Bermuda Triangle: The Great Unsolved Mystery Of Our Time

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Vincent H. Gaddis coined the term “Bermuda Triangle” in a 1964 article for Argosy when a number of ships and planes went missing in a triangle spanning from the coast of florida to the bermuda island in a triangle at least 500,000 square miles large.

On December 15th 1945, Flight 19, a group of 5 torpedo bomber planes, lost navigational control and plummeted into the atlantic ocean, losing 14 airmen, which have since been found in addition to many others.

20 planes and 50 ships have gone missing in the triangle, and to many people, the cause of these disappearances is due to rogue tidal waves or a mysterious geomagnetic anomaly that confuses pilots that causes them to crash into the ocean and disappear.

Though geomagnetic anomalys would not affect the pilot, because in their training they are taught to fly without navigational programs, rogue tidal waves may have been true because the …show more content…

Larry Kusche reported that many of the accidents reported in the bermuda triangle, were not in the triangle at all, and in many cases the incidences have been misreported due to sloppy research.

Larry Kusche would later note that “Berlitz’s research was so sloppy that ‘If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red , the chance of it being another color would be almost a certainty” (Radford, 1)

Another reason for all of these disappearances may be due to methane bubbles that turn the water into fragile froth that can't support the weight of the boats and inhales them into the ocean.

Others suggest that, “...methane eruptions from the ocean floor may suddenly be turning the sea into a froth that can't support a ship's weight…” (Unmuseum, 1) though this would not explain the number of flights that have disappeared in the

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