Why do planes, boats, ships and other transport dissapear and have been dissapearing over Bermuda's triangle?
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Studies have been conducted rationally, objectively\nand scientifically on the so called Bermuda triangle\nphenomenon. When you consider the intensity of storms, the frequency of storms, the incidence of various natural and turbulent ocean currents and the high amount of air and marine traffic, it's quite normal that there should be a high rate of accidents and disappearance in that area.\nBut so long as there are hungry readers for super natural\nstories there will be journalists and authors eager to make a buck. These writers are the same kind who sensationalize\nand fabricate stories of alien abduction, bigfoot, Lock\nNess Monster and alien creation of crop circles. The real\nphenomenon here is a sociological one. And that is, the need\nthat people have to believe in the unbelievable and how\nit thrives on ignorance.
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A triangular area of the Atlantic whose apices are Bermuda, Miami, and the Lesser Antilles. Reputed to be the site of numerous mysterious disappearances of planes and ships.
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The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both.\n\nWhile there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world [1]. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades.\n\nThe triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the Atlantic, stretching northward from the West Indies, along the North American seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe from parts south would sail north to the Carolinas, then turn east for Europe, taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic. Even with the development of steam and internal-combustion engines, a great deal more shipping traffic was (and still is) found nearer the US coastline than towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large, number of vessels would founder in storms. Given the historical limitations of communications technology, most of those ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the unexplained disappearances largely ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted that both the concept and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the 1960s, and were the products of an American journalist.\n\nOther areas often purported to possess unusual characteristics are the Devil's Sea, located near Japan, and the Marysburgh Vortex or the Great Lakes Triangle, located in eastern Lake Ontario.
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It's an area off of Florida that alot of planes and ships have disappeared in. \nBut they say if you were to make a triangle anywhere in the oceans the statistics would be the same.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
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It's still there, but now we know the most likely culprit of all the troubles there was caused because of a huge methane gas field in that area.  When the gas is released and it comes to the surface of the water, the water density is changed and ships are no longer able to stay afloat.  When it comes to Aircraft, it also changes the density of the air, and the aircraft fall out of the sky because they no longer are able to obtain lift.  I can't remember what they said it exactly does to the primitive navigation systems, but essentially it screws them up to.  \nNowadays we know what to be looking for when in that area, and how to avoid trouble.
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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. \n\nThe difference between the two is known as compass variation. The amount of 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.\n\nAnother environmental factor is the character of the Gulf Stream. It is extremely swift and turbulent and can quickly erase any evidence of a disaster.
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There have been a few unexplained disappearances of ships and planes.\nMostly there are violent thuderstorms almost constantly in the upper atmosphere in that area and planes and ships are destroyed by them.\nI have flown through the Bermuda Triangel hundreds of times.\nThere are thousands of jets and cruise ships in the Bermuda Triangle every day. \nI have almost been killed in small plane crashes a couple of times at sea in this area. It is extremely common.\nAnd it's a very big ocean. Most small plane crasshes do not get found in the Caribbean. \nWhat happened to those pilots that flew out of Ft. Lauderdale and kept going west and they were never found at all is the BIG mystery of the "bermuda triangle".
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The Bermuda Triangle has a reputation for being an area where ships and airplanes disappear, often under mysterious circumstances. This reputation came to public awareness in the 1950s and became a household name in the 1970s, mostly due to "The Bermuda Triangle", a bestselling book written by Charles Berlitz.\n\nDespite the hype, this region has a comparable rate of maritime and aerial incidents as any other similar sized region of the ocean. Lloyd's of London, a world-renowned insurer of maritime vessels, does not charge a higher insurance premium for ships that regularly traverse the triangle.
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The Bermuda Triangle encompasses an area with large deposits of frozen gas hydates. Normally these are stable under pressure under the sea bed but occasionally the pressure is released, most commonly after an undersea landslide (very common of the Mississipi delta). When the pressure is reduced, gas (methane) is released and travels to the surface. Simple physics will tell you that water with gas bubbles will not be as buoyant as ordinary water thus a ship travelling over an area where gas is being released is likely to suddenly sink.\n\nAs for aircraft, the released gas gains an electrical charge as it rises through the water and at the point of emergence it causes localised magnetic disturbances which effect compasses and other electonic equipment.
