Natural Phenomenon: The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle have always been the myth of all time. That what made me decided to take this topic.

The Bermuda Triangle is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean where ships and airplanes mysteriously disappear for no good reason. This region covers approximately 500.000 miles which located between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.

People started to use the name ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ since 1964, and have been one of the world’s biggest mystery since then. This name first appeared in an article by Gaddis in the magazine Argosy.

Timeline of Incidents:

1492: Strange lights seen by Christopher Colombus. (The first strange event)

1918: Cyclops.

1941: The Proteus and the Nereus.

1945: Flight 19. (The most famous event)

1954: Super constellation.

1962: Air Force KB-50 tanker.

1968: Scorpion

Some stories about the Bermuda triangle:

Ellen Austin: The Ellen Austin supposedly came across the derelict ship, placed on board with a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the story, the derelict disappeared.

USS Cyclops: USS Cyclops (AC-4) was one of four proteus-class colliers, build for The United States Navy several years before World War I. Named for the Cyclops, a primordial race of giants from Greek mythology, she was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. the loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace sometime after 4 March 1918 remains a single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat. The cause of the ship’s loss is unknown.

· Flight 19: the most famous disappearances is flight 19. On December 5^th 1945, flight 19 disappeared. It consisted of 5 torpedo bombers, each piloted by trained pilot. They were never seen again.

The Marie Celeste: on December 5^th, 1872, a ship was found abandoned. They had thought that the crew had just left in a hurry. The crew on the Marie Celeste were never heard from or seen ever again.

SS Marine Sulphur Queen: T2 tanker ship converted to carrying molten sulphur, noted for its disappearance in 1963 near the southern coast of Florida, taking the lives of 39 crewmen.

Douglas DC-3: On December 28^th, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people onboard was ever found.

THEORIES.

There are many theories made by many random people, including philosophers, scientists,captains, pilots, and many other people.

Ø In 1492, Christopher Colombus was on his famous journey, which would eventually lead him to West Indies. He noted that ship compass was acting strangely and was giving inaccurate readings in the Sargasso Sea, an one point he saw a frat hall oh fire shoot across the sky and crash into the sea.

Ø UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). They believe that the Bermuda Triangle is collecting station where aliens take our people, ships, planes, and other object back to their planet to study, or perhaps to save them from a holocaust.

Ø Some even believe that sea monsters supposedly sink the ships.

Ø Atlantis. Some people believe that the strange phenomena is caused by the lost city of Atlantis. The city was believed to be powered by crystals and it is thought that these crystals cause the strange disappearances.

Ø Another theory is about the physical forces, which draw everything that gets in its way.

Ø Time warps. This theory argues that in the Bermuda triangle occasionally creates a time hole, which takes planes or ships to travel into the past or the future.

Ø The Gas Theory. The Bermuda Triangle is located over a large oceanic trench. It is believed that this trench occasionally releases gas which lowers the density of the water. Because of this change, boats can no longer float.

Newest theory:

· 2018

Experts at the University of Southampton believe the mystery can be explained by a natural phenomenon known as “rogue waves.”

Appearing on Channel 5 documentary “The Bermuda Triangle Enigma,” the scientists use indoor simulators to re-create the monster water surges.

Rogue waves , which only last for a few minutes - were first observed by satellites in 1997 off the coast of South Africa. Some have even measured 30 meters (nearly 100ft) high. The research team built a model of the USS Cyclops, a huge vessel which went missing in the triangle in 1918 claiming 300 lives. And because of its sheer size and flat base, it does not take long before the model is overcome with water during the simulation. Dr. Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist, says that infamous area in the Atlantic can see three massive storms coming together from different directions, the perfect conditions for a rogue wave.

· 2016

A group of scientists believe they have the answer to the decades of sea tales surrounding the Bermuda Triangle. The new idea says this much-feared triangular region of the Atlantic ocean may be explained through strange “hexagonal clouds” creating “air-bombs”.

While looking at satellite images of coastal clouds above the North Atlantic Ocean, the meteorologists reportedly noted strange patterns of hexagonal gaps as large as 88 kilometers (55 miles) in the cloud formations, according to Science Channel. It just so happens, this bizarre phenomenon was found on the west tip of the Bermuda Triangle, as well as a precarious point in Europe's North Sea.

“These types of hexagonal shapes in the ocean are, in essence, air bombs," Dr Randy Cerveny, a meteorologist from Arizona State University, told the Science Channel’s What on Earth show. "They’re formed by what is called microbursts and they’re blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of the cloud and then hit the ocean and then create waves, sometimes massive in size..."

The scientists believe these “air bombs” could pump winds to move at over 273 kilometers (170 miles) per hour, which could account for the handful of reports of ships going missing in the area.

The whole mechanism of the “hexagonal cloud” theory, such as how or why they are formed, is not highlighted in their excerpt video. It’s also worth noting that there is not much in the way of hard evidence to state that the Bermuda Triangle is as ferocious as its reputation says.

But hey, it’s certainly better than ideas of it being the gateway to another alien dimension. See what you think of the video below.

… Even the controversial theory, which stated that the Bermuda Triangle doesn’t exist.

The area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda known as the Bermuda Triangle is the source of much mystery. Over the centuries, reports of ships and planes vanishing without a trace have haunted the public consciousness, leading the zone to be nicknamed "The Devil's Triangle." Suggested causes for these mysterious disappearances run the gamut from strange natural phenomena to underwater alien bases, but there's a more basic question to ask: Do more crafts really disappear in the Bermuda Triangle than in any similarly trafficked area? It turns out that the answer is no.

The Myth Doesn't Hold Up

In 1975, journalist Larry Kusche published the book "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery — Solved." In it, he reexamined as many Bermuda Triangle incidents from 1840 to 1973 as possible, including those in publications by other writers. One such writer was the man who might be considered the father of the legend, Charles Berlitz, who wrote The Bermuda Triangle in 1974. This was the first book to suggest that something strange was going on in the area. Kusche found that most of the writers' stories were just repeated from other publications without any fact-checking, and that Charles Berlitz may have been the worst offender: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red," Kusche wrote in a review of Berlitz's follow-up book, "the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty."

So what did Kusche find? In some cases, there's no record of the ship in question ever existing. In others, the ships and planes were real but their "mysterious disappearances" were during bad storms — storms that the writer usually failed to mention. Still other incidents took place far away from the area. This isn't to say there are no disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, but it's important to remember that the zone is a popular route for both ships and planes, so the odds are good that more crafts will sink or crash in that area than in a less trafficked one.

Craft Disappearance Theories

If the Bermuda Triangle really is the danger zone it's purported to be — and again, the evidence suggests it's not — there are plenty of rational reasons why aircraft and seaborne vessels would disappear over certain parts of the ocean. The most likely theories involve geography, not aliens or angry Atlantians. One explanation cites the fact that the ocean floor is relatively rich in methane, which can form a gas-ice-sediment mix under high pressure. If an underwater landslide occurs, this noxious mixture can burst out from the seafloor, entering the atmosphere and either intoxicating pilots or changing the density of the surrounding air and interfering with normal piloting.

These blasts have been known to damage offshore oil rigs, which means they could play a role in at least some of the more mysterious disappearances. It's not likely that scientists will be able to tell with much certainty until the ocean floor is mapped in greater detail. The latest map of the ocean floor took place in 2014. Despite the fact that it used advanced measurements of the Earth's gravity field, it still only has a resolution of 3 miles (5 kilometers) — much lower than what you would need to pinpoint the location of important geographical features or individual shipwrecks.