eva!
Salao vanished without a trace,
and Strickland's dead wedged in that hatch.
Eva, lets go inside!
You cannot stay out here!
Go inside!
Listen, move! Let's go inside!
Move! Let's go inside!
Get me out of here! Strickland!
Help me, Strickland!
Hal!
- Oh, God! - Get me out of here!
- We're coming! We're coming! - Let me out!
- Just a moment. - Help me!
Please, get me out of here!
- Father! - Help me!
Help me, I beg you! Get me out of here!
Father!
Help me!
I'm trying!
Help me!
Get me out of here!
Step back!
When I came to, it was calm. Just like it is now.
I knew we were still in a devil's place.
I felt his presence all around me.
Though father Martin try to hide it, I'm sure he felt it too.
The storm is over.
The mayday signal is working.
The Coast Guard is probably on its way.
We're going to die, father.
I know it.
I just know it.
Easy, easy.
Everything will be alright.
You really believe that, father?
Yes, Eva.
Have faith.
Trust the Lord.
But this isn't the Lord's place.
This is the Devil's place.
And he's here with us right now.
Can't you feel him?
I feel only God's presence.
Please, Eva, hold on to your faith.
He will not forsake you.
He gave up on me a long time ago, father.
You're wrong, Eva.
We are all his children.
What do you think that I was doing with Hal?
I'm a prostitute, father.
That's all I've ever been.
So was Mary Magdalene.
And the Lord loved her,
like he loves you.
And do you love me too, father?
Show me.
Show me that you love me.
I love you, Eva...
as God loves you.
Listen.
I told you to have faith.
They're here.
They came for us.
I don't hear anything.
Yes! I told you they were coming.
Father...
There.
You hear it?
- No. - I must be sure they see us!
Where are you going? You can't go up there!
Father, there is nothing!
Father, come down here! You've got to!
Father! There is no one there! There is nothing!
Father, don't leave me! Don't leave me alone, father!
That's all I remember, until you found me.
Then it was you who I saw moving around down here.
Almost wish you hadn't.
Enough have died on this boat.
No one's gonna die.
In a couple hours we'll be on the way to Miami.
Both of us.
After what you've seen here? You can't really believe that.
I know it.
You figure, because we're at the place called the Devil's Triangle,
the devil is responsible for everything that's happened, don't you?
How else can you explain all that's happened here?
Come on. Come on up on the deck with me.
No.
Come on.
I wanna show you something. Come on, come on.
There is no mystery here.
When father Martin heard us coming he grabbed the flare gun.
He wanted to make sure we could see his signal, so he ran to climb the mast.
Father Martin was excited.
Probably he'd never been on top before.
He lost his balance when the platform weakened by the storm gave away.
The fall snapped his neck.
- Are you alright? - Yeah.
- Sure? - Yeah.
You wanna hear about Strickland?
- Sure. - Alright.
Now, where were you and Salao,
when Strickland and father Martin came up back to storing the marlin?
Salao was here.
By the wheel? Here?
And I was...
right here.
When they were coming up the stairs.
From what you told me,
Strickland was more concerned about his money than getting his engine started.
Not just the $5,000 Hal gave him,
but probably every dollar he ever earned.
But instead of goin' direcly to the engine room,
he stopped at the bottom of the ladder to count his money.
When the boat pitched, you and Father Martin
were flying through the air.
And as the bow crashed back into the water,
Strickland was catapulted through the hatch.
The impact has bone crushing. He was dead before you ever reached him.
I want you to go out on the deck again with me. Come on
- I can't go out there again. - Yes, you can.
Look, come on. There's nothing out here you haven't alredy seen.
Show me exactly where you were when Salao disappeared.
I was...
here.
And where was he?
There, up there.
He'd probably been drinking all day.
Salao should have tied off the boom before he cut the line.
He climbed up on the catwalk to secure the main boom,
and it knocked him unconscious and threw him into the ocean.
The lightning probably blinded you the instant it happened.
Oh, God!
How do you explain this?
What happened to Hal?
I believe I can explain this too.
