BERMUDA TRIANGLE
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
FROM WHERE DID IT ALL BEGAN?
1945, 5th December
5 torpedo bomber planes took off from Florida for 3 hours to complete their regular training routine. This mission was called Flight 19. There were 14 crew members with their flight leader (Lt. charles
caroll taylor) . These planes flew to east from Florida. About 2 hours after the takeoff, the leader reports a problem related to compass, The compass stopped working. He takes out his backup compass, but that fails too. He was not able to locate his position So, he asks other flight members flying with him.
But,their compasses was malfunctioning too.
The Squadron leader (Lt. charles caroll taylor) tries communicating to the radio transmission. But, the conversation was really confusing and meanwhile, the weather started worsening.
AT 4.56 in evening
Taylor thinks that their planes are over gulf of Mexico and they needed to go to easy to fly back to Florida and he commands for the same too. But, some members believe that they are already are in the east direction and have to move towards west to get back to Florida. It is believed that these planes were 370 kms. east of Florida.
AT 7.04 in evening
The last transmission from Taylor and after this, all these planes go missing and till date, we have no clue where all these planes and 14 crew members go.
After the planes were lost and there were no traces of the members. A mariner was sent to locate FLIGHT 19 but, that mariner gets disappeared too.
For days after this, A large scale-and sea search operation was carried out to look for both of the flights. But, they ended up finding nothing.
The interesting part around the incident is that these all went missing in the same area which we today call it as 'BERMUDA TRIANGLE'.
WHERE IS BERMUDA TRIANGLE?
this area lies between Florida and USA. it exceeds from Florida to Puerto rico and Bermuda in the north. it creates a shape of a triangle. this area spans more than 5,00,000 Sq. miles. the chapters of the Bermuda triangle has an impact for over more than 500 years.
SEVERAL NAMES ARE GIVEN TO BERMUDA
1. graveyard of the Atlantic
2. Sea of doom
3. Sargasso graveyard
These names were used in the 18th and 19th centuries.
BERMUDA TRIANGLE was used in 1964 in a magazine called Argosy. Vincent H. Gaddis wrote and article about Bermuda triangle. He summarized all the past events and tried to link, he even tried making up a mystery like "there's something inside the ocean, we don't know about".
ANOTHER INCIDENT
USA NAVY CYCLOPS which was one of the biggest and fastest ship the navy made. It was a very important asset during world war I. It was used to transport troops and coal.
4th MARCH 1918
306 members were boarded on this ship ( West indies Baltimore- brazil). Apart from people, there were 11,000 tons of manganese. The journey was supposed to take 9 days. The ship departed all fine, weather was fine too. The communication were fine too.
"WEATHER FAIR, ALL WELL" was the first and last message from the ship.
ELLEN AUSTIN'S MYSTERY (1881)
A 210 feet long ship named Ellen Austin which was travelling from London to new York. It was a common journey which most of the ships did. Ellen Austin encountered an unidentified ship during the journey, Near the Bermuda triangle.
the unidentified ships seemed all normal from the outside but, there was no trace of humans on the ship. the captain of Ellen Austin decides to check the ship himself so, he waits for 2 days to check if there was someone on the ship before he stepped to check inside.
AFTER 2 DAYS
no response was seen so, he decides to inspect the ship. the ship was full of goods and everything was seen in its place. During that time, people were scared of pirates but, the unidentified ship was not a target of the pirates because all the valuables were intact.
Captain decides sending some crew members on that ship and they would move together with both the ships.
First 2 days, a storm hits and both the ships lose their paths and the unidentified ship gets disappeared.
after the storm, captain checks out for that unidentified ship and he spots the ship again. When he reached near it, there was again no trace of humans on the unidentified ship.
The crew members he sent to that ship were missing. No one knows what exactly happened to them but the ship was still intact.
He again tries taking the ship with him, but again the storm came and once again the crew members who were sent to that ship went missing and the ship was still intact.
When Ellen Austin's returns, the owner of this ship gets so scared hearing the whole situation that he sells of the ship to a German company.
The German company changes it's name from ELLEN AUSTIN to "meta".
NOTE:- Unfortunately, most probably this incident was just a made up story because this incident is so old that it's really hard to verify that if it was true or not. THE STORIES WHICH ARE OLD AND CANNOT BE VERIFIED, WE CALL THEM LEGENDS OR URBAN LEGENDS.
:- Many rational thinkers believe that Bermuda triangle is one of such legends.
THE LEGEND OF BERMUDA TRIANGLE
theories [science based]
keeping the incidents , there are alot of theories made around Bermuda triangle where some people blame aliens, that aliens must have abducted these ships and planes with them.
some people still believe that there is a giant sea monster under the ocean. some people say that the ocean is peculiar that the aircrafts and ship drown here.
THESE theories sound childish and unreal, then let's focus over the ones that are based on some scientific research.
MAGNETISM points.
when you look at the compass, it shows the direction of magnetic north pole.
the north pole and the magnetic north pole are two different c north pole. But the actual north pole is somewhere close by. It is known as the geographic north pole.
There's a difference in north pole and magnetic north pole. Normally, when we use the compass, which has been done for ages, they take this into account, But, there are some areas on earth that if you use a compass you would find the magnetic and geographic north poles at the same place.
The places where this happens are known as AGONIC LINES. These agonic lines shift with time. But, for the last 200-300 years, the 0° line been around or in the area of the Bermuda triangle. This can basically cause confusion.
SHALLOW NATURE
The area in the Bermuda triangle is quite shallow. When you look at it on the satellite map, you'd see the Bahamas, Caribbean islands, they're surrounded by turquoise color all around. This area in the ocean stretches across a long distance with shallow waters. You can see the deep ocean around it as it stands out different because of it's dark blue color.
Because of this, it is said that in the olden days, when the ships came to this area, they got stuck here due to shallow waters. Hidden shoals were points where the height of the land beneath the ocean was quite high. But, it was not visible from ships. When the ships get top of them, they used to get stuck.
HURRICANES
This area in one of the highest rates of hurricanes in the world. If you rank the countries where most of the hurricanes
are seen, then
are seen, then
CHINA
USA
CUBA
USA
CUBA
Cuba lies in this area and which state gets the most hurricanes in the USA?
Answer: Florida
and again Florida lies in the same area. This area gets hurricanes and water sprouts more frequently.
BERMUDA TRIANGLE DOES NOT HAVE ANY CONSIDERED FACTS BUT, THERE ARE ENOUGH EXPLANATIONS TO IT. I GOT SOME FOR YOU GUYS.
I hope you liked my post. I wish you all got to know alot about Bermuda triangle. Due, to it's story depictive nature there's not much over internet but, I tried my best to dig the whole out of it. Thank you for watching.
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