Albert Einstein once said, "One of the most wonderful things in the world is mystery." "The Bermuda Triangle is such a mysterious and unknown place that has devoured countless planes and ships without leaving any clues.
So, what secrets does the Bermuda Triangle hide? This article will analyze the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle from multiple perspectives such as geography, climate, and physics, and uncover this mystery for you. Reading this article will take 5 minutes of your time, like friends welcome to like and follow, I will bring you interesting and mysterious popular science content every day.
Why is this called the Bermuda Triangle?
On a stormy night in 1609, English Sir Summers led a large fleet to the New World of America. They carried more than a thousand crew members and colonists, full of hope for the future.
However, as they approached Bermuda, a violent storm suddenly struck, engulfing their ships in darkness. Only a few survivors escaped the clutches of death, and Sir Summers became the founder of the British colony of Bermuda. This is the earliest recorded shipwreck in the Bermuda Triangle.
In 1840, the Rosari, a merchant ship laden with goods and treasures, lost signal on its way to Cuba. Half a month later, the Navy spotted the merchant ship near the Bermuda Triangle, but incredibly, everything was intact except for the crew missing.
There is no indication of fighting or shipwreck. All life on board Rosari seemed to have been sucked away by mysterious forces. Since then, the Bermuda Triangle has become a place where strange events continue to occur.
On December 5, 1945, the U.S. Navy sent five torpedo bombers on a training mission. They took off from Florida and flew along a triangular route, shuttling between the Bahamas, Bermuda and Florida.
However, during the flight, they encountered strong electromagnetic interference and navigation failures. They lost contact with the base and got lost in the vast sea.
Finally, after helplessly shouting for help, they disappeared from the radar screen. Even the plane that went to the rescue was also in trouble. The "torpedo bomber incident" shocked the world and brought attention to this mysterious and dangerous triangle - the Bermuda Triangle.
Detailed course of the "torpedo bomber incident"
The leader of the "torpedo bomber incident" was U.S. Navy Lieutenant Taylor, an experienced flying team that Taylor himself had flown 2,500 hours and the rest of the team had a record of more than 300 hours. Their mission was to conduct bombing training in the Bermuda Triangle, which was expected to be completed in three hours.
However, when they flew over the Bahamas, everything began to go wrong. Taylor reported to the base that their compass had suddenly failed and it was impossible to determine the direction. The base also noticed that their signal was getting weaker.
Around 4 p.m., Taylor said they didn't know what had gone off course and didn't know where they were. The base immediately sent another normal plane to guide them back, but it wasn't long before the plane also reported being lost. At 6 p.m., all five planes were running out of fuel, but they were still hovering blankly in the air.
The base heard desperate news: all the instruments of the 5 aircraft had malfunctioned, showing different readings. It was as if they had entered a misty world, unable to even see the setting sun in the west. If they can see the sun, they can find the right direction.
At 7 p.m., in his last call with the base, Taylor uttered the heartbreaking words: "We're done." And just like that, in silence, Taylor and his 13 teammates and 5 planes disappeared into the sea.
The base immediately sent a Martin-type maritime search aircraft to look for them. The search aircraft has a crew of 13 and enough fuel and equipment. However, shortly after takeoff, the Martin-type search plane also disappeared as if it had been sucked into a black hole, and did not transmit any information back. In just a few hours, 6 planes and 27 pilots disappeared without a trace.
The US authorities took this very seriously and used the largest search and rescue operation in history: 21 ships, hundreds of small ships, more than 300 aircraft, conducted a comprehensive search near Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico. However, after days and nights of hard work, nothing was found. Did the United States really find nothing? Or is it to hide something?
Planes keep disappearing
In the winter of 1948, a passenger plane bound for Miami suddenly disappeared as it was about to land. The airport only heard the pilot's last call, and then there was no signal. The 32 people just evaporated along with the plane, leaving not a single fragment behind. They are not the first nor the last flyers to encounter misfortune in the Bermuda Triangle.
Since 1945, more than 12 planes have disappeared over this strange sea, most of which have not found any clues.
The disappearance of steamers
In the mysterious events of the Bermuda Triangle, the earliest witnesses were a great navigator, Columbus. On October 11, 1492, he was heading for the New World with three ships. As they approached Bermuda, they suddenly encountered a violent storm. The waves were rough, the lightning was combined, and Columbus and his crew felt more frightened than ever.
At this moment, they were surprised to find that some strange light flashed in the storm. Sometimes those lights resemble fireballs, sometimes like shooting stars, sometimes like beacons. Columbus didn't know what those lights were, or if they were dangerous to them.
He could only pray that God would keep them safe through this storm. To this day, those rays remain a mystery, and no one has been able to explain what exactly they are.
In February 1918, a huge American ship, the Cyclops, set sail from Rio de Janeiro. It was carrying 306 staff and passengers, as well as a large shipment of manganese ore, ready to travel to Baltimore, Maryland. However, after it sailed out of the Bermuda Triangle area, no one heard from it again.