Once he got the marlin
stored in there,
Hal stayed to admire his trophy.
When the storm got worse,
he was helplessly thrown about the cabin.
He tried to get out but was continually thrown back.
Fearing for his life,
he tried to
climb his way out.
The storm had jammed the door.
That's when you heard him screaming for help.
You know something?
I don't think I believe in the Devil anymore.
Good.
What are you thinking about?
Pagnolini.
The guy I fly with.
What about him?
I was just wondering if he made it back to the base all right.
You are really good friends, eh?
Pagnolini?
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess we are.
I haven't thought about it much, but...
yes, we are.
He is a good guy.
A little square, but...
he's a good guy.
I'd like to meet him.
Hope you do.
Pagnolini. Now there's a guy who always believes.
He's a good guy. Like I said, a little square...
No vices.
Like you.
No, I've got a couple.
How soon do you think they'll be coming to get us?
Probably not till dawn.
Good.
136 to Venturous. Am I clear for landing?
Roger, 136. We are holding course for pick up.
How am I doing, Venturous?
Looking fine, 136.
I don't believe it!
Grab the handrail.
Watch your head.
- Hallo, Pagnolini, I hope... - Get the belt secure.
- Is he always that angry? - Always.
- Take care of that body count below. - Right away, sir.
Make sure we have enough pictures about that.
- The report has to be extensive. - Meyers, get on the wheel.
How you find them God only knows.
Pagnolini,
this is...
Eva.
How do you do.
Pagnolini.
Fasten the belts. Get her a helmet and a vest.
I don't need them.
Sorry, regulations.
No!
Pagnolini,
if she can survive the last 24 hours,
she doesn't need a helmet.
Well, you can sure pick them, old buddy.
Like I told you...
No vices.
We'll see.
- Petersen, give me the radio. - Yes, sir.
Venturous 3 to Venturous.
Go ahead, Venturous 3.
Have me patched in through to chopper 136.
Roger.
Haig,
find out what the cause was of all that back there?
Just another unsolved mystery, of the the Devil's Triangle.
Damn it! I asked you a question!
Ok, ok, Pagnolini.
There is a logical explanation to everything.
And no sign of the devil.
136, come in, please.
136.
This is captain Donnick.
Let me speak to Haig.
- Haig! - Yeah.
Captain Donnick wants to talk you on the walkie-talkie.
- I'll talk to him back here. - Take it up here!
Alright, Pagnolini.
Yes? Yes... Yes, this is Haig.
Your transcript shows you found a dead body,
male, hanging from the mast. Correct?
Affirmative. He's the priest.
Father Martin.
First name:
Peter.
Peter Martin.
That's not what we found.
We found a woman.
Long blonde hair,
about 5 foot 8.
125 pounds.
136, I'm waiting for an answer. Respond.
You!
You've lost your battle, Haig.
You are mine.
Oh, my God!
136, come in, captain Donnick!
Captain Donnick, can you hear me? Come in, please! Come in, please!
Come in, please! Can you hear me?
You will find that's no longer working, Pagnolini.
What...
What do you want?
You, Pagnolini.
Your soul.
It's time, then?
It was for the others.
It doesn't have to be for you. You know who I am.
I know.
Then you know I can spare you, Pagnolini.
I'm not afraid to die.
Everybody is afraid to die, Pagnolini.
I am the only one who can save your life!
- All you have to do is ask me to! - No.
Ask me, Pagnolini!
Ask me to save your life, Pagnolini!
No!
Ask me.
No, I reject you!
If I cannot have your soul, I will have your body, Pagnolini!
Your wife will love me!
Your children will love me!
- She will love me! - No, they won't!
No, they won't. They'll reject you, too!
As I reject you with the God's name.
Then go to your God, Pagnolini!
Go to your God!
Help me, God.
God...
Oh, my God!
I'm really sorry...
for having offended thee.
There's someone.
He's alive. Head to him.
Prepare the boat.
Our sincerest thanks to the 11th District United States Coast Guard,
the officers and crew of the U.S.S. Venturous
and special thanks to helicopter pilot LCDR H. L. Johnson.
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