where is the bermuda triangle.and what is the mystery?

Answer 1

It's the triangle you get by connecting Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic, I think. It's supposed to be where a lot of ships and planes have disapeered, but if you look into it a little, you'll realize that most of the stories have been fabricated - there's no record of that plane or that ship ever existing, much less being lost in the ocean, and the number of ship wrecks and lost there is no more than any other ocean area on Earth. So there's no mystery.

Answer 2

Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle and the Limbo of the Lost, a geographical area of about 3,900,000 sq km (1,500,000 sq mi), between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Melbourne in Florida (located 55°W to 85°W and 30°N to 40°N), in which there have been numerous unexplained disappearances of ships and aircraft.

The mystery dates back as far as the mid-19th century, with a total of more than 50 ships and 20 aeroplanes having been lost in the Triangle. One of the more notorious cases was the disappearance of Flight 19. Five United States torpedo bombers left Fort Lauderdale on December 5, 1945, on a routine training flight in good conditions. None of them returned. Even the seaplane that was sent out to find them vanished. Other stories about the region include ships found abandoned with warm food left on the tables and planes that disappear without even making a distress call. The absence of wreckage is often cited as proof of the mysterious power of the Triangle.

Explanations are legion, and include death rays from Atlantis and UFO kidnappings. Less fantastic analyses suggest that fierce currents and deep water could explain the lack of wreckage, and point out that several of the losses attributed to the Bermuda Triangle actually occurred as far as 1,000 km (600 mi) outside it. Furthermore, military and civil craft pass through the region every day without mishap. As deep sea diving techniques improve it is likely that more of the lost vessels will be recovered, but it is equally likely that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle will linger in the imagination for a long while yet.

Answer 3

It is somewhere off the coast of Florida and Bermuda. I don't know how far north it goes but it is quite large, something like 5000 square miles or larger. You can find it by looking on your web browser and typing Bermuda triangle.
If you watch much T.V. you will find it on the History Channel. It comes on there once in a while.

Yes, there are ships and planes missing in the Triangle. It is a mystery because they have never been found.

Answer 4

What is the Bermuda Triangle?
The Bermuda Triangle is a region of 440,000 square miles. It is within the boundaries of the Atlantic Ocean. The corners of the Triangle are at the southern Virginia Coast, the Bermuda Islands and the Florida Keys. The triangle extends between latitude 25 degree to 40 degree N and longitude 55 degree to 85 degree W and covers an area of 3,900,000 sq km (1,500,000 sq mi).
The Bermuda Triangle has some of the deepest trenches in the world, which can sink ships with their whirlpools. Speaking of whirlpools, the Sargasso Sea is like a big whirlpool, and is said to have many disappearances just like the Bermuda Triangle. Some of the Sargasso Sea (which is in the Atlantic Ocean close to Bermuda) flows into the Triangle. It is located somewhere along the coast of North America. It has caused problems for sailors because it has little wind. This sea has less rain, clouds and wind than the rest of the Atlantic Ocean. Nine other areas are the same as the Triangle in shape and location (near the Equator). Disappearances occur in these places, also. Some of them are very busy waterways like the Bermuda Triangle. One of these locations is in Japan, and another between the Azores and Iceland. Some think the Bermuda Triangle might have once housed Atlantis. Because the Bermuda Triangle covers a large area, there are a lot of opportunities for different things to occur, such as different landforms at the bottom of the ocean, and different kinds of waves. The current is very strong in the Bermuda Triangle. There are sometimes tidal waves caused by earthquakes. There are also freak waves. Freak waves are huge waves that happen without warning. Some freak waves can be 100 feet tall, and can easily sink many kinds of ships. The disappearances may have been caused by a waterspout. Waterspouts are tornadoes that touch down on water and cause huge water cyclones that can be hazardous to planes and ships. There is a lot of quicksand at the bottom of the ocean. There may be enough to swallow up medium-sized ships. There are also limestone mountains at the bottom of the ocean in the Bermuda Triangle. These limestone mountains have many caves, where ships and planes might go if they sank or crashed. This could be why some ships and planes that have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle are never found. However, while scuba divers explored some of these caves, they found only one small fishing boat.

