BISNAR, BERTSON MARI Y.

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Bermuda triangle

Bermuda triangle is located in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is a triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean , with Bermuda, Miami Florida and San Juan Puerto Rico making up its approximate corners. It is also known as the Devils Triangle, because of the numerous ships and airplanes that reports have disappeared under mysterious circumstances inside the region. Some people have claimed that these disappearances fall beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature. Some of these disappearances have been attributed to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings by popular culture, while some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area and violent weather like hurricanes. The presence of methane hydrates indicates enormous eruptions of methane bubbles that would swamp a ship, and projected high into the air- take out flying airplanes, as well. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting. Other explanations include magnetic anomalies, pirates, deliberate sinkings, hurricanes, gas deposits, rough weather, huge waves and human error. Why would they say that the name of the place is Bermuda Triangle? At the time of coining the term, the first name that came up was "Miami Triangle". But Florida objected saying that they would lose visitors to Miami with such name as people would fear to come there. The next name taken up was "Puerto Rico Triangle". Puerto Rico too raised objections. Then it was the turn for the 21 square mile tiny island Bermuda which forms the third corner of the triangle. And no one seems to have bothered. Bermuda was then also known as the "Isle of the Devils" which fitted to the triangle concept quite well and therefore the final name "Bermuda Triangle" was coined. Some famous reported incidents involving the Bermuda Triangle include: The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918.The TBM Avenger bombers that went missing in 1945 during a training flight over the Atlantic also known as the Flight 19. Flight 19 was a famous incident happened in the Bermuda triangle, Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers carrying 14 men took off at roughly 2:10 in the afternoon that day on a routine navigational training mission that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance is attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel. A Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that

BISNAR, BERTSON MARI Y. III-DIAMOND went missing in 1958, no trace of the aircraft was ever found. A yacht was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew.