THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

You won't find it on any official map and you won't know when you cross the line, but according to some people, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place where dozen of ships, planes and people have disappeared with no good explanation. Since a magazine first coined the phrase "Bermuda Triangle" in 1964, the mystery has continued to attract attention. When you dig deeper into most cases, though, they're much less mysterious. Either they were never in the area to begin with, they were actually found, or there's a reasonable explanation for their disappearance.

Many think of the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, as an "imaginary" area. The U. S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle and does not maintain an official file on it. However, within this imaginary area, many real vessels and the people aboard them have seemingly disappeared without explanation.

The Bermuda Triangle is located off the Southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, with its apexes in the vicinities of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. It covers roughly 500,000 square miles.

The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the "Isle of Devils." Treacherous reefs that have ensnared ships sailing too close to its shores surround Bermuda, and there are hundreds of shipwrecks in the waters that surround it.

Over the past 100 years, the Bermuda Triangle has seen what some say is a significant and inordinately high number of unexplained disappearances of planes, ships and people. Some reports say that as many as 100 ships and planes have been reported missing in the area and more than 1,000 lives have been lost. The U.S. Coast Guard, however, maintains that the area does not have an unusual number of incidents.

In almost every account of the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, you'll see reference to the fact that it is one of only two places on Earth (the other being the Devil's Sea off the coast of Japan) where a compass points to true north rather than magnetic north. Theorists say that this causes
compasses to malfunction and ships and planes to get off-course.

If one can visualize a glass of beer with foam, one realizes one can float a toothpick on the beer but not on the foam(try it!) As this gas was ex-pelled, ships would no longer be buoyant and would sink below sea level and be “swallowed up.” This “burping effect” of the sea floor would create what have been called “Neutercanes” by the late Martin Caidin in his book “”Ghosts of the Air.” These“neutercanes” were described as freak storms of violent intensity that covered a relatively small area. The eruptive storms usually are 5-50 miles in diameter and rampage from minutes to an hour. They tear apart the ocean surface. Calm waves become huge swells 20-40 feet high and they spawn waterspouts and tornado like winds.Other freak natural phenomenon found in the Triangle are “eddies” or underwater tornadoes similar to air tornadoes on the surface. They are generated by the changing currents of the Gulf Stream.

Recently, scientists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated in water tanks using ship models the swallowing effect of ships unable to remain buoyant on giant gas bubbles causing them to sink below the surface. These experiments are available on film from the History Channel and the University of Michigan. The Bermuda Triangle? Now you know some of it’s secrets all of natural phenomenon.

Eruption of under seas volcanoreleases bubbles of CO2 gas..A toothpick cannot float on beer foam nor a ship can float on gas.Movement of magnetic plates in the triangle releases gases and surface vessels sink.
Poor utilization of radio frequencies noted.