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The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by Nobody: 11:12am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Writer Vincent Gaddis is credited with putting the Bermuda Triangle on the map when he first used the term "Bermuda Triangle" to describe the area from South Florida to Bermuda to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and back to South Florida in a 1964 magazine article. It was a simple phrase that easily coined the location, due to the imaginary line that gave it the easily recognizable shape of a large triangle, and it had for years been known as a mysterious vortex of sorts that sucked up vessels and the people on them, making it a watery grave for countless unsuspecting travelers that some survivors referred to as the triangle of hell. The Bermuda triangle is approximately a 1.5 million square mile area located in the Atlantic Ocean where the tips of the triangle lie in southern Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. In just the past 30 years, more than 100 ships and planes, and 1,000 lives have been lost. Many people once believed that aliens captured the unfortunate souls of travelers visiting or passing over the Bermuda Triangle, while others maintain that some aberrant energy field hidden deep within the universe creates a time warp of sorts that envelops anything passing through it. With its reputation of swallowing people up without a trace throughout the years, very few people are willing to brave the watery death trap to further explore possible explanations to its very existence. The Bermuda Triangle has also been referred to as the "Devil's Triangle" simply because it appears to swallow ships and aircraft by some inexplicable force that by most accounts is stranger than life itself. Distress calls and very little debris have been left behind to help unravel the mystery that lies within the hidden mystery of the Triangles perimeters. Many experts who have studied the Bermuda Triangle in depth claim that the missing ships and planes are still there, only in a different dimension as a result of a magnetic phenomenon that could have been set up by an unidentified flying object. This theory is not met with a great reception, and is quite often laughed at by experts with an entirely different theory on the mystery of what lays beneath the surface of the Bermuda Triangle. Richard Winer, looking for facts on the Triangle for his film documentary was especially interested in the strange disappearance in 1945 of five Navy TBM Avengers with 14 pilots who flew from Ft. Lauderdale directly over the triangle, and never returned. Other high profile cases include the 13 man crew on the PBM Mariner that was sent out to search for the Navy Avengers, who were also lost in the watery grave of the Bermuda Triangle. Allen Hartwell, an oceanographer with Normandeau Associates states that a more practical theory and common phenomenon in the region is that of the waterspout. This is simply a tornado at sea that pulls water from the ocean surface thousands of feet into the sky. The waterspout could wreck almost anything that comes within close proximity at the time of its occurrence. Strange incidents happening in the area of the Bermuda Triangle date back as far as 1492 when Christopher Columbus first documented strange occurrences in his log book that concerned his compass when it apparently went haywire while passing directly through the area we now know as the Bermuda Triangle. In March 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished without a trace whose disappearance was easily summed up by experts as a misfortune of the ship running out of fuel or they even felt that a storm had possibly caused the vessel to sink. No physical trace has ever been found, so the sinking ship remains another victim and mystery of the famous watery grave. Another high profile disappearance was that of the SS Marine Sulphur Queen carrying bulk molten sulfur which sank in February of 1963. Although the wreck of the civilian tanker has never been located, a life preserver and other floating objects and artifacts were eventually recovered, providing credence to the popular belief in the mystery and the purported supernatural qualities that the Bermuda Triangle has become known for. One significant factor with regard to missing vessels in the Bermuda Triangle is the Gulf Stream. This strong ocean current is extremely swift and turbulent and can quickly erase evidence of any potential disaster. The weather also played a major role with ships and aircraft passing over the Bermuda Triangle simply due to a lack of communication devices. Prior to the development of telegraph, radio and radar, sailors did not know a storm or hurricane was nearby until it appeared on the horizon, and by then it was quite often too late. The Coast Guard reports, US Navy reports, National