The mystery of Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a
triangular area in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is also referred to as the
Devil’s triangle. It is an ocean between Miami (Florida), San Juan (Puerto
Rico) and Bermuda, which are the three points. It is said that more than thousand
air craft’s and ships that crossed this particular area got vanished in thin
air under mysterious circumstances over the past five centuries and the same
still continues to happen.
Why is it
called Bermuda Triangle?
Previously it was supposed to be
called as Florida triangle, but Florida objected as they were afraid they might
lose tourists due to it. The same way Puerto Rico also said a big No and so
they named it after Bermuda.
Bermuda Triangle became very
popular especially by the writers who wrote books on it. Also the incidents
that happened there could not be ignored to make it more the popular.
Some of the incidents that
happened were that of a cargo ship that went missing in 1918, a flight that
went missing in December 1945, and they never returned. Nobody knows what
happened to them.
There are various hypothesis to
solve this mystery but they are all just assumptions and nobody knows for sure
what the actual reason is.
Methane gas: It is said that there is a large amount
methane gas trapped in that part of the ocean and as methane hydrates, the
flight that pass through this area catch fire and gets destroyed completely
when there is a gas blow out. The ships that sail through can get sunk due to
the lower water density because of the gas eruption.
Electronic Fog: An
electronic fog is a cloud of electromagnetic fields that forms over the ocean
and this thick cloud of fog could appear from nowhere and swallow the ship or
the airplane. As it keeps moving along with the ship or aircraft, gradually the
instrument stops working and they vanish without any trace. In 1979, John
Hutchison proved in his lab in Vancouver that with electromagnetic fields of
different wavelengths, strange things like water rotation and swirling in a
cup, metal and wooden objects rising and floating, at times objects start to
fly at high speeds, etc. If a scientist can do this in his house, which he used
as a lab, imagine how incredibly devastating the nature’s creation would be.
Gulf Stream: This is
an ocean current which has its origin in the Gulf of Mexico which passes
through the Bermuda Triangle via Florida. This current looks like a river
inside the ocean which can carry objects that are sailing or flying. There is
one very interesting incident of a cabin cruiser ship named
"Witchcraft" which reported engine fault on December 22, 1967, near
the Miami area but when the coast guard team reached the spot there was nobody
and it could not be found at all.
Strange weather and Hurricanes: There are certain storms which form quickly and move away so fast that satellites cannot identify them at all. Such a storm or a Hurricane is capable of destroying the ships and airplanes completely. In 1502, a sinking of a ship called Francisco Bobadilla's Spanish ship was due to a Hurricane.
Apart from the above, there are
supernatural theories like aliens, UFOs, etc, but nobody knows for sure what is
happening in the Bermuda triangle.
The Bermuda triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found.
Although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearance occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area everyday without incident.