20 interesting facts about the Bermuda Triangle
Of all the places on Earth, the Bermuda Triangle is considered the most mysterious and mysterious. Despite the fact that all studies refute the possibility of the existence of any anomaly in these parts, millions of people believe that something is wrong with this place. Here ships and planes disappear, eyewitnesses see strange natural phenomena … Who knows what secrets and secrets this place really hides?
This area is really very difficult to navigate. There are many shallows, and it is here that destructive cyclones and storms often arise.
The corners of the triangle lie on Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. Although statistics say that most anomalies occur outside of this conditional zone. Very close, but not in it.
The territory of the Bermuda Triangle was first established in 1945. The project was attended by both rescuers and specialists and scientists.
The very phrase “Bermuda Triangle” was first used by the writer Vincent Gaddis in 1964. In the journal Argosi, he published an article entitled “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle” about the strange disappearance of a link from five torpedo bombers, as well as a rescue seaplane sent in search of them. The disappearance of Link 19 is still one of the most mysterious secrets in aviation history.
The bottom in the Bermuda Triangle was examined completely, every centimeter of it, but it was not possible to find any evidence indicating the reasons for the disappearance of ships and aircraft.
During the XX century, about 100 ships and aircraft disappeared here, that is, about one per year.
In 1984, the route of the Spanish sailing regatta ran from Puerto Rico through the waters of the area. At the head of the leaders from Bermuda was the forty-meter ship Marquez, several powerful waves that sunk the ship fell upon him. These were probably wandering killer waves, a phenomenon more or less investigated. But in the Bermuda Triangle, they occur more often than in other places on Earth, possibly due to the impact of the Gulf Stream.
Almost the entire Bermuda Triangle lies in the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without coasts.
The bodies of the missing were never found here, despite the fact that searches after the mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft were carried out many times.
At the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle in 1992, they discovered a pyramid of regular shape, approximately three times the size of the Cheops pyramid. There is very little information about her – she was probably classified. Rumors leaked into the network that it was made of a material resembling glass.
One theory claims that the mythical sunken continent of Atlantis was located right here in the Bermuda Triangle. But no evidence of the existence of Atlantis has yet been found.
In this area, gas bubbles are sometimes observed on the surface of the water. Probably, gas comes out of the fields located at the bottom. Sufficiently saturated water can become less dense, and the ship at this moment can simply drown. Natural gas escaping to the surface can erupt due to interaction with oxygen, which, in turn, can cause a plane crash. But this, too, is only a theory.
Around the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, there are many different rumors and fables. One of them claims that the ships “suck in” the ominous huge algae called “Devil’s Hair”.
Another extravagant hypothesis states that about 11 thousand years ago, a comet fell into the zone of the Bermuda Triangle, the electromagnetic properties of which still continue to affect the state of the geomagnetic situation in this area.
Due to the powerful and warm Gulf Stream, the air temperature in the Bermuda Triangle is slightly higher compared to the surrounding regions. Other, cooler currents carry cold atmospheric fronts that collide with each other. This phenomenon gives rise to rather dense fogs that frighten travelers.
The first person to visit these parts was Christopher Columbus. The native population in Bermuda never existed, but in 1492, the celebrated navigator sailed along the border of the Bermuda Triangle, seeing endless ribbons of sargasso algae that covered the entire visible surface of the ocean. A strange glow moved up and down in the water column. Columbus was also surprised by the unusual readings of the compass needle in the area.
In the vicinity of Bermuda until 1600, more than 30 shipwrecks were recorded. Then there were more ships here, and the number of inexplicable disasters also increased.
The largest ship killed here was the Cristobal Colon cruise ship. He crashed in 1936, flying into reefs, and sank.
In late summer 1840, the French ship Rosalie was discovered at sea. The ship had no visible damage, but there were no people on it. A similar story was repeated in 1872 – the ship “Maria Celeste” drifted for a month on the waves without a crew. These secrets have not been revealed so far.
Airplane pilots have repeatedly reported unusual funnel-shaped clouds that they observed in the Bermuda Triangle. Moreover, some of them claimed that at that time on-board devices behaved strangely, and worked clearly incorrectly.