The bermuda triangle.

[Obsin]

It's funny how people like to sensationalize things rather than get the real story from the locals and do the research into supposedly mysterious disappearances. I really don't understand how on earth this myth has persisted.

They still sell Bermuda Triangle books. I guess people love a good mystery about an area where strange things go on - the myth has persisted for so long. And people aren't really encouraged to question or develop a healthy sense of skepticism. The truth - the sea is a hard place and is not for the inexperienced - people do die and all the time. It seems so conquerable to us as we sit in our cozy homes and hear about people braving the oceans, but the open oceans are no joke. You slip and get tossed over board into choppy waters, the current takes your boat far out and there you go another victim of the Bermuda Triangle.

[Marby]

They still sell Bermuda Triangle books. I guess people love a good mystery about an area where strange things go on - the myth has persisted for so long. And people aren't really encouraged to question or develop a healthy sense of skepticism. The truth - the sea is a hard place and is not for the inexperienced - people do die and all the time. It seems so conquerable to us as we sit in our cozy homes and hear about people braving the oceans, but the open oceans are no joke. You slip and get tossed over board into choppy waters, the current takes your boat far out and there you go another victim of the Bermuda Triangle.

You've hit it right on the nose, Obsin. I was taught at an early age to love the sea, but also to respect it. Just because we have modern technologies and a bigger understanding of it than we ever did doesn't mean that we can somehow conquer it. We are land animals, for one, and we still don't know a lot about what's down there. People lose sight of that when they get out on a beautiful ocean and want to play Errol Flynn. When you combine that with the inexperienced tourist going out on the water on their own, of course there will be problems.

It just amazes me that these books even sell. You would think that people would respect the truth even though it's not as sexy.

[Ichigo]

Guys, if till today ships were to sink at the Bermuda Triangle it would be a big headline in the news. and the bermuda triangle is a hot spot for tourists. so get real!

[20SEP2008]

Anyone know about the Philadelphia experiment and the Mantauk Projects and their findings and the possible connection to the position of the triangle on the Earth?

Or am I alone?

Its quite lengthy to explain, so if someone else wants to do it, that would be nice.

[Mattshark]

I'm originally a Miami girl. Though I grew up in North Florida, most of my family resides in Miami, and like anyone else, we spent a lot of time out on the ocean, in it, above it, etc. There is nothing supernatural or weird about the Bermuda Triangle. If you research the incidents, most have been spun to create a mystery, and those that are unexplained are simply ocean casualties. People do get lost at sea, no matter what sea we're talking about. Hate to break it to folks, but looking beyond the hype will put things in perspective. Lloyds of London insures many a merchant vessel, and their long list of records do not show a higher number of incidents in this area than anywhere else.

Anyone that has spent time in this particular part of the world knows that the warmer months where people are more apt to be out on the ocean is also the wet season. That means storms. Storms that crop up seemingly out of nowhere every afternoon.

Very true there is nothing odd about the area.

[Sweetpumper]

A couple of pilots experienced something they called 'electronic fog'. You can probably Google it. Interesting.

[Marby]

A couple of pilots experienced something they called 'electronic fog'. You can probably Google it. Interesting.

Very interesting. Very freaky, too. I wouldn't want to be in that situation. I'm not some sort of self styled expert on this, just an armchair meteorologist (been through enough hurricanes to make a weather junkie out of me), but the most plausible explanation of the electronic fog is that those airplanes were caught up in the middle of a forming thunderstorm. The electrical charges would interfere with their equipment. As a storm gathers, converges, etc... it will create some bizzare circumstances for anyone flying through it at just the right moment.

One of the guys that experienced this was interviewed on a show I saw recently (Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle), and the meteorologist that was interviewed regarding this explained it better than I could ever hope to.

[Mattshark]

A couple of pilots experienced something they called 'electronic fog'. You can probably Google it. Interesting.

possibly but the whole thing comes from the US Navy being nice to a moaning mother after her sons incompetence got his entire flight killed.

[psyche101]

You Might find this link an interesting read.

From the link.

The Bermuda Triangle is a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by a line from Florida to the islands of Bermuda, to Puerto Rico and then back to Florida. It is one of the biggest mysteries of our time - that isn't really a mystery.

The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first used in an article written by Vincent H. Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964. In the article Gaddis claimed that in this strange sea a number of ships and planes had disappeared without explanation. Gaddis wasn't the first one to come to this conclusion, either. As early as 1952 George X. Sands, in a report in Fate magazine, noted what seemed like an unusually large number of strange accidents in that region.

In 1969 John Wallace Spencer wrote a book called Limbo of the Lost specifically about the triangle and, two years later, a feature documentary on the subject, The Devil's Triangle, was released. These, along with the bestseller The Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974, permanently registered the legend of the "Hoodoo Sea" within popular culture.

Several books suggested that the disappearances were due to an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea.

The only problem was that the mystery was more hype than reality. In 1975 a librarian at Arizona State University, named Larry Kusche, decided to investigate the claims made by these articles and books. What he found he published in his own book entitled The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved. Kusche had carefully dug into records other writers had neglected. He found that many of the strange accidents were not so strange after all. Often a triangle writer had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress. Others said ships had "mysteriously vanished" when their remains had actually been found and the cause of their sinking explained.

More significantly a check of Lloyd's of London's accident records by the editor of Fate in 1975 showed that the triangle was a no more dangerous part of the ocean than any other. U.S. Coast Guard records confirmed this and since that time no good arguments have ever been made to refute those statistics. So the Bermuda Triangle mystery disappeared, in the same way many of its supposed victims had vanished.

Even though the Bermuda Triangle isn't a true mystery, this region of the sea certainly has had its share of marine tragedy.

Ship sinks in storm or FAMILY VANISHES ON OPEN SEA

Which headline would grab your attention?

Marby is onto it, if you want to really find out, go and have a look

Edited July 30, 2008 by psyche101

[Marby]

possibly but the whole thing comes from the US Navy being nice to a moaning mother after her sons incompetence got his entire flight killed.

That was definitely the case with Flight 19. Some of the family members did not want to accept the fact that their vanished relatives could have been confused.