The Bermuda Triangle is known all over the world as one of the most mysterious places on the planet. This is an area of the ocean where planes and ships disappear without a trace and no one knows for sure why this happens so often there! People have been observing mysterious disappearances for many years. Today, there are a huge number of theories regarding the cause of what is happening. Some blame extraterrestrials, others believe that the natural factor is to blame for everything, and someone says: "The Bermuda Triangle is a myth."
The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by a triangle with peaks in Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.
This area is very difficult to navigate, there are many shoals, cyclones and storms often occur.
Some researchers claim that one of the most anomalous zones on the planet is getting bigger, its borders are growing.
Who was the first to discover the Triangle?
Christopher Columbus is considered to be the first discoverer of the Bermuda Triangle.
The famous navigator told about unusual events during one of the sea voyages that took place in 1492.
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The logbook records mentioned strange floating lights moving up and down that the crew saw in the area and strange compass readings reported by other mariners. And so, the legend of the "Triangle" was born …
For the first time about "mysterious disappearances" in the Bermuda Triangle were reported in Fate magazine in the early 1950s. George Sand. Later, in the 60s, Vincent Gaddis gave it a slightly larger name: "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle".
How many disappearances were there?
The total number of disappearances in this area is not entirely clear for several reasons. First, no one knows how many ships or planes could have gone missing before the Bermuda Triangle became a phenomenon. In addition, since the boundaries of the Triangle are constantly changing, the number of incidents in it also changes.
According to experts, over the past hundred years, about 75 aircraft and almost 100 ships have disappeared in the area.
What was the first major disappearance in the Triangle?
USS Pickering is a ship that disappeared without a trace in September 1800 along with an onboard crew of 90 people.
The most famous disappearance in the Triangle
Probably most famous was the disappearance of the American ship Cyclops in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918. In March 1918, the ship disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda area. Then 306 people (crew members and passengers) were missing. There were suggestions that the ship was sunk by a German submarine, but Germany denied this information.
According to another version, the ship sank in an unexpected storm, but the real reason for the disappearance of the Cyclops has not been established.
The ship departed from Brazil and was last seen in the Barbados area, where it made an unscheduled stop due to overload, although Rio de Janeiro reported that loading was proceeding as expected and that no alarms were sent by the crew. Despite careful searches, no traces, no wreckage, no bodies were found.
In addition to ships in the anomalous zone, many aircraft were missing. One of the well-known emergencies was the disappearance of a link of 5 Avenger torpedo bombers, which made a training flight on December 5, 1945, which ended in the loss of all 5 aircraft under unclear circumstances, as well as the PBM-5 Martin Mariner rescue seaplane sent to search for them. . 5 planes disappeared without a trace along with their crew on a clear day. There were several versions of what happened. The human factor was named official.
It may seem that ships and airplanes are the only thing that can disappear in this zone of the ocean, nevertheless, submarines also disappeared here. So in 1968 the USS Scorpion submarine sank together with 99 crew members and the cause of the ship's death has not yet been established.
Versions of accidents and mysterious disappearances
One of the biggest mysteries of the Triangle is that ship and aircraft wreckage is rarely found. There are several theories about why it is so difficult to find the wreckage. One of them says that the Gulf Stream "throws away" the remains of the ships, so that they cannot be found where they sink. Another is that the area is riddled with deep depressions in which debris accumulates.
In the area of the Bermuda Triangle, several cases of the appearance of ghost ships were also recorded, when the missing ships appeared intact, but there were not enough people on board.
One of the most famous ghost ships discovered 4 weeks after disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle is Maria Celeste. When the ship was found, it was abandoned by the crew, not a single person, neither living nor dead, was on board. This gave rise to many versions in attempts to explain the cause of what happened.
One of the many theories about the Bermuda Triangle boils down to the presence of large amounts of methane gas in the region. This theory believes that huge methane bubbles burst onto the surface of the waters. As a result of such a gas eruption, ships sink and planes explode in the air above the place where methane came out from under the water column. These eruptions can be triggered by landslides or other activity on the ocean floor and may be one of the most scientific explanations for the mystery of the Triangle, thetravel.com writes.
Another natural phenomenon that may contribute to disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is the Sargasso Sea. It is an area in the Bermuda Triangle that is surrounded on all sides by streams of water, creating a central area that is extremely calm. In this zone, ships "get stuck" and lose their course. In fact, the water in this area is slowly rotating clockwise, which can contribute to disruption to navigation systems.
Another version, according to some researchers-ufologists, is that ships and planes, or just their crews, are abducted by aliens.
There is also a popular supernatural explanation for the Triangle that it is actually a time portal and that the ships do not disappear but leave at a different point in time.
Despite the existence of many theories about the Bermuda Triangle, the Coast Guard has its own opinion regarding this area. For the most part, they claim that absolutely nothing is happening here! But conspiracy theorists argue that this is nothing more than a cover-up.