The Bermuda Triangle

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WHAT IS BERMUDA TRIANGLE?

STORIES ABOUT BERMUDA

TRIANGLE

THEORIES ON BERMUDA TRIANGLE

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WHAT IS THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?

•The Bermuda

Triangle

(sometimes also

referred to as the

Devil's Triangle) is

a stretch of the

Atlantic Ocean

bordered by a line

from Florida to

the islands of

Bermuda, to

Puerto Rico and

then back to

Florida.

WHAT IS THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?

•The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first

used in an article written by Vincent H.

Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964.

•In the article, Gaddis claimed that in

this strange sea a number of ships and

planes had disappeared without

explanation. Gaddis wasn't the first

one to come to this conclusion, either.

WHAT IS THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?

• As early as 1952, George X.

Sands, in a report in Fate

magazine, noted what seemed

like an unusually large number

of strange accidents in that

region.

WHAT IS THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?

•In 1969 John Wallace Spencer wrote a book

called Limbo of the Lost specifically about

the Triangle and, two years later, a feature

documentary on the subject, The Devil's

Triangle, was released.

•These, along with the bestseller The

Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974,

permanently registered the legend of the

"Hoodoo Sea" within popular culture.

Stories about the Bermuda Triangle

The Marie Celeste

•On December 5th, 1872, a ship was found abandoned near Puerto Rico.

•They had thought that the crew had just left in a hurry.

•The crew on the Marie Celeste were never heard from or seen ever again..

The Disappearance of Douglas DC-3

NC16002 was a DC-3 passenger plane that vanished on the night of December 28, 1948, during a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida.

The weather was fine with high visibility and the flight was, according to the pilot, within 50 miles of Miami when it disappeared with its three crew members and twenty-nine passengers.

The Disappearance of Douglas DC-3

Though no probable cause for the loss was determined by the official investigation, it is known that the plane's batteries were not fully charged on takeoff and this may have interfered with communications during the flight.

A message from Miami to the plane that the direction of the wind had changed may have not been received by the pilot, causing him to fly up to fifty miles off course.

The Disappearance of uss Cyclops

One of the first stories connected to the Triangle legend and the most famous ship lost in the region was the USS Cyclops which disappeared in 1918.

The vessel was on its way from Bahia, Salvador, to Baltimore, Maryland, but never arrived. After it had made an unscheduled stop at Barbados on March 3rd and 4th to take on additional supplies, it disappeared without a trace..

The 542 foot long Cyclops was launched in 1910 and served as a collier ( a ship that carries coal) for the U.S. Navy during World War I.

No wreckage from the ship was ever found and no distress signal was received. The deaths of the 306

crew and passengers of the USS Cyclops remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not

directly involving combat..

The only woman who has successfully flown the Bermuda Triangle, after 1

year, on the same date was filed under Missing Persons.

The most spectacular event…

The fate of Flight 19

The tale of Flight 19 started on December 5th, 1945. Five Avenger torpedo bombers lifted into the air from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 2:10 in the afternoon. The flight was composed of all students except for the Commander, a Lt. Charles Taylor.

The mission called for Taylor and his group of 13 men to fly due east 56 miles to Hens and Chicken Shoals to conduct practice bombing runs. When they had completed that objective, the fl ight plan called for them to fly an additional 67 miles east, and then turn north for 73 miles and finally straight back to base, a distance of 120 miles. This course would take them on a triangular path over the sea.

About an hour and a half after the flight had left, Lt. Robert Cox at the base picked up a radio transmission from Taylor.

Taylor indicated that his compasses were not working, but he believed himself to be somewhere over the Florida Keys (the Keys are a long chain of islands south of the Florida mainland).

Cox urged him to fly north toward Miami; if Taylor was sure the flight was over the Keys.

Navigational confusion

Apparently Taylor had

become confused at some

point in the fl ight. He

hadn't spent a lot of time

flying east toward the

Bahamas which was

where he was going on

that day. Taylor

apparently thought the

fl ight had started out in

the wrong direction and

had headed south toward

the Keys, instead of east.

The more Taylor took his fl ight north to try to get out of the Keys, the further out to sea the Avengers actually traveled.

As time went on, snatches of transmissions were picked up on the mainland indicating the other Flight 19 pilots were trying to get Taylor to change course. "If we would just fly west," one student told another, "we would get home." He was right. No one knows what caused Lt Taylor to think that he was over Florida keys. This has remained a mystry till this day.

Some theories as to why so many

vessels disappeared????

What are some of the disappearances?

The Marie Celeste Flight 19 Douglas DC-3

•The Magnet theory

•The Gas release theory

•The Alien theory

•The Atlantis theory

The Magnetic Theory

The Bermuda Triangle is thought

to be at a point on the earth

where there is high magnetic

activity. The high magnetic

energy causes compasses to spin

and could confuse navigators.

Disruptions in the geomagnetic

flux may also be a reason.

The Gas Theory

The Bermuda Triangle is situated over a large oceanic trench.

It is believed that this trench occasionally undergoes oceanic flatulence (methane gas erupting from ocean sediments) releasing gas which lowers the density of the water. Because of this change, boats can no longer float.

The Alien Abductance Theory

Some people believe aliens are the reason why the vessels disappeared.

Some of these people think that there is an underwater base in the region.

Others think that vessels are confused by a downed UFO.

The Atlantis Theory

Some people believe that the

strange phenomenon is caused

by the fabled city of Atlantis.

The city was believed to be

powered by crystals and it is

thought that these crystals

cause the strange

disappearances.

Kusche’s Theory

In 1975 Larry Kusche, a librarian at Arizona State University, reached a totally different conclusion.

He found that many of the strange accidents were not so strange after all.

Often a Triangle writer had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress.

Kusche’s Theory Often a Triangle writer had noted

a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress.

In one case a ship listed missing in the Triangle actually had disappeared in the Pacific Ocean some 3,000 miles away! The author had confused the name of the Pacific port the ship had left with a city of the same name on the Atlantic coast.

The Bermuda triangle has been under

learning since 1950.

It is impossible to describe all the

hypotheses explaining mysterious events

in this research work, which take place

in Bermuda.

But we can continue the scientific

work on this subject, because we have a

lot of materials to study and interesting

describes are waiting for us.

It’s the mystery which excites brains

of many people and sometime it will be

revealed.

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