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2007-08-08 20:29:18 · 13 answers · asked by Rick P 1 in Society & Culture Mythology & Folklore

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Bermuda Triangle, the best-known of a variety of folk names given to a triangular region of the Atlantic Ocean whose apexes are Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the island of Bermuda. Numerous ships and aircraft have disappeared in the area, the most famous being a flight of five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers that failed to return from a routine training mission in December 1945. Other losses range from small pleasure boats to the 542-foot U.S. Navy collier Cyclops, lost with all hands in 1918. Since the 1960s, some commentators have attributed these disappearances to powerful, mysterious forces that include UFOs, time warps, and the "lost continent" of Atlantis. Scientific and maritime authorities have consistently rejected these explanations in favor of naturalistic ones such as turbulent seas, rapidly changing weather conditions, and the errors of inexperienced sailors and pilots.-

2007-08-09 05:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 0 0

The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil's Triangle) is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Legend has it that many people, ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. How many have mysteriously disappeared depends on who is doing the locating and the counting. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times that size, depending on the imagination of the author. (Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the "triangle.") Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Even so, estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years. Howard Rosenberg claims that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century.

2007-08-08 20:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by britay1960 2 · 0 0

Bermuda Triangle, area in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida where a number of ships and aircraft have vanished. Also known as the Devil's Triangle, it is bounded at its points by Melbourne, Fla.; Bermuda; and Puerto Rico. Storms are common in the region, and investigations to date have not produced scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances.


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2007-08-09 17:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some stating its shape is akin to a trapezium covering the Straits of Florida, 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 accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

2007-08-08 20:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by DefiantRican 3 · 0 0

the area of the Bermuda Triangle is around the east coast of Florida and Puerto Rico and additionally a sprint area of it relatively is next to South Carolina The Bermuda Triangle would not have an truthfully absolute area with the aid of fact it is so vast yet is in-between eighty-ninety levels west and 30-20 levels north.

2016-11-11 20:09:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

From Miami, Florida to Bermuda to Puerto Rico makes a triangle of sorts...and I lived, swam and boated in the triangle for years...it is a perfectly normal part of the ocean...

2007-08-09 03:52:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Let me see...(taking out my trusty Atlas...)

It appears as if The Bermuda Triangle is located somewhat off-center of The Barbados Rombula, which is slightly to the left of The Bahama Pajama, several miles east of The Puerto Rico Parallelogram...

Very close, incidently, to The Sicilian Circle...

(but don't worry...your seat cushion can be used as an interdimensional slider's vehicle and flotation device...)

2007-08-08 20:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It's corners are Miami, Porta Rico and Bermuda.

2007-08-09 03:46:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

bermuda

2007-08-08 20:31:48 · answer #9 · answered by r.d. 1 · 0 0

Off the coast, its close to florida

2007-08-08 20:33:06 · answer #10 · answered by LikeItorNot 3 · 0 0

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