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what is bermuda triangle?

2007-03-13 23:12:38 · 5 answers · asked by u got me!! 1 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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Bermuda Triangle, also called Devil's Triangle, is an area of sea off the southeastern coast of Florida, U.S.A., where many ships and aeroplanes have disappeared. Commercial and military craft cross this area safely every day. But since 1854, more than 50 ships and aircraft have vanished in or near the area.

Some people believe the disappearances took place under mysterious circumstances. Only a few captains or pilots radioed distress messages. Searchers seldom found bodies or survivors, though bits of wreckage were recovered after several disappearances.

Some scientists believe that violent, unexpected storms or downward air currents destroyed the ships and planes. Swift ocean currents may then have swept the wreckage far from where the craft disappeared.

The Bermuda Triangle covers about 1,140,000 square kilometres. It is formed by an imaginary line drawn from a point near Melbourne, Florida, to Bermuda to Puerto Rico and back to Florida.

The first recorded disappearance of a United States ship in the Bermuda Triangle occurred in March 1918, when the U.S.S. Cyclops vanished. On Dec. 5, 1945, a squadron of five U.S. bombers disappeared, and a seaplane vanished while searching for the aircraft.

2007-03-14 00:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by REDRUM 2 · 0 0

The bermuda triangle or the 'Devils triangle' is an Imaginery shape off the southeastern coast of america. There are actually some islands inside this triangle, one point of the triangle hits the coast of Miami whilst another point sits next to Peurto rico, and the final point is sat on top of Bermuda.

This Triangle seems to have swallowed many ships boats and aircraft.

The only likely explanation that I heard whilst curious myself was that this area is the one of two place's on earth, (The other being Devils sea near Japan, that also has the same dissapearances) where a magnetic compass points to TRUE north rather than magnetic north. I think the diference between the two is called compass variation an has a difference of up to 20 degrees.
Which would get navigators correcting themselves accordingly...only to be going in the wrong direction.
I watched a programme about this and it showed a plane in deep trouble after it ran out of fuel because it had been flying in circles trying to find out where it was.

2007-03-13 23:40:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Bermuda Triangle is a spot in the Carribean where planes, boats, etc., dissapear. Most people will disregard it as an urban legend. By the way, DON'T watch old documentaries on it because they all point out why it is impossible. Boring.

2007-03-13 23:19:41 · answer #3 · answered by Fish 2 · 0 0

Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary area SE of Florida and on to Porto Rico. It is an area where years before modern navigational equipment did not connect with reality. Small islands with weak radio transmitters to navigate on, visability at times marginal, lots of ocean with few visual refferences in a dusty air where visibility was an inverted cone looking downward, combined to complicate the area and the nonproperly trained pilot low on experience and high on fun, gambled to enter and a few, unfortunately ended up in newspaper and other reports.

2015-09-17 20:25:55 · answer #4 · answered by Bennie 1 · 0 0

its a part of the ocean off the south east (ish) part of florida. and people say that things (boats,people) disapear while traveling through it.

2007-03-13 23:15:31 · answer #5 · answered by OH Whuddup 2 · 0 0

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