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THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE A MYSTERY OF THE OCEAN




Hugh Corrigan

 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

Ever since man started to explore outer space we have thought of Earth as a place which has no more mysteries for us to explain. But there is one part of the Western Atlantic ocean that has a very strange history. It lies between Florida and Bermuda. In this area, over 100 ships and planes have vanished since 1945! "The Hoodoo Sea", "the Graveyard of the Atlantic" and "the Devil's Triangle" - this area has many names, but it is best known as "the Bermuda Triangle"...

The three points of the triangle known as "the Bermuda Triangle" are Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. From 1945 until the present day over 1,000 lives have been lost in this area without trace - no bodies have ever been found!

The most remarkable loss was a group of six US Navy' planes in 1945. Five of these were on a training flight from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station when they seemed to lose their way and simply disappear. The sixth one was one of the rescue planes which were sent to look for them! It was a large plane with a crew of thirteen men. Despite an intensive sea search of the area no wreckage or life rafts were found and no oil slicks were seen. A Naval Board of Inquiry investigated all the evidence but could not find an explanation for what had happened to the planes. One of the members of the Board said that they "were not able to make even a good guess as to what happened."

Many small boats and light aircraft have vanished in this area. But so have large ships. One of these was the Marine Sculpture Queen which was 150 metres long. Another was the U.S.S. Cyclops which disappeared along with all the 309 people she was carrying.

What makes these losses even more mysterious is the fact that hardly any S.O.S. signals are ever received from the ships and boats which disappear. Also, these things happen in good weather and without warning. Ships just seem to vanish into thin air. This fact has led some people to suggest all sorts of strange explanations.

More reasonable people say that the large number of losses in this area can be explained more simply. They say that the extreme weather conditions which occur in this part of the world are the reason why so many ships and planes disappear in this area. For instance huge freak waves can form quite quickly and these can crush a ship before it has time to escape. Also waterspouts are found in this area. These are similar to cyclones but because they are over the ocean they form a great column of water which can be over 60 metres high. They can be seen easily during the day but at night they could destroy a small ship or plane.

Some people point out that the Bermuda Triangle is one of the two places on earth where a magnetic compass does not point towards magnetic north and that because of this navigators often find themselves off course and in danger.

Some people even say that the Bermuda Triangle does not exist and that all the accidents that have happened there are simply coincidence. What do you think of these explanations? Do they solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?

 


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