What makes compass go haywire in the bermuda triangle

Tom ruza is a marine archaeologist and custodian of bermudez hundreds of wrecks the paradox of bermuda is  that you've got this amazing civilized stunning beutiful island and yet surrounded by over 300 shipwrecks while inspecting the sun ken vessels rouge irregularly experience a strange and dangerous phenomenon all his compass malfunction this is the place where when we go divine we have to be really careful in this particular can not rely on our instruments at all this is a place where depending on certain

waves infact we're right over one of them now this are in particular our compass will all show different reading and this is not the only spot that this happens i can totally relate to the experience  of looking down at your instrument and going that's does not fell right and that one's not even showing the same as that one so what is causing these weired compass reading the island of burmuda is all that remains of a gaint underwater valcono it's violet valcanic past could be the key unlocking the mystery this is the remnant of the valcano this is the basalt that's formed from the colling of the magma it contains a very high content of iron that gives it really unusal magnetic properties that influence ships compass valcanic material have been detected two hundred miles from the island could this be resposible for the bermuda triangle compass powers minerals prospector gagan hutchings studid the area what we have a 500 foot a thick layer that's between 18 and 20 percent magnetite occuring substance on earth where is about 500 billion tongues around bermuda so it's not inconceivable so think that much magnetite could effect the compasses of ships and possibly even airplanes that are travelling through or near burmuda the magnetite alters hutching compass direction by 10 degree an accurate compass is essential for navigating over large bodies of water with no landmarks so this shift could mean the difference between a safe return and death but these powerful magnetic force be responsible for the many disappearances in the triangle