    the , also known as the dragon's triangle, the formosa (taiwan) triangle () and the "pacific bermuda triangle", is a region of the pacific around miyake island, about 100&nbsp;km south of tokyo. the devil's sea is one of 12 vile vortices, originally plotted by ivan t. sanderson.http://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/v/vile-vortices the size and area varies with the report (the only reports stem from the 1950s), with various reports placing it  from an unspecified part of japan's east coast,  from the coast, and even near iwo jima,  from the coast.(kusche:259-260) this area is said to be a danger zone on japanese maps, according to charles berlitz's books the bermuda triangle (1974) and the dragon's triangle (1989). he states that in the peacetime years between 1952-54 japan lost 5 military vessels with crews lost totalling over 700 people and that the japanese government sent a research vessel with over 100 scientists on board to study the devil's sea, and that this ship too vanished; and finally that the area was officially declared a danger zone. according to larry kusche's investigation, these "military vessels" were fishing vessels, and some of them were lost outside the devil's sea, even as far away as near iwo jima, 1000&nbsp;km to the south. he also points out that, at that time, hundreds of fishing boats were lost around japan every year. the japanese research vessel that berlitz named, kaiyo maru no 5, had a crew of 31 aboard. while investigating activity of an undersea volcano, myÅjin-shÅ, about 300&nbsp;km south of the devil's sea, it was destroyed by an eruption on 24 september 1952. some wreckage was recovered.the tsunami risks project: causes at least one ship sent an sos. the other seven boats were small fishing boats lost between april 1949 and october 1953 somewhere between miyake island and iwo jima, a distance of .(kusche: 258) == in popular culture == *the 2013 installment of the tomb raider series features a young lara croft shipwrecked on an island in the de
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