I assume you mean ships sunk in the area of the Atlantic informally known as The Bermuda Triangle. The apexes of the triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda, Miami, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
For so large an area you will find very few wrecks that are not explained by weather, human error, unpredictable weather, strongg and turbulent cuerrents in the Gulf Stream, compass variation ( an area dubbed the "Devil's Triangle" is one off two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north. Normally it points toward magnetic north.) and, of course, warfare.
Of the most notable craft lost in that area - the 5 US Navy TBM's, the USS Cyclops, and the Marine Sulphur Queen all have logical explanations that debunk the Bermuda Triangle theory:
USS Cyclops was a military collier operating alone in the Atlantic during March of 1918 - during World War One, when German U-boats were barely beaten back from starving out Europe only through heavily-escorted convoys. A single ship, flying the US flag and having a top speed of only 15 knots, would have been like shooting fish in a barrel.
The Marine Sulphur Queen was a molten-sulpher tanker with a very poor maintenance history. She was lost at a time and place where winds were gusting to 50 knots and seas were 16 feet or more in February 1963. Her rickety hull couldn't take the pounding and broke apart. A considerable amount of debris identified as being parts of The Marine Sulphur Queen was recovered by searchers.
The 5 US Navy TBM's were on a training mission in December 1945; only one pilot had more than about 30 hours' experience in the TBM, the rest were trainees. The navigational methods were crude, the planes weren't equipped with radio direction finding equipment, and the IFF was either not funcioning or turned off. Their recorded radio transmissions indicated that they suffered from compass variance, then worsening weather, and became disoriented.
2007-02-10 12:56:39
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answered by Arsan Lupin 7
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