Today we are going to take you to the most mysterious and

unknown part of the world till today

The Bermuda Triangle

AIT Humanities Presentation

Natural or Supernatural

Group Members & Details

Member Class Roll No

ARIJIT SAMANTA 44

SHOUVIK DAS NEOGI 50

SOUMIT KUMAR DAS 51

DEBAJIT DAS 52

PARTHA SARKAR 56

Department – CE (A) Group –

Session – 2012-13 (4th Semester)

What is the Bermuda Triangle?

It is a vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort

Lauderdale, Florida.

Spans an area of around 500,000 square miles, but some estimates are up to three times larger.

The Bermuda Triangle is also known as the Devil's Triangle, Antlantic cemetry, Twilight zone…

Location of Bermuda Triangle

Some Facts

• Reports of strange occurrences have been recorded as early as the days of Columbus.

• Sometimes the Coast Guard answers more than 5,000 distress calls within the Triangle per year.

General Reasoning

• People think it could be the gateway to HELL• Others believe there are live

bombs under the ocean from past wars.• Officials still say that the

causes of the sinking ships and crashing planes are natural.

History of The Bermuda Triangle

The most famous disappearances in Bermuda area was Flight 19 in April 1962

The saga of flight 19 began on December 15th,1945 when five Avenger torpedo bombers lifted Off from

the Navel Air Station at Fort Lauderdale.

Fliers, heading out to sea, suddenly ran out of fuel and went down in to the ocean ; where the planes sunk and the pilots drowned & possibly

eaten by sharks

Some untold facts about the Flight 19 incident

• “The rescue plane dispatched never returned.” – Only because it blew up 23 seconds after takeoff. And this particular design, the Mariner, was well known for it’s faulty gas tanks.

• “No wreckage was ever found” – The planes were possibly so far out in the Atlantic that they passed the continental shelf; which would mean the planes sank into several thousand feet of water. (The deepest point in the Atlantic, at 30,100 feet deep, is also located in the Puerto Rico Trench within the Bermuda Triangle.)

History of The Bermuda Triangle

Another incident took place in 1918, when USS Cyclops, collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with all 309 crew and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland. This incident resulted in the single largest loss of life in the history of the

US Navy

Similarly on December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft , disappeared while on a flight from San

Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people on board was ever found.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Strange anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle was recorded by the famed explorer Christopher Columbus in October 1492 when he and his crew passed through the area

THE FIRST KNOWN DOCUMENTATION

Christopher Columbus was on his famous journey, which would eventually lead him to the West Indies. He noted that the ships compass was acting strangely and giving inaccurate readings in the Sargasso Sea, and at one point he saw a strange dancing light at the origin and flames in the sky

Theories behind these mysterious incidents1. The first theory claims that the Bermuda Triangle has no paranormal activities caused by disappearances of ships.2. Another theory is about the physical forces,which draw everything that gets in its way.3. The third theory concerns the nature of water in the Sargasso Sea.4. The fourth theory argues that in the Bermuda Triangle occasionally creates a time hole, which takes planes or ships to travel into the past or the future.5. The fifth and the most realistic of all the theories talks about the natural evaporation of gas from underwater rocks, which creates bubbles on the surface which can capsize whatever is above.6. The seventh theory argues that in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle is the lost city of Atlantis.

Why do we still believe this?

• The current truth is so widely and easily circulated and believed that the only way to eliminate it would be for the Navy to make an announcement to the Nation about it, but as that costs lots of money, it’s doubtful they’ll do it even if they had the inclination to do so.

• Many people have been exposed to the myth of the Bermuda Triangle before they learn the facts about the incidents in the Bermuda Triangle, which aren’t widely circulated to begin with.

Missing Aircraft & Ships

The Major holes we overlook...

• Most of the associated incidents can be explained by rational means.

• Most of these same incidents blamed on the Bermuda Triangle didn’t occur anywhere near the Triangle. (The Mary Celeste was discovered off the coast of Portugal.)

• Some incidents recorded as far away as the Pacific are blamed on the Bermuda Triangle without reason.

• The facts do not support the legend; there is no mystery to be solved and nothing that needs explaining. The number of wrecks in this area is not extraordinary given its size, location, and the amount of traffic it receives.

Some Scientific Reasoning

• Underwater earthquakes: Scientists have found a great deal of seismic activity in this area.

• In the Bermuda Triangle, where magnetic north and true north actually match.

• Gulf stream: This ocean is extremely strong that it moves faster than 5mph.

• Pirates: A common way to get into the drug smuggling business in the ‘70s and ‘80s was to pirate a boat for business.

The fairest thing to do...

• Correlation – Investigate past incidents within the Bermuda Triangle, searching for authentic/government-issued reports.

• Statistics – Construct a timeline of incidents that occurred and compare this distribution with that of other treacherous areas of the world’s oceans to see if this area’s is significantly higher than that of other areas.

• Conduct a study – Select a sizable number of ships (to be determined by researchers) that will be passing through the Bermuda Triangle in a single year (or multiple years) and survey the Captain and some of the crew about the voyage across the Triangle.

POSSIBLE TRUTHS

•Tropical weather: many short and intense storms buildup and end up

quickly which are not even detected by satellite systems, hold waterspouts.•Amateur sailors: The coast guard gets over 8000 distress calls a year. Most of the sailors who have run out of gas or

encountered some other problem.

CONCLUSION

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© by Jakob Bader und Christian Finding

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