Devil's Triangle

This article is about the location. You may be looking for the soundtrack theme, "The Devil's Triangle".

Devil's Triangle
General information
Location	Caribbean Sea
Notable inhabitants	Armando Salazar Crew of the Silent Mary
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales
Latest appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales

"You will not address the captain, boy."
"Sir, look at your charts. I believe you are sailing us into the Devil's Triangle."
"You hear this, men? This landsman believes an old sailor's myth."

―Officer Cole, Henry Turner, and Captain Toms

The Devil's Triangle was a mysterious and mythical area in the Caribbean Sea. It was located west of the Windward Isles in the Lesser Antilles. According to legends, many of the ships that were unfortunate enough to enter these waters vanished without warning or explanation, leaving only a few lucky sailors to recount the monsters, storms, ghosts, and pirates responsible for their misfortunes.

During a battle with the Silent Mary, young Jack the Sparrow outwitted Captain Armando Salazar by having the ruthless Spanish pirate hunter sail his ship into the Devil's Triangle. This caused the death of Salazar's crew, who then fell under the curse of the Devil's Triangle, returning neither living nor dead as ghosts. Imprisoned in the waters of the Devil's Triangle, condemned to eternal darkness on his ghost ship, Salazar lurked in anticipation for the day when he and his crew were free to take revenge on Jack Sparrow.

History

The map of the Caribbean Sea with the location of the Devil's Triangle.

"Hard to starboard! We'll sail to the edge and cross with the light! The Triangle will not hold us!"

―Armando Salazar

Located west of the Windward Isles in the Lesser Antilles the Triangle was mostly unexplored, and the British cartographers usually referred to the area as "Uncharted Waters". Shrouded in darkness and surrounded with gigantic reefs, the Devil's Triangle was a part of the Caribbean Sea ruled by the mysterious supernatural powers. A place where the dead live and the living die, the Triangle was avoided by every sailor worth his salt. However, the British naval officers considered the Triangle to be just an old sailor's myth.

The Silent Mary follows the Wicked Wench towards the Triangle's entrance.

When the ruthless Spanish Royal Navy Captain Armando Salazar and his crew chased Jack Sparrow's pirate ship the Wicked Wench, Sparrow outsmarted the Spaniards, causing them to enter the Triangle. Salazar's ship, the Silent Mary, was almost completely destroyed in a series of explosions, which caused the deaths of Salazar and all his men. However, the supernatural forces in the Triangle revived Salazar and his crew as cursed but powerful ghosts, granting them vast powers and abilities, though keeping them imprisoned within the Triangle for decades to come.

Many years later, the British Royal Navy Captain Toms chased a Dutch barque into the Triangle, despite the warnings of his shipboy Henry Turner. Once in the Triangle, they discovered that the ship they were chasing had disappeared, after which a bloodthirsty Salazar attacked and killed the entire crew, except Turner.

Not much later, a down on his luck Jack Sparrow traded his compass away for a bottle of rum but he incurred a terrible price. Sparrow's betrayal of the compass caused the entire Triangle to shatter and sink, allowing Salazar's ghostly crew their freedom.

Behind the scenes

"Sir, look at your charts. We are between three distant points of land with perfect symmetry to the center. It's a triangle."
"Stand down!"
"Captain, you're sailing us into the Devil's Triangle."

―Henry Turner and Cole

The backstory behind the Devil's Triangle was explained in Jeff Nathanson's early 2013 screenplay draft of the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The Triangle was formed by Poseidon's brother Hades who was charged with protecting Tomb of Poseidon, which was located on the islands around the Triangle. Hades enlisted the dead to patrol the Triangle, locking them in forever. Whether such backstory remains canonical in the finished version of the film hasn't been confirmed by The Walt Disney Company.

In the modern-day real world, the name "Devil's Triangle" is another name for the Bermuda Triangle. However, Captain Toms' navigational charts in Dead Men Tell No Tales show the two Triangles are not the same location. Javier Bardem also confirmed that "Hundreds of years before the Bermuda Triangle there was another Triangle in the sea".

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization (First appearance)
  • Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Movie Graphic Novel

Notes and references

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