Roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared is located by a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean which is known as the Bermuda Triangle.
The pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found was one of many accidents which had some unexplained circumstances around this area.
Even in good weather without even radioing distress messages other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from this area.
None of the theories regarding the Bermuda Triangle prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean even though the are so many myriad fanciful theories around it. In fact, every day without incident many people navigate the area.
Legend of the Bermuda Triangle:
The area covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida and is referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle.
Christopher Columbus reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later when he sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World.
He also wrote about erratic compass readings, though there's a scientific reason to it as at that time a sliver of the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.
“The Tempest,” which was a play written by William Shakespeare may have enhanced the area’s aura of mystery as some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermuda shipwreck. Nonetheless, until the 20th century reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public’s attention.
A 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship of the USS Cyclops with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay was an infamous tragedy which occurred in March 1918.
Despite being equipped the Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call, and no wreckage was found after an extensive search. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson later said “Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship."
Two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished in 1941 without a trace along nearly the same route. The vessels which were traversing in the Bermuda Triangle would have either disappeared or be found abandoned as a pattern allegedly began to form.
Then five Navy bombers carrying 14 men in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in December 1945. But the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, with his compasses apparently malfunctioning got severely lost.
All five planes were forced to ditch at sea after they flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel. A rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared on that same day. The official Navy report declared that it was “as if they had flown to Mars”, after a massive weeks-long search failed to turn up any evidence.
Bermuda Triangle Theories and Counter-Theories:
Additional mysterious accidents had occurred in the area, including three passenger planes that went down despite having just sent “all’s well” messages by the time author Vincent Gaddis coined the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” in a 1964 magazine article.
Charles Berlitz stoked the legend even further in 1974 with a sensational bestseller about the legend. Since then, whereas more scientifically minded theorists have pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor.
While scores of fellow paranormal writers have blamed the triangle’s supposed lethalness on everything from aliens, Atlantis and sea monsters to time warps and reverse gravity fields.
However, there is no single theory in all probability solves the mystery. As one skeptic put it, trying to find a common cause for every automobile accident in Arizona is no more logical than trying to find a common cause for every Bermuda Triangle disappearance.
Moreover, maritime insurance leader Lloyd’s of London does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an especially hazardous place although storms, reefs and the Gulf Stream can cause navigational challenges there.
Neither does the U.S. Coast Guard, which says: “In a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there has been nothing discovered that would indicate that casualties were the result of anything other than physical causes. No extraordinary factors have ever been identified.”
Written by: Gourav Chowdhury
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