What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle

 People have been trying to solve the “mystery” of the Bermuda Triangle for years. Here’s what we know (and don’t know) about the Bermuda Triangle.

What is known about the Bermuda Triangle:

• The Bermuda Triangle is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean (roughly) bounded by the southeastern coast of the U.S., Bermuda, and the islands of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico).
• The exact boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle are not universally agreed upon. Approximations of the total area range between 500,000 and 1,510,000 square miles (1,300,000 and 3,900,000 square kilometers). By all approximations, the region has a vaguely triangular shape.
• The Bermuda Triangle does not appear on any world maps, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official region of the Atlantic Ocean.
• Although reports of unexplained occurrences in the region date to the mid-19th century, the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” didn’t come into use until 1964. The phrase first appeared in print in a pulp magazine article by Vincent Gaddis, who used the phrase to describe a triangular region “that has destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace.”
• Despite its reputation, the Bermuda Triangle does not have a high incidence of disappearances. Disappearances do not occur with greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other comparable region of the Atlantic Ocean.
• At least two incidents in the region involved U.S. military craft. In March 1918 the collier USS Cyclops, en route to Baltimore, Maryland, from Brazil, disappeared inside the Bermuda Triangle. No explanation was given for its disappearance, and no wreckage was found. Some 27 years later, a squadron of bombers (collectively known as Flight 19) under American Lieut. Charles Carroll Taylor disappeared in the airspace above the Bermuda Triangle. As in the Cyclops incident, no explanation was given and no wreckage was found.
• Charles Berlitz popularized the legend of the Bermuda Triangle in his best-selling book The Bermuda Triangle (1974). In the book, Berlitz claimed that the fabled lost island of Atlantis was involved in the disappearances.
• In 2013 the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conducted an exhaustive study of maritime shipping lanes and determined that the Bermuda Triangle is not one of the world’s 10 most dangerous bodies of water for shipping.
• The Bermuda Triangle sustains heavy daily traffic, both by sea and by air.
• The Bermuda Triangle is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world.
• The agonic line sometimes passes through the Bermuda Triangle, including a period in the early 20th century. The agonic line is a place on Earth’s surface where true north and magnetic north align, and there is no need to account for magnetic declination on a compass.
• The Bermuda Triangle is subject to frequent tropical storms and hurricanes.
• The Gulf Stream—a strong ocean current known to cause sharp changes in local weather—passes through the Bermuda Triangle.
• The deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, the Milwaukee Depth, is located in the Bermuda Triangle. The Puerto Rico Trench reaches a depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 meters) at the Milwaukee Depth.

What is not known about the Bermuda Triangle:

• The exact number of ships and airplanes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle is not known. The most common estimate is about 50 ships and 20 airplanes.
• The wreckage of many ships and airplanes reported missing in the region has not been recovered.
• It is not known whether disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle have been the result of human error or weather phenomena.

Top Ten Mysteries of Bermuda Triangle

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is one of the most loved mysteries of the world. People have tried to bring out several theories in an attempt to solve this mystery that has intrigued man for years.The Bermuda triangle is also known as devils triangle.Bermuda triangle is situated near west part of Atlantic ocean where number of aircrafts and ships missed here. Bermuda triangle area varying from 1,300,000 to 3,900,000 km2.

Here are the top ten mysteries of Bermuda Triangle :-

1) Large amount of methane gas is known to exist below the ocean floor trapped in the sediments. If such gas finds its way out and starts rising through the water, it can significantly reduce the density of water in that area. And ships passing over that area can sink in no time.

2) Comet section : One section of the race believe that a comment crashed into earth some 12,000 years ago. The place where it landed? its today Bermuda triangle. Well the comet crashed into the sea, the impact created a deep trench, one of the deepest one in the world. Its 10,000 ft below sea-level. Now as this depth is well deep, we have no proof about the supposed crash. This slippery comet exudes some extra-territorial radiations that disrupt compasses and other navigational tools and even interfere with an aircraft engine and eventually suck in the planes and ships and also humans. It would be really a breakthrough when we find a little proof about it. So now without any facts, its a make-believe belief that ancient alien comet is really the culprit here.

3) Waves and weather change fast:  The triangle is a part of this region and hence it faces intense severe storms as warm and cold air masses collide over the surface. The hurricane like occurrences are known to pull in flying objects. They can move at mighty velocity of 5.6 miles per hour, and it carries with it, whatever is unfortunate enough to comes in its way. This 40 to 50 miles wide areas is like a river in the sea.

4) The Presence of Pirates: Although this mystery cannot be totally ruled out, it fails to explain the reason for the disappearance of the aircraft. According to this theory, the reason why so many ships disappeared is because of pirates who are especially active in this part of the Atlantic. Piracy has been the reason behind the destruction and disappearance of many a large vessel in the past, in different parts of the world.

mysteries of Bermuda traiangle

5) Many people believe that alien activity is the cause behind the disappearance of so many vessels and aircraft.

6) Another mystery behind this is the strong magnetic field.This is because it is one of the two places on earth where the geographic north and magnetic north coincide.Due to this, electromagnetic storms originating below the earth’s surface rise to the atmosphere and leave a fog behind. so many people vanishing to thin air.

7) Some believe that the mythical lost continent of Atlantis once lay deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle. The Bahamas Banks were the last part of Atlantis to sink.

8) Five US Navy planes disappeared in the triangle area in 1945

9) The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918. There was not even a single clue about their disappearance.

10) Sargasso Sea is a strange area that has no shores and bounded only by water currents on all sides. Many ships passing through it have been stranded and made motionless.