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Small Plane Vanishes Over Bermuda Triangle, Debris Found

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A Mistubishi MU-2B disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, carrying Nathan Ulrich, Jennifer Blumin, and her two sons. The plane crash lawyers at Bohrer & Lukeman investigate

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Following is a list of some of the most talked about incidents that took place in Bermuda Triangle.

1492 - Voyage of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus while on his voyage with three sailing ships and 90 men across the Atlantic in search of the New World, reported in his ship's log book about a large fire flame falling into the sea, unusual compass readings and strange lights.

The fire flame was likely a meteor, the compass variation was due to a then incorrect notion that compass pointed to the geographic north (it actually always points to the Magnetic North which is miles away), and the strange lights could just be an illusion in the fatigued eyes.

The sailing ship The Sea Venture got wrecked near the eastern end of Bermuda, one corner of Bermuda Triangle. The commander of the fleet Sir George Somers and his crew could somehow manage to come ashore and were the first to start human settlement in the island of Bermuda.

Theodosia Burr Alston was the daughter of the former United States Vice President Aaron Burr. Her disappearance has been cited at least once in relation to the Triangle. She boarded the schooner Patriot, which started its sail from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City on December 31, 1812. Her husband who was sworn in as the Governor of South Carolina only a few days back, could not accompany her, and instead sent his old-time friend Timothy Green to accompany Alston.

However, Patriot and none on board could be heard from again. Patriot was earlier used as a privateer during the war to raid the British ships. It is anticipated that the ship was overloaded with the hidden proceeds and guns seized during such raids when the captain of the Patriot wanted to rapidly get across to New York, and that resulted in sinking of the ship.

The USS Epervier (an 18-gun cruiser class brig sloop) along with 132 seamen and 2 marines disappeared while carrying a copy of the peace treaty to the United States to end the war between America and the North African Barbary States. She was last reported sailing through the Straights of Gibraltar on July 14, 1815. But after than she was not heard from again. There was a hurricane reported in the Atlantic on August 9, 1815 and Epervier would have likely encountered that.

Known as a ghost ship (i.e. an abandoned ship) of Bermuda Triangle, the 103ft brigantine Mary Celeste had many misadventures before her mystery voyage in 1872. She had left port of New York on November 7 with a load of cargo and was to sail to Genoa. On December 4, 1872 she was found by another ship De Gratia completely abandoned but still sailing erratically near the Azores.

While no explanation has proved to death the real cause of abandonment, there are many theories that have come including mutiny, violent storm, piracy, sabotage by the crew and more...

The Ellen Austin on its voyage in 1881 came across another ship that was sailing without a soul on board. Ellen Austin transferred its salvage crew onto the unknown ship and attempted to sail with it to New York. The unknown ship got separated in a squall and disappeared. Later it re-appeared, but again without a person on board. It is said that the unknown ship again disappeared forever.

Read the full story of The Ellen Austin to know what might have actually happened.

S.V. Spray was a derelict fishing boat refitted and rebuilt as a 37-ft yawl by Joshua Slocum and used by him to complete the first ever single-handed circumnavigation of the world in three years between 1895 and 1898. Spray was built in such a way that it was not only super sturdy and balanced, but it also had the remarkable self-steering ability, could take up almost any wind conditions and still be on course for hours or even days with her helm lashed.

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On November 14, 1909, Slocum set sail again for a much shorter run through the Bermuda Triangle from Vineyard Haven bound for Venezuela. Neither he nor the boat SV Spray were ever seen again. Several explanations were suggested for the loss including a massive gale that might had eventually sunk the boat, or a large steamer would have crushed the boat unknowingly, or Slocum would have himself disappeared with the boat to avoid an unhappy family life and live elsewhere etc. Slocum wasn't officially declared dead until 1924.

This 542-ft navy ship's disappearance resulted in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy. It went missing with a crew of 309 and large cargo of manganese ore, sometime after March 4th 1918 and after departing the island of Barbados for Baltimore. It was not heard from again, neither any debris was found.

USS Cyclops anchored on Hudson River in 1911

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Several explanations were given even by Navy and other seamen including the Cyclops capsized, or tornedoed by German submarines, or might had been surrendered to the Germans, alternatively there might had been a case of sabotage. But none could be proven with evidence.

