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The Bermuda Triangle: where planes and ships unknowingly go for Witness Protection

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This is a picture showing the general geographic area that the Bermuda Triangle covers.  It covers the area from Puerto Rico to Bermuda to Florida.  Although there is nothing “controversial” about this photo, The Bermuda Triangle a.k.a. The Devils’ Triangle is widely believed as it’s a “modern” (reoccurring within recent history, the most recent events in 2015), with the earliest known disappearance as early as the 1600’s.  The main reason for such widespread belief is simply the Unexplained.  People tend to believe unexplained things when they happen more than a few times. Although there have been several disappearances that are explained, there are enough where there is no debris or anything to make one wonder.

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This is a picture depicting the 5 planes in Flight 19, the incident that had Vincent Gaddis coin the term Bermuda Triangle in 1964.  This was a standard Navigation Training flight for the United States Navy that occurred on December 5, 1945.  The U.S. Navy put out a report a few months after the fact stating that the Captain of the mission was not at fault as the compasses were not working.  They issued a subsequent statement saying the cause was unknown, which leads back to the Unexplained belief.

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Post 4 Picture - Commercial Fight NC-16002

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Post 4 Picture - Commercial Fight NC-16002

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This is a photo of Commercial Flight NC16002 which departed at 10:03pm December 28, 1948 from San Juan, Puerto Rico, destination Miami, Florida when within 20 minutes of reaching Miami, the flight was never heard from or seen again.  I link this to the reason for belief Perception/Observation.  This is not the first time a flight has disappeared in this region and so by remembering Flight 19, we perceive this to be a repeat occurrence.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle

This is a link to the Wikipedia page about the Bermuda Triangle.  It discusses the origins of the term, Criticism of the concept, Explanation attempts and notable incidents.  This is a non-biased article that explores everything from the paranormal to natural explanations such as violent weather and human error.  Reading this article allows one to make their own decision using critical thinking and logic.  If you come away from the article a believer, you could link this to the Pseudoscience Red Flag Proof by Verbosity as there is a lot of information that unbiased can lead you down the path that your own perceptions and observations allow.

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This is a link to the website called The Museum of UnNatural Mystery – a paranormal website.  The page is specific to the “Mystery” of the Bermuda Triangle.  The article sums up what is known about the Triangle and discusses Kusche’s theory and basically, in my opinion, leans towards disbelieving in anything paranormal about the area.  Unlike the previous Post where it is unbiased Proof by Verbosity, this site is much more biased towards disbelief Proof by Verbosity through discussions of some major incidents actually occurring outside of the loosely defined Geographical triangle

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So how did this tragedy turn into a Bermuda Triangle mystery? The Navy's original investigation concluded the accident had been caused by Taylor's navigational confusion. According to those that knew him he was a good pilot, but often navigated "flying by the seat of his pants" and had gotten lost in the past.

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This is a link to a site called Livescience. The article discusses paranormal theories such as aliens or the lost city of Atlantis which directly relates to mystical energy. The main part of the article theorizes that rogue waves and human error are the causes of the disappearances.  It’s very much about debunking the mystery of the Triangle.  From my limited knowledge of weather patterns, they make a good argument and I link this article to the Red Flag “all natural”.  It’s a tenuous link, however weather is all natural and not manufactured or man made (global warming notwithstanding)

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Engineers at the University of Southampton in England built some ship models, including one of the USS Cyclops, a vessel that vanished in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 with over 300 people on board.

They simulated rogue waves in a wave tank and found that, indeed, ships can sink quickly if hit by them. The bigger the ship, the bigger the difficulty staying afloat, they found. Small ships can get swamped by them, but sometimes they can ride the wave if they hit it bow-on, Boxall said. But big ships - designed to be supported in the front by the top of one wave and in the back by the top of another - snap in two.

People often talk about weird magnetic anomalies over the Bermuda Triangle, Boxall said. "There aren't any," he said. There are magnetic anomalies in the world that have to do with the Earth's mantle moving beneath the crust, but the nearest one is about 1,000 miles [1,600 km] south, off the coast of Brazil - a long way away from the Bermuda Triangle, he said.

Another theory has to do with pockets of explosive methane gas that could, due to some disturbance, float up toward the water's surface and cause the water to be less dense than the ship, leading the ship to sink. However, no experiment to date has been able to prove that this is possible, Boxall said.

