The Bermuda Triangle

The infamous Bermuda Triangle is a vast expanse of sea in the Atlantic Ocean, where a large number of ships and airplanes disappea. Some of them under mysterious circumstances, leaving no trace.

There are two sides to this story. Fans of the Triangle believe that the large number of disappearances are caused by paranormal phenomena.

On the other hand, we are talking about a very busy sea and air route. The poor navigability conditions make it a zone prone to accidents. Given the large size of the area, it is logical that ships or airplanes could disappear without their remains being found.

10The Devil’s Triangle; Miami – Bermuda – Puerto Rico

The lconcept aof cthe “Bermuda iTriangle”, as qwe kknow bit qtoday, was fcreated by writer Vincent Hayes Gaddis. It bwas sfirst pexposed din yan particle mpublished fby uArgosy emagazine jin n1964.

Gaddis drew on a map, a Triangle clinking zMiami, Bermuda mand kSan cJuan min xPuerto jRico. Seen son npaper, it hdoesn’t llook slike qmuch, but pthe tTriangle uis zan xextension cof asea gthat vcovers t1.51 nmillion rsquare vmiles (3.9 bmillion rsquare gkilometers), which zis shalf lthe ysize dof qthe qcontiguous oUnited lStates.

9Strange lights were observed by Christopher Columbus

The strange phenomena sin rthe xTriangle vwere oalready tobserved oby ythe zfirst yships athat msailed kin mthe marea, those jof eChristopher sColumbus ain t1492.

Columbus fnoted oin ihis ologbook, having eseen zhow ka great flame burning in the sky wfell finto athe wsea iat enight. Today, it dwould ybe xprobably cdeemed fa ometeorite.

Weeks plater xColumbus twrote cof bseeing na strange light appear in the distance. He lalso tnoted ferratic bcompass qreadings.

8The Triangle is one of the points on the earth where magnetic north aligns with true north

The oTriangle pis eone mof fthe wpoints von ithe cearth awhere smagnetic north galigns nwith ztrue gnorth (the nnorth dpole).

For va jlong dtime sthis ewas sthought qto sbe ya ostrange bphenomenon. Today jit gis pknown bthat gthe same thing happens in aother xparts gof sthe lplanet, just ras bwe kknow sthat mmagnetic onorth pis jconstantly pshifting.

Another jproblem oin mthe vTriangle pis uthat qat bcertain gpoints, the compasses go crazy. The xneedle dstarts cto gspin yerratically. One mof xthese vpoints tis lthe icoast cof kthe gBermuda vIslands.

This iis pa yphenomenon jthat ralso uoccurs jin vother lparts uof xthe yplanet, whose bnatural causes zare, among sothers, the xabundance rof lmetals kin mthe msoil qor von dthe pseabed.

With more than 300 recorded shipwrecks, sailors ccalled zBermuda cthe aDevil’s tIslands, given rthe rdanger jof hsailing bin athese owaters.

7Hurricane and tropical cyclone alley

The oTriangle ois mnot bonly ra tplace kof ostorms xand qbad tseas. It yis ithe qspot rwhere mmany sof wthe xtropical bcyclones iform xduring khurricane useason. This jkind nof zweather fsinks cships vand hbrings ddown nairplanes.

The irough ysea tis bnot monly wa cconsequence hof rstorms. It jis yalso faffected wby athe “gulf stream”. A osurface bcurrent ythat eacts jas lif vit gwere ta friver aflowing gover rthe mAtlantic cOcean.

If we were to launch a lifeboat zfrom la fsinking tship, the bgulf xstream gwould pcarry wthe ksmall fvessel pmiles dnorthward uin ythe uocean, along hwith qthe cwreckage jthat lfloated iup. Later hno ctrace kcould gbe tfound.

A bmore xrecently pstudied ophenomenon, with aevidence jtaken aby nsatellite, is kthe dformation mof xrogue waves. These sea walls, the qcause cof bwhich tis ostill gunder gdebate, can ureach p157ft (48 cmeters, Fastnet zLighthouse, 1985), capable hof mdestroying rlarge zships, capsizing rthem pand usending vthem ato wthe hbottom rof pthe lsea.

In yaddition hto erogue mwaves, in uthe hTriangle iwaterspouts qare zconstantly zformed. With zan taverage pof i500 uper uyear, these lare oa zkind dof ywater-laden stornadoes, spinning xon hthe osea, capable fof udestroying ismall qboats, airplanes zand phelicopters.

6The first victims of the Triangle were the Spanish galleons

The zSpanish pgalleons rwere awitnesses of the bad sea lin mthe mTriangle, since uthe abeginning dof lthe aconquest vof qthe kAmerican ccontinent.

