Theories explaining the mysteries of bermuda triangle
Mysteries solved of bermuda triangle
Theories explaining the mysteries
So what caused the ships and aircraft to disappear mysteriously? There have been many research and explorations done to uncover the mystery. There is no single theory that can explain all the incidents of disappearances. The ships and aircraft could have been victims of different circumstances, and things would have happened quickly and unexpectedly. While many theories have come up from researchers and scientists trying to explain the various incidents, here are few of the most popular ones:
Methane gas
The gas trapped under sea floor can erupt, and as a result can lower the water density and cause ships to sink like a rock. Even planes flying over it, can catch fire and get completely destroyed during such gas blowout... Read how methane gas could be the culprit behind so many tragedies
Sargasso Sea
It's a strange ocean area that has no shores and bounded only by water currents on all sides. Many ships passing through it have been stranded and made motionless. Many were found derelict and without a soul... Know how Sargasso sea became a deadly trap for boats
Electronic Fog
A strange thick cloud appears from nowhere and engulfs a ship or a plane. Instruments begin to malfunction, and finally the ship or the aircraft vanishes without a trace..
Know about electronic fog and how it can be the cause behind disappearances
Hexagonal Cloud & Air Bombs
From satellite images Meteorologists have recently discovered strange hexagonal clouds that are capable of blasting winds to the ocean below at huge speeds. And such wind storms on the ocean can create waves as high as 45-feet. Planes and ships under such cloud can sink in no time.
Know about Hexagonal Cloud, how they can destroy ships & planes
All Major Theories
There are many other theories that try to solve or explain the mysteries of Bermuda Triangle and try to identify factors causing such incidents. Visit Theories of Bermuda Triangle to know about them all.
Conclusion - The Facts & Myths
Since a magazine first coined the phrase 'Bermuda Triangle' in early 1950s, the mystery has continued to attract attention. When repeated mysterious incidents of such large scale take place in the same area, it's understandable that it would spread like fire, draw large interests among people at all levels including scientists, critics and general people, and take a mammoth shape over time.
Indeed Bermuda Triangle has become a living legend. But what is the real truth behind all this?
First, there is no denying that many of the incidents reported on Bermuda Triangle have actually taken place. Because a plane or ship not returning or reaching its destination is clearly recorded with official agencies concerned including US Navy, US Coast Guard etc.
And there have been hundreds of such incidents. In few cases oil leakage, floats or wrecks could be found while in others, there were no trace of anything.... this is a fact.
So the question is not about whether the incidents took place at all or not. It's about how they took place. This is where explanations start getting blurred, as sometimes facts get mixed up with speculations, even with imaginations.
Few more questions also spring up. Are there any other ocean areas on earth where similar such incidents take place? Are the numbers of such incidents similar or even greater than Bermuda Triangle? So if the numbers are similar or more, are such incidents actually normal on ocean routes?
Let's explore this, because this can throw some lights on whether we are believing something imaginary or real.
Larry Kusche, a librarian in Arizona State University was a big critic of Bermuda Triangle and made a deep research into the incidents and finally published his book 'The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved' in 1975. Most of his research was based on referring newspapers of the times that reported the incidents, checking out the meteorological (weather) reports of the days the incidents took place.
He concluded that the total number of such incidents in the triangle area is nothing unusual in a place where tropical cyclones or hurricanes are quite common. His study also showed that number of incidents in Bermuda Triangle is not significantly more compared to several other ocean areas.
Kusche further clarified that several authors wrongly reported several incidents. He pointed out a case where an author misreported a ship disappearing three days after it left a port in Atlantic while the fact was the ship actually left a port of the same name from Pacific ocean which was over 3,000 miles away.
In another case Kusche showed that an author described a ship getting lost in calm sea while the meteorological report showed a strong cyclone was passing by.
Now read this... Lloyd's is a London based insurance body and active in marine insurance market since long. They insure ships on voyage. When Lloyd's was asked by a UK television channel if they noted unusual number of ships sinking or getting lost in Bermuda Triangle, they answered 'NO'.
They further confirmed that they do not even charge higher insurance rates for ships passing through Bermuda Triangle area because they consider it safe.
The US Coast Guard also supported Lloyd's observation that the number of reported missing cases in Bermuda Triangle is nothing unusual.
Here is one more... A study conducted in 2013 for WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) reported the 10 most accident prone ocean areas in the world for shipping. And that does not include Bermuda Triangle. In fact based on accidents recorded, the most dangerous water areas are South China Sea, the Mediterranean and the North Sea.
Now the food for thought...
So does it all mean the notion of Bermuda Triangle being dreaded is baseless? Is it all hunky-dory out there?
Well, there are several questions which still need to be answered before we can come to that conclusion, if at all. Hundreds of ships and planes were actually lost in that area, and many such cases are not yet explained with evidence. It is a fact that authors fanned the fire to take commercial advantage of the situation. But it is hard to believe that a legend of such gigantic nature is just a baseless myth that continues to engulf the world for so many decades. Despite thorough and sustained investigations, numerous incidents continue to baffle the investigators.
Scientists have found some interesting formations on the seafloor within the Bermuda Triangle boundaries. The ocean floor at some places suddenly drop to huge depths. In fact, some locations within the triangle have deepest trenches in the whole of Atlantic. And within this area many vessels were seemingly lost.
It is well known that marine and airway channels across Bermuda Triangle are some of the busiest and most commercially used routes in the world. They are used extensively by numerous cruise lines and airlines connecting The USA, Europe, Caribbean islands, Bermuda, South America and even Africa.
Think of what may happen to billions of dollars of thriving international business and its impact on economy if the area gets to be known as dreaded? Will anybody want such flourishing economy to get jeopardized by officially calling out the area as dangerous?
Many conflicting possibilities exist to keep the Bermuda Triangle mystery alive for decades to come.
Theories explaining the mysteries
So what caused the ships and aircraft to disappear mysteriously? There have been many research and explorations done to uncover the mystery. There is no single theory that can explain all the incidents of disappearances. The ships and aircraft could have been victims of different circumstances, and things would have happened quickly and unexpectedly. While many theories have come up from researchers and scientists trying to explain the various incidents, here are few of the most popular ones:
Methane gas
The gas trapped under sea floor can erupt, and as a result can lower the water density and cause ships to sink like a rock. Even planes flying over it, can catch fire and get completely destroyed during such gas blowout... Read how methane gas could be the culprit behind so many tragedies
Sargasso Sea
It's a strange ocean area that has no shores and bounded only by water currents on all sides. Many ships passing through it have been stranded and made motionless. Many were found derelict and without a soul... Know how Sargasso sea became a deadly trap for boats
Electronic Fog
A strange thick cloud appears from nowhere and engulfs a ship or a plane. Instruments begin to malfunction, and finally the ship or the aircraft vanishes without a trace..
Know about electronic fog and how it can be the cause behind disappearances
Hexagonal Cloud & Air Bombs
From satellite images Meteorologists have recently discovered strange hexagonal clouds that are capable of blasting winds to the ocean below at huge speeds. And such wind storms on the ocean can create waves as high as 45-feet. Planes and ships under such cloud can sink in no time.
Know about Hexagonal Cloud, how they can destroy ships & planes
All Major Theories
There are many other theories that try to solve or explain the mysteries of Bermuda Triangle and try to identify factors causing such incidents. Visit Theories of Bermuda Triangle to know about them all.
Conclusion - The Facts & Myths
Since a magazine first coined the phrase 'Bermuda Triangle' in early 1950s, the mystery has continued to attract attention. When repeated mysterious incidents of such large scale take place in the same area, it's understandable that it would spread like fire, draw large interests among people at all levels including scientists, critics and general people, and take a mammoth shape over time.