What is its mystery?
The Bermuda Triangle or Devil's Triangle is a mysterious region in the North Atlantic ocean in which more than 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared during the past two hundred years. This area is bounded on its three sides by Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
The Bermuda Triangle is one of the great mysteries of the world. Many ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared in this area for hundreds of years. As soon as a ship reaches this region it fails to send radio signals and disappears mysteriously. The most notable was the loss of U.S. nuclear submarine 'Scorpion', in May 1968. In December 1945 five bombers on a routine training were also lost. A rescue mission also vanished in this triangle. So far more than 1000 people have lost lives in this area.

Although there have been many attempts yet nobody has been able to unravel its baffling mystery. Some scientists believe that violent downward air currents destroyed the ships and planes and swift ocean currents carried wreckage away. Some others maintain that there is a strong magnetic field in this area which cuts away the radio signals. But, so far, nobody has been able to put forth a fully convincing account.

The theories of the Bermuda Triangle range from sea monsters to UFO abductions. A few of the more sound theories contributing to the deadly phenomenon of the triangle are:

* The Bermuda Triangle is one of two places on earth that a magnetic compass points towards true north. Normally it points toward magnetic north. This compass variation between the two changes by as much as 20 degrees and if it is not compensated for, a navigator could find himself lost and in deep trouble.

* The Gulf Stream is swift and turbulent and can quickly erase any evidence of a disaster. This unpredictable weather pattern including sudden storms and water spouts can lead to trouble for captains and pilots.

* The strong currents over the many reefs in the triangle cause the topography to be in a constant state of flux in the triangle. Navigators may not be able to adjust to these hazards as swiftly.

* The triangle sits over an oceanic trench. Large amounts of gas are released to the surface that causes a vacuum-like effect and unstable waters that are unable to support a ship.

None of these theories are set in stone, and all of them have been debated in one way or another. Maybe the mystery of the triangle is a mystery, maybe it is not, but the many disappearances and accidents definitely leads the mind the wonder and wander, and isn't that what makes life so interesting?


Is the Mystery Solved?

Can you ever imagine that an oil-based industry can some day easily be replaced by a natural-gas-based one?

In an article in the Sunday Times, Norman Miller has stated that the conditions responsible for the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle ( which lies between the West Indies islands and the south-eastern coast of USA could provide the answer to the world’s energy crisis. The energy source is methane gas and there are no alien spaceships or suburbs of Atlantis here. The myth of the Bermuda Triangle, the mysterious disappearances and strange events, has generated much interest all over the world through the years. Charles Berlitz’s book on the subject, published in 1974, sold nearly 20 million copies in 30 languages. Ships, boats, and even aeroplanes are all said to have disappeared in this area and all the mystery has been attributed to extraterrestrials. But scientists now have an explanation for these phenomena and the cause is not extraterrestrial but chemical. It goes by the name of methane gas hydrate, which is methane (created by decomposing organic debris) that has been entombed in an ice crystalline. Conditions are ideal for the formation of this gas in areas of permafrost. Another area is the deep sea floor where the pressure and the temperature are right for the creation of this gas.

It was only in 1981 that a geochemist, Richard McIver, went public on a link between methane gas blowouts and the Bermuda Triangle myth. He stated that massive landslides often occur along the North American continental shelf, which lies to the north of the Bermuda Triangle. Such land slumps can occur over a large area bringing down huge boulders which rupture the layer of gas hydrate beneath the sea floor, freeing the gas that is trapped beneath the hydrate ‘cap’ and also liberating huge amounts of methane trapped within the hydrate itself. The moment a methane gas pocket ruptures a vast reservoir of gas suddenly surges from the seabed, rising up in a huge plume before erupting on the surface within seconds and without warning. A ship caught in such a blowout would be doomed; the water beneath it would suddenly become much less dense, sinking it in a matter of moments. The vessel would plunge into the depths, where it would be covered as sediment disturbed by the blow out settles back on the sea floor. In fact, planes too could fall prey to such a deadly fallout.