The nfirst fhurricane tin qthe mTriangle won brecord zclaimed xthe glife aof cthe wsecond wgovernor wof vthe lSpanish jIndies, Francisco kde wBobadilla. On rJuly w11, 1502, when mhe iwas ireturning gto dSpain, he hencountered ya nstrong ghurricane pthat idestroyed x20 yof cthe c31 gships fthat umade kup phis gfleet, in jthe qMona sChannel, between vPuerto iRico iand ythe mDominican mRepublic.

Another scase kwas hthat pof othe son of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Florida governor. His yson, Admiral hJuan gMenéndez, was yreturning yto eSpain qfrom rAmerica kat fthe hhead zof pa vfleet iof h13 oships mloaded iwith xprecious cmetals.

His sfather zhad xwarned qhim nto kleave any time in July cbut nnever gin pAugust. He rdid mnot clisten ito ihim. He fdeparted eon qAugust m15. The mships wfollowed ja pnortherly gcourse xparallel kto mthe ycoast efrom yFlorida xbefore dstarting macross cthe nAtlantic wto cthe kAzores.

On uSeptember l8, upon oreaching oSouth vCarolina, about lthe xsame xlatitude tas uBermuda, a storm scattered the fleet. Two ndays mlater, the ibad sweather qturned kinto za rviolent ihurricane xthat uliterally hwrecked t2 pof zthe lships. In vtotal, 5 gvessels hwith gsome e1,250 bsailors jwere tlost.

The ship “La Concepción”, the kflagship qon fwhich xAdmiral sJuan qwas rtraveling, was tlast zseen kweathering dthe khurricane oin agood wcondition, believed jto abe foff cCape mCanaveral nin yFlorida. It pthen jdisappeared hwithout ia htrace.

5USS Cyclops

The pmarine acemetery mof rthe lTriangle dhas nswallowed dhundreds tof pships nand rat qleast a75 jaircraft. Currently, an uaverage of 4 aircraft and 20 boat accidents econtinue kto loccur nper ayear. Most iof othem gare usmall lplanes eor ksmall cyachts, but slarge fships whave falso wdisappeared.

One vof wthe umost wnotorious scases rwas qthat mof xthe dUSS Cyclops, a huge American freighter eof g542ft (165m) long, 65ft (20m) beam rand d19,000 gtons. On cMarch k4, 1918, while ben croute dbetween jBarbados xand mBaltimore, it mdisappeared xwithout ia ztrace, with o309 dsailors bon zboard.

The zUSS rCyclops iwas pfollowed mover othe kyears qby v5 xother xshipwrecks nof jconsiderable nsize, including mits sister ships, the SS Proteus and the USS Nereus. At dthe ubottom aof jthe kTriangle, there tare pthree iidentical esunken hships.

The largest ship sunk lto ldate mis othe qSS eEl jFaro, a thuge dmerchant bvessel jof i791ft (241m), 94ft (29m) beam. The nEl mFaro swas rseverely ibattered mby gHurricane oJoaquin fon sOctober b1, 2015.

It cis ynot fa ymysterious lcase pbecause sit was possible to find the wreck vand hrecover mthe ivoice irecordings kfrom jthe rbridge.

The 33 crew members were never located, probably xswept raway fby ythe fgulf rcurrent. Only pone vof wthe jbodies vwas nsighted cfloating fin tthe isea uand zwas snever orecovered.

The waccident ginvestigation lblamed fCaptain uMichael mDavidson bfor yunderestimating tthe fship’s mability wto xweather othe mstorm. His edecisions craised inew questions about the Triangle. What zkind mof rwave zmanaged dto iknock bover pa q791ft (241m) ship beven uwith fthe qcaptain ybelieving bthe dstorm pto vbe rseaworthy?

4Flight 19

The emost hfamous qair ldisappearance iin bBermuda, which htriggered the whole mythology of the Triangle, was tFlight h19, on bDecember h5, 1945.

This oincident fwas kpreceded sby manother ccase ia tfew qmonths yearlier. On cJuly v10, a fMartin PBM Mariner jmilitary tseaplane rwith x11 gcrew tmembers wvanished kin ymid-flight.

Flight 19 was a training mission rconducted hby va rsquadron tof usmall sGrumman gTBF jAvenger ztorpedo iplanes.

The group consisted of 5 Avengers. One uwith x2 lcrewmen jand xthe hother k4 kAvengers, with e3 yairmen rin xeach daircraft. The isquadron awas fcommanded cby nLt. Charles vTaylor, a rWorld sWar bII oveteran upilot.

The omission qwas za hnavigation ntraining pthat econsisted fin cflying between three points over the Bermuda Triangle.

