These Keys residents believe in Bermuda Triangle weirdness. Now they’re in a TV series
Don’t tell Chuck Meier the Bermuda Triangle isn’t a truly mysterious and dangerous place.
Those reports of ships disappearing and unexplained spinning compasses can’t all be fiction, he said.
“Then how do you explain it?” Meier asked. “Christopher Columbus was one of the first people to actually report lights and spinning compasses and things coming out of the water and going into the water. That’s O.G. stuff.”
Now, the Florida Keys resident is part of a new television series where he and three other Keys mariners hit the water to investigate several cases of alleged tragedies at sea.
“Curse of the Bermuda Triangle” debuted Feb. 9. That show is available for viewing online on the Science Channel’s website.
The next episode airs Feb. 16 at 10 p.m.
The series will run through Sunday, March 29.
Meier, a former sheriff’s deputy, Navy rescue diver and military contractor, is joined by longtime captain and former Coast Guardsman Paul “Captain Moe” Mottice, first mate engineer Mike Still, who has logged thousands of hours in the Triangle, and former Army Cavalry Scout Dave Cziko to explore the ocean’s depths.
“We’re all locals we put together a local show with local lore,” Meier said. “We’ve all spent time in the Bermuda Triangle and all seen weird stuff we can’t explain. We’ve beat it so far, knock on wood, lived to tell the tale.”
Mottice has been around the world twice, Meier said. “He did the World Cup,” he said. “You have a plethora of knowledge that goes with just the sea.”
For decades, stories of ships and aircraft being sucked into the mythical region have been debunked by plenty of scientists.
The triangle-shaped piece of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico isn’t even acknowledged by the National Ocean Service and the federal agency does not maintain an official file on the area.
Some of the cases the Keys team will explore sound outlandish. One is of a missing diver who disappeared in an area believed to be the home of a mysterious sea monster, according to the Science Channel.
“Watch yourself a little bit of mystery and mayhem,” said Meier, a firearms instructor and author of several books, including an iguana cookbook, who lives on Cudjoe Key.
“We all got together last year and shot eight episodes of the show,” Meier said “We went from Key West to Bermuda and all areas in between, doing different investigations and finding some pretty strange and unique stuff that’s going on out there.”
This story was originally published February 9, 2020 at 11:10 AM.
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