It was as if it had disappeared into the air, leaving no trace. Later investigations revealed that the Cyclops was overloaded when it went to sea and that one of the engine cylinders had been damaged. It has been speculated that these factors may have contributed to the ship's inability to control direction and stability during a storm and eventually sink to the bottom of the sea.
But these are only speculations, and there is no evidence to support them. To this day, the disappearance of the Cyclops remains a mystery, leaving people frightened and curious about the Bermuda Triangle.
On November 23, 1941, a warship named the Ameba set sail carrying precious bauxite and left the port of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. However, it never reached its destination and disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle as if swallowed by the ocean. The 58 living lives on board also fell.
Just a month later, its sister ship, the Poseidon suffered the same fate, sinking into the abyss in the same mysterious place, disappearing underwater along with the 61 people on board. Interestingly, both ships are sister ships to the Cyclops, and neither of them left any wreckage or clues.
Some speculate that acid carbides may have eroded the warship's fragile longitudinal support beams, causing these old and poorly structured hulls to break easily in wind and waves. But this is only a conjecture, and there is no conclusive evidence. The truth about the ship's disappearance remains a mystery.
"Truth" analysis
Many scientists and scholars want to uncover the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle, and they have come up with a variety of theories and hypotheses to try to explain why the alarming events of missing planes and ships often occur there.
One theory is that the Bermuda Triangle hides an anomalous magnetic field, which is affected by the gravitational tides of the moon and the sun, sometimes powerful and sometimes bizarre. This magnetic field can disrupt the navigation systems of aircraft and ships, making them unable to sail properly and rendering various instruments ineffective.
Moreover, the Bermuda Triangle also has bad weather, storms, waves, lightning, etc. can threaten the safety of aircraft and ships. In such a place full of variables and crises, disoriented planes and ships are difficult to survive.
The disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle have kept people searching for answers, but always to no avail. Some scientists believe that methane hydrates on the seafloor may be at work, periodically erupting large amounts of bubbles, turning water into foam. Such water could not support the weight of the ships, allowing them to sink to the bottom of the sea like stones without warning.
This theory has been proven in Australian experiments, but no signs of methane hydrate have been found in the Bermuda Triangle, so this theory does not yet hold.
In addition to this theory, there are many other conjectures, such as whirlpools at sea, caves on the seabed, water bridges on the sea, black holes in space, etc. that may cause the ship to disappear.
There are even more sci-fi ideas, such as abnormal gravity, time travel, etc., which may cause ships to disappear. But none of these ideas have been proven, and it is precisely because of this that the Bermuda Triangle is even more mysterious and fascinating.
Outrageous rumors
On September 9, 1990, a startling news spread around the world. A obsolete "Douglas" airliner suddenly appeared at Caraga airport in Venezuela, claiming to be Flight 914 from New York and taking off on July 2, 1955. This means that the airliner disappeared in the air for 35 years and then suddenly returned.
Many believe that this is due to the magical power of the Bermuda Triangle, which allowed the airliner to travel through time and space into an unknown dimension. The Bermuda Triangle thus becomes even more mysterious and stunning. However, when investigators investigated the incident in depth, they found that it was all a well-made lie. The "Flight 914 incident" was nothing more than a hoax.
Alien said
The Bermuda Triangle's fame did not emerge overnight, but was accumulated and spread over decades. The first thing that made people interested in the Bermuda Triangle was the alien theory. Some believe that the reason why planes and ships often disappear there may be that aliens are interfering with and kidnapping them.
This theory stems from the large number of UFO sightings in the United States between the late 1940s and 1950s. The U.S. Air Force investigated this, but found that those UFOs were not the product of fiction or misunderstanding, nor were they common phenomena in nature, but some strange flying objects that existed.
This plunged the entire United States into a UFO frenzy, and people began to wonder if any aliens were secretly observing and interfering with Earth. When there are frequent disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, people associate it with UFOs, thinking that it may be an alien base or passageway. The Bermuda Triangle thus became a curious and frightening place, known to the world.
Personal opinion
The mysterious disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle makes people frightened and curious, but in fact, if you look at the probability, it is not so special. In fact, the Bermuda Triangle is not the most dangerous sea area in the world, nor is it more prone to disappearances than any other sea.
According to the U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command, a total of 75 ships and aircraft have disappeared within the Bermuda Triangle over the past 70 years, while 1,219 and 256 have disappeared elsewhere on the east coast of the United States. This shows that disappearances are not more frequent or more frequent in the Bermuda Triangle than elsewhere.
And the story of the Bermuda Triangle sounds scary, as if there are some hidden secrets waiting for us there. But in fact, the Bermuda Triangle is not so dangerous now, and many planes and ships pass safely through there every day.
Do you know where the Bermuda Triangle is? It is in the "back garden" of the United States, which happened to be the focus of the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony during the Cold War. Perhaps, the United States deliberately described the Bermuda Triangle as very strange, so that others did not dare to approach their "back garden". Of course, these are just my conjectures, maybe the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle really hides some earth-shattering secrets.