The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a special region of the Atlantic Ocean, where a number of ships and aircraft are said to have mysteriously disappeared. Many think that the cause of all these disappearances is merely an accident, which may be due to a natural disaster or the negligence of the driver. According to popular legend, the supernatural force or the presence of extraterrestrial life is to blame for this. [1] Accidents are no different from accidents in other regions. [2] [3] [4]

The Triangle of the Devil in the Bermuda Triangle

Pictures of the West Atlantic region, showing the location of the so-called Bermuda Triangle

Expansion of a triangle

Different authors vary in the extent of the Bermuda Triangle. Warm ocean currents flow from the Gulf of Mexico over this triangle. This rapid current is the cause of most of the disappearances. The weather here is such that the storm suddenly stops again, hitting the cyclone in the summer. Shipwrecks are a common occurrence in such areas before the advent of telecommunications, radar, and satellite technology in the twentieth century. The region is one of the world's heaviest commercial shipping lanes. The ships sailed to the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean. It is also the site of many pleasure boats. Commercial and private flights operate on various routes in the region. Different writers have given different views on the description of the expansion of the triangle. Some think it is shaped like a trapezoid, spread across Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands, and the eastern Atlantic region of Essore, while others associate it with the Gulf of Mexico. However, the general description of the written area includes the Atlantic coast of Florida, Puerto Rico, the Bermuda Islands in the Central Atlantic, and the southern border of the Bahamas and Florida Straits, where most accidents occurred. [5]

History of the triangle story

According to those who wrote about the Bermuda Triangle, Christopher Columbus was the first to write about the strange experience of the triangle. He wrote that the sailors of his ship saw light dancing on the horizon of the region, smoke in the sky. He also describes the inverse direction of the compass here. He wrote in his log book on October 11, 1492 - Triangle means the residence of the devil.

"The land was first seen by a sailor (Rodrigo de Triana), although the Admiral at ten o'clock that evening standing on

the quarter-deck saw a light, but so small a body that he could not affirm it to be land; calling to Pero Gutiérrez, groom of the King's

wardrobe, he told him he saw a light, and bid him look that way, which he did and saw it; He did the same to Rodrigo Sánchez of Segovia, whom the King and Queen had sent with the squadron as comptroller, but he was unable to see it from his situation. The Admiral again perceived it once or twice, appearing like the light of a wax candle moving up and down, which some thought an indication of land. But the Admiral held it for certain that land was near ... "

The gist of what the experts now say is that the light that the sailors saw was a fire in the boats used by the local people, and the problem with the compass was due to the change in the position of the stars. September 16, 1950. V. W. Jones (E.V.W. Jones) was the first to write about the triangle in a newspaper. [6] Two years later, George X appeared in Fate magazine. George X. Sand wrote a short essay entitled "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door". [7] In this article, he wrote five T-Bs of Flight Nineteen (US Navy). M tells the story of the disappearance of a team of Avengers' aircraft (who went missing on a training mission) and was the first to tell the story of this unfamiliar triangular region.

In April 1982, Flight Nineteen was published in the American Legion magazine. [9] It is said that the captain of this flight is heard to say - We do not know where we are, the water is green, no white. It means "we don't know where we are, green water, nothing white". This is the first time Nineteen has been associated with a supernatural event. Vincent Gaddis then traced another story, The Deadly Bermuda Triangle, in February 1974. [10] Invisible Horizon ”. [11] Many other authors have written books on the subject, including John Wallace Spencer, who wrote "Limbo of the Lost" (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973), meaning "forgotten disappearance". [12] ]; Charles Berlitz wrote "The Bermuda Triangle" (1974), [13]; Richard Weiner wrote a book called "The Devil's Triangle" (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), [14] and many others. All of them have presented the supernatural phenomena described by Eckert in different flavors. [15]

Kusche's interpretation

Lawrence David Kusch is a research librarian at Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1985). In his research, he highlighted the inconsistency of eyewitness accounts with those of Charles Berlitz. For example, despite sufficient evidence, Charles Berlitz described the disappearance of the famous yachtsman Donald Crowhurt as a mystery. Another example is the disappearance of an ore ship three days after its departure from a port in the Atlantic, while another description of the same ship disappearing after leaving a port in the Pacific Ocean. Kusch also showed that a large part of the described accident occurred outside the boundaries of the so-called triangle. Kusch's research was very general. He has just collected weather news and important facts from the newspapers of that time according to the date, time etc. of various accidents in the narration of the writers which the writers did not tell in the story. The findings from Kusch's study are:

The number of ships and planes reported missing in the Bermuda Triangle is not higher than other seas in the world.