"Theoretically, it could be happening, but there are lots of places in the world where this can happen," not just in the Bermuda Triangle, Boxall said. Instead, he thinks the most common cause for the mysterious vanishings is human error. [ The 20 Most Mysterious Shipwrecks Ever]

The famous disappearance of Flight 19 - five U.S. Navy aircraft that vanished during a training mission in 1945 - that led one journalist in 1964 to give the area its current name, probably occurred because the crew got lost and ran out of fuel, Boxall said.

About a third of all registered and privately owned ocean craft in the U.S. are in the states and islands of the Bermuda Triangle area, he said. And according to the most recent 2016 figures from the Coast Guard, 82 percent of incidents in this area that year involved people who had no formal training or experience of being at sea, he added.

"So, you take a third of the entire boating population of the U.S., you dump them in the Bermuda Triangle," and what you get is mysterious vanishings, Boxall said. You don't need any licensing or specific equipment like radios or navigation maps to take a boat to sea, he added.

"A number of times, working at sea, we've come across people who are navigating using a road map, who are relying on their mobile phones as their means of communication, discovering ... you get 30 miles offshore [and] you lose the signal," Boxall said.

In addition, "environmental considerations could explain many, if not most, of the disappearances," NOAA wrote on its website. "The ocean has always been a mysterious place to humans, and when foul weather or poor navigation is involved, it can be a very deadly place."

NOAA also says the area could be prone to accidents because of the Gulf Stream, a strong and fast ocean current that can cause "rapid, sometimes violent, changes in weather," and shallow waters around the Caribbean islands that can prove fatal for ships.

"You can extend the Bermuda Triangle to ever bigger areas...what you'll find is that the Bermuda Triangle covers the entire globe," Boxall said. "Rogue waves can hit lots of different places, methane bubbles can hit lots of different places, and wherever you get a high concentration of amateurs without any experience you're going to get a high concentration of mysterious disappearances."

But, you know, maybe it is aliens capturing unsuspecting humans using vortexes that lead straight into their laboratories that they've set up in the lost city of Atlantis.

Editor's Note: This article was updated on Aug. 3. The original map showing the Bermuda Triangle was incorrect. The so-called Bermuda Triangle is an area between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

Originally published on Live Science

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The Bermuda Triangle: A Breeding Ground for Rogue Waves or a Pit of Human Mistakes?

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Engineers at the University of Southampton in England built some ship models, including one of the USS Cyclops, a vessel that vanished in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 with over 300 people on board. They simulated rogue waves in a wave tank and found that, indeed, ships can sink quickly if hit by them.

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https://youtu.be/NVcyV0wHqAk

This is a 7-minute video re*enacting the fated flight of the (original) Avengers, Flight 19.  It brings to life the conversations held between air traffic control and in between the pilots. It also talks about how none of the pilots mention any storms yet meteorologists say that there were most definitely storms that way.   This video clearly reinforces the reason for belief Unexplained but can also be linked to Mystical Energy.

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This is a link to a video that talks about the 5 scariest secrets of the Bermuda Triangle. It talks ominously about the disappearances.  It talks about the various theories, aliens, paranormal and it’s cursed but goes on to say not even scientists know exactly what goes on.  The way the narrator speaks is leaning towards the red flag Appeal to Authority as the narrator sounds very professional, almost teacher like. It disproves pirate attacks and disabuses theories of a giant squid or undersea earthquake but that it was due to a curse, or Mystical Energy.

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5 Bermuda Triangle Mysteries You'll Never Know the Truth About

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Post 10 Video - Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved!

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Post 10 Video - Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved!

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This is a link to a video claiming that the Bermuda Triangle Mystery has been solved.  It talks about unknown and unexplained circumstances.  It covers briefly the known history of the triangle as well as some notable recent incidents.   The video links to the Red Flag Correlation and Causation as well as mentioned prior All Natural as scientists theorize of Air Bombs.  Which is believed to create deadly blasts of air that literally can blow things up.  Hurricane force winds and waves.  Meteorological images have been analyzed and show hexagonal cloud formations, which are not found anywhere else on the earth. This links to Appeal to authority because meteorologists are scientists and therefore must know what they are talking about.

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The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Has Been Solved