Strange Bermuda Triangle And Its Mystery
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery. For that you have to read it to find it. The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the "Isle of Devils." The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, the Caribbean Islands and Europe. Cruise ships are also plentiful and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean and South America from points north.
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. 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. Popular culture has attributed disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle to the paranormal, however documented evidence indicates that some incidents were inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors and official agencies have stated that the disappearances in the region is similar to that in any other area of ocean.
The triangle does not exist according to the US Navy and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. The researchers said that multiple giant craters exist on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea. These are probably a cause of enormous blowouts of gas. They further said that the crater area is likely to represent one of the biggest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic.
There are numerous incidents which had happened at the same place. The airplane and ships incidents are listed below:
1. In 1492: Christopher Columbus reported strange lights and strange compass readings.
2. In 1609: The Sea Venture got wrecked near the eastern end of Bermuda Island. The commander of the fleet Sir George Somers and his crew came ashore and were the first to start human settlement in the island.
3. In 1872: Mary Celeste: Known as one of the ghost ships of Bermuda Triangle, Mary Celeste had many misadventures even before her mystery voyage in 1872.
4. In 1945: December 5, Flight 19 (five TBF Avengers) lost with 14 airmen, and later the same day PBM Mariner BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while searching for Flight 19.
5. In 1947: July 3. According to the Bermuda Triangle Legend a B-29 Superfortress was lost off Bermuda. Lawrence Kunsche investigated and found no reference to any such B-29 loss. In fact the aircraft loss was that of a Douglas C-54 which was lost in a storm off the Florida coast. Ironically a B-29 was lost in the vicinity of Bermuda-on November 16, 1949 a B-29 was lost in the Atlantic; 2 crewmen were missing but on November 19, 1949 18 survivors were rescued 385 miles northeast of
Bermuda.
6. In 1948: January 30, Avro Tudor G-AHNP Star Tiger lost with six crew and 25 passengers, en route from Santa Maria Airport in the Azores to Kindley Field, Bermuda.
7. In 1948: December 28, Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with three crew and 36 passengers, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.
8. In 1949: January 17, Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel lost with seven crew and 13 passengers, en route from Kindley Field, Bermuda, to Kingston Airport, Jamaica.
9. In 1962: January 8, A USAF KB-50 51-0465 was lost over the Atlantic between the US East Coast and the Azores.
10. In 1965: June 9, A USAF C-119 Flying Boxcar of the 440th Troop Carrier Wing missing between Florida and Grand Turk Island. The last call from the plane came from a point just north of Crooked Island, Bahamas, and 177 miles from Grand Turk Island. On July 18, 1965 debris from the plane was found on the beach of Gold Rock Cay just off the northeastern shore of Acklins Island.
11. In 1965: December 6, Private ERCoupe F01 lost with pilot and one passenger, en route from Ft. Lauderdale to Grand Bahamas Island.
12. In 1976: The Sylvia L. Ossa, a 590-foot ore carrier with a crew of 37 disappeared 140 miles from Bermuda.
13. In 1991: The pilot of a Grumman Cougar jet made a routine radio request to increase altitude. While ascending, the aircraft gradually faded from radar and vanished.
14. In 2003: A newly married couple Frank and Romina Leone went for fishing on their brand new 16-foot boat on June 18, 2003. They left from the Boynton beach inlet in Florida but never returned.
15. In 2015: On October 1, 2015, the cargo ship SS El Faro became another tragic victim of Bermuda Triangle, the worst in over 30 years. After extensive search for weeks, the ship could be finally located sitting upright in one piece at a depth of about 15,000 ft in the Atlantic, but there was no trace of any crew members.
The only thing we can say is that the Bermuda Triangle has a long history filled with mysteries that no one has been able to accurately explain. Its up to the reader to believe or not, in such mysterious discoveries.
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