Research Paper On Bermuda Triangle
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. For decades, the Atlantic Ocean’s famous Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships, planes, and people. More than 1000 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangle area over the past five centuries and continue to do so. And all these happen when it appears that there are no human errors, equipment failures or even natural disasters. Strangely, the ships and aircraft just disappear when everything seems to be okay. Many believe that Devil is at …show more content…
play here and therefore call the area also as Devil's Triangle. The facts however are quite far from what is generally known or believed to be true. There are many stories and myths created through pure imagination of writers who have used them like to draw publicity to their books. In many cases, the facts got unclear.
So where Bermuda Triangle is located and how large is the area? Is there a map?
Bermuda Triangle is located off the South-Eastern coast of the United States and in the Atlantic Ocean.
The three corners of the triangle are: Miami (Florida); San Juan (Puerto Rico); and Bermuda (the north-Atlantic island). Each side of the triangle is some 1000 miles long. But the area of the Bermuda triangle has different from one writer to the other. By the various definitions, it can be anywhere between half million to 1.5 million square miles.
The accidents have mostly taken place near the southern boundary of the triangle between Florida and Puerto Rico.
So the next question is why the name "Bermuda Triangle"?
At the time of coining the term, the first name that came up was "Miami Triangle". But Florida objected saying that they would lose visitors to Miami with such name as people would fear to come there. So the next name taken up was "Puerto Rico Triangle". Puerto Rico too raised objections. Then it was the turn for the 21 square mile small island Bermuda which forms the third corner of the triangle. And no one seems to have worried. Bermuda was then also known as the "Island of the Devils" which fitted to the triangle concept quite well and therefore the final name "Bermuda Triangle" was …show more content…
coined.
LOST PLANES & SHIPS IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Here are some of the most amazing stories of planes and ships that disappeared while crossing the triangle area. FLIGHT 19: five Avenger bomber planes of Flight-19 took off from the U.S Naval Base of Florida for a routine training session, but never returned.
PBM MARTIN MARINER: It was the same night of December 5, 1945 when the planes of Flight-19 went missing in the Bermuda Triangle area. When the hope for Flight-19 was quickly declining, two Martin Mariner planes were sent by US Navy to search them out. One came back, but strangely the other didn't.
TUDOR STAR TIGER: Star Tiger, a Tudor Mark-IV aircraft disappeared in Bermuda Triangle shortly before it was about to land at the Bermuda airport.
C-54 SKY MASTER: The C54, that took off from Bermuda on July 3, 1947 met with a huge STORM - a massive thunderstorm. And that would have surely caused the breakdown of the aircraft as reported by the investigation Board at Florida.
USS SCORPION: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a nuclear powered submarine of United States Navy that disappeared in Bermuda Triangle area in May 1968.
USS CYCLOPS: USS Cyclops was a massive transporter ship and supplied fuel to the American navy during the World War-I. The 522-foot Cyclops displaced 12,000 tons of water. Disappearance of the carrier ship U.S.S. Cyclops in Bermuda Triangle has been one of the greatest mysteries of the sea.
ELLEN AUSTIN: the Ellen Austin was an American schooner; a large multi-staffed ship considered over 1800 tons and was 210 feet long.
She used to work between London and New York over the Bermuda Triangle zone in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1881 during one of her London - New York trips, she met with another ship on the way which was moving in good speed. Strangely, the other ship had no one on the ship. In order to save this unnamed ship, the captain of the Ellen Austin sent some of his top crew on board this ship. When the crew arrived the ship, they in fact confirmed that there was not a single soul on board. The captain of Ellen Austin ordered the crew to guide the ship so that they could all sail together to New York. After two days, the two ships got separated by a huge sea storm. And when the storm subsided, the unnamed ship was gone and never seen
again.
FLIGHT 441: Flight 441 was a huge carrier that belonged to the US Navy. In military version, it was called R7V-1. The aircraft was one of the greatest successes of its time. It was famous that it could cross the Atlantic in 8 and half hours. On October 30, 1954, the flight 441 took off from the Patuxent River. There were 42 passengers, all naval officers and their families who were transported overseas. Like in many of the Bermuda Triangle incidences, initially there was regular communication received from the aircraft. And suddenly, it was all silent. The last transmission was received around 11:30p.m which was a regular report informing its location. And after that, Flight 441 simply disappeared. The disappearance of Flight 441 remains as one of the biggest mysteries of Bermuda Triangle. Not even a single clue till date has been gathered to cover any light on the cause.
FLIGHT DC-3: The flight DC-3 NC16002 disappeared when it was only 50 miles south of Florida and about to land in Miami. It disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle area with all its 28 passengers and 3 crew members.
POPULAR THEORIES SOLVING THE MYSTERY
There have been many research and explorations done to uncover the mystery. There is no single theory that can explain all the incidents of disappearances.
An expert on Bermuda Triangle claims that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle over the last century itself, and up to 1000 over the last 500 years. So how did the planes and ships disappear? What went wrong? There are many theories that try to explain the mystery of missing ships and planes in Bermuda Triangle. While some theories are close to what may have happened in reality, some are just gossips.
