The Bermuda Triangle

Kelly Fischer
LT 130
May 18, 2006
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 Location
• The Bermuda Triangle
is an imaginary line
meeting at 3 points
creating a triangle.
• The triangle connects
Miami, FL, Bermuda,
and San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
• Also known as the
Devil’s Triangle.
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 Legend of the Bermuda Triangle
• Since WWII, approximately
1,000 people have
disappeared along with over
100 planes and ships.
• The legends began in the
1500’s during a time of trade
between Spain and the
Americas.
• Columbus was one of the first
to report something unusual
about this area.
• He reported their compasses
going haywire and seeing “a
bolt of fire that fell into the
sea.” 3
 Disappearances
• The earliest recorded
disappearance of a United
States vessel was in
March, 1918.
• It was the USS Cyclops,
which typically carried
coal and cargo. When
returning from a voyage to
Brazil, it vanished, never
to be found.

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 Flight 19
• The most well-known incident
occurred on December 5,
1945.
• Flight 19, a training squadron
of 5 torpedo bombers,
disappeared.
• It is said their instruments
stopped working, they lost
their sense of location and
flew further into the Atlantic
Ocean, where they vanished.
• When a Navy Search and
Rescue plane went to look for
Flight 19 it also disappeared.
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 Unexplained Bermuda Find
• In 1970, as Dr. Ray Brown was scuba diving in the
Atlantic waters, he came across a smooth, mirror-like
structure below the surface.
• The structure was in the shape of a pyramid, which upon
inspection revealed an entrance. It opened into a small
room where Brown found a brassy, metallic rod with a
red gem attached to the end hung from the middle of the
ceiling.
• Oddly enough the room contained no algae or coral.
• The gem which Brown kept, is rarely seen, but is
believed to have healing powers.
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 Facts
• Large amounts of
gas hydrate in the sea
floor sediments
generates a foamy
surface.
• Because of the
foam’s low density a
ship is unable to
displace enough to
float.
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 Facts
• A paper published in
1981 by the US
Geological Survey
stated that the area has a
magnetic force
surrounding it.
• This area is one of only
two in the world where
the compass will point
true North instead of
polar North.
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 Environmental Factors
• The area is known for
volatile weather
patterns.
• Frequent storm
systems develop
because the waters are
so warm. The result is
sometimes a
hurricane.
• Water spouts are also
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 Websites
• http://students.depaul.edu/~mvalenzu/subject.html
• http://woodshole.er.gov/project-pages/hydrates/bermuda
• http://byerly.org/bt.html
• http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/cyclo
• http://bstar.net/bermudatriangle/

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