Perhaps the most famous mystical place in the world is the Bermuda Triangle, a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Florida and Pueroto Rico.
The name of the Bermuda Triangle has already become a household name and, of course, we all have repeatedly heard stories about the inexplicable and traceless disappearances of ships and planes in it, about the ghost ships found here, abandoned by the crew, about mysterious movements in time, instantaneous in space and many other creepy things.
There are also a great many explanations for all these phenomena - someone claims that aliens are hunting here, others believe that there are temporary or black holes in the Bermuda Triangle, others suggest that the fault is caused by cracks in space, and some even think that people are being kidnapped inhabitants of the vanished Atlantis!
At the same time, skeptics and scientists do not find anything mystical in the ill-fame of the triangle - it has been established that this area is very difficult to navigate, since there are many shoals here, and storms and cyclones often arise.
In 1502, a Spanish navigator Bermudez came across islands surrounded by dangerous shoals and reefs off the coast of Central America. He called them the Devil's Isles. And only a few decades later they began to be called Bermuda in honor of himself.
For many centuries, the area of Bermuda was recognized as dangerous among travelers, but it was only in the XX century that the area of Bermuda expanded so significantly.
It all began in 1950 when a correspondent for the Associated Press, one of the world's largest news agencies, wrote about mysterious disappearances in the area, which he called "the sea of the devil." The famous name appeared only 14 years later in the publication of Vincent Gaddis in one of the magazines about the unknown.
However, the real popularity of the triangle was brought by Charles Berlitz's book "The Bermuda Triangle" in 1974, which collected all the mysterious cases that occurred in this zone.
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At the same time, it was later established that some of the facts in the book were presented incorrectly, and other strange cases occurred generally outside the boundaries of that very triangle. But some argued that they wanted to hide the secret of these waters at any cost.
Modern history already has more than a hundred mysterious disappearances without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. This is an area with difficult weather conditions and very busy water and air traffic. Therefore, when ships suddenly disappear from the radar under good weather conditions, it is hard not to notice.
In 1945, the disappearance of a military squadron attracted increased attention to this anomalous zone. Five Avenger-class torpedo bombers with an experienced crew suddenly and without a trace disappeared during a normal flight in clear weather and over calm seas.
In radio communications, the pilots spoke about the failure of navigation equipment, complete disorientation and … panic “We do not know where the west is. Nothing works … Strange … We cannot determine the direction. Even the ocean looks different from usual!...
After the navigation equipment completely failed, the pilots tried to find land in the west for an hour and a half, then another hour in the east, but they did not find it. It's like an entire American state has disappeared. And when the crew saw the ground, they did not recognize it at all, and did not dare to land.
The last words of the pilots still cause a lot of controversy: “We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We do not know where we are, the water is green, not white."
The search for five planes or their wreckage turned out to be in vain, moreover, during the search, another of the planes disappeared - the seaplane "Martin Mariner".
Skeptics later put forward versions that the pilots were not experienced enough, that the pilots had lost their bearings, that the aircraft of this type were unreliable and could easily explode due to fuel leakage. This could have happened with one plane, but it is difficult to assume that five planes ignited spontaneously every second and therefore none of the pilots reported the crash.
In 1963, the 130 m long cargo ship Marine Sulfur Queen disappeared without a trace. The vessel disappeared without distress signals and its remains were not found. The exact location of the vessel at the time of the disappearance is unknown, but its course gave grounds to speak of the disappearance of the Marine Sulfur Queen in the Bermuda Triangle.
The disasters that have taken place and are happening in the Bermuda Triangle area have become, on the one hand, an object of close public scrutiny, and on the other hand, an opportunity for speculation and cheap sensations. Many scientific theories have been created that should explain the unexpected disorientation of people and equipment failure in the area. But until scientists have come to a consensus, many continue to see the presence of mysticism in the mysterious disappearances.
Underwater Bermuda Triangle
What is hidden in the Bermuda Triangle under water? The bottom relief in this area is interesting and diverse, although it is nothing ordinary and has been studied quite well, since some time ago various studies and drilling were carried out here in order to find oil and other minerals.
Scientists have determined that the Bermuda Triangle or the lost Atlantis contains mainly sedimentary rocks on the ocean floor, the layer thickness of which is from 1 to 2 km, and it itself looks like this:
Deep-water plains of oceanic basins - 35%;
Shelf with shallows - 25%;
Slope and foot of the mainland - 18%;
Plateau - 15%;
Deep ocean trenches - 5% (the deepest places of the Atlantic Ocean are located here, as well as its maximum depth - 8742 m, recorded in the Puerto Rican trough);
Deep straits - 2%;
Seamounts - 0.3% (there are six of them in total).
Theories of the origin of the anomalous zone
There is a consensus about how the Bermuda Triangle, frightening to many sailors and pilots, came about as a result of geological activity. As you can see, there is nothing mysterious and mysterious about the appearance of this place. The researchers put forward other opinions, but all of them were criticized by scientists.
If we take into account the circumstance due to which over the past 100 years about half a thousand aircraft and ships have disappeared in the zone of anomalous phenomena, we can say that something strange is still in the Bermuda Triangle. This is what causes the death of people, sea and air transport.
Let's pay attention to some theories that are an attempt to explain what happens in the anomalous zone:
the cause of catastrophes is giant wandering waves, the height of which is 30 meters;
infrasonic waves are generated in the ocean, as a result of which the crew panic - people rush into the water;
in the mystical area there are so-called "blue holes", which are the remains of tunnels through which you can move in time;
gigantic gas bubbles filled with methane are formed in the ocean (getting into such a bubble, sea and air transport begins to go to the bottom, since the density of air or water inside the formed bubble is very low);
the mystical water area - the place where the lost city of Atlantis was once located (according to legend, crystals were the sources of its energy: now they send waves from the bottom of the ocean that disable the navigation equipment of aircraft and ships);
a sharp change in weather conditions in the water area occurs due to the presence there of a powerful warm Gulf Stream;
the area of mystical incidents - the place through which aliens make their way to our Earth;
the impossibility of finding the remains of air and sea transport in distress is due to the peculiarities of the relief that is characteristic of the bottom of the water area - it is confusing and mysterious;
air and sea transport is disappearing due to the fact that it is subjected to deliberate attacks in the form of piracy and unofficial hostilities;
in the area of the water area, space curvature occurs, there is a magnetic fog.