Bermuda Triangle
Is the really a place where strange powers are at work? The is a very complex and mystifying area that is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft. From reading this paper one will learn geographic features of the , famous disappearances, and possible explanations for them.
There is a section of the western Atlantic, off the southeast coast of the United States, forming what has been termed a triangle. It extends from Bermuda in the north to southern Florida, and then west to a point through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico to about 40* west latitude, and then back again to Bermuda (Gaffron 14). This area occupies a disturbing and almost ...
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more thorough, and records are more carefully kept (Berlitz 1).
During the past century more than 50 ships and 20 aircraft sailed into oblivion in the area known as the . Exactly what happened to the ships and aircraft is unknown. Most disappeared without a trace. Few distress calls and little, if any, debris signaled their disappearance (Baumann 44).
Ships and Planes Disappeared in the Last Century
1900-1919 1920-1939 1940-1959 1960-1979 1980-1999 Total
Ships 13 11 13 14 12 63
Planes 6 5 8 4 5 28
Total 19 16 21 18 17 91
On a clear day, December 5, 1945, five Navy Avengers of Flight 19 took off for a routine mission. The experienced crew had a routine that would take them 160 miles east, 40 miles north, and then 120 miles straight back to base (Cusack 10). The planes were suppose to carry three man crews, but one crew member failed to show. The planes had done their required preflight test and everything checked out in good working order. It was a routine ...
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rafts. The men were well trained in sea survival. The official Navy report stated that the planes had vanished "as if they had flown to Mars." (Baumann 5-6).
Another mysterious disappearance that baffles researchers is that of the SS Marine Sulphur Queen. Bound for Norfolk, Virginia from Beaumont, Texas, the tanker was last heard from on February 3, 1963, when she routinely radioed her position. The message placed her near Key West in the Florida Straits. Three days later, Coast Guard searchers found a solitary life jacket bobbing in a calm sea 40 miles southwest of the tankers last known position. Another sign of the tanker or her 39-man crew has never been found (Cusack ...
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