BERMUDA TRIANGLE

No doubt just seeing the headlines made you go for the blog as this subject was and always will be captivating like bees to flowers or should I say adventurers to the BERMUDA TRIANGLE !!! 

So where should I begin about this DEVILS TRIANGLE  let's start with start,

 The year 1945 on 5th December, 5 torpedo bomber aircraft of the US Navy, took off from Florida, This mission was called Flight 19. It was a 3-hour long routine training mission. It wasn't anything special, they were simply flying to conduct their regular training missions. There were 14 crew members on the flight, led by their flight leader, a highly experienced pilot, and a war veteran. These five planes flew east from Florida. Everything was normal the weather was clear, but about 2 hours after the takeoff, their squadron leader reported that there were sudden problems with their compass. Their compass stopped working. They take out their backup compass, but the backup compass failed too. They can't determine their actual position. They ask the pilots of the other planes but their instruments were malfunctioning too.

 Lt Charles Carol Taylor was the squadron leader, after the compass broke down, utterly confusing messages were sent over radio transmission. The weather starts worsening. At 4:56 in the evening, Taylor believes that their planes were flying over the Gulf of Mexico. And that they needed to fly east to get back to Florida. So he commanded the rest of the planes to fly east. But some of the crew aboard the flight believed that they were already flying east of Florida. And that they needed to fly westwards. Right after this order, one of those planes sent a radio transmission saying It shows that some of the crew members believed that they had to fly westwards to get back home. But the weather continues to worsen. It's soon sunset and then the darkness of night. At this point, it is believed that the planes were actually 370km east of Florida. At 7:04 PM  we get the last radio transmission from Taylor. After this, all five planes are lost forever. To date, we have no clue about these planes.

 Where are they? What happened to them?

 After the disappearance of Flight 19, a Search-and-Rescue Mariner aircraft took off, with a crew of 13 people. They were on a mission to find Flight 19. But while looking for them, they too disappear. First, 14 people from Flight 19 disappeared, And then 13 people from the Mariner search-and-rescue aircraft. For days after this, a large-scale air-and-sea search operation was carried out.  One of the largest search operations of the time was to look for both of these flights.  But they could find nothing. Neither do they find the body of any person, nor any part of the aircraft? Everything had disappeared. Interestingly, the area where both planes disappeared, is today, we know that area as the Bermuda Triangle. "We don't know which way is West. 

What lies behind the incidents of the Bermuda Triangle?

There are many theories for it. Some people blame the aliens, that aliens had come and abducted the aircraft and ships, and had taken these with them. Some people believe that there is a giant sea monster under the ocean, that is behind the disappearances. Some people claim that this area of the ocean is peculiar and that aircraft and vessels drown there. These theories are truly outlandish. So let's focus on the theories that sound a bit more scientific. 

One of the explanations is based on magnetism. the thing is that the North Pole of the Earth and the magnetic North Pole, are two distinct points. So when you look towards the North on a compass, the compass is pointing towards the magnetic North Pole. But the real North Pole is somewhere close by. It is known as the Geographic North Pole.!!!!!!You can see it in this photo. The difference between the Magnetic and Geographic North Poles. Normally, when people use the compass, as has been done for ages, they take this into account. But there are some areas on the Earth, if you use a compass in these areas, you would find the Magnetic and Geographic North Poles at the same place. The places where this happens are known as Agonic Lines. These Agonic Lines shift with time. But for the last 200-300 years, the 0° line has been around or in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. This can basically create confusion. The next strange thing about this area is that the area in Bermuda Triangle is quite shallow. When you look at it on a satellite map, you'd see that the Bahamas, and Caribbean Islands, they're surrounded by turquoise colors all around. This area in the ocean stretches across a long distance with shallow waters. You can see the deep ocean around it is represented in dark blue color, and this area stands out when looked at through a satellite. Because of this, it is said that in the olden days, when the ships came to this area, got stuck there due to shallow waters. Hidden shoals were the points where the land beneath the ocean was quite high. But it was not visible from the ships. When the ships were atop the area, they would get stuck there.