This was a 5-masted commercial schooner built to carry cargo. On January 31, 1921 while returning home to Maine from Rio de Janeiro of Brazil, it was found wrecked at Diamond Shoals located off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. While the ship was quite intact, all crew members vanished and the ship was found completely abandoned.

Although Deering is one of the most talked about maritime mysteries in Bermuda Triangle and no official explanation has been given for its abandonment, it is quite possible that Deering was a victim of mutiny or even piracy, or just a simple case of abandonment by the crew when they saw the ship ran aground and took to the small open lifeboats only to be swept away into the sea and drowned.

1941 - Proteus and Nereus

The story of Carroll A Deering continued to stay alive as her two collier sister ships USS Proteus and the USS Nereus too disappeared without a trace in late 1941 while travelling along nearly the same route as Deering. Both ships started from St. Thomas of Virgin islands within a gap of few weeks and were bound for Norfolk.

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Proteas left on November 23, 1941 with 58 persons on board and was reported lost in the high seas within a few days. Subsequent German report suggested that it was probably a war casualty. Nereus left St. Thomas on December 10 and disappeared with all its 61 men and cargo. The navy assumed that the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat.

USS Nereus loading coal at Nagasaki (Japan) in 1916

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The five training aircraft of TBM Avenger bombers of US Navy with an experienced captain and 13 trainee pilots went missing on Dec 5, 1945 on a routine training mission after they took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They were scheduled to go due east from Florida Naval base for 123 nautical miles, then north for 73 nautical miles, and then get back over a final 120 nautical mile route that would return them to the naval base. But strangely they never came back.

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Although no official explanation was available to the real cause of the incident, most likely the planes were lost (as was evident from the radio transcripts) and eventually ran out of fuel and had to ditch into the sea when it was dark and the sea was foaming.

1945 - PBM Martin Mariner

Two rescue seaplanes Martin Mariners with 13 crew were sent to search for the missing planes of Flight-19. But of them did not return. Although this added to the mystery and fueled many speculations, it was known that the Martin Mariners were prone to explosion due to gas leakage from their tanks. A tanker off the coast of Florida in fact noticed a large explosion on sea.

The aircraft with 6 crew including the experienced pilot, crashed into the sea 294 miles off Florida killing all its crewmen. The Accident Investigating Board at Morrison Field sighted the main reason as violent turbulence causing the crash but also did not rule out the possibility of navigational errors.

A Tudor Mark IV aircraft disappeared in Bermuda Triangle shortly before it was to land in Bermuda airport enroute from Santa Maria in the Azores in January 1948. The investigating board could not assign any specific cause to this disappearance. Low fuel and engine failure were unlikely reasons... the aircraft should have had enough fuel to fly for one more hour even on reaching Bermuda and the plane had redundancy of multiple engines.

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Could it be that the aircraft was flying at such an unusual low altitude (of only 2,000ft instead of the usual flying altitude of 20,000ft) in order to avoid the strong headwind, that the pilot and the crew actually forgot their actual altitude at the time of descent and perhaps flew the plane into the sea?

1948 - Fight DC-3 Disappearance

The flight Douglas DC-3 NC16002 disappeared in Bermuda Triangle when it was only 50 miles south of Florida and about to land in Miami on December 28, 1948. It was coming in from San Juan (Puerto Rico) along with 3 crew and 36 passengers. All were lost in the sea along with the plane and no debris could be recovered.

While the real cause is still unknown due to lack of information, one explanation suggested that the change in wind direction of have pushed the aircraft off course resulting in the plane to get lost and eventually the plane crashed into the sea when the gulf stream would have swept the debris away.

1954 - Flight 441 Disappearance

The flight 441, a Super Constellation Naval Airliner, disappeared during its Trans-Atlantic flight on October 30, 1954 to Azores while carrying 42 persons on board. It was carrying two powerful radio transmitters but did not send out an SOS.

An R7V-1 (Similar to Flight 441)

Weather was nothing unusual although there was intermittent thunderstorm and mild turbulence which the aircraft could have easily avoided by raising its flying altitude. However no trace of the aircraft could be found and the Director of Navy's Aviation Section admitted that there was no official explanation to account for the loss.

