Bermuda Triangle

Dănilă Alexandra Daniela

The Bermuda Triangle
is a region of the
North Atlantic
Ocean (roughly)
bounded by the
southeastern coast of
the U.S., Bermuda, and
the islands of the
Greater Antilles (Cuba,
Hispaniola, Jamaica
and Puerto Rico)
Where??

The exact boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle are not

universally agreed upon. Approximations of the total
area range between 500,000 and 1,510,000 square
miles (1,300,000 and 3,900,000 square kilometers). By
all approximations, the region has a vaguely triangular
shape.
Although reports of unexplained occurrences
in the region date to the mid-19th century,
the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” didn’t come
into use until 1964. The phrase first appeared
in print in a pulp magazine article by Vincent
Gaddis, who used the phrase to describe a
triangular region “that has destroyed
hundreds of ships and planes without a
trace.”
Paranormal explanations??
 When?
In 1945, five US Navy planes and 14 men
disappeared in the area while doing routine
training exercises. The flight’s leader, Lieutenant
Charles Taylor, was heard over the radio saying:
“We are entering white water, nothing seems
right. We don’t know where we are, the water is
green, no white”
The US navy investigated and ultimately reported
the incident as “cause unknown”. From the time of
this incident until the mid-1980s, 25 small planes
disappeared while passing through the Bermuda
Triangle. They were never seen again. No wreckage
was ever recovered.
NOOO!!!
Compass variations
 What did you
make today?

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. Compasses have natural magnetic variations in
relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have
known for centuries. Magnetic (compass) north and geographic
(true) north are exactly the same only for a small number of
places – for example, as of 2000, in the United States, only those
places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico.
But the public may not be as informed, and think there is Mistakes…
something mysterious about a compass "changing" across an
area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.
Another popular theory is that the missing vessels were felled by so-called
“rogue waves,” which are massive waves that can reach heights of up to
100 feet (30.5 m) and would theoretically be powerful enough to destroy
all evidence of a ship or airplane. The Bermuda Triangle is located in an
area of the Atlantic Ocean where storms from multiple directions can
converge, making rogue waves more likely to occur.
 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. In
essence, it is a river within an ocean, and, like a
river, it can and does carry floating objects. It
has a maximum surface velocity of about 2 m/s
(6.6 ft/s). A small plane making a water landing
or a boat having engine trouble can be carried
away from its reported position by the current.
 Methane hydrates

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. It has been hypothesized that periodic methane
eruptions (sometimes called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If
this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning.
Publications by the USGS describe large stores of
undersea hydrates worldwide, including the ~Alb
Inchis Ridge~ area, off the coast of the
southeastern United States. However, according
to the USGS, no large releases of gas hydrates are
believed to have occurred in the Bermuda
Triangle for the past 15,000 years.
 Earth's magnetic field is particularly weak

The Bermuda Triangle of space lies above the South Atlantic, stretching from Chile to Zimbabwe,
and sits at the point where the inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface. Earth
has two Van Allen belts, which are two doughnut-shaped rings of charged particles that surround our
planet, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. The inner part consists mainly of high-energy
protons and the outer part is mainly electrons. Because the belts trap the particles that are shooting
from the surface of the sun, they end up protecting the surface of the planet from harmful radiation.
The end…

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