Mysterious “Bermuda Triangle” and its Dangerousness, Take a Geotourism around the Ocean Wonder
The Bermuda Triangle is a mysterious section of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. In the last century, numerous ships and planes have simply vanished without a trace within the imaginary triangle. 58 years ago, five Navy planes took off from their base in Florida on a routine training mission, known as Flight 19. Neither the planes nor the crew was ever seen again.
Unusual features of the triangle area had been noted in the past when Christopher Columbus wrote in his log about bizarre compass bearings in the area. But the region didn’t come to light until August 1964, when Vincent Gaddis coined the term Bermuda Triangle in a cover story for Argosy magazine’ about the disappearance of Flight 19. The area is also referred to as Devil’s Triangle. It covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.
When Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World. He sees one night that a great flame of fire, probably a meteor crashed into the sea. That strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings, perhaps because at that time the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.
Infamous Tragedy
An infamous tragedy occurred in March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped with that facility. An extensive search operation was extended but no wreckage has traced. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ ships similarly, disappear without a trace nearly the same route.
Some more of this type of accident, including one in December 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield. The pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; their compasses apparently malfunctioning and all five planes flew aimlessly until they forced to sunk at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared.
After a massive search operation failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was “as if they had flown to Mars.” Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages.
The theory behind these Phenomena
There is one more place on Earth, which has the same feature as Bermuda Triangle; the area nicknamed the Devil’s Sea off the east coast of Japan. This has a similar mysterious reputation, where true north and magnetic north line up, which could make compass readings dicey. Apart from magnetic anomaly there many theories related to these features.
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Bermuda triangle is also home to some of the deepest underwater trenches in the world; wreckage could settle in a watery grave miles below the surface of the ocean. Most of the seafloor in the Bermuda Triangle is about 5,791 meters down; near its southern tip, the Puerto Rico Trench dips at one point to 8,229 meters below sea level.
One Gulf Stream travels along the western edge of the triangle and that could be a factor. The Gulf Stream is about 64- to the 80-kilometer-wide river within the ocean that circulates in the North Atlantic Ocean. The warm water and 2-4 knot currents can create weather patterns that remain channeled within it.
More scientific theories have pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts, or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor. However, there is no single theory that solves the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
