A large area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda is known as the Bermuda Triangle. In recent times people that traveled through and over this place in planes and ships have been mysteriously disappearing. Therefore the portion of the ocean is called The Devil’s Triangle. People suspect that either there is some extra-terrestrial activity or some natural scientific cause, and the area might be hazardous. People out of bad luck happen to land there and never come back.
The reputation of the Triangle was first questioned when Christopher Columbus first started to see weird directions on the compass. He did not want to tell the crew and send them in a bigger panic than they were in already. After three days, perhaps Columbus spotted a strange light and directed the crew to head back to Spain.
Compass navigation myth in the Bermuda Triangle
Following the series of the event, yet another myth was given rise that upon reaching the area, the compass will stop responding. But, in 1970 US Coast Guard explained that The Devil’s Triangle is one of the two places on earth where the magnetic compass does not point north. Here the Magnet will point towards the magnetic north, and the variation is about 20 degrees.
Despite all of this, navigators have traveled enough and seen enough variations to be lost in the sea. Magnetic navigation is prevalent in each ship, and explorers know how to deal with it.
But, in 2005, the Coast Guard revisited the issue and further explained that the world’s magnetic fields are in constant flux. The Bermuda Triangle has remained highly undisturbed, and that is the reason that the Triangle has exceptional or very disturbed magnetic values.
The modern Bermuda Triangle legend
That did not start until 1950 when Edward Van Winkle Jones wrote an article published by Associated Press. He wrote in his report the disappearance of several planes and ships in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle, including five US Navy torpedo bombers that vanished on the 5 of December in 1945, a commercial airliner ‘Star Tiger’ which disappeared on 30 of January in 1948, and another airliner named ‘Star Ariel’ vanished on 17 of January in 1949, while 135 individuals were unaccounted for Jones signified that they were swallowed without a trace.
However, alien life forms were also thought of by people. The case for the UFO by M.K. Jessup, a book published in 1955, explained this as no wreckage no trace has yet been discovered. Vincent H. Gaddis, who coined the term “Bermuda Triangle”, wrote an article in which it says that 1000 lives had been claimed by the Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle was a pattern of strange events.
Concluding lines:
The critic Larry Kusche argued and found out that all accounts by other authors were merely exaggerated. The number of missing people and the cases were not thoroughly researched, and some cases did not even happen. In the totality, either the authors intentionally or unintentionally made the whole situation up. The number of mishaps in the Bermuda Triangle does not surpass the ones happening in the normal oceans.