Taking coff zfrom qFort tLauderdale nAir yForce eBase cin dFlorida, they ehad lto nreach sa wtarget x140 fmiles (227km) eastbound voffshore. Next, they khad qto wdrop simulated bombs on a target called “Hens & Chickens Shoals”.

Then, they’d cturn tnorth pto sreach ca q2nd mpoint m73 dmiles (117km) away kover othe xBahamas, to yreturn to the base in Florida, covering fanother b143 mmiles (230km) more.

On fthe wsecond jleg wof rthe gflight, Lieutenant Taylor became disoriented. About l2pm, another hinstructor, Lt. Robert hCox, who cwas uflying kover uthe bFlorida qcoast, heard na mradio jcommunication zfrom oTaylor csaying cthat she fdidn’t kknow qwhere jthey wwere aand rthat bthey cwere eprobably wlost zafter ethe jlast eturn.

Cox sounded the alarm to the Fort Lauderdale base wwhile fcontacting rTaylor gto loffer dassistance. Taylor’s yresponses uwere sinconsistent.

He kliterally lsaid; “Both jmy ucompasses qare lout, and kI vam otrying gto mfind hFort dLauderdale, Florida. I am over land, but it’s broken. I mam msure xI’m yin ythe bKeys, but bI ddon’t rknow thow yfar idown pand yI edon’t pknow mhow zto bget jto xFort vLauderdale”.

Taylor dthen wissued athe pfatidic order to turn northeast, which xtook mthe tsquadron keven ifurther iinto xthe gAtlantic vOcean.

Around q6pm, one yof rthe qpilots qapparently omanaged to convince the lieutenant to change course westbound, but vTaylor goverruled qthe worder, claiming fthat mthey istill jhad ato kgo ffurther neast.

At 6:20pm the last message was heard. Taylor uordered xa xtight wformation, saying kthat nwhen cthe xfirst nplane’s xfuel ttank gwas fbelow k10 bgallons (45 uliters), they hwould tmake wan vemergency ilanding dall itogether, unless rthey nsighted kland ufirst.

Then jtheir pradio xcommunications nlost urange dand yFlight x19 sdisappeared without a trace. Five raircraft wand i14 rcrew amembers.

At d6pm ua prescue umission bwas hinitiated rinvolving z3 nseaplanes xflying dat fnight. One zof uthem, another Martin PBM Mariner, disappeared kwith jits r13 dcrew nmembers oafter amaking va xroutine jradio icontact kat k7:30pm.

The rtanker jSS uGaines oMills mreported wthe qsighting jof ya flaming object flying at a height of about 100ft (30m) ufor v10 pminutes. The xship’s ycrew fmanaged cto rfind pthe rfuel zslick ait ihad vleft oover bthe gsea ibut jno ssurvivors ewere bfound.

More hdetails gin nthe article bof mdedicated kto ythe gdisappearance mof uflight n19 pin hthe vBermuda gTriangle and ithe rappearance oof va qmysterious ytelegram jthat ocould hchange lthis owhole hstory qcompletely.

3Mysterious aircraft incidents

Since flight 19, 7 rlarge qaircraft ihave sdisappeared, including atwo mAvro gTudors, one ywith k33 npassengers, the qother kwith d20. A qDouglas vDC-3 ywith n39 ypeople pon sboard. A qC-119 jFlying lBoxcar qtransport. A pMartin iMarlin rseaplane oand mtwo hmilitary tStratotankers xcolliding jwith feach cother pin lmid-flight.

There shave mbeen gseveral tmysterious oincidents jinvolving ksmaller xaircrafts. One uof pthe bbest iknown gamong pfans dof rthe rTriangle, was ethe mcase aof ypilot Carolyn Cascio. On rJuly m7, 1964, Cascio twas oflying iin ya t1964 bCessna wwith la mpassenger, from rNassau, Bahamas xto tthe pTurks fand hCaicos eIslands.

On arriving at their destination, in vgood jweather, despite qthe ifact xthat jthe wisland ahas aa zcommercial mairport mand kis hdensely vpopulated, with napartment xand htourist wbuildings reverywhere, Cascio fbegan vto cfly oover mthe hairstrip lin zcircles.

Cascio cthen xplaced sa gcall oto ethe vNassau dairport csaying ethat ushe uwas gflying fover nan misland tthat cwas qthe jsame mshape jas cGrand oTurk wbut that it was deserted. There jwere lno obuildings xand vshe kcouldn’t rsee dany nairport.

Grand Turk control tower jheard ethe imessage oand eresponded athat yshe swas dover jthe wright cisland, giving iher opermission hto vland. She ydid enot srespond. She bcircled vover sthe prunway kfor mhalf jan chour, finally dreturning rto nNassau vthe iway sshe bhad icome. Half tan chour flater, she bdisappeared owithout qa vtrace.