1963 - Marine Sulphur Queen

This 524-foot carrier of molten sulfur started sail Feb 2, 1963 from Beaumont, Texas with 39 crew and a cargo of 15,260 tons of sulfur. It was reported lost in Florida Straits on Feb 4. It was caught into rough sea with high waves and strong winds. Several causes were cited for its sinking and all were related to its poor maintenance and design. The Coast Guard too reported that the ship was in a poor physical condition and wasn't seaworthy.

A 23-foot cabin cruiser went missing in Bermuda Triangle area on the night of December 22, 1967 while it was only a mile out to the sea and off Miami beach. The owner took it offshore only to watch the Christmas lights of Miami shoreline. When the Coast Guard received a call that the boat would have hit a submerged object and the engine was vibrating, they reached in 19 minutes but found nothing... no wreckage, no men and no life jackets. Although the Coast Guards gave up the vast search after a few days, it is known that the weather was rather rough for several days when the Witchcraft was on sea and the sea too was foaming.

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On May 25, 1973 Robert (Bob) Corner and his friend Reno Regon started from Miami for a trip to Freeport, Bahamas. Bob was flying his own aircraft Navion A16 which was maintained very well. Bob himself was a great pilot with over 5,000 hours of flying experience. The plane's tank was full and the flying distance to Freeport was only 110 miles, so shortage of fuel was never a problem. Midway through the flight Bob contacted the control tower at Miami to check the weather ahead.

The control tower reported that there was a severe storm ahead and advised him to take a detour to avoid the stormy belt. He followed the instruction, so did another plane which was only 10 minutes behind him. However, that was the last time Bob could be contacted. The plane behind him was advised by the control tower to retrace its flight path and try to locate the Navion A16. US Coast Guards too swung into action soon... but trace could be found for Navion A16.

A sister ship of Marine Sulphur Queen, a 590-foot weighing 15,028-gross-ton ore carrier with a crew of 37 disappeared 140 miles due west of Bermuda on October 15, 1976 when it was bound from Brazil to Philadelphia. Only some debris, oil sleek and a lifeboat could be recovered.

According to The New York Times (October 18, 1976), the spokesperson from the Coast Guard said " It's not easy to miss a 590-foot-long ship on a day with visibility of more than 40 miles and calm seas, so it doesn't seem too hopeful that it's still afloat".

The search operation began after the normal procedure of 24-hour waiting period during which time a ship would send out a distress signal or appear in a nearby port. The ship did not send out any emergency distress message. However during the search operation, Coast Guard reported that the waves were 6-12ft high and there were strong gusts of 30knots.

SS Poet, a 522-ft bulk cargo carrier left from a port in Philadelphia for Egypt on October 24, 1980. The next routine radio transmission reporting its position was expected 2 days after it left the port, but no signal was received. It was lost in the sea.

Source: Historic Gloria Dei Preservation Corporation

While the exact cause of disappearance is still unknown, the investigations point at a violent storm passing its way with strong gusts of wind and waves up to 30ft high which could cause the ship to sink. However, other ships in the same area reported that it wasn't a fatal storm which the Poet couldn't have avoided. In fact, Poet didn't send out any emergency signal either.

On October 31st, the pilots (John Verde and Paul Lucaris) of a Grumman Cougar jet made a routine radio request to increase altitude. While ascending, the aircraft gradually faded from the radar and vanished. Although this case is sometimes cited as an incident of Bermuda Triangle, the incident actually took place over Gulf of Mexico along the coast of Louisiana.

A newly married couple Frank and Romina Leone went for fishing on their brand new 16-foot boat on June 18, 2003. They left from the Boynton beach inlet in Florida but never returned. The weather was fair with 10 to 15-knot winds and 2 to 4-foot waves. The US Coast Guard combed 35,700 square miles of the sea from Miami to Savannah, but eventually gave up the search and rescue operation after having searched for several days.

On two separate incidents, two Piper-PA planes disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle area. One on June 20, 2005 between Treasure Cay island of Bahamas and Fort Pierce of Florida. There were three persons on board. The second incident took place on April 10, 2007 near Berry Island. The plane flew into a category-6 thunderstorm and lost altitude. Only the pilot was on board and no passengers.

2008 - Britten Norman Islander

A Britten-Norman Islander (also known as 3-engine Trislander) took off from Santiago for New York on December 15, 2008 at around 3:30pm with 12 persons on board. After about 35 minutes from take off, the aircraft fell off the radar. A massive search operation was launched by US Coast Guards, but the aircraft was never traced again. Its last known location was about 4 miles west of West Caicos Island. No debris could be found.

