[af_vet_rr]

Spend the money finding lost ships.

You don't mess with the Bermuda Triangle.

Don't listen to the Navy and Coast Guard when they say "The Coast Guard is not impressed with supernatural explanations of disasters at sea. It has been their experience that the combined forces of nature and unpredictability* of mankind outdo even the most far fetched science fiction many times each year."

* = stupidity

[af_vet_rr]

Actually I just came across a listing of ships, and interestingly enough, they go pretty far back:

# General Gates; went missing 1780 (no British warship claimed her sinking)
# USS Insurgent; a 36-gun French-built warship with 340 crew; went missing September 1799
# USS Pickering; went missing on voyage to West Indies, on or around August 20, 1800

Of course, if you were to look at the number of ships that went missing in the Atlantic between the Gates and Pickering, there would be quite a few, even after the war was over. Plenty of pirates/marauders, plenty of storms/hurricanes, and now they know about the large waves that nobody had ever really had proof of, but theorized.

[The Red Zone]

If they ever get to the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle, they will probably find it stuffed with odd socks.