The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle
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Introduction
The Bermuda Triangle,
sometimes called the Devil's Triangle,
is reputedly an area in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. The
triangle doesn't exist according to the US Navy and is not
recognized by the US Board
on Geographic Names.
However, a number of aircraft and surface
vessels are said to have disappeared in the triangle under unknown
circumstances. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity
by extraterrestrial
beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of
the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later
authors. Contrary to popular belief, insurance companies do not charge higher
premiums for shipping in this area.
The Area of Triangle
Writers give different boundaries to the triangle, with the total
area varying from 500,000 to 1.5 million square miles. This means that
different accidents happen inside the triangle depending on which writer
reports them. The first written boundaries date from a 1964 issue of pulp
magazine Argosy, where the
triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida
peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the
mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. The United
States Board on Geographic Names does not
recognize this name, and it's not delimited in any map drawn by US government
agencies.
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the
world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the
Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft
regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a
heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards
Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points
north.
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| Bermuda Triangle Map |
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda
area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated
Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea
Mystery at Our Back Door",a short article by George X. Sand covering the
loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of
five U.S.
Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a
training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar
triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered
in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. It was claimed that
the flight leader had been heard saying "We are entering white water,
nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no
white." It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry
stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the
first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the
February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent
Gaddis's article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that
Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in
the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible
Horizons.
Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis's
ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973), Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974), Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle,
1974), Larry Kusche, and many others, all keeping to some of the same
supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.
Kusche
concluded that:
- The number
of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly
greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.
- In an area
frequented by tropical storms, the number
of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither
disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious;
- Furthermore,
Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention such storms or even
represent the disappearance as having happened in calm conditions when
meteorological records clearly contradict this.
- The numbers
themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat's
disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual (if
belated) return to port may not have been.
- Some
disappearances had, in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to
have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach,
Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a
check of the local papers revealed nothing.
- The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.
Supernatural explanations
Triangle writers have used a number of
supernatural concepts to explain the events. One explanation pins the blame on
leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantis
story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by
some definitions. Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of
Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring to the discovery of the Bimini
Road. Believers describe the formation as a road, wall, or other structure,
though geologists consider it to be of natural origin.
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| UFO Air Ship |
Other writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features
the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.
Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous
phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the Triangle to
anomalous or unexplained forces.
Natural Explanations
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| Rogue Wave at Bermuda Triangle |
- Compass variations
- Gulf Stream
- Human error
- Violent weather
- Methane hydrates (Methane clathra)
- Rogue waves
Notable Incidents
Flight 19: The Avenger planes of Flight-19 took
off from the U.S Naval Base of Florida for a routine training session, but
never returned.
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| Flight-19 |
Tudor Star Tiger: Star Tiger, a Tudor Mark-IV aircraft
disappeared in Bermuda Triangle shortly before it was about to land at the
Bermuda airport.
Fight DC-3: The flight DC-3 NC16002 disappeared
when it was only 50 miles south of Florida and about to land in Miami.
Flight 441: The flight 441, a Super
Constellation Naval Airliner disappeared in October 1954.
C-54 Skymaster: Apparently it seemed to be a sudden
thunderstorm that had disintegrated the plane. But there was much more to the
story.
Mary Celeste - The Ghost Ship: Known as one of
the ghost ships of Bermuda Triangle, Mary Celeste had many misadventures even
before her mystery voyage in 1872. Find out the full story.
Marine Sulphur Queen: This 524-foot
carrier of molten sulphur started sail on Feb 2, 1963 from Beaumont, Texas with
39 crew. It was reported lost in Florida Straits on February 4.
Ellen Austin: The Ellen Austin, an American
schooner, met with another ship in Bermuda Triangle. The other ship that was
moving in full speed, strangely had nobody on board.
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| Ellen Austin Ship |
USS Cyclops: Disappearance of the carrier ship
U.S.S. Cyclops in Bermuda Triangle has been one of the greatest mysteries of
the sea.
USS Scorpion: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Nuclear
powered submarine of United States Navy that disappeared in Bermuda Triangle
area in May 1968.
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| Bermuda Hurricane |
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| Bermuda Stom |
Thank you for reading... Have a nice day! :)
By : Apramada Syadza Naufal and Nimas Tika Inas Tarina
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