Tropical storms regularly hit the region, which is one of the reasons for the disappearance of ships and aircraft. But Berlitz or other writers have largely avoided such storms.

In the descriptions of many incidents, the writers have painted the colors of imagination. If a boat arrives at the port later than the scheduled time, it is said to be missing.

The writers have mentioned many incidents that have never happened again. For example, there was talk of a plane crash on Daytona Beach, Florida in 1936, but no information was found in the newspapers at the time.

Thus, Kusch's study concludes that the authors, out of ignorance or intentionally, fabricated the Bermuda Triangle. [17] ৬Epilogue, p. 277

Feedback from others

The marine insurance company Lloyd's of London has found that there is nothing more terrifying in this triangle than the other seas. So they do not charge more than usual on any ship passing through this region. The U.S. Coast Guard has approved after extensive research on the authors' descriptions that there is nothing unusual in the region. [16] For example, in 1972, V.A. A tanker named V.A. Fogg sank after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard photographed the wrecked tanker and recovered several bodies. [16] However, some authors say that all the occupants of the tanker have disappeared, only its captain was found holding a mug of coffee in his cabin table. [12] In the episode "The Case of the Bermuda Triangle (1986-07-28)" on the TV series NOVA / Horizon, it was stated that the accidents reported were baseless. "[19] Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves ) [20] and Barry Singer [21], have shown that it is very profitable to create a false mystery, because then a lot of money can be made by writing a book based on that false mystery or broadcasting a special program on TV.

The Bermuda Triangle has also passed through some lands such as Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and even Bermuda itself. But no land vehicle was reported missing in these places. The town of Freeport, located in the triangle, also has a large shipyard and an airport, which handles 50,000 flights a year without interruption.

Explained through natural phenomena

Human error

Man-made accident editing

Investigations into the disappearance of many ships and aircraft have found that most of them were due to pilot error. Mistakes are very common, and accidents can happen in the Bermuda Triangle. For example, the Coast Guard in 1972 V.A. V.A. Fogg blamed the lack of skilled workers for the removal of the abandoned portion of benzene as the cause of the disappearance. Businessman Harvey Conover's yacht probably went missing because of his negligence. Many of the missing have not been found, as no trace of them has been recovered.

All that has been intentionally destroyed

During the war, many ships were thought to have sunk in a surprise attack by the enemy. This may also cause the ship to go missing. However, a number of ships, believed to have sunk during World War II, were searched. However, the documents of the enemy, the instruction log books, etc. could not be examined to prove anything. For example, the USS Cyclops and its sister ships Proteus and Nereus are thought to have been sunk by German submarines in 1918 and World War II. But later German records could not prove its authenticity.

Again the idea is that many ships may have gone missing in the attack of the pirates. Theft of cargo ships was common in the western Pacific and in the Indian Ocean at that time. Drug smugglers used to steal facilities like ships, boats, yachts etc. for drug smuggling. From 1570 to 180 the Caribbean was a pirate's lair. Notorious pirates Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and Jean Lafitte were the horrors of the region. However, it is rumored that Jean Lafitte was the victim of the Bermuda Triangle.

Another type of robbery is heard from the ground. Such pirates used to confuse the sailors of the ship by lighting the lights at night by the sea. The sailors thought that the light was the light of the house and proceeded in that direction. Then the ships would sink in a collision with a submerged mountain. And then the pirates would collect the ship's cargo when it came ashore. Maybe if any sailor survived the sinking ship, the pirates would kill them too.

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