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TRIANGLE OF MYSTERY
y Some believe that the Bermuda Triangle is a dangerous place to
venture.There have been a number of mysterious vanishings and
unsolved mysteries
in this stretch of ocean but is there a scientific explanation
for it all?
y The Bermuda Triangle is a 500,000-square-mile stretch of ocean
in theAtlantic, bounded roughly at its three points by Florida,
Bermuda, and
Puerto Rico.
y According to Triangle believer Gian Quasar, 75 aircraft and
hundreds ofpleasure yachts have vanished there in the last 25
years.
y Some claim that the lost continent of Atlantis sunk and
disappeared into theBermuda Triangle thousands of years ago.
y In 1945, Flight 19, a group of five avenger torpedo bombers,
disappeared ona training mission from Fort Lauderdale to the
Bahamas, over the Triangle.
None of the fourteen airmen or the five planes were found, and
Flight 19 is
considered to be the first Bermuda Triangle disappearance that
couldn't be
explained.
y Believers in the Triangle myth cite unusual, electrically
charged fogs andvapors as catalysts for broken radio transmitters,
navigational equipment,
and magnetic compasses in planes and boats.
y Solar wind, a stream of charged particles jettisoned by the
suns surface,travels over 90 million miles through space before i t
hits the Earths
magnetosphere, where most of its energy is deflected. The
remaining energy
particles spiral along magnetic field lines and tend to
gravitate toward the
poles.
y Some scientists believe that eruptions of methane gas could be
responsiblefor ship disappearances in the Triangle. The theory is
that a large underwater
landslide or earthquake could violently release methane gas
trapped beneath
the seabed, lowering the density of the surrounding ocean water
and creating
a sort of hole that large ships could sink into.
y The ocean floor in the area of the Triangle is a complex
underwater maze,made up of shallow banks and extremely large
oceanic trenches, many over
five miles deep.
y The Gulf Stream, large and powerful warm water current, runs
directlythrough the Bermuda Triangle.
y On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC3 aircraft carrying 32
peopledisappeared en route to Miami from Puerto Rico it is one of
the most
famous Triangle mysteries.
y The area of the Caribbean where the Triangle lies is one of
the mosthurricane-heavy places in the world.