The US geological Survey has estimated that just two small areas off the coasts of North and South Carolina, which are a part of the Bermuda Triangle, contain about 70 times the quantity of gas consumed annually in USA. The sea bed and the areas of permafrost are therefore storehouses of a great energy source. It has been estimated that just 1% of gas hydrate is equivalent to half the present conventional gas reserves. But the bad news is that methane is a greenhouse gas and it is vulnerable to blowouts when drillings go wrong. It is only stable under narrow temperature and pressure conditions and would decay due to global warming. We will have to wait and see whether it gives us energy to burn or it burns us up instead!

For further information, check the sources.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean which, according to various authors of the subject since the mid-1950s, is infamous for the large amount of people, aircraft, and surface vessels which supposedly vanished under mysterious circumstances, often involving the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings. However, an abundance of documentation for most incidents suggests that the Bermuda Triangle is a mere legend built upon half-truths and the "sea stories" of local sailorsThe Triangle area

False-color image of the Gulf Stream flowing north through the Triangle (NASA)The boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some stating its shape is akin to a trapezium covering the Florida Straits and the Bahamas, the entire Caribbean island area and extending east to the Azores; others add the Gulf of Mexico. The more familiar, triangular boundary in most works has as its points Miami, San Juan, (Puerto Rico), and the island of Bermuda, with most of the incidents contained on the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas and Europe, as well as the Caribbean islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft (boats and aircraft) regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands.

The Gulf Stream ocean current flows through the Triangle after leaving the Gulf of Mexico; its current of five to six knots may have played a part in a number of disappearances. Sudden storms can and do appear, and in the summer to late fall the occasional hurricane strikes the area. The combination of heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather make it inevitable that vessels could founder in storms and be lost without a trace — especially before improved telecommunications, radar and satellite technology arrived late in the 20th century.[1]


[edit] History

February 1964 issue of Argosy Magazine, featuring the first printing of a story bearing the name Bermuda TriangleChristopher Columbus was the first person to document something strange in the Triangle, reporting that he and his crew observed "strange dancing lights on the horizon". On another occasion they observed what was most likely a falling meteor. At another point he wrote in his log about bizarre compass bearings in the area. Modern scholars checking the original log books have surmised that the lights he saw were the cooking fires of Taino Indians in their canoes; the compass problems were the result of a false reading based on the movement of a star. [1]

The first article of any kind in which the legend of the Triangle began appeared in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. The article was titled "The Lost Patrol", by Allen W. Eckert, about the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. In the story, and since picked up by various authors since, it was claimed that the flight leader had been heard saying "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white". It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars". "The Lost Patrol" was the first to connect the supernatural to Flight 19, but it would take another author, Vincent Gaddis, writing in the February 1964 Argosy Magazine to put Flight 19 together with other mysterious disappearences, coin a new catchy name, and call the whole "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle"; he would build on that article with a more detailed book (Invisable Horizons) the next year. Others would follow with their own works: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert. Berlitz, grandson of a distinguished linguist and author of various additional books on anomalous phenomena, has kept in line with the extraordinary explanation, and attributed the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces.


[edit] Ordinary explanation
Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975) has challenged this trend. Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants and others involved in the initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence that Crowhurst had fabricated the accounts of his voyage and had probably committed suicide. Another example was the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents which have sparked the Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research was surprisingly simple: he would go over period newspapers and see items like weather reports that were never mentioned in the stories.

Kusche came to several conclusions:

The ships and aircraft reported missing in the area were not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than any other part of the ocean.
In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.
The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but its eventual, if belated, return to port, may not be reported.
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.
Some disappearances had in fact, never happened. One plane crash took place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a simple check of the local papers revealed nothing.
"The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery... perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism." (Epilogue, p. 277)
In recent years, however, several authors, most notably Gian J. Quasar, have raised several questions as to the veracity of Kusche's findings, including but not limited to: why Kusche so often brought up as evidence for his claims cases that were already well-known before the writing of his work as not being "Triangle incidents"; his misidentification and mislocation of several ship and aircraft incidents that are well-documented, but then using that inability to properly identify the craft as "proof" that they never existed; and in other examples openly claiming possibilities for foul weather for certain disappearances where it can be verified that none existed.[2]


[edit] Other responses
The marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the "triangle" to be no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual rates for passage through the region. Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed disappearances is relatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft which pass through on a regular basis.

