What is the bermuda triangle?

Question

What exactly is it? why do airplaines and ships dissappear there?

Answer 1

bermuda triangle goes from Florida to Bermuda, to Puerto Rico, and back to Florida.

In this part of the ocean ships have disappeared without a trace, and airplanes have disappeared flying over the bermuda triangle and no wreckage or survivors has ever been found.

Answer 2

Sorry, I don't get involved with of shore lovers triangles on bermuda or anywhere else. Ha! Just kidding, and couldn't resist that one.
Too much carbon dioxide gas pockets buried deep on the oceans floor, venting all of a sudden, causing the water to actually loose its bouyance! Down goes the ships and boats! Why planes are lost is another mystery. Maybe it has something to do with those lovers triangles I mentioned earlier. . . .

Answer 3

A kind of space that takes the shape of a triangle with its three boundary points in Bermuda, the tip of Florida... and somewhere else I forget. No one really knows why things disappear there, but I guess it's possibly because of sudden wind or tide changes. Just a guess though.

Answer 4

its a part of the ocean where people dissapear.. and the area where they dissapear forms a triangle. planes sometimes dissapear because their compass goes crazy while in the triangle. and i heard there was a gas thats in teh triangle that messes with the boats

you should also look up Flight 19 in the Bermuda Triandle. its pretty much about military planes that got lost and never seen again. they were in radio contact pretty much the whole time

Answer 5

it is formed by three little islands and said that things disapear in there all i know

Answer 6

The Bermuda Triangle is not on any official map and you won't know when you cross the line, but to many it is a very real place where dozen of ships, planes and people have disappeared with no good explanation. Since a magazine first coined the phrase "Bermuda Triangle" in 1964, the mystery has continued to attract attention. However in most cases, there was a reasonable explanation. Either they were never in the area, were found, or there was a reasonable explanation for their disappearance.

Scientists have documented deviations from the norm in the area and have found some interesting formations on the seafloor within the Bermuda Triangle's boundaries. So, for those who like to believe in it, there is plenty fuel for the fire. The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, as an "imaginary" area.

The U. S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle and does not maintain an official file on it. However, within this imaginary area, many real vessels and the people aboard them have seemingly disappeared without explanation.

The Triangle is located off the Southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, with its apexes in the vicinities of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. It covers roughly 500,000 square miles. The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the "Isle of Devils." Reefs have sunk many ships sailing too close to its shores, and there are hundreds of shipwrecks in the waters that surround it.

Over the past 100 years, the Triangle has seen an inordinately high number of unexplained disappearances of planes, ships and people. Some reports say that as many as 100 ships and planes have been reported missing in the area and more than 1,000 lives have been lost. The U.S. Coast Guard maintains that the area does not have an unusual number of incidents.

In 1975, Mary Margaret Fuller, editor of "Fate" magazine, contacted Lloyd's of London for statistics on insurance payoffs for incidents occurring within the Bermuda Triangle's usually accepted boundaries. 428 vessels were reported missing throughout the world between 1955 and 1975, and there was no greater incidence of events occurring in the Bermuda Triangle than anywhere else.

Many Bermuda Triangle Web sites include long lists of missing ships and planes. But many of those were nowhere near the Triangle when they disappeared or they turned up later with rational explanations for their disappearances.

During World War I, the U.S.S. Cyclops set out from Rio de Janeiro on February 16, and, after a brief stop in Barbados from March 3 to 4, was never seen or heard from again. All 306 passengers and crew were gone without a trace.

Navy Department officials were at a loss, since no storms had been noted in the vicinity. There was no found wreckage or distress. Theories ranged from mutiny to a boiler explosion. The most bizarre theory is that a giant octopus entwined the ship with it tentacles and drug it to the bottom of the ocean.

The most famous Bermuda Triangle story is five missing Navy Avengers in 1945. A routine patrol set out with five highly experienced student pilots. Suddenly, the tower began receiving transmissions from the flight leader that they were lost, compasses were not working, and everything looked wrong. They were never seen again, and extensive Navy investigations turned up no clues to explain the disappearance.

Lieutenant Charles C. Taylor led the mission, which included several planned course changes. They departed at 1:15 p.m. on December 5, 1945. At 3:00 p.m., Lieutenant Robert F. Cox was flying over Fort Lauderdale, Florida when he heard a signal that he thought was from a boat or plane in distress.

He called Operations at the Naval Air Station to report what he had heard. Cox told Taylor to fly with the sun at his left wing and up the coast until he hit Miami. Taylor then said that they were over a small island with no other land in sight. If he was over the Keys as he had said, however, he should have seen several islands as well as the Florida peninsula.

There have been many other losses including these: • DC-3 N407D, lost on September 21, 1978; Fighting Tiger 524, lost on February 22, 1978, Beechcraft N9027Q, lost on February 11; 1980, Ercoupe N3808H, lost on June 28, 1980; Beech Bonanza, lost on January 6, 1981; Piper Cherokee N3527E, lost on March 26, 1986; Grumman Cougar Jet, lost on October 31, 1991; Jamanic K motor vessel, lost en route from Cape Haitian to Miami on March 20, 1995; Genesis motor vessel, disappeared en route from Port of Spain, Trinidad to St. Vincent on April 21, 1999; Cessna 210, drops off radar from Freeport to Nassau on June 14, 1999.

Most explanations for these incident, including the explanations given by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, include human error and environmental effects. The area is one of the most highly trafficked for amateur pilots and sailors, so more traffic leads to more accidents and disappearances. The has violent and unexpected storms and weather changes. These storms build up quickly, dissipate quickly, and go undetected by satellite surveillance.

Waterspouts that could easily destroy a passing plane or ship are also not uncommon. A waterspout is a tornado at sea that pulls water from the ocean surface thousands of feet into the sky.

Other possible environmental effects include underwater earthquakes, because there is a lot of seismic activity in the area.

Scientists have also spotted freak waves up to 100 feet high.

The underwater topography of the area may also be a factor. It goes from a gently sloping continental shelf to an extremely deep drop-off. Some of the deepest trenches in the world are found in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. Ships or planes that sink into these deep trenches will never be found.

The Gulf Stream, where the Triangle is, is extremely swift and turbulent and can pose challenges, especially for inexperienced sailors. The Gulf Stream has been reported to move faster than 5 mph in some areas, fast enough to throw sailors hundreds of miles off course. It can also quickly erase any evidence of a disaster.

Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered the presence of large concentrations of methane gas trapped in the ocean floor. This gas is due to dying and decomposing sea organisms. The sediment contains bacteria that produce methane, which accumulates as super concentrated methane ice, called gas hydrates. The layer of ice traps the methane gas, and scientists are studying it as a potential energy source. It's possible that these methane concentrations exist over much of the Triangle.

Landslides that often occur along the North American continental shelf to the north of the Bermuda Triangle could bring down boulders and debris, rupturing the layer of gas hydrate beneath the sea floor and freeing the trapped gas.

When a methane gas pocket ruptures, the gas erupts on the surface with no warning. If a ship is in the area of the blowout, the water beneath it would suddenly become much less dense. The vessel could sink and sediment could quickly cover it as it settles onto the sea floor. Even planes flying overhead could catch fire during such a blowout. On several occasions, oil drilling rigs have sunk as the result of this phenomenon.

Another theory is pirates. In the 1970s and '80s, drug runners often pirated boats to smuggle drugs. This theory could also bear some truth during wartime.

Although these more logical theories probably account for disappearances, many people still prefer to believe that aliens, electronic fog or another supernatural phenomenon must be the cause.