The Bermuda Triangle: A Mythical Section Of The Atlantic Ocean

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The Bermuda Triangle is located off the South-Eastern coast of the United States and forms a triangular section in the Atlantic Ocean. Over the centuries, there were many planes and ships that suddenly vanished when sailing or flying over a specific part of the Atlantic Ocean. This place is known as the Bermuda Triangle, a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean. There are many reasons as to why the sudden vanishing of ships and planes have been happening. Most of these reasons were theories from authors who had an idea of what was going on in the Bermuda Triangle and why they thought it was happening. Scientists are still trying to figure out why these sudden disappearances keep taking place in this section of the Atlantic Ocean. …show more content…

The captain at the time never sent out a distress call or anything else to let anyone know that they were in danger, also nobody aboard the ship answered any of the calls from the hundreds of other ships in the vicinity and the ship seemingly drifted out of existence. Another odd occurrence where something vanished while going over the Bermuda Triangle was in 1948 on December 24, there were 26 people on a plane which disappeared 50 miles away from it’s destination in Florida, after the flight sent its final radio call to notify them of their position the plane was never heard from …show more content…

There are still multiple disappearances occurring today in this specific region. Many novels and articles have been wrote on this subject, but there is one very important dispatch. September 16, 1950 the reporter Edward Jones was the first to take note that the mysterious disappearances of ships and aircrafts between the Florida coast and the Bermuda began in the late 40s.
“He cited such instances as the loss of the US Navy’s Flight 19 training mission of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers flying out of Florida which vanished on December 5, 1945 and the disappearance of the commercial airliners “Star Tiger” — which disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda — and the “Star Ariel” — which was lost on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica.”

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