Thursday, 10 April 2014

History of the Bermuda Triangle

                                      Image : The location of the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a legendary part of the Atlantic Ocean approximately falls in the coast of Florida between Miami, Puerto Rico and the Bermudas. It covers about 500 000 square miles of the gigantic Atlantic Ocean.  The Bermuda Triangle has been believed for a long time to be the location where much numbers of airplanes and ships had disappeared. Unexplained conditions of these misfortunes, including one cases where there are pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers turn out to be disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly disappeared from the region even though it is in good weather without even radioing distress messages. Howard, an expert on Bermuda Triangle, declares that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle over the last century. 


                                   Image : illustration of UFO in the Bermuda Triangle


 The anecdotes of unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle began to reach public awareness around year of 1950 and have been continually reported since then. Furthermore, because of many vanishing incidents happened at Bermuda Triangle, it has become part of popular culture to link the Bermuda Triangle to paranormal activity even though most studies indicate terrible weather and human error are the more likely culprits. Other than that, unverified paranormal clarifications for Bermuda Triangle incidents have included references to UFO’s and even the curse from the soul of “Black Slaves”. Other explanations have included magnetic anomalies, pirates, deliberate sinking, hurricanes, gas deposits and huge waves.

                                Image : Illustration of huge wave in the Bermuda Triangle
  
The phrase "Bermuda Triangle" was earliest used in an article written by Vincent H. Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964. In the article, Gaddis asserted that in this strange sea a number of ships and planes had disappeared without explanation. Gaddis was not the first one to come to this conclusion, either. As early as 1952, George X Sands, in a report in Fate magazine, noted what seemed like an unusually large number of strange accidents happened in that area. He mostly gives details about the Flight 19 incident where the U.S navy airplanes went missing in 1945. He also stated about the ship Sandra that disappeared in 1950. 


 


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