Bermuda triangle

Imagine going to a section and just disappearing without knowing anything. Also, not knowing to anyone. It means just disappearing and nothing. It seems like a Doremon gadget but it is not so. There is one section or an area where this actually happens and I was not joking! The place with such mysterious characteristics is known as the Bermuda Triangle. Let’s learn something about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle below. 

The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. But although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-travelled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident. 

History of Bermuda Triangle

Reports of strange happenings in the Bermuda Triangle date all the way back to Christopher Columbus’s first trip to the New World.  Columbus said that a huge, fiery flame crashed into the ocean one night while he was in the area. (The flame was probably a meteor.) He claimed that a strange light appeared in the distance later on during his voyage, and that his compass was behaving unusually.

The Bermuda Triangle didn’t get a lot of public attention until March of 1918, when a Navy cargo ship called the USS Cyclops sank in the area. The Cyclops had the ability to send out an SOS distress call to signal to other ships that it needed help, but the ship never sent out the message.

In 1941, two ships with the same design as the USS Cyclops also mysteriously disappeared very close to the same location. That’s pretty weird, isn’t it?

Theories about the Bermuda Triangle

There are many, many theories about what’s behind the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Some people think aliens are to blame. Others think it must be sea monsters, pirates, or a physical force scientists haven’t discovered yet.

However, investigations into the Bermuda Triangle have concluded that most of the disappearances and wrecks have logical explanations like bad weather or mistakes made by the captains and crews. Scientists have said the number of disappearances in the area is not unusually high, even though some of these disappearances have been very strange.

Some famous reported incidents involving the Bermuda Triangle include:

• The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918.

• The TBM Avenger bombers that went missing in 1945 during a training flight over the Atlantic.

• A Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that went missing in 1958, no trace of the aircraft was ever found.

• A yacht was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew.