THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, ATLANTIC OCEAN

The North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North America is known as the "Bermuda Triangle," and it is believed that 20 aircraft and more than 50 ships have mysteriously vanished. The territory, whose boundaries are up for controversy, is formed like a triangle and extends roughly from Florida's Atlantic coast to Bermuda and the islands collectively known as the Greater Antilles. The Bermuda Triangle is estimated to be between 500,000 and 1,510,000 square miles (1,300,000 to 3,900,000 square kilometers) in size. Strange phenomena have been reported in the area since the mid-nineteenth century. While some ships never transmitted a distress signal and were never seen or heard from again, others were discovered to have been completely abandoned.

The Northeast Trade Winds have driven the majority of the waters that enter the Gulf Stream system westward across the Atlantic. In the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, the current gradually narrows, and when it passes through the Straits of Florida, it reaches a speed of more than 3.5 knots. The volume of flow was recorded at 1,060,000,000 cubic feet (30,000,000 cubic meters) per second, which is hundreds of times the flow of the Mississippi River. The Florida Current flows at a depth of around 2,600 feet (790 meters) as it bends north between Florida and the Bahamas. Following that, it continues along the continental slope beyond the shelf's edge. Velocitations gradually decrease to about.

The Gulf Stream was first described by the Spanish navigator and explorer Juan Ponce de León early in the 16th century. In the late 1700s, Benjamin Franklin produced a map of the current. In 1844, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey began systematic surveying of the stream. Concentrated modern efforts were initiated only in the early 1930s by the ketch Atlantis of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. One of the difficulties of scientific water but rather a complicated network of currents that tend to shift course over time, to disappear and then reappear,water but rather a complicated network of currents that tend to shift course over time, to disappear and then reappear,and to develop eddies along the margins. Today, orbiting space satellites are utilized to map the path of the Gulf Stream. The satellites are equipped with sensors that can detect temperature and colour variations to trace the changing surface patterns of the Velocities.

Movement and physical characteristics The majority of the waters that join the Gulf Stream system first are propelled westward across the Atlantic by the Northeast Trade Winds. The current gradually narrows in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and as it flows through the Straits of Florida, its velocity exceeds 3.5 knots (4 miles [6.5 km] per hour). The flow volume has been measured at 1,060,000,000 cubic feet (30,000,000 cubic meters) per second, which is hundreds of times more than that of the Mississippi River. As it turns north between Florida and the Bahamas, the Florida Current flows at a depth of about 2,600 feet (790 meters) before following the continental slope beyond the shelf's edge. Velocities

Effects on Marine and Human Life The marine species in the Gulf Stream system are not of high commercial worth. Bluefin tuna, Atlantic salmon, and flying fish are among the most prominent species. Its warm waters, when mixed with the colder waters on the Grand Banks and off northwestern Europe, contribute to turbulence and the availability of nutrient salts, making these regions among the most productive commercial fishing grounds in the world until they were overfished in the 1980s and early 1990s. The Gulf Stream system makes a significant contribution by warming the temperatures of nearby land areas. In winter, the air above the ocean west of Norway is more than 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) warmer than the average.In southwestern England, the climatic change caused by the current is represented in the unusually mild winters at this northern latitude, including the cultivation of winter vegetables and flowers, as well as the presence of subtropical vegetation and lemon trees in southern Devonshire. The Gulf Stream has limited effect on the western borders of the North Atlantic, where winds are primarily from the shore. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, located approximately 1,000 miles south of Bergen, has an average temperature of 23°F (−5°C) during the coldest month.