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Basically, there is no secret about the 'Bermuda Triangle'. If you compare the rate of ship-loss and aircraft loss to other, equally busy shipping channels around the world, there basically is no statistical difference between the number of ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle and ships lost anywhere else in the world. Lloyds of London insures things such as ships and aircraft so they were capable of making statistical analysis and the shipping lane and found nothing out of the ordinary. The only thing out of the ordinary is how so many people caught onto the books released in i believe the 50's where authors attempted to make some money by blowing the mishaps in the Bermuda Triangle out of proportion.
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the mystery surrounding the bermuda triangle is because of the abundance of folk lore and urban legend about lost ships (e.g. the Mary Celeste), planes that fly out of course, people who went in and never got out. These stories are myths; the 'mystery' of the bermuda triangle is actually scientifically explainable: in the bermuda triangle, the magnetic north is the same as the true north (elsewhere, these two are different), and this phenomenon screws up the plane/ship/persons' radar and compass systems. Most often than not, the ship captain or pilot or person do not know this and fail to adjust their systems accordingly, hence, accidents happen.
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There really is no mystery to the Bermuda Triangle. It's simply not that dangerous.....\n\nPlease read "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved" by Kische. The author came to a few well-supported conclusions, such as :\n\n    * The number of ships and airplanes reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than any other part of the ocean.\n    * In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur was neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.\n    * The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but not necessarily its eventual, if belated, return to port.\n    * The circumstances of confirmed disappearances were frequently misreported in Berlitz's accounts. The numbers of ships disappearing in supposedly calm weather, for instance, did not tally with weather reports published at the time.\n\nLloyd's of London, the marine insurer, has also detrmined that the area is statistically no more dangerous than other areas of the Ocean. The US Coast Guard supports this.
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The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both.\n\nWhile there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world [1]. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades.\n\nThe triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching northward from the West Indies, along the North American seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe from parts south would sail north to the Carolinas, then turn east for Europe, taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic. Even with the development of steam and internal-combustion engines, a great deal more shipping traffic was (and still is) found nearer the US coastline than towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large, number of vessels would founder in storms. Given the historical limitations of communications technology, most of those ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the unexplained disappearances largely ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted that both the concept and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the 1960s, and were the products of an American journalist.\n\nOther areas often purported to possess unusual characteristics are the Devil's Sea, located near Japan, and the Marysburgh Vortex or the Great Lakes Triangle, located in eastern Lake Ontario.
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I have been across the Triangle many times in both boats and planes. I never observed anything different. There are many scheduled flights across it every day.  One of the reasons for so many stories is that there is such a huge amount of air and shipping traffic across this area.
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The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are violated and altered.\n\nWhile there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world [1]. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades.\n\nYou really should check out this URL you will learn everything there is to know about Bermuda triangle
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bermuda triangle is an are in the atlantic ocean the three points being miami florida, bermuda island and Puerto rico if i remember correctly. People like to mystify the ocurrences in the area (sunken boats, crashed planes, people disappearing). When it can all be easily explained by the Methane Clathrates in the ocean floor that release methane periodically. You can google it of course if you want more info.
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I fly through it all the time on commercial airlines. So far the only thing I have lost is some of my luggage. Maybe that's where lost luggage goes.\n\nI don't think the Bermuda Triangle has had statistically more disappearances than any place else in the world. It just makes a better story. Here's what Bermuda-Triangle.org has to say about it:\nI quote:\n"The "Bermuda Triangle," or "Devil’s Triangle," is a mythical geographic area located off the southeastern coast of the United States that is noted for an apparent high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats and aircraft. The apexes of the Triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda, Miami, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.\n\nIn the past, extensive but futile Coast Guard searches, prompted by search and rescue cases such as the disappearance of an entire squadron of TBM Avengers shortly after take-off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1945), or the sinking of the Marine Sulphur Queen in the Florida Straits (1963), have lent credence to popular belief in the mysterious and supernatural qualities of the "Bermuda Triangle."\n\nCountless theories attempting to explain the many disappearances have been offered throughout the history of the area. The most reasonable seem to be citing human errors and environmental factor.\n\nThe majority of disappearances can be attributed to the area's unique features. The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico around the Florida Straits northeastward toward Europe, is extremely swift and turbulent. It can quickly erase any evidence of a disaster."\n\nFrom:\nhttp://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/coast_guard_opinion.html