The Bermuda Triangle is formed by three land points in the Atlantic Ocean where there is an abundant amount of mystery shipwrecks, crashed planes, and missing people.
No one is quite sure to why aircraft and people go missing in this area. So first, where is the mysterious Bermuda Triangle exactly at? This is believed to be the area between Miami, Florida, Bermuda Island, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. For many years, the Atlantic Ocean has captured the minds of many humans with the Bermuda Triangle disappearances that has been occurring for decad. So why do all of these ships and planes seem to go missing in the area? Well I don’t believe in the Bermuda Triangle. I don’t think that there is a big mystery about the disappearing boats going across the Bermuda. Even though I don’t know what it is, I can tell you what its not. Many authors think they know exactly what has been happening here. They suggested that it may be the strange magnetic force that affects any electrical machines, such as compass readings, that are heavily needed for traveling overseas. Other people theorize that methane eruptions from the ocean floor that suddenly turns the sea into a pool of froth that can't support a ship's weight, so therefore it sinks. Even though there is no actual evidence of this type of thing happening in the Triangle for years, it is a well known theory. Several books have gone as far as hypothesizing that the disappearances have to do to an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea, (aliens). Some think that the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis cause the disappearances, and others seem to believe that there are vortices directly centered in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle that ...
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...her set of sips either disappeared or sank, with another found without its crew on it. However most of the accidents were reported incorrect. Another well-known accident was a British plane, that was carrying eleven people vanished in the Andes after leaving Buenos Aires in Argentina for Chile. The name of the plane was Stardust, which wasn't discovered for another fifty years. There are theories that claim that the flight had been abducted by aliens. But in reality there was a reading in Morse code found on the plane reading “STENDEC”. It was immediately taken to evidence to back up the alien theory a of the plane. They later found the plane buried in an ice glacier in 2000. The mystery of the morse code was never really solved, but on conspiracy is that the radio operator could have scrambled the words “DESCENT” as a result of the plane going down.
In the 1937 newspaper, article “Amelia’s Voice Heard by Amateur Radio Operator”, The Atchison Daily Globe reports on two Los Angeles amateur radio operators who claimed they heard Earhart transmit a distress signal at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time. The article expresses doubt about these clams using the statement “[In] San Francisco, however, a coastguard station reported at noon Eastern Standard Time it had received no word whatever although radio reception was unusually good” . The article also presents evidence supporting the two Radio operators, by explaining the amateur radio operators, “interpreted radio signals as placing the plane adrift near the equator between Gilbert Islands and Howland Island” . The article also, reports, because of this possible transmission from Earhart caused action, “the navy department ordered the battleship Colorado with three planes aboard, to begin a search from Honolulu, where it arrived yesterday ”.
Relevance: For years the Bermuda Triangle has been one of the biggest mysteries of our time and it is important to be informed on why and what happens in this area.
Flight 19 was the designation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945 during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 of the airmen on the flight were lost as well as the 13 crew members of a PBM Mariner flying boat of professional investigators which is thought to have exploded in mid-air while searching for the flight. Navy investigators could not determine the cause of the loss of Flight 19 yet many researchers argue otherwise claiming that there is a specific cause for the disappearance of Flight 19.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flightcrew to monitor the flight instrument during the final 4 minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent soon enough to prevent impact with the ground. Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.
The sky remained vacant the morning Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to touch base on Howland Island, for the last leg of their trip around the world. Leo Bellarts, the Chief radioman on the coast guard ship, was desperately sending radio signals, trying to reach the lost pilot in the air. On July second, 1937, Earhart and her plane, went down in the Pacific Ocean, and have not been found since then. Seventy-seven years after her disappearance, people are still searching for answers about the mysterious event in the Pacific.
The Bermuda Triangle is best known for its strange phenomenon and unexplained disappearances. It is located off the west coast of Florida. As stated in the article “Bermuda Triangle: Where Facts Disappear” written by Benjamin Radford, a deputy editor of the scientific magazine Skeptical Inquirer, the points of the triangle are located in Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda Island (qtd. in NOAA). The Bermuda Triangle covers roughly 500,000 square miles of the deep Atlantic Ocean (Radford “Bermuda Triangle: Where Facts Disappear”). This great span of ocean and its abnormal phenomenon is often credited for the disappearances of boats, planes, and their crewmembers.