The United States Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle, noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, much documentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangle authors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker V.A. Fogg in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered all the bodies, despite one Triangle author stating that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup (Limbo of the Lost, by John Wallace Spencer, 1973 edition).

Skeptical researchers such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular - and profitable. This has led to the production of vast amounts of material on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle. They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or not accurate, but its producers continue to market it. They have therefore claimed that the market is biased in favour of books, TV specials, etc. which support the Triangle mystery and against well-researched material if it espouses a skeptical viewpoint [3].


[edit] Methane hydrates
Main article: Methane clathrate

Worldwide distribution of confirmed or inferred offshore gas hydrate-bearing sediments, 1996.
Source: USGSAn explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of vast fields of methane hydrates on the continental shelves. A paper was published in 1981 by the United States Geological Survey about the appearance of hydrates in the Blake Ridge area, off the southeastern United States coast.[4] Periodic methane eruptions 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. Laboratory experiments carried out in the Monash University in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water [2], though this would leave a smell and does not account why wreckage would not have bobbed to the surface when water density returned. Methane also has the ability to cause a piston engine to stall when released into the atmosphere even at an atmospheric concentration as low as 1%[citation needed].





[edit] Popular theories

[edit] Atlantis
An explanation for some of the disappearances pinned the blame on left-over technology from Atlantis, i.e. the activation of a still-operable death ray. It is claimed that evidence for Atlantis was discovered just off Bimini in 1968. This Bimini Road is either a road, wall, or pier meant to service ships bound for Atlantis from Central and South America. Archaeologically-speaking, the Bimini Road was not only determined to be a natural formation, but no evidence of structures necessary for a pier to function have been discovered either on Bimini or in the nearby waters.


[edit] UFOs
Theorists claim extraterrestrials captured ships and planes, taking them beyond our solar system. This was given a boost when topics like ESP, telekenisis, clairvoiance, and the like flowered in the middle-to-late 1960s, and was used as story-lines for popular films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The UFO Incident.


[edit] Time Warp
The proponents of this theory state that the many ships and planes entered a time warp to a different time, or dimension on the other side. This has been a popular subject in television episodes of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.


[edit] Famous incidents

[edit] Flight 19
Main article: Flight 19
Flight 19 disappeared on December 5, 1945 while on a training mission over the Atlantic. According to the popular Triangle stories, the flight leader reported a number of odd visual effects while lost and simply disappeared, an account which isn't entirely true. Furthermore, Berlitz in his book claimed that because the TBM Avenger bombers were built to float for long periods, they should have been found the next day considering what were reported as calm seas and a clear sky. However, not only were they never found, a Navy search and rescue seaplane that went after them was also lost. Adding to the intrigue is that the Navy's report of the accident was ascribed to "causes or reasons unknown".[5]

While the basic facts of the Triangle version of the story are essentially accurate, some important details are missing. The image of a squadron of seasoned combat aviators disappearing on a sunny afternoon is inaccurate. By the time the last radio transmission was received from Flight 19, stormy weather had moved in. Only the Flight Leader, Lt. Charles Carroll Taylor, had combat experience and any significant flying time, but at the same time he had very little flight experience in that particular area, less than the trainees serving under him, and a history of getting lost in flight, having done so twice previously in the Pacific theater and being forced to ditch both planes. Lt. Taylor also has since been depicted as a cool, calm and confident leader. Instead, radio transmissions from Flight 19 revealed Taylor to be disoriented, lacking confidence in his decisions, and completely lost.

