Francisc Andrei-Angelo

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The Bermuda Triangle

Devil's Triangle

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Where is the area of Bermuda Triangle ?

The beginnings of mystery.
What is really happened there ?
Which are the main causes ?
Notables incidents.
The survivors of Bermuda Triangle.

Area of Bermuda Triangle

"Bermuda or Devil's Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the
southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, which is noted for a high
incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft. The apexes
of the triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico.

The legend of Bermuda Triangle

Flight 19 was the designation of five Avenger torpedo bombers that
disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945 during a United
States Navy overwater navigation training flight. All 14 airmen on the flight were
lost. The flight leader was United States Navy Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor,
who had about 2,500 flying hours, mostly in aircraft of this type, while his
trainee pilots had 300 total, and 60 flight hours in the Avenger.

Natural explanations

Compass problems are one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents.
While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may
exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found.
Tropical cyclones are powerful storms, which form in tropical waters and
have historically cost thousands of lives lost and caused billions of dollars in
damage.
The Gulf Stream is a major surface current, primarily driven by thermohaline
circulation that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the
Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic
An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the
presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the
continental shelves. Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have
proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the
density of the water; any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would
be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream

Causes

One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any
aircraft or vessel is human error.Human stubbornness may have caused
businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, the Revonoc, as he
sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.

Notable incidents

Flight 19
G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948, on a flight from the
Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949,
on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were passenger
aircraft operated by British South American Airways.
On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, disappeared while on a
flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32
people on board was ever found.
On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air Force Stratotanker aircraft collided and
crashed into the Atlantic. The Triangle version of this story specifies that
they did collide and crash, but there were two distinct crash sites, separated
by over (260 km) of water.

The survivors

I talked to many oceanographers, and none of these people could shed any
light whatsoever on what it might have beenFrank Flynn
I thought My God, Im next!- Don Henry
It has become a permanent part of my memory, since I have been
memorizing it for over 30 years.- Bruce Gernon
I thought, My God there is something to this Bermuda Triangle stuff after
all.- Paul Vance
Martin Caidin
Christopher Columbus

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/those_who_lived_to_tell.html
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/bermudat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triunghiul_Bermudelor