On October 1, 2015, the cargo ship SS El Faro became another tragic victim of Bermuda Triangle, the worst in over 30 years. The 790-ft container ship departed Jacksonville (Florida) bound for Peurto Rico with 33 crew members on board, carrying large number of containers, trailers and vehicles. A tropical storm hundreds of miles away, developed into fierce hurricane, dashed down towards El Faro, and started circling around the ship.

Source: TOTE Maritime (owner of El Faro)

Soon all communications from the ship went silent. And quite unbelievably and having created havoc on the sea, the hurricane went back out almost the same way it came from. After extensive search for weeks, the ship could be finally located sitting upright in one piece at a depth of about 15,000ft in the Atlantic, but there was no trace of any crew members.

2017 - Mitsubishi MU-2B-40

The small private aircraft Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 with twin engine disappeared in Bermuda triangle on May 15, 2017 while flying from Puerto Rico (a corner of the triangle) to south Florida. Air traffic control at Miami lost radar contact with the aircraft at 2:10pm and the plane simply vanished with four passengers on board apparently when there was no weather warnings. However, after an extensive search over a vast sea area around the Bahamas, the Coast Guard had located a small floating debris that they believed had matched with that of the lost MU-2B.

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Jacqueline Huesing (May 2017)

I have 2 cousins missing from the 1960's. My cousin was newly married. She, Dolores Geoffrey was a dancer in New York City. They were in their privately owned airplane. They supposedly flew from New York to Massachusetts. They never arrived, and the plane was never found. Many wondered if it was lost in Long Island Sound or Bermuda Triangle.

Our family friend Richard Davies was an active duty navy sailor in the 1960's. He was vacationing in the Long Island sound. He was setting up his boat for fishing. He called out, and his wife a short distance away went to the boat area. He and the boat were gone. To my knowledge the boat and person were never found. Richard and his wife were expecting a baby.

Alberto Montenegro (May 2015)

I only recently discovered that there are websites that list disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle and I was curious to see if my own family's incident made your list. It did not. My grandfather was a Cuban fisherman, and his fishing vessel Joven Lydia, named after his eldest daughter, disappeared in 1966 off the coast of Florida (from the port of Miami).

His son Ramon, and 4 of his friends went for a fishing trip only to never return. My grandfather spent all of his savings on search efforts, but nothing ever turned up. After losing his main means of income (his fishing boat) he eventually gave up hope for his son and moved to Los Angeles, finding employment at a factory with the help of his brother-in-law.

I'm actually on my way to the funeral for my great uncle (my grandfather's aforementioned brother-in-law who found him employment in Los Angeles). If it weren't for the disappearance of my grandfather's fishing boat, which we have always felt was claimed by the Bermuda Triangle, my mother's family would not have moved to Los Angeles where she met my father.

I must appreciate your sincere and honest dedication with painstaking efforts for making these mysteries come alive. It has greatly helped me in 'pragmatic usage of English' classes where I had to give my class a presentation about Bermuda Triangle. I am now very much interested in your posts about these mysteries that I request you to post more mysteries of these kinds. Also I want to know about recent accidents and incidents happening in the Bermuda Triangle which will surely kindle my interest towards your posts. Thank You.

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Following is a list of some of the most talked about incidents that took place in Bermuda Triangle. 1492 - Voyage of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus while on his voyage with three sailing ships and 90 men across the Atlantic in search of the New World, reported in his ship's log book about a large fire flame falling into the sea, unusual compass readings and strange lights.

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The Bermuda Triangle isn't real. Let's rip that band-aid off right now. Every now and then, something happens and the "mystery" of the region is claimed to have been solved, but the twist in the tale was that there was never any real mystery to begin with.

A quick scan of the headlines suggests that this mystery has been solved once again. Before we find out what "rogue waves" are, though, a little more on why the Triangle itself is bullshit is required.

The Triangle forms a space between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. It's long been rumored that planes, boats, and the like go missing in the triangle far more frequently than anywhere else in the world, and that they disappear under mysterious circumstances.

Sure, there have been some unexplained incidences of ships and planes being removed from sight there, but this applies to missing vessels all around the world.