The PoD is not the bermuda triangle, but its effect on Columbus' ships as they
Archeologists conduct research with satellites using infared imaging (Juan De Los Santos, 2), and treasure hunters use inventions attached to their boats, like the mailbox (Scott L. Key). Treasure hunters are having trouble with public property rules (Scott L. Key, 11). Unfortunately, they are no longer permitted to research freely. Satellites have many limiting factors. They data they provide doesn't ensure accuracy of a storm's strength of when it hits (Harriet Jane Caldwell, 7). Although these gather information and have allowed for discovery, this way of exploration is not ideal to flying through hurricanes.
Finally, in 1997, the US military admitted to lying about the object being a weather balloon. Instead they claim that the wreckage was part of a “top-secret experiment”(Mitton 11) involving some sort of balloon. Steve MacKenzie’s response, “if the object he tracked had been a weather balloon, secret or not, his superiors would have ordered him to ignore it.”(Dudley 35)
Another famous was the disappearance of the NC16002. It was a passenger plane that was lost on Dec. 28 1948. The flight was last reported fifty miles from Florida. It disappeared with three crew members and twenty-nine passengers on it. There was no probable cause for the loss determined. The batteries were not fully charged o take-off, and that could have affected communication during the flight. It may have gone off course and landed in another airport, but it is considered missing because no one has found the plane.
One of the famous mystery disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is the famous Flight 19. It was December 5, 1945 and while doing their routine patrol they vanished. Flight 19 consisted of five Avenger torpedo bomber planes, each with a three-man crew. However, one of the crew did not show up that day, and so with fourteen crewmen, they took off for their scheduled routine patrol.
One of the disappearances involves Flight 19. “Five Avenger torpedo bombers lifted into the air from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 2:10 in the afternoon” (“The Mystery”). The goal of the flight was to practice bomb runs and did not seem to be unusual. The pilots consisted of all students except for one commander whose name was Lt. Charles Taylor. However, the Charles Taylor was not familiar with the area around which they were flying. Taylor then became frustrated and confused which caused them to end up miles of course (“The Mystery”). Pilot experience when flying is important and could be the reason why a flight makes it to its destination or does not. Another disappearance involves the loss of NC16002. “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 Mystery”). “Investigators focused on the fact that Huber wasn’t licensed to fly in the dark, using only instruments, and that the plane had taken off from the Bahamas before sunrise” (MacGregor 38). Pilot experience and training can be seen as the reason why these flights never made it to where they were supposed to go which is explanation as to why the planes
The paranormal activity and substantial amount of ships and planes missing reported suggests that the triangle would be a deadly place for ships to travel across. However, the area is passed through daily by multiple cruise ships along with planes as well. The “World Wide Fund For Nature” created a list of the 10 most deadly waters for shipping, but the bermuda triangle was not included. Research has hinted towards reports of several incidents being exaterated or imbellished. Despite the evidence, the majority of people still believe the triangle is not deadly, and in fact, is completely safe to ship through, or fly over. On the contrary, over the past 5 centuries, more than 1000 ships and planes have dissapeared unaccounted for in the triangle(http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-1.htm). Therefore, the aura of mystery surrounding the triangle is alive and well.
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On November 3 1945, the Bermuda triangle first grasped the attention of many people with one mysterious event. Flight 19, an aircraft which was out on a 3 hour training session, fully fueled and equipped with five highly experienced aviators, went missing and was never to be heard of again (McDonell1of 9). The three hour training session started from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was due 150 miles east, 40 miles north and then was told to return to the base; unfortunately that did not happen (McDonell 1 of 9). During the training session the aviators both back up compass and compass were malfunctioning making their locations a mystery to them and lost to the world for two hours. During these two hours radios on ...