The "Bermuda Triangle" or
"Devil's Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic
coast of the United States of America, which is noted for a supposedly high
incidence of unexplained disappearances of ships and aircraft. The apexes of the
triangle are generally believed to be Bermuda; Miami, Florida; and San Juan,
Puerto Rico. The US Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda
Triangle as an official name. The US Navy does not believe the Bermuda Triangle
exists. It is reported that Lloyd's of London, the world's leading market for
specialist insurance, does not charge higher premiums for vessels transiting
this heavily traveled area.
The Bermuda Triangle is a strange and mysterious place in the southern Atlantic
Ocean. It is roughly the shape of a triangle and it is said to have sucked
planes and boats into its dark and murky waters. No one knows what happened to
the planes and boats. When some enter the waters of the triangle they disappear
forever.
Bermuda-Triangle.Org is the web site of Gian J. Quasar. It originally began in
1999 as his massive database on the Bermuda Triangle until the publication of
his book, Into the Bermuda Triangle. Now it is also the personal website of the
author, not only containing the Bermuda Triangle database but keeping everyone
updated on his several other books, events and projects.
Triangular Shape: The triangle has had mystical and magical connotations
attached to it since before written history - after all, the Great Pyramid is
sitting out there for all to see - and it is a perfect triangle with a whole
slew of unknowns surrounding it. Having said that, is the triangular shape of
the Bermuda Triangle of any significance? Yes, but not like one might
think........it indeed does appear to be on a strong energy line or vortex in
addition to all the variations described above, but this appears to be more
relevant to its placement on earth than the actual triangular shape made by the
3 reference points by which we identify it.
The US geological Survey has estimated that just two small areas off the coasts
of North and South Carolina, which are a part of the Bermuda Triangle, contain
about 70 times the quantity of gas consumed annually in USA. The sea bed and the
areas of permafrost are therefore storehouses of a great energy source. It has
been estimated that just 1% of gas hydrate is equivalent to half the present
conventional gas reserves. But the bad news is that methane is a greenhouse gas
and it is vulnerable to blowouts when drillings go wrong. It is only stable
under narrow temperature and pressure conditions and would decay due to global
warming. We will have to wait and see whether it gives us energy to burn or it
burns us up instead.
The Bermuda Triangle is a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by a line from
Florida to the islands of Bermuda, to Puerto Rico and then back to Florida. It
is one of the biggest mysteries of our time - that isn't really a mystery.
The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first used in an article written by Vincent H.
Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964. In the article Gaddis claimed that in this
strange sea a number of ships and planes had disappeared without explanation.
Gaddis wasn't the first one to come to this conclusion, either. As early as 1952
George X. Sands, in a report in Fate magazine, noted what seemed like an
unusually large number of strange accidents in that region.
In 1969 John Wallace Spencer wrote a book called Limbo of the Lost specifically
about the triangle and, two years later, a feature documentary on the subject,
The Devil's Triangle, was released. These, along with the bestseller The Bermuda
Triangle, published in 1974, permanently registered the legend of the "Hoodoo
Sea" within popular culture.
Several books suggested that the disappearances were due to an intelligent,
technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea.
The only problem was that the mystery was more hype than reality. In 1975 a
librarian at Arizona State University, named Larry Kusche, decided to
investigate the claims made by these articles and books. What he found he
published in his own book entitled The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved. Kusche
had carefully dug into records other writers had neglected. He found that many
of the strange accidents were not so strange after all. Often a triangle writer
had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed
a raging storm had been in progress. Others said ships had "mysteriously
vanished" when their remains had actually been found and the cause of their
sinking explained.
More significantly a check of Lloyd's of London's accident records by the editor
of Fate in 1975 showed that the triangle was a no more dangerous part of the
ocean than any other. U.S. Coast Guard records confirmed this and since that
time no good arguments have ever been made to refute those statistics. So the
Bermuda Triangle mystery disappeared, in the same way many of its supposed
victims had vanished.
Even though the Bermuda Triangle isn't a true mystery, this region of the sea
certainly has had its share of marine tragedy. Perhaps the best known one was
the story of Flight 19.