Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle is known to be a triangular area bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the extremities of Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Legend says that many people, boats and planes have disappeared in a mysterious way surrounding. Its size varies from 500,000 sq. miles to three times more depending on the author’s imagination. As some people say, the mystery is known to date since Columbus times. Even so, estimates vary between 200 and 1000 incidents in the last 500 years. Howard Rosenberg says that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard has answered over 8000 requests for assistance in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 aircraft sank in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century.
Many theories have been given about Bermuda Triangle to explain the extraordinary mystery of the disappearance of these vessels and aircraft. Evil aliens, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil men with other weird technologies are the favorites among writers of fiction prose. Strange magnetic fields are the favorite explanations of technical minds. Weather conditions such as hurricanes, tsunamis or earthquakes and many other natural causes are the explanations given by skeptical investigators.
There are skeptic persons who say that the facts in the Bermuda Triangle don’t confirm the legend, that there is no mystery that needs solving, and nothing to be explained. Number of wrecks in the area is not huge considering the size, location and traffic in the area. Many of the ships and planes that have been identified as missing in the Bermuda Triangle were not there at all. Investigations have not shown yet any scientific evidence of the existence of an unusual phenomenon involved in disappearances.
The modern legend of this place appeared shortly after five military aircraft have disappeared on a mission during an awful storm in 1945. The most logical explanation for this disappearance is that the Charles Taylor pilot compass has been damaged. Training planes were not equipped with navigation tools that should have worked well. The group was disoriented and simply ran out of fuel. No mysterious forces were involved except the mysterious effect of gravity forces on the aircraft without fuel.
So, the Bermuda Triangle mystery has become a real one just because of the mass-media who has passed without investigating speculation related to something mysterious that is happening in the Atlantic Ocean.
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