The Bermuda Triangle

 The Bermuda Triangle is also known as the Devil's Triangle. It's a region in the western part of North Atlantic Ocean where a significant number of ships and airplanes have mysteriously disappeared.

The Bermuda triangle vicinity is one of the most heavily traveled places in the world with ships constantly passing through it to reach the American, European and Caribbean lands. Commercial and private plants routinely fly over it.

Conspirators believe that paranormal activities or extraterrestrial beings have to be credited for the history of disappearances.

The first unusual appearance happened around September 17th, 1950. Several ships and airplanes were reported missing. Flight 19 being one of them. In an article written by American legion magazine the author informs that Flight 19 was recovered in April,1962. 

The flight leader was heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." The Navy board said that the plants "flew out to Mars."

Persons accepting the Bermuda Triangle as a real phenomenon have provided numerous explanations.

So, how do you explain this?

One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent

of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as

the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions. This is one of the paranormal explanations, Some persons have also given some natural explanation associated with the Triangle incidents.

● Compass variations - While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found. Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have known for centuries.

● Gulf stream - The Gulf Stream is a major surface current that originates from the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and, like a river, it can and does carry floating objects. A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.

● Human error - One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error/stubbornness. 

● Violent weather - Hurricanes are powerful storms that form in tropical waters and have historically cost thousands of lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.

● Methane hydrates - An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves.14 laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water; any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream.

Notable Incidents

Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 227 km, north for 117 km, and then back over a final 230 km leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance was attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.

One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.

Today, large passenger planes often fly through the Bermuda Triangle and none disappear. 

It has also been shown the number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the Bermuda Triangle is not larger, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.

Sometimes, when an event is hard to explain, it’s tempting to say it was caused by the paranormal or supernatural forces.

But if 1,000 aircraft fly through the Bermuda Triangle and we can explain what happened to 990 of them, should we say the other 10 were supernatural cases? No.

All we can say is we don’t know what happened for sure – and we should try to learn more. Usually when we learn more, the mystery around something fades.