SARGASSO SEA & ITS MYSTERY
The Sargasso Sea is a strange and a unique creation of the nature. The sea area which is some 700 miles wide, 2000 miles long and located in the North Atlantic has no beach. It is bounded by ocean on all sides. In Northwest Atlantic there is a strange sea of quiet waters, not bounded by land, where there are mysterious disappearances of ships, planes and people. It's called the Sargasso sea because comparatively large amounts of seaweed (large algae growing in the sea or on rocks below the high-water mark) seen floating on the surface The Sargasso is surrounded by the cold North Atlantic, but the sea is warm, clear blue. Entire sea area with its mat like weeds slowly rotates clockwise. The rotation also depends on the surrounding weather conditions. Many ships were believed to have become completely motionless here and later found in poor (broken down) conditions without a soul on them.
METHANE GAS IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE
It is known that large amounts of Methane gas are found thousands of feet below the seafloor. If this gas gets released, water density in that area can reduce significantly and the water can no longer provide the toughness or hardness required to keep a ship afloat. Triangle area can cause the planes and ships to disappear in no time. Methane gas bubbles are formed on the sea floor and gradually they rise to the surface. These gas bubbles are formed below the ocean floor due to dying and decomposing sea organisms. Initially they are very small in size. As they come up, they keep growing in size. These gas bubbles become so big at times that they even get larger than size of a ship as they float right below the surface of the water. When a ship passes over it, the bubble bursts. And the vacuum inside the bubble completely press the ship taking it down into the bottom. Even planes flying overhead could catch fire during such a blowout.
COMPASS VARIATION & BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Compass variation has been one of the popular explanations for missing ships and planes in Bermuda Triangle. A compass actually points to the magnetic North, while the absolute geographic North (which is known as the North Pole) is located at Greenland. And these two are not the same location on the earth. They are away by about 1500 miles. Which means that the north where a compass points and the absolute geographic north which is the North Pole are different. So ships need to make adjustment for this difference to keep to the right direction. But in Bermuda Triangle, there is a narrow strip where both these North's become the same.
ELECTRONIC FOG IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE
One of the explanations of Bermuda Triangle disappearances is based on electronic fog. It is something like a grayish cloud of electromagnetic fields that get made above the ocean. Such electronic fog appears and completely engulfs a ship or an aircraft. The fog then keeps moving along with the ship or the plane. And soon, all the electronic systems and the instruments start going out of order. Nothing works correctly any longer. And finally the ship or the aircraft disappears without a hint.
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. For decades, the Atlantic Ocean’s famous Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships, planes, and people. More than 1000 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangle area over the past five centuries and continue to do so. And all these happen when it appears that there are no human errors, equipment failures or even natural disasters. Strangely, the ships and aircraft just disappear when everything seems to be okay. Many believe that Devil is at …show more content…
play here and therefore call the area also as Devil's Triangle. The facts however are quite far from what is generally known or believed to be true. There are many stories and myths created through pure imagination of writers who have used them like to draw publicity to their books. In many cases, the facts got unclear.
So where Bermuda Triangle is located and how large is the area? Is there a map?
Bermuda Triangle is located off the South-Eastern coast of the United States and in the Atlantic Ocean.
The three corners of the triangle are: Miami (Florida); San Juan (Puerto Rico); and Bermuda (the north-Atlantic island). Each side of the triangle is some 1000 miles long. But the area of the Bermuda triangle has different from one writer to the other. By the various definitions, it can be anywhere between half million to 1.5 million square miles.
The accidents have mostly taken place near the southern boundary of the triangle between Florida and Puerto Rico.
So the next question is why the name "Bermuda Triangle"?
At the time of coining the term, the first name that came up was "Miami Triangle". But Florida objected saying that they would lose visitors to Miami with such name as people would fear to come there. So the next name taken up was "Puerto Rico Triangle". Puerto Rico too raised objections. Then it was the turn for the 21 square mile small island Bermuda which forms the third corner of the triangle. And no one seems to have worried. Bermuda was then also known as the "Island of the Devils" which fitted to the triangle concept quite well and therefore the final name "Bermuda Triangle" was …show more content…
coined.
LOST PLANES & SHIPS IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Here are some of the most amazing stories of planes and ships that disappeared while crossing the triangle area. FLIGHT 19: five Avenger bomber planes of Flight-19 took off from the U.S Naval Base of Florida for a routine training session, but never returned.
PBM MARTIN MARINER: It was the same night of December 5, 1945 when the planes of Flight-19 went missing in the Bermuda Triangle area. When the hope for Flight-19 was quickly declining, two Martin Mariner planes were sent by US Navy to search them out. One came back, but strangely the other didn't.
TUDOR STAR TIGER: Star Tiger, a Tudor Mark-IV aircraft disappeared in Bermuda Triangle shortly before it was about to land at the Bermuda airport.
C-54 SKY MASTER: The C54, that took off from Bermuda on July 3, 1947 met with a huge STORM - a massive thunderstorm. And that would have surely caused the breakdown of the aircraft as reported by the investigation Board at Florida.
