The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle Essay, Research Paper
The Mysterious Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is shrouded, in a thick cloud of mystery, in a thick
cloud of controversy, and a thick cloud of argument. Not even the location of the
Triangle is agreed on. The most common description of its location is the triangle
formed by linking Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico. But there is also two other
descriptions: The Devil’s Triangle is more like a blob that covers most of the
western Caribbean. The Limbo of the lost is an area that stems from Miami to
Barbados to the coast of Ireland. All these areas are easily confused, mainly
because people are over zealous to blame ship/ plane disappearances on the
Triangle. There is also a theory by Ivan T. Sanderson that describes 12 “vile
vortexes,” that are places around the world with similar dimensions, where ship
and other vessels tend to disappear. The most reported upon disappearance has
to be the unexplained disappearance of flight 19. Flight 19 was a routine training
flight in 1945 that mysteriously disappeared until 1992, when wreckage was
finally uncovered. Five Grumman TBM Avenger bombers took off from the Naval
Air Station at Ft. Lauderdale Florida. From that point on, nothing is agreed on.
Some will say that all the pilots were experienced. But others say only one had
any significant flying time. And he was drunk. Some say the weather was “ideal”
for flying, but others say that later in the day the weather turned afoul. Of course,
then the infamous conversations from planes to the base. Accounts of the
recordings differ as well. Certain discrepancies are apparent in each account
given by different expert offers on the subject. Some give accounts of
instruments failing (which will be explained later), and yet others say that the
instruments were just misread by the hung-over, famished flight leader Lt.
Charles C. Taylor. There are also Another mysterious disappearance is the
Raifuku Maru a Japanese freighter that disappeared in 1925. The most bizarre
characteristic of the disappearance is a radio message send just before the ship
disappeared. The message is as follows: “Danger like Dagger. Come quick!”
Experts have been working on an explanation for what kind of object has the
characteristic danger of a dagger, but none have come. Although, the Homeric
the vessel that picked up the distress call, might have also picked up some
electrical interference, distorting the message. Another translation of the
message, that is done with the assumption that electrical interference was
prevalent is as follows: “Now very danger. Come quick!” And with this there is a
report that the Homeric also saw the Raifuku Maru sink, but as always this too
has not been proven or disproved, so the debate rages on… The accounts of
disappearances have been around since 1800, when the USS Pickerney
disappeared on a route from Guadeloupe to Delaware. But there is evidence that
even Columbus’ crew avoided the region as they described it a “of the devil.”
From 1800 to 1976 there were 143 disappearances, and since there is a strong
likely hood of smaller vessels being lost but not recorded, the amount of
vanishing ships might be well over 500. But only the most well documented
cases are given any credit, and in some or most cases credit isn’t even due.
Actually the first reported disappearance of a ship with a radio was the
19,000-ton Cyclops in March of 1918. But in this case (as well as many others)
the US navy vessel was lost on a course that took her through rough seas and
high winds. And records show that most of her cargo was stored in the front of
her hold, and that it was improperly secured, increasing the risk of such a ship to
capsize. Often attempts are made to over dramatize the power of the Triangle by
adding and omitting important information. Such is the case in the disappearance
of a DC-3 off the coast of Florida. In this case the plane had a faulty radio,
changing weather pattern to compensate for, and words that have been added
to the transcript of the flight recordings. The adding of assumed information,
such as the appearance of Miami lights from the pilot’s view, because he was in
the assumed position of a distance where lights would be visible but never were
actually seen. But in most authors and researchers descriptions of the event,
faulty radios, changing weather, etc., are never mentioned, so the story will
sound more unexplainable. To explain to phenomenon that has been described
in the previous stories, and in numerous other stories I will point out individual
explanations. + The compass always points due north, and not magnetic north in
the Bermuda Triangle. Yes the compass does point due north but this is easily
explainable. On some places on Earth magnetic north and due north line up in a
straight line (the Agonic line), when perceived from a certain point. The Bermuda
Triangle region happens to be one of a few places in the world where this
happens. + Compass’ gyrate or act crazy around the Triangle. In many places all
around the world, local magnetic currents are sometimes unorthodox in behavior.
But this is perfectly explainable. + Satellites are likely to malfunction above the
triangle. This happened in one case where a weather satellite would rewind
coincidentally above the triangle. And since the rewinding of tape that stored
infrared and visual data, was preset to reset at that time, the satellite did not
malfunction at all. + Weapons of Atlantis are still active and are shooting down
ships and planes. It is often assumed that Atlantis was an island that contained a
race of super beings with advanced technology. This is often hinted at. But Plato,
who was the most well known person to have given accounts of Atlantis, said
that the Ancient Greeks defeated Atlantis in a war. Now if Atlantis was so
advanced to shoot down modern ships and planes, don’t you think they could
have defeated the Ancient Greeks in battle? Some more presentable theories
are the possibilities of flammable gas deposits that leak during volcanic activity. It
large (and I mean large) pockets of gas were released, the falling of ships in to
the void of the space left by the emerging bubbles then being crushed by the
returning water, would cause the almost instant disappearance of ships. Also the
gases if made in contact with a plane or jet engine would ignite causing an
explosion. There is also a theory that the Bermuda Triangle is a point where
there are holes in space and time that if a vessel goes through such a hole it is
transported to another dimension. Well science can’t totally disprove this theory
since we don’t quite know the full nature of time, and/or dimensional shifts. So it
is safe to say it is bet assume the latter, yet.