The question about the triangle that swallows ships, planes and all the
people with them still waits for its answer. So many ships and planes
have disappeared and so many disasters have happened in the area between
Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami, and many theories have appeared as
well. From compass variations, gulf streams, rogue waves to human errors
and conspiracy theories – anything is possible, but none of them is
proved yet. However, it’s still one of the most traveled routes in the
world.
Triangle area
The first written boundaries date from a 1964 issue of pulp magazine
Argosy,
where the triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.
But subsequent writers did not follow this definition.
Every writer gives different boundaries and vertices to the triangle,
with the total area varying from 500,000 to 1.5 million square miles.
Consequently, the determination of which accidents have occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reports them.
The United States Board on Geographic Names does not recognize this name, and it is not delimited in any map drawn by US government agencies.
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the
world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe,
and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and
pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the
islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private
aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.
History
Origins
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later,
Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger
bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out
the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19
alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of
American Legion magazine. It was claimed
that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white
water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is
green, no white." It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board
of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of
Argosy, Vincent Gaddis's
article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other
disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book,
Invisible Horizons.
Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (
Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973);
Charles Berlitz (
The Bermuda Triangle, 1974);
Richard Winer (
The Devil's Triangle, 1974),
and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.
But there is a story in which there is a survivor of a plane incident. The pilot is a Muslim. Through the area when he lost control of the aircraft and that there is a strong temptation coming from below. The pilot then chanted prayer and found the aircraft can be controlled and managed to get out of the area. What is surprising is that when he looked into the wings of aircraft, he looked like something strange caught on the wing. But these things can not be identified and it disappeared. This story is only hearsay and not verified by any party.
However, this place is still a mystery and no one knows how to aircraft or ships passing through the area may be lost.
