The planes and 27 men were never seen or heard from again. The official navy report said the planes disappeared "as if they had flown to Mars. The bizarre disappearances attributed to the Triangle have been linked to everything from alien abduction to sorcery.
Although the mystery has not yet been completely solved, there are scientific explanations for many of the maritime disasters that have occurred in the Triangle. The most obvious answers are linked to extreme weather conditions with which any Bermudian fisherman would be well acquainted. The most recent scientific theory on the infamous Triangle suggests that the freakish disappearance of ships and aircraft could be the result of large deposits of methane gas spewing up from the ocean floor.
Huge eruptions of methane bubbles may push water away from a ship, causing it to sink. If the highly flammable methane then rises into the air, it could ignite in an airplane's engine -- causing it to explode and disappear.
Bermuda, and the long stretch of sea before it, has been turned to myth for centuries. Some even believe that William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" is based on tales of sorcery and shipwreck in the area.
When Christopher Columbus passed through the Bermuda Triangle on his first voyage to the new world, he recorded that a bursting flame of fire struck the sea and caused a strange light to appear in the distance a few weeks later. In , legend has it that the Ellen Austin, a ship sailing from Liverpool to New York, encountered a "ghost ship" in the Bermuda Triangle — and things quickly went awry.
In , Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world, vanished on a voyage from Martha's Vineyard to South America. In , the US Navy's largest and fastest fuel ship, the USS Cyclops, disappeared en route from the Caribbean to Baltimore with crew members and didn't leave a single trace of what had happened. Thomas to the East Coast when it suddenly vanished in the Bermuda Triangle.
In , the legend of the Bermuda triangle began to take hold even more when five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a naval base in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. The last thing recorded in the communications by Flight 19 passengers were eerie reports on their location: "Everything looks strange, even the ocean," said one pilot. In , a DC-3 commercial flight vanished over the Triangle with 29 passengers and two crew members headed toward Miami.
But the flight suddenly lost communications when it switched over to Kingston frequency above the Bermuda triangle. Though the weather was clear and the flight appeared to be on track, it was never seen or heard from again. In , the SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a large tanker ship carrying 39 passengers and molten sulfur, was last seen near the southern coast of Florida.
After more than two weeks of looking, the rescue team only found a few pieces of debris and life preservers. The phrase "Bermuda triangle" was officially coined by Vincent Gaddis in a pulp magazine article titled "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.
In , the people on the foot cargo ship Sylvia L. Ossa became victims of the Triangle's mysteries when the ship suddenly disappeared with 37 people on board. Though debris including life preserver and a lifeboat was found, the ship itself was never again detected. The weather was calm and Rivers was just one mile from landing when his signal lights suddenly disappeared from the radar.
A search team was sent to look for him, but the plane was never found. Many people have reported strange occurrences with their compasses in the Triangle throughout the years. But the truth is that simple mistakes cause a lot of accidents every year, both in the air and on the sea.
The Bermuda Triangle has a lot of islands that can be hard to distinguish from one another, which can contribute to the confusion. They were led by Lieutenant Charles Taylor , who was believed to be hungover and who had gotten lost in the past during flights. Some people think there is no mystery to the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.
They say there are no more disappearances than in other parts of the world, especially considering the Triangle is a well-traveled area. No discussion of Bermuda Triangle theories can overlook the alien explanation. Why the aliens might choose the large, rather isolated area of the Bermuda Triangle to snatch up unsuspecting travelers is easy to imagine, however.
Will We Ever Know? Someday, maybe this mystery will finally be solved. The Bermuda Triangle. Pilots loved them. They were also very heavy, weighing more than 10, pounds 4, kilograms empty. When ditched, the Avenger would go down hard and fast. The possibility of anyone surviving a landing in high seas was slim, the chance of surviving the night in the cold waters was nil, the likelihood of the wreckage making a quick descent to the bottom was high.
Adding to the tragedy, one of the rescue planes also disappeared along with its man crew. Their plane, a PBM Mariner, was nicknamed the "flying gas tank"; the slightest spark or a lit match could cause an explosion. A ship in the area reported seeing a huge fireball and crossing through an oil slick at the exact time and place where the plane would have been.
The Navy halted production of that plane in In the Navy's final report, the disappearance of Flight 19 was blamed on pilot error. Taylor's family protested and, after several reviews, the verdict was changed to "causes or reasons unknown. The Bermuda Triangle region has some unusual features. It's one of only two places on Earth—the other being an area nicknamed the Devil's Sea off the east coast of Japan, which has a similar mysterious reputation—where true north and magnetic north line up, which could make compass readings dicey [sidebar].
It is also home to some of the deepest underwater trenches in the world; wreckage could settle in a watery grave miles below the surface of the ocean. Most of the sea floor in the Bermuda Triangle is about 19, feet 5, meters down; near its southern tip, the Puerto Rico Trench dips at one point to 27, 8, meters feet below sea level. Treacherous shoals and reefs can be found along the continental shelf. Strong currents over the reefs constantly breed new navigational hazards, according to the Coast Guard.
However, Feit pointed out, the Gulf Stream travels along the western edge of the triangle and could be a factor. The Gulf Stream is like a to mile-wide to kilometer-wide river within the ocean that circulates in the North Atlantic Ocean. The warm water and two- to four-knot currents can create weather patterns that remain channeled within it.
Sailors can sometimes identify the Gulf Stream by the clouds and thunderstorms over it. The Coast Guard also notes that unpredictable Caribbean-Atlantic storms can yield waterspouts that often spell disaster for pilots and mariners. Still, given a choice between the horrifying idea of a giant squid's tentacles wrestling an innocent ship to the sea floor, or an alien abduction, versus human error, shoddy engineering, and a temperamental Mother Nature—who could resist the legend of the Bermuda Triangle?
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