Bermuda Triangle: An Introduction…
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The Bermuda Triangle is an area that is roughly surrounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. No one keeps statistics, but during the last century, many ships and planes have just vanished without any evidence around this triangle.
There have been many unusual incidents that have been happening in the area that have been noted in the past. Christopher Columbus had written about some bizarre compass bearings in the area.
This region got its name in August 1964, when Vincent Gaddis coined the term Bermuda Triangle in a cover story for Argosy magazine about the disappearance of Flight 19.
After the appearance of this story in the magazine, there have been many theories that have been propounded to explain what’s happening there.
The disappearances that happened were attributed to huge sea monsters, giant squid, or extra-terrestrials. There have also been theories about Alien abductions, ocean flatulence where the ocean suddenly gives out huge quantities of trapped methane.
“The region is highly traveled and has been a busy crossroads since the early days of European exploration,” said John Reilly, a historian with the U.S. Naval Historical Foundation. “To say quite a few ships and airplanes have gone down there is like saying there are an awful lot of car accidents on the New Jersey Turnpike—surprise, surprise.”
Lieutenant A. L. Russell, in the U.S. Coast Guard’s official response to Bermuda Triangle inquiries, writes: “It has been our experience that the combined forces of nature and the unpredictability of mankind outdo science-fiction stories many times each year.”
Graveyard of the Atlantic
The Bermuda Triangle region has some unusual features. It is one of the only two places on Earth that has been nicknamed as the Devil’s Sea.This is home to some of the deepest underwater trenches in the world; that could settle in a watery grave miles much below the surface of the ocean.
The sea floor around the Bermuda Triangle is around 19,000 feet (5,791 meters) down; near its southern tip, while around the Puerto Rico the trench dips to around 27,500 (8,229 meters) feet below sea level.
The weather
“The biggest issues in that area normally are hurricanes, but it’s not particularly a spawning area for storms,” said Dave Feit, chief of the marine forecast branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Prediction Center.However, the Gulf Stream travels along the western edge of the triangle and could be a factor.
The Gulf Stream is like a 40- to 50-mile-wide (64- to 80-kilometer-wide) river within the ocean that circulates in the North Atlantic Ocean. The warm water and two- to four-knot currents can create weather patterns that remain channeled within it.
“If you have the right atmospheric conditions, you could get quite unexpectedly high waves,” said Feit. “If wave heights are eight feet outside of the Gulf Stream, they could be two or even three times higher within it. Sailors can sometimes identify the Gulf Stream by the clouds and thunderstorms over it.”
The Coast Guard also say that the Caribbean-Atlantic storms are unpredictable and can yield waterspouts that can be disastrous for pilots and mariners.
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