Indeed Bermuda Triangle has become a living legend. But what is the real truth behind all this?
First, there is no denying that many of the incidents reported on Bermuda Triangle have actually taken place. Because a plane or ship not returning or reaching its destination is clearly recorded with official agencies concerned including US Navy, US Coast Guard etc.
And there have been hundreds of such incidents. In few cases oil leakage, floats or wrecks could be found while in others, there were no trace of anything.... this is a fact.
So the question is not about whether the incidents took place at all or not. It's about how they took place. This is where explanations start getting blurred, as sometimes facts get mixed up with speculations, even with imaginations.
Few more questions also spring up. Are there any other ocean areas on earth where similar such incidents take place? Are the numbers of such incidents similar or even greater than Bermuda Triangle? So if the numbers are similar or more, are such incidents actually normal on ocean routes?
Let's explore this, because this can throw some lights on whether we are believing something imaginary or real.
Larry Kusche, a librarian in Arizona State University was a big critic of Bermuda Triangle and made a deep research into the incidents and finally published his book 'The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved' in 1975. Most of his research was based on referring newspapers of the times that reported the incidents, checking out the meteorological (weather) reports of the days the incidents took place.
He concluded that the total number of such incidents in the triangle area is nothing unusual in a place where tropical cyclones or hurricanes are quite common. His study also showed that number of incidents in Bermuda Triangle is not significantly more compared to several other ocean areas.
Kusche further clarified that several authors wrongly reported several incidents. He pointed out a case where an author misreported a ship disappearing three days after it left a port in Atlantic while the fact was the ship actually left a port of the same name from Pacific ocean which was over 3,000 miles away.
In another case Kusche showed that an author described a ship getting lost in calm sea while the meteorological report showed a strong cyclone was passing by.
Now read this... Lloyd's is a London based insurance body and active in marine insurance market since long. They insure ships on voyage. When Lloyd's was asked by a UK television channel if they noted unusual number of ships sinking or getting lost in Bermuda Triangle, they answered 'NO'.
They further confirmed that they do not even charge higher insurance rates for ships passing through Bermuda Triangle area because they consider it safe.
The US Coast Guard also supported Lloyd's observation that the number of reported missing cases in Bermuda Triangle is nothing unusual.
Here is one more... A study conducted in 2013 for WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) reported the 10 most accident prone ocean areas in the world for shipping. And that does not include Bermuda Triangle. In fact based on accidents recorded, the most dangerous water areas are South China Sea, the Mediterranean and the North Sea.
Now the food for thought...
So does it all mean the notion of Bermuda Triangle being dreaded is baseless? Is it all hunky-dory out there?
Well, there are several questions which still need to be answered before we can come to that conclusion, if at all. Hundreds of ships and planes were actually lost in that area, and many such cases are not yet explained with evidence. It is a fact that authors fanned the fire to take commercial advantage of the situation. But it is hard to believe that a legend of such gigantic nature is just a baseless myth that continues to engulf the world for so many decades. Despite thorough and sustained investigations, numerous incidents continue to baffle the investigators.
Scientists have found some interesting formations on the seafloor within the Bermuda Triangle boundaries. The ocean floor at some places suddenly drop to huge depths. In fact, some locations within the triangle have deepest trenches in the whole of Atlantic. And within this area many vessels were seemingly lost.
It is well known that marine and airway channels across Bermuda Triangle are some of the busiest and most commercially used routes in the world. They are used extensively by numerous cruise lines and airlines connecting The USA, Europe, Caribbean islands, Bermuda, South America and even Africa.
Think of what may happen to billions of dollars of thriving international business and its impact on economy if the area gets to be known as dreaded? Will anybody want such flourishing economy to get jeopardized by officially calling out the area as dangerous?
Many conflicting possibilities exist to keep the Bermuda Triangle mystery alive for decades to come.
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