Bermuda Triangle V Series

[Author Metcalfe]

TheBermuda Triangle series of putters are golf's most forgiving putters because it offers the most stability with a wider sweetspot. Triangles are the strongest geometric shape. By setting the angle of the leg from the toe at 45 and the angle of the leg from the heel at 15 , you create a triangle that intercepts 3" above the sole of the putter where the shaft connects to the putter head. The center portion of the Bermuda Triangle putter between the legs is solid and is part of the putter head itself.

The two-leg connection on the Bermuda Triangle putter allows for better performance on "miss hits". When a ball is struck by the putter and is hit off-center, the Bermuda Triangle putter allows for a better hit than a standard putter with only one connection because there is less vibration and twisting and more mass behind the off-center hits. This allows for better distance and roll which makes the ball travel better when miss hit, thus stopping nearer the hole.

The series premiere will find the TRIG team investigating the famous disappearance of Flight 19, the Navy aircraft squadron that vanished while on a routine training mission through the triangle in 1945, never to be seen again. The TRIG team will attempt to figure out what could have caused the planes to stray from their route, and why no physical evidence of a crash has ever been found.

Other mysteries will include a missing diver who disappeared in an area believed to be the home of a mysterious sea monster; a hotspot for UFO activity including the site of a famous sighting in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; the 1967 disappearance of luxury yacht The Witchcraft and its two passengers, and a theory about the fabled Lost City of Atlantis.

Take 48 plane crash survivors stranded on a very unusual island, add an angry polar bear, a seething love triangle or two, and an invisible monster and you've got a surprisingly effective recipe for a television drama that critics call \"the next great cult-pop sensation\" -- ABC's new hit series, \"Lost.\"

\"Lost\" co-creator J.J. Abrams appreciates the fans' creativity. \"The purgatory one is a great one, I love that theory -- but it isn't what it is. I'd be frustrated if that were the answer I have to say,\" he said. So the survivors are not in purgatory and it's not a dream. And producers say there is a logical explanation for everything. Even Cast and Crew Were Skeptical About ConceptTo Abrams and co-creator Damon Lindelof the biggest shocker is the show's success. At the beginning, there were very few believers.

Lindelof said there was a long list of potential obstacles for the show's success. \"From the word go, everybody was kind of saying the show is too weird. Nobody wants to see science fiction. It's on at 8 o'clock. It's too scary. There are too many characters,\" he said.

Abrams said he got a phone call came from Lloyd Braun, who at the time was head of ABC Entertainment. Braun said he wanted to do a show about people who survive a plane crash on an island, Abrams recalled.

Carlton Cuse, the show's executive producer, said he was very anxious. \"I thought, 'Oh geez, we will have lost even more money, because we will have invested in spending in all this money on a pilot, on a few episodes, and then it will die. It will be disaster magnified,' \" he said.

Even some of the cast members were skeptical. Harold Perrineau, who had appeared on the stage and in the HBO prison series \"Oz,\" recalls getting a lot of flattery when he was approached to test for a role on the show. \"My first thought was blah blah blah blah, like Hollywood speak, they love you, you're great and so, like I just didn't pay any attention until the day I walked into the room. ... Suddenly I was 2 feet taller and like, yes, I'm great, that's right, you're right. ... We should be in business together,\" he said.\"20/20\" co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas spoke with cast members at their jungle location in Hawaii.Korean-born actress Yunjin Kim said her first reaction to the concept was, \"Either this is going to be the best, one of the best TV shows, or the worst. Something that people will make fun of. Oh, yeah we're sort of like the Survivors. No, we're 'Gilligan's Island.' \"

The cast's fresh faces were balanced by some who'd been Hollywood-hardened. Josh Holloway, who plays the tough but tender Sawyer, said he had struggled for eight years to get an acting break and was ready to give up.

\"This idea of a bunch of people being in the middle of an environment in which all the rules of society are taken away is something that's really fascinating to me. So I was really into it,\" Fox said.

Producers had their male lead. But pressure mounted as the time for location filming closed in and they still had no leading lady. Then they saw Evangeline Lilly, who had done some missionary work in the Philippines and some modeling in her native Canada.

Lilly beat out hundreds of candidates for the role. Producers liked the video she sent. And something clicked at her first encounter with Abrams. \"At my first meeting with him, we got into a conversation about how I love to climb trees and then I kind of got wind of the notion that Kate's character is going to have a fairly high-profile role,\" she said.

Lilly still seems stunned by the remarkable change she's experienced in the past year. \"A year ago I was driving a beat up, rusted-out, old Toyota Corolla with the back window busted out and covered in duct tape in pouring rain. I was driving to university, working a serving job, doing extra work on film sets. You know, hanging out in Vancouver, British Columbia,\" she said.

What's the secret behind this long-shot success? The cast and crew have some theories. One primary reason for the show's success is the characters. Fans became fanatically attached to the group. None has more of a following than the self-described \"Everyman\" Hurley, played by Jorge Garcia.

It's a diverse collection of souls, among them a spoiled brother and sister, an estranged father and son, a pregnant Australian woman, a brittle Korean couple and a former Iraqi soldier, Sayid.Naveen Andrews, who plays Sayid, said this diversity adds to the show's appeal. \"It's this group of individuals from all different walks of life -- different races, cultures, backgrounds -- and it's a kind of microcosm of society at the moment,\" he said.

\"Very rarely have we been in a position to be seen in a positive light. Asian men tend to be made fun of and jokes are made at their expense. And we rarely see them as heroes or romantic leads. ... I've worked in this business now for 12 years and this show gave me my first on-screen kiss,\" he said.

Another character, Charlie, was a fading rock star and heroin addict who stole from his girlfriend's family. He's played by Dominic Monaghan, who made a splash as the hobbit Merry in the \"Lord of the Rings\" trilogy.

\"There's a lot of characters in the show that seem to be having to face their demons, you know? The thing with Charlie is that through his addictive kind of lifestyle, he now has issues with women and with trust and with intimacy and I think, for want of a better word, Charlie is lost,\" Monaghan said.Character development is crucial, the show's creators say.\"The complex storytelling -- moving backward and forward in the character's lives -- shows an attitude toward the viewer some say is unusual in network programming. The audience is intelligent. They are very savvy and you can't talk down to them,\" said.

The experience of diving varies from place to place, but the first thing you usually feel is the cooling sensation of jumping in the water. A lot of times you're quite hot before you get in because you're putting on a suit. Plus here in Florida, it's warm anyway.

Then: Silence. You feel your heart beating. Your range of focus narrows as you're pulling down the anchor line. Your eyes strain to make out what's in the distance as you sink deeper and the ambient light dims.

Gravity works underwater. The forces of storms and surges and currents break wrecks apart. They sand over and get encrusted, and so are well camouflaged, and usually scattered across the ocean floor. It looks to most people like a big junk pile.

If visibility is poor, you're often only seeing a small portion of a large ship. It requires a lot of mental visualization to make sense of the chaotic scene on the bottom. We're gathering information to document the site and get data on the type of vessel and its age.

I was fascinated with shipwrecks and maritime history, and it went hand in hand with a marine biology career. I pursued local dive sites that you could walk into, like rivers and lakes, and did some fossil diving. Quickly, I gravitated towards shipwreck diving when I could get out offshore.

My passion for diving launched from there. I lived in Charleston, South Carolina, where there's a lot of maritime history related to the Civil War. Then I lived in Virginia Beach and up there it's the mid-Atlantic, so you don't have coral reefs or anything like that. It's all wreck diving. That's where underwater exploration really blossomed for me in the mid-nineties.

I branched out into a lot of international work and I was fortunate to dive historical shipwrecks, such as the USS Monitor of North Carolina, which is an ironclad ship that marked a turning point from wooden to modern warships.

I dived the SS Andrea Doria, an Italian ocean liner that sank in the North Atlantic in 1956; and the HMHS Britannic, which is a sister ship of the White Star Line's RMS Titanic and sank in 1916 when it hit a German mine in the Aegean Sea. And I've done the RMS Lusitania, an ocean liner torpedoed off the Irish coast by a German U-boat in 1915.

I've dived thousands of shipwrecks, but there's only a small handful you can name to non-divers that they're familiar with, like the Lusitania and Monitor. People have heard of those through pop culture or as kids learning in school.

We went offshore at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to dive a Civil War blockade runner. It was in the springtime and cold. The trip was long and rough amid the diesel fumes. I was sick as a dog, asking myself: "Why am I doing this? I could have slept in."

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