Bermuda Triangle (The Devil’s Triangle)

By:Fadhlan F.R.Farhan A.I.

Yehezkiel E.S.Veronika P.L.L.

INTRODUCTIONBermuda Triangle or also well known as The Devil’s Triangle is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida to one small island in Bermuda to an island in Puerto Rico. From those points it turns out into a shape of an imaginary triangle. And this area is inaccurately known as a place where a lot of planes, ships, had gone missing mysteriously. But why? Here are some thoughts of this conspiracy theory.

1st Thought (Human Error)It is wildly believed that us, human, are the one who made mistakes. Human error is the number one reason cited for losses of aircrafts and vessels at sea. Unclear position of flight and sensory confusion is rare with pilots but are a well-known reason for a small percentage of flying accidents with 87% of those accidents resulting in fatalities. Also the fact that the area within the Bermuda Triangle receives a great deal of traffic more than in other areas, leads to more accidents and disappearances.

2nd Thought (Methane Gas)

An explanation for some disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is the presence of vast fields of a natural gas called methane. Laboratory experiments have proven that bubbles of methane could sink a model ship by decreasing the density of the water with wreckage being very likely to rise to the surface then rapidly swept away by the Gulf Stream. It has additionally been proposed that these eruptions or ‘mud volcanoes’ can produce foamy water that is no longer capable of providing floating ability for ships causing them to sink very rapidly without warning. It has been proposed that this methane gas can also effect planes as well as ships. But according to other papers, no large release of gas is believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 15,000 years.

3rd Thought (Alien Abductions)

Part of the thought about ‘mysterious’ accidents in the area was heightened in 1967 with a press informed by the National Geographic Society explaining strange phenomena in and around the Triangle. Of course alien abduction was not a suggestion, but people soon began filling in the blanks with explanations like aliens messing up navigational equipment in order to abduct(kidnap) people. This thought was beginning to lift as people moved into the 70s, but the idea of aliens continued long after the 60s became a transcendental memory. Even Steven Spielberg in this science fiction film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, features the lost Flight 19 aircrew that went missing in 1945 while over the Triangle. A massive land and sea search was mounted for the 5 Navy torpedo bombers that disappeared while in routine flight as well as a rescue plane that went missing after being sent to search for the missing crew. Flight 19 was made up of a 13 men with neither bodies nor wreckage ever being found including the rescue plane or the other 14 men who went in search of Flight 19.

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