Also, exaggerated claims stated that all the planes were having compass problems, however later naval reports and written recordings of the conversations between Lt. Taylor and the other pilots of Flight 19 do not indicate this. As for the Navy's report, it is claimed that the original report blamed the accident on the flight commander's confusion. Lt. Taylor had previously abandoned his aircraft twice in the Pacific after getting lost, returning to his carrier. However the wording was changed in deference to the wishes of his family.[5]


[edit] Mary Celeste
The mysterious abandonment in 1872 of the Mary Celeste is commonly but inaccurately quoted as being connected to the Triangle, which occurred off the coast of Portugal in 1872. A number of theories have been postulated over the years to explain the ship's abandonment, from being overwhelmed by alcohol fumes to intrigue and murder involving the crew of the ship that found her and brought her into port. The event is possibly confused with the sinking of the Mari Celeste off the coast of Bermuda on September 13, 1864, mentioned in the book Bermuda Shipwrecks by Dan Berg.


[edit] Ellen Austin
The schooner Ellen Austin supposedly came across an abandoned derelict, placed onboard a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict disappeared; others elaborating that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew onboard. A check of Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854; in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin. There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time, suggesting a large amount of missing men placed onboard a derelict. [3]


[edit] USS Cyclops
The Cyclops (AC-4) was a US Navy vessel, commanded by Lieutenant Commander G. W. Worley, that went missing without a trace with a crew of 306 on March 4th, 1918, after departing Barbados. Some feel that the ship went missing due to the Bermuda Triangle, although it's worth noting that the United States was at war during that time and there are several possibilities for the disappearance. Supporters of the Bermuda Triangle theories have brought to the front the fact that there was no transmission from the ship that there was trouble, and that it seems to have simply disappeared. It must be kept in mind, however, that at the time, radio communication was in its early phase, and sending urgent calls for help was not always a simple or quickly accomplished task. Many serious investigators of the incident believe that the USS Cyclops was farther north of the Triangle, however, when it went missing, closer to Norfolk, Virginia. Researcher Larry Kusche argues that the ship, a collier carrying 10,000 tons of manganese, capsized when the cargo suddenly shifted in a heavy gale. Such a gale was recorded in the coastal waters of the U.S. on March 9th and 10th, 1918.[6] [7]


[edit] Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the daughter of former United States Vice-President Aaron Burr, and the wife of South Carolina governor Joseph Alston. She was a passenger onboard the Patriot, which sailed from Charleston to New York on December 30, 1812, and was never heard from again. It had been conjectured that the Patriot was a victim of pirates, but it should be remembered that the War of 1812 was going on, and the Patriot was listed as a U.S. privateer. She has been mentioned at least once as a Triangle victim, in The Bermuda Triangle by Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey (1975).


[edit] The Spray
Captain Joshua Slocum's skill as a mariner was beyond argument; he was the first man to sail around the world solo. In 1909, in his boat Spray he set out in a course to take him through the Caribbean to Venezuela. He disappeared; there was no evidence he was even in the Triangle when Spray was lost with Slocum. It was assumed he was run down by a steamer or struck by a whale, the Spray being too sound a craft and Slocum too experienced a mariner for any other cause to be considered likely, and in 1924 he was declared legally dead. While a mystery, there is no known evidence for, or against, paranormal activity.


[edit] Carroll A. Deering
A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, North Carolina on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time determined that the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly involving another ship, S.S. Hewitt, which disappeared at the same time. [4]


[edit] KC-135 Stratotankers
On August 28, 1963 a pair of U.S. Air Force KC-135 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 170 miles of water.


[edit] USS Scorpion
The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost south of the Azores while on a transit home to Norfolk, Virginia after a six month deployment on May 26, 1968. The Scorpion has been picked up by numerous writers as a Triangle victim over the years, despite the fact that the U.S. Navy believes that a malfunctioning torpedo contributed to her loss, an event actually recorded on the SOSUS microphone network.


[edit] List of incidents connected with the Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle was blamed for many unexplained disappearances that occurred in her unofficial waters. To date, over 170 ships and planes have been alleged as having either having disappeared without trace or lost their crew in that particular area of the Atlantic Ocean. Although most of these disappearances have been explained, others await explanation. [8] It must be noted that some of the cases listed below, which are popularly associated with the area, were actually not even in or known to be in the triangle at the time of their disappearance or incident. There is also no record listed of mysterious disappearances of or from buildings, trains or road vehicles.

