The Bermuda Triangle

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The Bermuda Triangle is one of the biggest mysterious places in the world. Its exact location is at the Atlantic Ocean, which is bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. In a normal daily life, it is a part of a regularly sailed shipping lane with cruise ships and many small boats also frequently sailing through the sea. Aircraft are also common in the Bermuda Triangle with both private and commercial planes commonly flying over it. While it has a nickname that shows its horror side-the Devil's Triangle. Over dozens of ships and planes have disappeared after they entered into the area. The questions the Bermuda Triangle leave for the world still remain unsolved, and some people have included it to UFO's and the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. People started to feel curious about its mysterious origin and unexplainable incidents, which followed by many sayings.
Everything with the Bermuda Triangle had begun from the log book of Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was the first to have sailed through the Bermuda Triangle. Once when he sailed through the area in 1942, he found the compass was given some weird readings and all the navigation instruments on the ship was not working at all. The ship was out of control. Columbus and the sailors were fearful and depressed, according to his log book. What they could do was nothing. They had no choice but to stay in the weather-beaten ship. Fortunately, the fleet of Columbus got through the plight. Yet, the first publicized disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle was actually the Flight 19. It was an afternoon in 1945, six planes had disappeared into thin air. Five U.S. Navy Avenger planes were having an ordinary training mission, which led by an experienced pilot-Taylor. At th...

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