Essay On The Bermuda Triangle

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Steven DeLavan 12.15.13
The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, an area that stretches from the Florida coast to Bermuda to Puerto Rico, also known as the Deadly Triangle or Devil's Triangle. This area has been the location of many unexplained disappearances and phenomenon’s such as shipwrecks, plane crashes, mysterious disappearances, craft instrument malfunctions. These disappearances and phenomenons have caused many different theories to be developed over the years. This paper will focus on the more plausible theories surrounding the Bermuda Triangle.

There have been many disappearances in the area known as the “Bermuda Triangle” such as Flight 19, it was a training aircraft of US Navy that went missing on Dec 5, 1945 while flying over the Atlantic. Two Martin Mariner planes were sent on the 5th of December 1945 to search for the Flight-19. One did not return. The USS Cyclops was a navy ship disappearance that resulted in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy. It went missing without a trace with a crew of 309, sometime after March 4th 1918 and after departing the island of Barbados. In 1941 The USS Proteus and the USS Nereus vanished, just as their sister ship the USS Cyclops previously did along the same route. In 1963 the Marine Sulphur Queen was a 524-foot carrier of molten sulphur, she started to sail Feb 2, 1963 from Beaumont, Texas with 39 crew. It was reported lost in Florida Straits on Feb 4. The USS Scorpion was a nuclear powered submarine of United States Navy that disappeared in Bermuda Triangle in May 1968. In 1991 - The pilot of a jet made a routine radio request to increase altitude. While ascending, the aircraft gradually faded from radar and vanished. In 1999, the ...

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...ea around the Bermuda triangle was properly explored and mapped out I bet these missing items would turn up, or at least what is left of their wreckage.

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