THE MYSTERY OF BERMUDA

TRIANGLE
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 AN INTRODUCTION

No doubt you have wondered about the Bermuda Triangle. It is the greatest
modern mystery of our supposedly well understood world: a region of the  Atlantic
Ocean between Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, where
disappearances of ships and planes not only continue but continue to defy
explanation.
LOCATION
 TRIANGLE HISTORY
• “The region involved, a watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida,
Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, measures less than a thousand miles on
any one side.”
   . . .So George X. Sand introduced the Triangle to his readers in
October 1952 in a short article for Fate magazine, entitled “Sea
Mystery at our Back Door.”
  Sand’s article recounted the latest disappearance (the Sandra in
1950) and went on to discuss some of the other recent baffling
mysteries like NC16002, Star Tiger and Star Ariel.
   The Triangle remained a colloquial expression throughout the
1950s, employed by locals when another disappearance or
unexplained crash happened.
   By the early 1960s, it had acquired the name The Deadly Triangle.
In his 1962 book, Wings of Mystery, author Dale Titler also devoted
pages in" The Mystery of Flight 19”— to recounting the most recent
incidents of disappearances and even began to ponder theories,
such as electromagnetic anomalies and the ramifications of Project
Magnet.
 MISSING SHIPS
• Dozens vanished in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Only now are some details beginning to emerge. Santa Rita is just
one example.
• Timandra is another example. 1917
• The Cyclops is perhaps the most famous of the early 20th century
disappearances. She vanished in March 1918 with 309 men
aboard. She is the Navy’s “greatest mystery of the sea.”
• Cotopaxi. Storm warnings had already been hauled down before
she sent her last enigmatic message. She vanished without trace
on December 1, 1925.
• Suduffco was sailing the busy route to Panama, but no ship ever
found a trace of her. 1926
• The tramp Anglo Australian signalled “all well” before she
vanished in 1938. Captain Parslow was in command of 34 men.
• Same for Samkey. She signalled “all well” where the Anglo had
been. Her next call in time was when she would be entering the
Triangle. She vanished without trace, January 1948.
• Sandra vanished along her course to Puerto Cabello.
 MISSING AIRCRAFTS

1942 TBF Avenger: after leaving Cheery Point, NC on patrol

1943 PBY Catalina 1963 2 C-133 Cargo masters

Ted Smith 601

2002
1956 FLIGHT 19 Piper Pawnee
2002 Grumman Cougar
 THEORIES AND
EXPLANATIONS
• The following are a few of the theories
which have been put forward by travelers
and scientists to explain the strange
• happenings and phenomenon at the
• Bermuda triangle.
 MAGNETIC VARIATION THEORY
• Magnetic Variation :: The majority of
disappearances can be attributed to the
area's unique environmental features.
First, the "Devil's Triangle" is one of the
two places on earth that a magnetic
compass does point towards true north.
Normally it points toward magnetic north. The red dot points to the
The difference between the two is known earth’s true North while the
Magnetic north is 1500km
as compass variation. The amount of
Southwards to it.
variation changes by as much as 20
degrees as one circumnavigates the
earth. If this compass variation or error is
not compensated for, a navigator could
find himself far off course and in deep
trouble.
If one goes strictly by the compass, he gets
deflected by an angle of 20 degrees from the
actual north.
 HYDROCARBON
CONCENTRATION THEORY

• As a part of his elaborate dissertation

Dr.Spencer claimed that methane locked
below the sea sediments in the Bermuda
Triangle can explain the mysterious
disappearances. He told how subterranean
landslides can unlock the vast beds of
methane hydrate. This would be
disastrous, he told the audience, because
large amounts of methane would reduce
the density of the water. “This would make
any ship floating above sink like a rock.”
He went on to explain how the highly
combustible gas could also ignite aircraft
engines and blow them to pieces.
 VORTEX KINESIS
• A VORTEX is an invisible funnel within a prairie, a water body
or anywhere, into which an unsuspecting person or object
walks and is held in a different time or space, through Space-
Time Warps. We can assume a vortex to be a glitch
or a discontinuity in the Space-Time continuum, the theory of
which is given in Einstein’s Special theory of Relativity where
he claims that time and space are relative concepts and a
continuity equation exists between the two. The Bermuda
Triangle is assumed to be such a gateway to a different
dimension hence all the ships and aircrafts passing over the
area get sucked into the space time warp and are lost without
any trace.All this happens within a fraction of a second and any
chances of escape or survival are practically null.
 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE
THEORY
• Long before John Hutchison began his
pioneering experiments into electromagnetism
and alternative energy, travellers in the
Bermuda Triangle had reported odd
occurrences involving electromagnetism: their
ships or planes would be seized by a strange
vapour, then all equipment would go haywire;
unexplained fogs would sit over the ocean, yet
in all cases the weather was not right for
creating fogs, and there was certainly no
reason for electromagnetic aberrations such as
they reported.
 
 HUTCHISON EFFECT
• Though they remain unexplained, there is no longer the lack of
a cross reference for them—and this has to do with
electromagnetism. And that’s where Vancouver scientist John
Hutchison comes into play. His experiments into
electromagnetism have unintentionally produced every
phenomena reported in the Triangle. The Hutchison Effect’s
connection with the Triangle comes in many forms. Many of the
effects he has created mimic those reported out there:
strangely swirling clouds and lights, green glows and
phosphorescence, and electromagnetic anomalies.
 ROLE OF TEMPERATURE
VARIATION
• Hutchison noted that the greatest number of
disappearances in the world occurred in
specific locales, “vortices,” he called them,
which “lie on the right or east sides of the
continents, and all precisely in curious areas
where hot surface currents stream out of the
tropical latitudes toward the colder waters of
the temperate. . .” He explains this is of
“enormous significance”  because “these are
the areas of extreme temperature variabilities
which alone would predicate a very high
incidence of violent marine and aerial
disturbances. What more likely areas,” he
continues, “for storms and wrecks and
floundering, and even magnetic anomalies?”
He went on to ask, “Whether these vast
[natural] ‘machines’ generate still another
kind of anomaly that might cause something
to ‘go wrong’ . . .in our space-time continuum.
In other words, could they create. . . ‘vortices’
into and out of which material objects can
drop into or out of other space-time
continua?” This proves the unlimited
potential of electromagnetism on matter.    
 EARTH: A wave generator
• Since the Earth is itself an object
generating electromagnetic
fields, are there areas where
some of these fields will
intermittently interplay and cause
aberrations. To be more explicit,
the Bermuda Triangle is properly
situated on the Earth, in the
areas of correct temperatures
and weather volatility, in areas of An electromagnetic field sensing
electromagnetic stresses, to Device created by Hutchison
create effects as Hutchison has
done in his lab.
 CONCLUSION
It would be appropriate to say that the
exact causes for the strange occurrences
at the Bermuda Triangle still remain
unexplained. It is really ironical that in
this era of space research and
technological advancement, we have not
been able to solve one of the greatest
and oldest mysteries of our own planet.