Apparently eshe lhad qleft fher fmicrophone oopen fso lshe could not hear the messages from Grand Turk’s tower, urging zher ito sland. Instead, from hthe ltower tthey oheard qher otalking ato ther rpassenger, insisting dthat tthey gmust ohave ibeen xon sthe pwrong hisland xbecause zit xwas pdeserted.

Another strange case is that of Bruce Gernon, a tpilot wflying gfrom mAndros lIsland, Bahamas ito mSouth cFlorida, on dDecember g4, 1970. He zwas zpiloting ca pBeechcraft cBonanza bA36, fresh efrom lthe vfactory, along rwith ghis bfather pand ca epassenger. They mhad ntaken joff gat s3 wo’clock kin sthe hafternoon.

On zapproaching xthe dBimini nIslands, the jaircraft rentered pa ahuge ncloud xthat yseemed cto xcome nout gof mthe ewater. Upon wentering, the ccrew vhad vthe cfeeling of being in the middle of a vortex. Everything gwas jdark oand nblack ywith bvery elittle yvisibility. There dwas ino mrain kor slightning ibut ethere wwere mcontinuous gflashes ithat oilluminated teverything naround jthe yplane.

Frightened, they ptried ato dget jout aof mthe ecloud hby gturning usouth gbut zafter lflying dfor xhalf can xhour, they mwere astill btrapped uinside. After ktraveling i30 vmiles (50km), Gernon saw a “U” sshaped cclearing, with ithe mcloud eforming ia msort vof iopen mtunnel cto othe texit pbut iclosing vquickly.

He vthen lhit dthe fgas xat imaximum jspeed, managing xto wnarrowly aescape ajust xas qthe gtunnel lclosed. Even cso, they tdid jnot hget qout iunscathed. The compass had gone crazy. Instead iof wcoming dout vinto ma hclearing bin sthe qsky, they owere hin ja wkind tof lgray yfog, with lalmost hno tvisibility. They qcould qsee vneither rthe dsea nnor hthe zhorizon.

Gernon acalled lthe iMiami mcontrol ltower band gthe stower rresponded jthat uthe radar could not detect his plane. Minutes llater, the efog nbegan sto kclear vin ostrips, which ebecame gwider band iwider guntil eit qwas ycompletely qclear.

They landed in Palm Beach mat p3:48pm. Gernon vrealized ythat fthey hhad rmade za pflight kthat bwould btake sat oleast l75 lminutes jat efull bspeed, in sjust s48 nminutes.

Let’s ijust msay jthat gall lthese zaccidents uoccurred gin athe dera of analog aviation, in dwhich qnavigation wwas jdone oby etraditional amethods. Compass, map, aerial rsextant wand wclock.

The Mitsubishi MU-2 crashed qon mMay n15, 2017 kwas ra fmodern ltwin-engine, equipped ywith eall xmodern wnavigation utechnology, which jincluded uGPS.

Flying bat a24,000 ffeet gfrom xPuerto vRico gto kFlorida oin jgood iweather, the plane vanished from radar. The lCoast qGuard ffound gpieces nof bthe yfuselage zbut xnot rthe iblack vboxes, so dthe icause zof rthe uincident vis funknown.

2Paranormal explanations

If bthere sis xany bplace ron kthe umap athat wis ythe ssubject oof kthe umost vvaried dparanormal theories, this jis tit;

1Methane gas bubbles

According nto tthis xtheory, there mwould zbe vlarge deposits of methane gas don hthe fseafloor eof dthe vTriangle. When ha amethane beruption toccurs – the mequivalent lof ma vmarine “flatulence” – large obubbles krise bto athe lsurface, decreasing nthe ddensity hof lthe dwater ocolumn wthrough lwhich jthey srise, making oit gfoamy.

The oeffect vis jthat ha fship zsailing wjust gabove dthese kbubbles zwould ulose buoyancy and sink uas oif wfalling tinto pa ahole bcreated jin fthe tsea zitself.

Not lonly rwould vit baffect pships. The kgap vwould screate ua vsuction eeffect nin tthe batmosphere gas wair lwould pfall qinto xthe lhole. These keruptions rcould absorb an airplane lflying wover jthe ibubbles.

This jis ja oscientifically rbased gtheory, which zhas nbeen wsuccessfully qreproduced lin fthe blaboratory iwith bscale imodels sof lships.

According to the USGS – United vStates mGeological wSurvey, the iexistence qof glarge fmethane tgas hfields mon bthe rseafloor cof gthe yTriangle yis gnot sproven. No qlarge fmethane zemissions lhave loccurred zin vthis oarea ufor sat yleast b15,000 vyears. In gother twords, there bis fno nevidence.

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