Why the Bermuda Triangle Is Never on a Map

Why the Bermuda Triangle Is Never on a Map

hmm can we estimate how many ships and

airplanes were lost in the bermuda

triangle have their disappearances

resulted from human error or weather

phenomena let's try to find out we have

a curious story of the ss codopaxy this

ship vanished in 1925

traveling from charleston south carolina

to havana cuba it never reached its

destination

years later in the 1980s a wreck was

found 40 miles off st augustine florida

since specialists could not precisely

determine what and where it came from

they nicknamed it bear rat

it took many additional years of work

done mainly by marine biologists to

identify that this ship was indeed the

missing ss codopaxy this was confirmed

in january 2020.

how did the ship just reappear and how

did it get there since this mysterious

shipwreck isn't even in the bermuda

triangle

now let's see who came up with this term

bermuda triangle can you actually

pinpoint the triangle on a map

no it's not an officially recognized

location either the bermuda triangle

does not appear on any world map

nobody has agreed on its exact

boundaries there are only assumptions

with approximations of the entire area

ranging between 500 000 and 1.5 million

square miles

by all approximations the region has a

vaguely triangular shape

in 1964 an american author named vincent

hayes gaddis first came up with the idea

when writing an article for argosy

magazine

he used the bermuda triangle to describe

a triangular region that has destroyed

hundreds of ships and planes without a

trace

it is pretty hard to get the number of

lost ships and planes because some ships

and aircraft have gone missing without

leaving a trace

their wreckage in the region has not

been recovered but the recorded story

should help us

legends about the bermuda triangle date

back to the 15th century like that of

the italian explorer christopher

columbus

when sailing through the atlantic waters

he passed by this location in the late

1400s

in what we now know as the bermuda

triangle he saw a huge flame that seemed

to just crash into the ocean later he

saw an unusual light flashing in the

distance at the exact location

like many other sailors since then his

compass had severe malfunctions

flight 19 a navy plane on a routine

schedule back in 1945 also started the

bermuda triangle legend

it was commanded by lieutenant charles

taylor and it's recorded that he just

got lost in the triangle for no reason

since pilots had no gps back then they

had to trust their compasses and keep

track of how long they'd been flying in

a specific direction and their speed

shortly after completing the task both

of the compasses on board stopped

working correctly records found after

the plane's disappearance also indicate

that taylor didn't have a watch on that

particular day

the initial report stated that pilot

error was to blame for this unfortunate

event

however because people weren't satisfied

with this outcome it was changed to

causes or reasons unknown after several

reviews

one surviving pilot named bruce garan

suggested he went through an electronic

fog while passing above the triangle

making him travel through time

in 1970 when this incident happened he

was flying his aircraft when it was

surrounded by two huge clouds that

formed a whirlpool and spiral

like many others before him he noticed

that his navigation devices were

malfunctioning

when he eventually made it out of those

clouds he discovered that his flight had

only taken 35 minutes it should have

taken 75 in total

since he had no other reasonable

explanation for what he went through

he believed he must have been pushed

forward in time

it's not only strange-looking clouds

that have been seen above the bermuda

triangle

in 2014 a pilot recalled almost

colliding with a flying object that he

could not identify whatsoever

some of these strange encounters were

even caught on tape it's the case of an

early 2015 flight whose passengers

noticed a curious object just floating

over the ocean

the pilots have yet to figure out what

they actually saw back there

okay not all of the possible

explanations have been this unusual

oceanographers for example have also

tried to explain why ships disappear

around here so they recently came back

to one of their old theories rogue waves

these are immense walls of water that

just pop up suddenly

if multiple such waves rise

simultaneously they overlap like a wave

sandwich

if one single wave can reach over 30

feet tall and happen simultaneously it

can create a rogue wave that can surpass

100 feet high

these types of waves can quickly

overtake even the biggest of ships

meteorologists came up with their own

explanation too hexagonal clouds these

unusual types of clouds can generate

winds of up to 170 miles per hour and

they're pretty significant too some

reaching 20 to 55 miles across

as such waves inside these wind giants

can go as high as 45 feet

the earth's own magnetic force might

also have something to do with it within

the bermuda triangle compasses point to

true north the geographic north pole

rather than magnetic north the shifting

magnetic north pole

some have even explained that since

these two perfectly overlap in the

bermuda triangle it can cause a magnetic

phenomenon that could make navigational

devices malfunction

it's called the agonic line

the problem is that scientists have

discovered that this line moves each

year it might have passed through the

bermuda triangle at one point but it's

now through the gulf of mexico

other strange natural phenomenon found

along the coast of norway could help

explain why the bermuda triangle has

claimed so many ships

there are some deep craters there

measuring up to half a mile wide and are

150 feet deep

scientists believe they were created by

methane gas bubbles this gas seems to be

leaking from deposits hidden deep in the

seabed

once the gas reaches a certain quantity

it bursts to the surface and causes

eruptions

so do pilots and ship captains actually

avoid this area today

could this explain why there are fewer

ships that get lost there nowadays

but if you've ever flown from miami to

san juan puerto rico you probably know

that's not true as for ships if people

would avoid the bermuda triangle nearly

all caribbean vacations would be spoiled

to this day there are a lot of flights

that go over the bermuda triangle so

it's clear nobody is avoiding it

this place is one of the most heavily

traveled shipping lanes in the world

nowadays the bermuda triangle has heavy

daily traffic both by sea and air

but the bermuda triangle is indeed

subject to tropical storms and

hurricanes that happen very often

let's also keep in mind that the gulf

stream a strong ocean current that

causes sharp changes in local weather

passes through the bermuda triangle

besides the deepest point in the

atlantic ocean the milwaukee depth is

also located in the bermuda triangle the

puerto rico trench reaches almost 27 500

feet at the milwaukee depth

so if you think about it the whole

mystery is a perfect combination of

human error bad weather and a lot of

ship traffic this was confirmed by data

provided by the u s coast guard

if you look at percentages the number of

ships or planes that go missing in the

bermuda triangle isn't different from

anywhere else disappearances do not

happen more often than in any comparable

region of the atlantic ocean

official statistics say around 50 ships

and 20 airplanes have vanished while

traveling through this region so that's

another reason why the total number is

so hard to pinpoint

nobody could describe its rescue in

official records if a boat was reported

missing

there are also some events that it turns

out didn't happen at all adding to those

false reports like that of a plane crash

back in 1937 off daytona beach florida

that local papers surprisingly revealed

nothing about

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