Introduction
The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle and Devil's Sea) is a
nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined
by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southernmost tip of Florida. This area is noted
for
a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft..
Click to view larger image
The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass
media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are
either violated, altered, or both.
While there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have
disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States
Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics
demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is
no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world.
Click to enlarge this image
There is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared
under highly unusual circumstances in the region called
Bermuda Triangle. Over 100 airplane disappearances and over
1000 lives lost since 1945
Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon
close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often
circulating and recirculating over the decades.
The triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the
Atlantic, stretching northward from the West Indies, along the North American
seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe
from parts south would sail north to the Carolinas, then turn east for Europe,
taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic.
Even with the development of steam and internal-combustion engines, a great deal
more shipping traffic was (and still is) found nearer the US coastline than
towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms
with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always
been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime
traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large,
number of vessels would flounder in storms.
Given the historical limitations of communications technology, most of those
ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of
wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the
unexplained disappearances largely ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The
occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted
that both the concept and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the
1960s, and were the products of an American journalist.
Other areas often purported to possess unusual characteristics are the Devil's
Sea, located near Japan, and the Marysburgh Vortex or the Great Lakes Triangle,
located in eastern Lake Ontario.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
Bermuda (or "Devil's") Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil's Triangle) is a triangular area in the
Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
Legend has it that many people, ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in
this area. How many have mysteriously disappeared depends on who is doing the
locating and the counting. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square
miles to three times that size, depending on the imagination of the author.
(Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the
"triangle.") Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Even so,
estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500
years. Howard Rosenberg claims that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more
than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes
have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century.
Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these
missing ships and planes. Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from
Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies, and
vile vortices from the fourth dimension are favorites among fantasy writers.
Strange magnetic fields and oceanic flatulence (methane gas from the bottom of
the ocean) are favorites among the technically-minded. Weather (thunderstorms,
hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, high waves, currents, etc.) bad luck,
pirates, explosive cargoes, incompetent navigators, and other natural and human
causes are favorites among skeptical investigators.
There are some skeptics who argue that the facts do not support the legend, that
there is no mystery to be solved, and nothing that needs explaining.The number
of wrecks in this area is not extraordinary, given its size, location and the
amount of traffic it receives. Many of the ships and planes that have been
identified as having disappeared mysteriously in the Bermuda Triangle were not
in the Bermuda Triangle at all. Investigations to date have not produced
scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances.
Thus, any explanation, including so-called scientific ones in terms of methane
gas being released from the ocean floor, magnetic disturbances, etc., are not
needed. The real mystery is how the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery at all.
The modern legend of the Bermuda Triangle began soon after five Navy planes
[Flight 19] vanished on a training mission during a severe storm in 1945. The
most logical theory as to why they vanished is that lead pilot Lt. Charles
Taylor’s compass failed. The trainees' planes were not equipped with working
navigational instruments. The group was disoriented and simply, though
tragically, ran out of fuel. No mysterious forces were likely to have been
involved other than the mysterious force of gravity on planes with no fuel. It
is true that one of the rescue planes blew up shortly after take-off, but this
was likely due to a faulty gas tank rather than to any mysterious forces.
Over the years there have been dozens of articles, books, and television
programs promoting the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. In his study of this
material, Larry Kushe found that few did any investigation into the mystery.
Rather, they passed on the speculations of their predecessors as if they were
passing on the mantle of truth. Of the many uncritical accounts of the mystery
of the Bermuda Triangle, perhaps no one has done more to create this myth than
Charles Berlitz, who had a bestseller on the subject in 1974. After examining
the 400+ page official report of the Navy Board of Investigation of the
disappearance of the Navy planes in 1945, Kushe found that the Board wasn't
baffled at all by the incident and did not mention alleged radio transmissions
cited by Berlitz in his book. According to Kushe, what isn't misinterpreted by
Berlitz is fabricated. Kushe writes: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were
red, the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty." (Berlitz,
by the way, did not invent the name; that was done by Vincent Gaddis in "The
Deadly Bermuda Triangle," which appeared in the February, 1964, issue of Argosy,
a magazine devoted to fiction.)
In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of
communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to
uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in
the Atlantic.
From India, Madras
13The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle and Devil's Sea) is a
nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined
by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southernmost tip of Florida. This area is noted
for
a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft..
Click to view larger image
The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass
media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are
either violated, altered, or both.
While there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have
disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States
Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics
demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is
no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world.
Click to enlarge this image
There is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared
under highly unusual circumstances in the region called
Bermuda Triangle. Over 100 airplane disappearances and over
1000 lives lost since 1945
Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon
close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often
circulating and recirculating over the decades.
The triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the
Atlantic, stretching northward from the West Indies, along the North American
seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe
from parts south would sail north to the Carolinas, then turn east for Europe,
taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic.