We're still, rather famously, not quite sure what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 when it disappeared back in 2014. There are several hypotheses as to why it went missing, and where, but that doesn't mean a freaky, Bermuda Triangle-esque tale is to blame.

Here's the kicker: no scientific organization on Earth, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), recognizes the Bermuda Triangle's existence. Statistically, planes and boats are no more or less likely to go missing within it than they are in other parts of the open ocean.

It's just a legend. The US Board on Geographic Names doesn't even recognize the name "Bermuda Triangle", and they would know.

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The Bermuda Triangle's latest return to the news comes courtesy of a documentary - The Bermuda Triangle Enigma - that consulted with bona fide scientists to try to suggest why things may sink in the region, other than through mechanical failure or pilot error.

As noted by HuffPost, an oceanographer from the University of Southampton, Simon Boxall, suggests that converging storms in the already storm-prone region could trigger huge waves.

These "rogue waves" could hypothetically reach heights of 30 meters (100 feet), and could sink boats with relative ease. This was backed up by benchtop experiments using replicas of the USS Cyclops, a ship that went missing in the area in 1918.

Rogue waves are, in fact, real. Long thought to be just stories, NOAA notes that they've only recently been recognized by scientists in the last few decades. Their appearances and movements are unpredictable, and their formation mechanisms are ambiguous as they're difficult to observe.

There are two possibilities. One is that the crests of individual waves coincidentally match up and reinforce one another through a phenomenon called constructive interference. Alternatively, storm-generated waves get focused by underwater currents, such as the Gulf Stream.

Fair enough: powerful storms certainly can sink ships. It's also pointed out, however, that the Cyclops' design made it vulnerable to tipping over, like several other vessels of that era.

It's certainly a step up from the usual theories, which range from the vaguely plausible-but-debunked to the fantastical and ludicrous. The most intriguing of them all was the idea that large bubbles of methane were escaping from hydrated reserves in the seafloor, whereupon they got to the surface and tipped boats over.

The problem is that no geological survey has found any such methane reserves within the triangle's boundaries. The only good thing about this idea was its name, per NOAA: "oceanic flatulence".

Although rogue waves could be to blame for certain disappearances, it's important to stress that the Bermuda Triangle itself still isn't real. It's tricky to solve a mystery that doesn't technically exist.

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The Mystery Of The Bermuda Triangle Has Been Solved Yet Again

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The Bermuda Triangle isn't real. Let's rip that band-aid off right now. Every now and then, something happens and the "mystery" of the region is claimed to have been solved, but the twist in the tale was that there was never any real mystery to begin with.

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Legends about the Bermuda Triangle have circulated for decades, but the superstition has died down in recent years. So does that mean the mysteries were solved? Or do strange things still happen there?

The area, sometimes referred to as the Devil's Triangle, is in a western part of the North Atlantic. In 1964, an American author described several strange instances that had occurred in the area. But reports of disappearances and mysterious occurrences there began in the mid-19th century.

"The Bermuda Triangle legend, although around for about 10 years before, really took off with Vincent Gaddis in 1964 when he penned an article outlining a pattern of strange events in this area. This mostly centered around the mysterious disappearance of Flight 19," historian David O'Keefe told Newsweek. He recently joined a team that went to the area to search for a downed World War II aircraft for the new TV documentary The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters.

Flight 19 was the mission name for a group of five torpedo bombers that mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Bermuda Triangle in 1945. The remains of the bombers have never been found, and the reason for their disappearance remains a mystery.

"It opened the previously mentioned pandora's box, with other authors like Charles Berlitz sensationalizing the losses of ships and aircrafts, along with the accounts of survivors who encountered unexplained occurrences in the region," O'Keefe said.

Even though theories and speculation about the triangle have died down, strange things are still happening there.

"As far as the data suggests, sinkings and aircraft losses continue," O'Keefe said. "However, now that we have a better understanding of the area, the sensationalism attached seems to have simmered down, at least for the time being, that is.... Either way, it remains one of the world's great curiosities, and that still captures the imagination of young and old alike."

Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle's three points aim toward Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

One theory is that the area sees rough storms that enter from multiple directions. This can create rough waves, which some believe reach up to 100 feet.

Unsolved Mysteries

Over 50 ships and 20 airplanes are believed to have disappeared in this part of the Atlantic.