The third peculiarity, this area has one of the highest rates of hurricanes in the world. If you rank the countries where most of the hurricanes are seen, China is at Number 1, then the USA at Number 2followed by Cuba. Cuba lies in this area. And which state gets the most hurricanes in the USA?Florida. It lies in this area. This area gets hurricanes and water sprouts more frequently. Methane Hydrates is the fourth explanation.Some areas in the ocean have large fields of methane hydrates. In Australia, scientists conducted laboratory experiments in which they found that when there's an exceeding amount of methane bubbles in the water, the density of the water gets lower, and the buoyancy of a ship cannot be maintained,  so the ship drowns. It's the same logic as when the salt content of the water is higher density of water increases, and it becomes easier for things to float. As is the case of the Dead Sea. If you recall, I made a vlog there. A normal person who would sink into the ocean floats on the Dead Sea because the density of the water is high. The same thing is happening here, in reverse. If there is methane in the water. It is hypothesized, if there are methane eruptions in the water, they are also known as mud volcanoes, when volcanoes erupt underwater, methane is released and if it happens when a ship is over the area, then the ship would instantly sink into the water, without any warnings. Never to be heard from again. This is an interesting explanation, But in all the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, there was no direct evidence that any exact incident was due to methane hydrates. This is simply a scientifically proven thing that exists. But to have actually caused the disappearance of any ship has not been proven yet. 

The fifth explanation is the most important, in my opinion. Because this is related to human psychology. This is known as the Baader-Meinhof Effect. Or the Frequency Illusion. The Baader-Meinhof Effect or the Frequency Illusion is psychological. It states that when we start to notice things more, then we start finding them more often around us. Remember when someone in your family bought a new car? The model of the car you got, after buying, you would have noticed that over the next few days or even months, whenever you were on the road, you started noticing the model of the car you bought more and more. You would notice the same model on the road. You may also feel like more people bought the model after you bought it. In reality, the frequency of the car on the road didn't change much. It was just as common after you bought it as it was before. But because you bought the car, you started noticing it more. The same thing is said about the Bermuda Triangle. Though some big aircraft and vessels indeed disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle,  if you've noticed, in many areas around the world across all oceans, there have been such disappearances of aircraft and ships, in areas other than the Bermuda Triangle. One of the recent examples of this is the Malaysian Airlines flight. It hadn't disappeared around the Bermuda Triangle. The thing is that when people came across the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, people started paying more attention to the disappearances and incidents there. The incidents take place around the Bermuda Triangle. And the similar incidents that took place outside the Bermuda Triangle, people didn't pay much attention to them. Journalist Larry Kusche, the author of the book 'The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved' reached this solution too. He wrote that though some incidents took place initially, but when with time, when the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle gained prominence, some people started creating their stories. There was mystery-mongering, and some stories were totally absurd and hadn't really happened. The story of Ellen Austin that I told you, is said to be one such fabrication. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric  Administration of the US states that there's no evidence that the aircraft and ships that disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle that we see, no evidence that they occur more frequently in the Bermuda Triangle than compared to any other area of the ocean. It is not so. We see similar mysterious disappearances, in other areas of the ocean as well. The United States Coast Guards have even said that shows that the Coast Guard of they USA doesn't even recognize the Bermuda Triangle as a hazardous area. They said that the fact "that the area within the Bermuda Triangle is heavily trafficked, could account for some of the mystery ."The area of the Bermuda Triangle  sees a lot of traffic of ships and airplanes, that's why the chances of such incidents happening here increase ."Pair that with the fact that the Bermuda Triangle is often swept by hurricanes and the presence of the Gulf Stream, and it is not hard to see why ships might occasionally sink there. "If you bear in mind that this area sees a lot of hurricanes, and the water is shallow here, you arrive at the straightforward answer to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. But despite the frequent hurricanes, when WWF conducted their detailed study in 2013 of the World's 10 Most Dangerous Bodies of Water for Shipping, in the top 10 most dangerous water, the Bermuda Triangle area was not on the list. Simply speaking, the mysterious disappearances have nothing to do with the Bermuda Triangle.