Bermuda Triangle: A Myth Or A Scientific Illusion

Bermuda triangle has been one of the biggest mysteries that have shocked everyone across the globe. It is also well known as the devil’s triangle. This is one of those unexplained mysteries that shook the world during the 20^th century. So what is so mysterious about this place? People still don’t know what to believe and whom to look out for answers. Well you can get all your questions answered here.

Bermuda triangle is actually not a place; rather it is a triangular part enclosed within three vertices; Miami, Florida peninsula; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. This place actually bragged so much suspicion after the incident of flight 19 where five TBF Avengers were lost along with 14 airmen. This suspicion in fact grew after the back to back incidents where more flight went missing. Even a rescue team that went in search for the flight 19 was lost at mid sea. Later in 1948: December 28, Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with three crew and 36 passengers, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. What really happened here is still a mystery unfolded.

Scientists from across the globe have been studying these unexplained mysteries for quite a while now and they have come up with a number of answers. The problem with flight 19 has been discovered to be the mental fatigue and trauma of the pilots who chose wrong directions. The trainer Charles Taylor, mislead his trainees into the wrong directions. The last conversation that the officials in the control room heard was about the diversion of the flights path to go west. But the flight 19’s head Taylor did not want to take the risk. But the trainees were right. If they had gone west they would have seen land pretty soon.

The Proof of flight 19 was pretty much clear, unfortunately no one could ever find any glimpses of the wreck nor could they find the remains of flight 19 anywhere. Even if they could find flight 19, I really doubt if they can explain about the series of unexplained mysteries that happened after the disappearance of flight 19.

(With reference to wikipedia)

Aircraft incidents

1945: December 5, Flight 19 (five TBF Avengers) lost with 14 airmen, and later the same day PBM Mariner BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while searching for Flight 19.

1948: January 30, Avro Tudor G-AHNP Star Tiger lost with six crew and 25 passengers, en route from Santa Maria Airport in the Azores to Kindley Field, Bermuda.

1948: December 28, Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with three crew and 36 passengers, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.

1949: January 17, Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel lost with seven crew and 13 passengers, en route from Kindley Field, Bermuda, to Kingston Airport, Jamaica.

1965: December 6, Private Cessna lost with pilot and one passenger, en route from Ft. Lauderdale to Grand Bahamas Island.

Incidents at sea

1918: USS Cyclops, collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with all 309 crew and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland.

1921: January 31, Carroll A. Deering, five-masted schooner, Captain W. B. Wormell, found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1925: 1 December, SS Cotopaxi, having departed Charleston, South Carolina two days earlier bound for Havana, Cuba, radioed a distress call reporting that the ship was sinking. She was officially listed as overdue on 31 December.

1941: USS Proteus (AC-9), lost with all 58 persons on board in heavy seas, having departed St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands with a cargo of bauxite on 23 November. The following month, her sister ship USS Nereus (AC-10) was lost with all 61 persons on board, having also departed St. Thomas with a cargo of bauxite, on 10 December. According to research by Rear Admiral George van Deurs, USN, who was familiar with this type of ship from their service in the USN, the acidic coal cargo would seriously erode the longitudinal support beams, making these aging and poorly-constructed colliers extremely vulnerable to breaking up in heavy seas.

1963: SS Marine Sulphur Queen, lost with all 39 crewmen, having departed Beaumont, Texas, on 2 February with a cargo of 15,260 tons of sulphur. She was last heard from on 4 February, when she was in rough, nearly-following seas of 16 feet, with northerly winds of 25-46 knots, and listed as missing two days later. The Coast Guard subsequently determined that the ship was unsafe and not seaworthy, and never should have sailed. The final report suggested four causes of the disaster, all due to poor design and maintenance of the ship.

Incidents on land

1969: Great Isaac Lighthouse (Bimini, Bahamas) - its two keepers disappeared and were never found.

(With reference to wikipedia)

So what is actually happening? Is this something related to UFO’s, Extra-terrestrial Beings or Some unknown internal Phenomena? Well science is just too young to understand these unexplained mysteries I guess.