Some mysteries, such as the disappearance of the USS Cyclops, which carried coal, remain unsolved. In March 1918, the Cyclops vanished while sailing through the Bermuda Triangle, along with everyone on board. The wreck has never been found, and the cause for its disappearance remains unknown.

Another unexplained occurrence happened in 1881, when the Ellen Austin, an American schooner, sailed into the Bermuda Triangle on a journey from London to New York. The crew spotted another ship sailing aimlessly toward them with not a single soul on board. A salvage crew from the Ellen Austin went aboard and confirmed that the ship was empty, yet it had been sailing perfectly. The captain attempted to bring the empty vessel back, but a storm separated the ships' paths. It is not known what happened to the ship after that, and it has never been found.

While many Bermuda Triangle mysteries remain unsolved, such as Flight 19, wreckage has been found in the area. While the new documentary was being filmed, O'Keefe, along with a team led by marine biologist Mike Barnette, discovered a huge piece of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger in a location near the Triangle.

The Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight. All seven people aboard died when the shuttle broke apart 46,000 feet above the Atlantic.

"The discovery came as a distinct shock," O'Keefe said. "Never did we imagine that following the story of Flight 19 and tracking the Martin Mariner rescue aircraft sent out to find the missing planes-which also disappeared-would lead us to this discovery that is so important for American history and the space program.

"One would have thought that all pieces of the shuttle would have been scooped up by NASA over the years, but that was not the case," he continued. "In many ways, although outside the area we have come to call the Bermuda Triangle, the discovery demonstrates there are still plenty of mysteries to be investigated off the coast of Florida stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean."

Is the Bermuda Triangle Dangerous?

Despite the superstitions and tales surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, there is no concrete evidence that the area is actually dangerous.

The Aviation Safety Network and the U.S. Coast Guard have indicated over the years that some of the disappearances can be explained by storm conditions in the area.

Other disappearances are still up for speculation, but the vessels may have been unsafe, meaning the Bermuda Triangle had nothing to do with what happened to them.

"As with human nature, whenever we cannot find answers to a given question, we open a pandora's box of hypotheses to soothe our intellectual hunger and curiosity," O'Keefe said. "That is what this area, a high-traffic area with plenty of unexplained happenings, has teased us with for centuries. But only now, with new processes and technologies at our fingertips that provide more jigsaw puzzle pieces into the box, so to speak, can we now see a more distinct image forming and gain a better understanding of all phenomena in this region."

He said the documentary's purpose is to identify and name some of the hundreds of wreck sites that are in the Bermuda Triangle and to "bring closure to some of the families who have lost loved ones and never understood why."

The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters will premiere November 22 at 10 p.m. ET on the History Channel.

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Now you see it... now you don't! Have you ever seen something disappear before your eyes? That's what some people think happens in one part of the Atlantic Ocean. Ships and airplanes moving through the area seem to into thin air!

You won't find the Bermuda Triangle on any map. But those words still make pilots and sailors uneasy. Many people blame it for the disappearance of hundreds of aircraft and boats.

Where is the Bermuda Triangle? It starts in Miami, Florida. Then, it connects to the islands of Bermuda and Puerto Rico. The area is also called "The Devil's Triangle." Some also call it "The Hoodoo Sea."

The size of the Bermuda Triangle depends on whom you talk to. It's at least 500,000 square miles. Some people believe the Bermuda Triangle is as large as 1.5 million square miles.

The name "Bermuda Triangle" was first used in a 1964 article in Argosy magazine. The of the area reaches back a lot further than that, though.

says Christopher Columbus sailed through the Bermuda Triangle on one of his early voyages. He reportedly had problems with his there. He may have even seen mysterious lights.

The most famous Bermuda Triangle mystery happened in 1945. On December 5 of that year, five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers flew into the area on a training mission. Every one of them disappeared without a . A rescue plane sent to search for them also disappeared. In total, six airplanes and 27 men were gone.

And it gets even more unusual. An underwater explorer thought he found the of the planes in 1991. When the planes were identified, however, they weren't the planes from Flight 19. They were other military aircraft. These planes had crashed at some other time in the same area!

So is the Bermuda Triangle haunted? Is it the secret home of aliens or unidentified flying objects (UFOs)? Does a mysterious sea creature lurk in its depths?

