Located off the southeastern coast of Japan, it is considered to be a Japanese equivalent of the Bermuda Triangel Like its parallel region in the Atlantic Ocean, it is supposed to be a section of the ocean that periodically swallows planes and ships without a trace usually before they have a chance to put out a distress call. The Devils Sea became popular during the early 1970s at the same time as the Bermuda Triangle concept. Credulous people, such as the writer Ivan T. Sanderson, suggested that craft in the Devil’s Sea went missing because of some wrinkle in the space-time continuum, through magnetic or gravitational aberrations, or through the activity of extraterrestrials or a mysterious underwater race.
During the 1970s, however, a librarian named Larry Kusche began to trace the Devil’s Sea stories back to their original sources. He discovered that the first use of the term ’‘devil’s sea” appeared in The New York Times in 1955, and was only a poetic description of the loss of several fishing boats during the early 1950s. The only “mysterious force” involved in the sinking of the boats was a tidal wave caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano in 1952. Kusche also communicated with Japanese officials and found that none of them knew of the term devils sea. In his article “The Bermuda Triangle and Other Hoaxes,” published in the October 1975 issue of Fate magazine, Kusche declared that the Devil’s Sea was nothing more than an exaggeration based on the loss of several fishing boats over a period of five years.