1840: HMS Rosalie
1872: The Mary Celeste, one of the sea's greatest mysteries, but far outside the triangle when crew went missing
1909: The Spray
1917: SS Timandra - heading for Buenos Aires from Norfolk, VA; carrying coal; crew of 21 lost; no radio signal despite capability (there appear to have been two Timandras; this one is apparently the steam freighter)
1918: USS Cyclops (AC-4) disappears; storm in area, but last message after clearing port "Weather fair, all well," and even the US navy calls this "one of the sea's unsolved mysteries" [5]
1921: Cargo ship Carroll A. Deering runs aground at Cape Hatteras, the crew having disappeared without a trace[6].
1925: SS Cotopaxi reported she was listing off E coast of Florida, but no mayday sent; weather there calm
1926: SS Suduffco perhaps lost in bad weather (a captain in the area called it "The worst weather I've ever seen")
1938: HMS Anglo Australian heading for British Columbia from Cardiff, Wales Lost off Azores (2000 miles from the triangle) after signalling "passing Fayal this afternoon. All well"
1942: Free French submarine Surcouf apparently rammed by freighter Thompson Lykes near Panama Canal; both vessels travelling unlit due to threat of U-boats
1945: The disappearance of 5 Navy Avengers - Flight 19
1947: Army C-45 Superfort vanishes 100 miles off Bermuda
1948: SS Samkey (year also given as 1943, perhaps a misprint as she was only launched the same year) gave position as 41o48' N 24o W (NE of Azores); signals "all well"
31 January 1948: Four-engined Tudor IV Star Tiger, lost with 31 lives
27 December 1948: Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with 28 passengers and crew
17 January 1949: Second Tudor IV, Star Ariel, vanishes without a trace
1950: Giant US Air Force Globemaster lost
1950: American freighter, SS Sandra (350 ft), apparently sinks without a trace after passing St. Augustine, Florida en route for Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
1952: British York transport plane lost with 33 aboard
30 October 1954: US Navy Lockheed Constellation Flight 441 vanishes with 42 aboard
1956: US Navy seaplane, Martin P5M, disappears with crew of ten
14 October 1961: US Air Force SAC B-52 bomber Pogo 22 lost
1962: US Air Force KB-50 tanker plane lost
1963: Marine Sulphur Queen vanishes, probably off Dry Tortugas; carrying molten sulphur, and possibly unseaworthy. [7]
1967: Military YC-122, converted to cargo plane, lost
1967: cabin cruiser Witchcraft disappears one mile off Miami; had called coastguard requesting a tow, but on their arrival 19 minutes later no trace found [8].
1970: French freighter Milton Latrides disappears; sailing from New Orleans to Cape Town; carrying vegetable oils and caustic soda
1972: German freighter Anita (20,000 tons), lost with crew of 32; sister ship Norse Variant (both carrying coal) lost at same time; year sometimes given as 1973; survivor from latter found on raft described loss of ship in stormy weather - waves broke hatch cover and ship sank quickly
1976: SS Sylvia L. Ossa lost in heavy seas 140 miles west of Bermuda.
1978: SS Hawarden Bridge had previously been found with marijuana residue by USCG Cape Knox February '78 [9], found abandoned in West Indies a month later[10]; crime might be involved. scuttled November '78.
1978: Douglas DC-3 Argosy Airlines Flight 902, registration N407D, lost with four passengers and crew; vanished off radar scope while beginning approach for landing.
1980: SS Poet; carrying grain to Egypt, lost in storm but Marine Inquiry Board cannot state firm cause; no survivors
1995: Inter-island freighter Jamanic K (built 1943) reported lost after leaving Cap Haitien
1997: Passengers disappear from German yacht (name of yacht not stated, impossible to check either way)
1999: Freighter Genesis Lost after sailing from Port of Spain to St Vincent; cargo included 465 tons of water tanks, concrete slabs and bricks; reported problems with bilge pump before loss of contact. Search of 33,000 square miles of sea is fruitless.