What is the Bamuda Triangle all about?

Answer 1

Dear Zakalov,

Before the days of GPS my father was a USAF navigator. I, too, had heard and read all the hype about the triangle. So I asked him. There have been a number of planes and ships which have lost contact with their outside ground control connections and never been found. That part is true. There are magnetic variations in the triangle that cause problems for planes,
especially, flying through it, and it is a stormy area. To his trained mind and way of thinking this is the answer to the disappearances in the triangle. I think the fact that the ships and planes suddenly lose contact without the outside world is part of what has built the thing into a big mystery and rumor producing mill.

If it sounds mundane as an explanation, I don't think it really is. Because magnetism plays such a huge role in the science of how the earth works, not to mention the solar system, etc. and we really still understand so little about it. I can't wear a windup wristwatch because I routinely gain five minutes a day. Other people gain even more time and the answer seems to be something about the magnetism of individual bodies.

But I think you can safely put down all the spooky theories about the Bermuda Triangle. For some reason man likes to personify the natural phenomena that are the most difficult to understand and wreak the most havoc on us.

Hey Ho, Maggie!

Answer 2

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean which has been made infamous for the many people, aircraft, and surface vessels said to have disappeared within its bounds. Many of these disappearances involve a level of mystery which are often popularly explained by a variety of theories beyond human error or acts of nature, often involving the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings. An abundance of documentation for most incidents suggests that the Bermuda Triangle is a sailors' legend, later embellished by professional writers.

Answer 3

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean which has been made infamous for the many people, aircraft, and surface vessels said to have disappeared within its bounds. Many of these disappearances involve a level of mystery which are often popularly explained by a variety of theories beyond human error or acts of nature, often involving the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings. An abundance of documentation for most incidents suggests that the Bermuda Triangle is a sailors' legend, later embellished by professional writers.

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_triangle

Answer 4

the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, the mysterious disappearances and unusual activities, has generated lots activity international huge in the path of the years. Charles Berlitz’s e book on the situation, printed in 1974, offered just about 20 million copies in 30 languages. Ships, boats, or maybe aeroplanes are all mentioned to have disappeared in this section and all the secret has been attributed to extraterrestrials. yet scientists now have a proof for those phenomena and the reason isn't extraterrestrial yet chemical. It is going via the call of methane gasoline hydrate, it incredibly is methane (created via decomposing organic and organic debris) that has been entombed in an ice crystalline. situations are suited for the formation of this gasoline in components of permafrost. yet another section is the deep sea floor the place the stress and the temperature are applicable for the introduction of this gasoline.

Answer 5

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean which has been made infamous for the many people, aircraft, and surface vessels said to have disappeared within its bounds. Many of these disappearances involve a level of mystery which are often popularly explained by a variety of theories beyond human error or acts of nature, often involving the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings. An abundance of documentation for most incidents suggests that the Bermuda Triangle is a sailors' legend, later embellished by professional writers.



The Triangle area

The area of the Triangle varies with the authors.The boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some stating its shape is akin to a trapezium covering the Florida Straits, the Bahamas, and the entire Caribbean island area east to the Azores; others add to it the Gulf of Mexico. The more familiar, triangular boundary in most written works has as its points Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the incidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.



Kusche came to several conclusions:

The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in 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; furthermore, Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention such storms.
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.
Some disappearances had in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.
Kusche concluded that:

"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

Answer 6

One theory is that the sea bed in this area is geologically unstable and that the pourous rocks on the sea bed contain trapped gasses. When there is seismic activity and the these rocks are sufficiently disturbed, the trapped gasses are released on a large scale and bubble up to the surface. Any ships in the water will loose buoyancy an probably sink as the bubbly water is less dense (Archimedes's principle). It can also affect aeroplanes because the bubbles form a column of gas which creates a wind shear effect for aeroplanes and can make them crash.

Answer 7

It's the Bermuda Triangle, and there are thousands of books, stories, rumors, and a few movies about it. Basically, it's an area in the Atlantic Ocean where many craft have vanished without a trace and we know of no reason why they should--no storms, no reported malfunctions, no extenuating circumstances. Over the years many people have speculated about the cause or causes of these disappearances.

Answer 8

Some people believe it, some don't. Supposedly it's an area where countless ships and planes have simply disappeared off the map. I don't know whether to believe it or not. The three points of the triangle lie at Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda.

Answer 9

Bermuda Triangle, is a actually one of the phenomeanal thing in this world but actully scientifically it is the point on earth with the stongest magnetism i:e the point on earth where the positive and the negative magnetic pole meet, because of the strong waves there lots of believes hav been asscociated with it, some believe it where the famous pre-civilisation atlantis was submerged, some still claim it is where Eldorado is.It is somewher in the south american jungle,

Answer 10

as most people on here have said its an area associated with freak weather, disappearances of aircraft, ships, blah blah blah. The only answer is that this is a load of codswallop and totally untrue. A lot of the ships that mysteriously disappeared were nowhere near the area, and tales from survivors.. well they wouldn't have been any would there