USS SCORPION: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a nuclear powered submarine of United States Navy that disappeared in Bermuda Triangle area in May 1968.
USS CYCLOPS: USS Cyclops was a massive transporter ship and supplied fuel to the American navy during the World War-I. The 522-foot Cyclops displaced 12,000 tons of water. Disappearance of the carrier ship U.S.S. Cyclops in Bermuda Triangle has been one of the greatest mysteries of the sea.
ELLEN AUSTIN: the Ellen Austin was an American schooner; a large multi-staffed ship considered over 1800 tons and was 210 feet long.
She used to work between London and New York over the Bermuda Triangle zone in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1881 during one of her London - New York trips, she met with another ship on the way which was moving in good speed. Strangely, the other ship had no one on the ship. In order to save this unnamed ship, the captain of the Ellen Austin sent some of his top crew on board this ship. When the crew arrived the ship, they in fact confirmed that there was not a single soul on board. The captain of Ellen Austin ordered the crew to guide the ship so that they could all sail together to New York. After two days, the two ships got separated by a huge sea storm. And when the storm subsided, the unnamed ship was gone and never seen
again.
FLIGHT 441: Flight 441 was a huge carrier that belonged to the US Navy. In military version, it was called R7V-1. The aircraft was one of the greatest successes of its time. It was famous that it could cross the Atlantic in 8 and half hours. On October 30, 1954, the flight 441 took off from the Patuxent River. There were 42 passengers, all naval officers and their families who were transported overseas. Like in many of the Bermuda Triangle incidences, initially there was regular communication received from the aircraft. And suddenly, it was all silent. The last transmission was received around 11:30p.m which was a regular report informing its location. And after that, Flight 441 simply disappeared. The disappearance of Flight 441 remains as one of the biggest mysteries of Bermuda Triangle. Not even a single clue till date has been gathered to cover any light on the cause.
FLIGHT DC-3: The flight DC-3 NC16002 disappeared when it was only 50 miles south of Florida and about to land in Miami. It disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle area with all its 28 passengers and 3 crew members.
POPULAR THEORIES SOLVING THE MYSTERY
There have been many research and explorations done to uncover the mystery. There is no single theory that can explain all the incidents of disappearances.
An expert on Bermuda Triangle claims that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle over the last century itself, and up to 1000 over the last 500 years. So how did the planes and ships disappear? What went wrong? There are many theories that try to explain the mystery of missing ships and planes in Bermuda Triangle. While some theories are close to what may have happened in reality, some are just gossips.
SARGASSO SEA & ITS MYSTERY
The Sargasso Sea is a strange and a unique creation of the nature. The sea area which is some 700 miles wide, 2000 miles long and located in the North Atlantic has no beach. It is bounded by ocean on all sides. In Northwest Atlantic there is a strange sea of quiet waters, not bounded by land, where there are mysterious disappearances of ships, planes and people. It's called the Sargasso sea because comparatively large amounts of seaweed (large algae growing in the sea or on rocks below the high-water mark) seen floating on the surface The Sargasso is surrounded by the cold North Atlantic, but the sea is warm, clear blue. Entire sea area with its mat like weeds slowly rotates clockwise. The rotation also depends on the surrounding weather conditions. Many ships were believed to have become completely motionless here and later found in poor (broken down) conditions without a soul on them.
METHANE GAS IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE
It is known that large amounts of Methane gas are found thousands of feet below the seafloor. If this gas gets released, water density in that area can reduce significantly and the water can no longer provide the toughness or hardness required to keep a ship afloat. Triangle area can cause the planes and ships to disappear in no time. Methane gas bubbles are formed on the sea floor and gradually they rise to the surface. These gas bubbles are formed below the ocean floor due to dying and decomposing sea organisms. Initially they are very small in size. As they come up, they keep growing in size. These gas bubbles become so big at times that they even get larger than size of a ship as they float right below the surface of the water. When a ship passes over it, the bubble bursts. And the vacuum inside the bubble completely press the ship taking it down into the bottom. Even planes flying overhead could catch fire during such a blowout.
COMPASS VARIATION & BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Compass variation has been one of the popular explanations for missing ships and planes in Bermuda Triangle. A compass actually points to the magnetic North, while the absolute geographic North (which is known as the North Pole) is located at Greenland. And these two are not the same location on the earth. They are away by about 1500 miles. Which means that the north where a compass points and the absolute geographic north which is the North Pole are different. So ships need to make adjustment for this difference to keep to the right direction. But in Bermuda Triangle, there is a narrow strip where both these North's become the same.
ELECTRONIC FOG IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE
One of the explanations of Bermuda Triangle disappearances is based on electronic fog. It is something like a grayish cloud of electromagnetic fields that get made above the ocean. Such electronic fog appears and completely engulfs a ship or an aircraft. The fog then keeps moving along with the ship or the plane. And soon, all the electronic systems and the instruments start going out of order. Nothing works correctly any longer. And finally the ship or the aircraft disappears without a hint.