Even with the development of steam and internal-combustion engines, a great deal
more shipping traffic was (and still is) found nearer the US coastline than
towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms
with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always
been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime
traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large,
number of vessels would flounder in storms.
Given the historical limitations of communications technology, most of those
ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of
wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the
unexplained disappearances largely ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The
occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted
that both the concept and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the
1960s, and were the products of an American journalist.
Other areas often purported to possess unusual characteristics are the Devil's
Sea, located near Japan, and the Marysburgh Vortex or the Great Lakes Triangle,
located in eastern Lake Ontario.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
Bermuda (or "Devil's") Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil's Triangle) is a triangular area in the
Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
Legend has it that many people, ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in
this area. How many have mysteriously disappeared depends on who is doing the
locating and the counting. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square
miles to three times that size, depending on the imagination of the author.
(Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the
"triangle.") Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Even so,
estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500
years. Howard Rosenberg claims that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more
than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes
have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century.
Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these
missing ships and planes. Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from
Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies, and
vile vortices from the fourth dimension are favorites among fantasy writers.
Strange magnetic fields and oceanic flatulence (methane gas from the bottom of
the ocean) are favorites among the technically-minded. Weather (thunderstorms,
hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, high waves, currents, etc.) bad luck,
pirates, explosive cargoes, incompetent navigators, and other natural and human
causes are favorites among skeptical investigators.
There are some skeptics who argue that the facts do not support the legend, that
there is no mystery to be solved, and nothing that needs explaining.The number
of wrecks in this area is not extraordinary, given its size, location and the
amount of traffic it receives. Many of the ships and planes that have been
identified as having disappeared mysteriously in the Bermuda Triangle were not
in the Bermuda Triangle at all. Investigations to date have not produced
scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances.
Thus, any explanation, including so-called scientific ones in terms of methane
gas being released from the ocean floor, magnetic disturbances, etc., are not
needed. The real mystery is how the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery at all.
The modern legend of the Bermuda Triangle began soon after five Navy planes
[Flight 19] vanished on a training mission during a severe storm in 1945. The
most logical theory as to why they vanished is that lead pilot Lt. Charles
Taylor’s compass failed. The trainees' planes were not equipped with working
navigational instruments. The group was disoriented and simply, though
tragically, ran out of fuel. No mysterious forces were likely to have been
involved other than the mysterious force of gravity on planes with no fuel. It
is true that one of the rescue planes blew up shortly after take-off, but this
was likely due to a faulty gas tank rather than to any mysterious forces.
Over the years there have been dozens of articles, books, and television
programs promoting the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. In his study of this
material, Larry Kushe found that few did any investigation into the mystery.
Rather, they passed on the speculations of their predecessors as if they were
passing on the mantle of truth. Of the many uncritical accounts of the mystery
of the Bermuda Triangle, perhaps no one has done more to create this myth than
Charles Berlitz, who had a bestseller on the subject in 1974. After examining
the 400+ page official report of the Navy Board of Investigation of the
disappearance of the Navy planes in 1945, Kushe found that the Board wasn't
baffled at all by the incident and did not mention alleged radio transmissions
cited by Berlitz in his book. According to Kushe, what isn't misinterpreted by
Berlitz is fabricated. Kushe writes: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were
red, the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty." (Berlitz,
by the way, did not invent the name; that was done by Vincent Gaddis in "The
Deadly Bermuda Triangle," which appeared in the February, 1964, issue of Argosy,
a magazine devoted to fiction.)
In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of
communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to
uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in
the Atlantic.
From India, Madras
Friends, the bermuda triangle mystery is not a mystery anymore. It has been solved ages ago. Please read this,
Bermuda Triangle mystery solved? It's a load of gas - www.theage.com.au
Mystery behind BERMUDA TRIANGLE!!? - Yahoo! Answers India
~Shikha
From India, Mumbai
Bermuda Triangle mystery solved? It's a load of gas - www.theage.com.au
Mystery behind BERMUDA TRIANGLE!!? - Yahoo! Answers India
~Shikha
From India, Mumbai
The Devil's Sea, also called the Formosa Triangle, is located off the coast of Japan in a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 110 miles south of Tokyo. Like the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea doesn't appear on any official maps, but the name is used by Japanese fishermen. The area is known for strange disappearances of ships and planes - at least by those in the United States.
Another myth is that, like the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea is the only other area where a compass points to true north rather than magnetic north (more about this later).
One popular theory is that volcanic activity around the area, particularly an underwater volcano, could be responsible for the disappearances.
From India, Madras
Another myth is that, like the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea is the only other area where a compass points to true north rather than magnetic north (more about this later).
One popular theory is that volcanic activity around the area, particularly an underwater volcano, could be responsible for the disappearances.
From India, Madras
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