Archives, Records Administration, and Merchant Vessels of the United States Registry has created a partial list of the many missing vessels believed to be consumed by the Bermuda Triangle. The missing boats and ships were all cruising in what would be considered fair weather and all of the vessels and people aboard them are thought to be victims of the countless sea of lost ships and lives that the Bermuda Triangle so easily swallows up without mercy. Missing Ships Between 1780 and 1824, numerous ships were listed as missing by the U.S. Navy. Included on the list are the General Gates, Hornet, Insurgent, Pickering, Wasp, Wildcat and Expervier, whose disappearance in 1815 delayed the closing of the War of 1812. Storm warnings had already been hauled down before the Cotopaxi sent her last enigmatic message. The ship vanished without trace on December 1, 1925. Ethel C, Callista III, and Evangeline are only a few boats that vanished in 1960, 1961, and 1962. Ethel C left Virginia, Callista III was en route to the Bahamas, and Evangeline was off Florida. Witchcraft is a classic mystery because she was deemed unsinkable. Yet she vanished within 19 minutes between her call to the Coast Guard and their arrival on scene in 1967. The S.S. Poet was 11,000 tons of mystery, and she gone without trace in 1980. From 1999 through 2001 a host of missing, presumed missing, and unknown circumstances involved the disappearance of approximately 75 ships, schooners, yachts, and fishing vessels that all had been in the area of the Bermuda Triangle at the time that they vanished. Missing Air Craft Bizarre and mysterious disappearances that involve aircraft are not uncommon when it involves the Bermuda Triangle. Many have vanished while on radar or while just about to touch down at runways. Others have vanished over shallow water, and a few pilots have been in radio communication claiming their equipment was acting erratic, or that a weird object was harassing them. At various times an unusual object was reported in the aftermath of a disappearance, and on a few occasions a minor piece of debris was found. In one particular case, the evidence was unexplainable, but likened a magnetic particle. From 1942 through 2002 everything from privately owned pipers to Navy aircraft has been reported missing. The 1940's had 25 reported incidents alone, while the 1950's witnessed six missing aircrafts, and from 1987 to 2002, Pipers and Cessna seemed to be the victim of choice with a total of seventeen reported missing aircraft incidents flooding the airways. Survivors of the Bermuda Triangle Eyewitnesses and survivors of the Bermuda Triangle cannot get the unusual flight or the bizarre cruise out of their mind. The pilots have all claimed to have encountered unexplained and severe jolts and pulses out of nowhere that have sent big jumbos dashing to the surface in precipitous dives. Survivors often claim that clouds have come out of nowhere and caused compasses to spin and engine rpm's to drop off. Objects and luminous phenomena have sped past while electronic equipment like cell phones, radios and navigation equipment have ceased for no known reason. |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by badmeat(m): 1:55pm On Nov 18, 2013 |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by Nobody: 3:37pm On Nov 18, 2013 |
bad meat:any problem sir? |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by striker9(m): 10:46pm On Nov 19, 2013 |
Na wa oooooo! |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by Nobody: 6:02pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
never heard of it? |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by Originalsly: 12:33pm On Nov 22, 2013 |
Whenever something mysterious happens...no logical explanations...as in the case of the Bermuda Triangle...the finger points to Aliens. The Bermuda Triangle is a major air and sea route. Recently some pilot/satellite source recorded what was like a huge tornado that funneled deep into the ocean causing the water at the edge to rise way above the ocean level . Maybe if an aircraft or ship was present it would have been sucked down without warning and another mystery to add to the list. Guess this been happening all along but nobody ever knew. |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by Nobody: 5:00pm On Nov 30, 2013 |
Op, how about you going to find out for us, and come back and tell us NLanders whats happening there? |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by MsNas(f): 4:42am On Dec 01, 2013 |
I remember my sister gisting us about Bermuda Triangle when I was about 10-11 and I was so scared. But wait, what's sacking all those vessels and airplanes in? That's mindblowing IMO. I'm never flying over Florida |
Re: The Bermuda Triangle Mystery : Fact Or Fallacy by everyday: 6:04pm On Dec 01, 2013 |
Your story is too long |
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