Scientists who have studied the area would say no. They have found that many "mysteries" of the Bermuda Triangle happened in other parts of the ocean, as well.

So what's going on in the Bermuda Triangle? Most experts blame bad weather for the accidents. Storms are common in the area. As for why is so hard to find, they point to the Gulf Stream. Its swift run through the Bermuda Triangle. This could quickly move away from the scene of an accident. Of course, the Bermuda Triangle is also home to the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.

So, should you be afraid to fly or sail through the Bermuda Triangle? Not at all! Research shows that the actual number of accidents in the area is similar to other parts of the ocean. Today, the Bermuda Triangle is traveled frequently by boats and airplanes. Almost all of them return safely!

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Now you see it... now you don't! Have you ever seen something disappear before your eyes? That's what some people think happens in one part of the Atlantic Ocean. Ships and airplanes moving through the area seem to into thin air! You won't find the Bermuda Triangle on any map.

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What is the Bermuda Triangle?

Also known as the Devil's Triangle or Hurricane Alley, this area of the Atlantic Ocean has been credited for causing a mass disappearances and a number of wrecks over the years. While people love to throw around conspiracy theories about each of these Bermuda Triangle stories, there may be perfectly logical explanations for all of them.

Still, the superstition continues around this relatively small slice of ocean, so much so that some people refuse to travel around it. Despite the spooky stories, you'd be surprised at how many times people have sailed or flown over the area and not noticed anything out of the ordinary.

Where is the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is an area of the Atlantic Ocean that doesn't necessarily have an agreed-upon boundary, but it is generally considered to be the area bounded by the southeastern coast of the U.S., Bermuda, and the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and, Puerto Rico. According to some calculations, the area makes up anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million square miles and is triangle-like in shape. It's a pretty big area of ocean in general, though relatively small considering the ocean covers about 70 percent of the planet, or about 139.7 million square miles.

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, there's no telling how many ships or planes that have "disappeared" in the Bermuda Triangle, but some estimates guess around 50 ships and 20 aircraft have gone missing there. Despite these figures, data does not show that disappearances are more likely in this spot. There are two incidents that are considered mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, specifically the disappearances of Flight 19 in 1945 and the USS Cyclops in 1918. There is no clear indication that these disappearances have anything to do with the supernatural, but they are still unexplained.

Have people gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle?

Conspiracy theorists have proposed many different, though mostly superstitious and inconceivable, reasons as to why disappearances and disasters occur in the Bermuda Triangle. Some have theorized that the area is a hotbed of alien activity, positing that these extra terrestrial beings are abducting humans for study, according to the New York Post. Alien theorists have considered this spot to be a sort of maritime Area 51. Others have suggested that it's the real-life locations of the lost continent of Atlantis, therefore making it a portal to another dimension, according to History.com.

The most likely culprit for these mysteries isn't really a mystery at all. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), most scientific explanations include the many tropical storms and hurricanes which pass through this area and the Gulf Stream Current, which can cause sudden and extreme changes in the weather. There may even be some evidence that suggests that this area has a particular geomagnetic anomaly that can cause a ship or plane's navigation to point to "true" north rather than "magnetic" north. This can lead to navigation failure, though it should be noted that magnetic fields are found all over the world and are not exclusive to this area. Other theories also include explosive methane gas that can float up to the water's surface and cause ships to sink, according to Live Science, and simple, human error. In the case of Flight 19, according to Live Science, it is most likely that the squadron of bombers ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. It's a tragic disaster, but it may not be a true mystery.

The superstitions and stories still prevail, mostly because this area is perceived to have more disappearances or tragic accidents than other parts of the world. However, this is actually untrue. According to the Huffington Post, the World Wildlife Fund found the most dangerous waters on the planet, but the Bermuda Triangle isn't one of them. In fact, it's not even mentioned in the report.

According to Live Science, a third of all of all registered and privately owned ships in the U.S. are registered in the area considered to be part of the Bermuda Triangle, and about 82 percent of incidents in 2016 were due to people having little experience at sea. Inexperienced people using road maps or their smartphones to navigate, rather than specialized equipment, may also be contributing to the so-called mystery.

Do pilots actually avoid it?

Considering the superstition surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, many people assume that airline pilots actively avoid this area of the ocean. Of course, anyone who has flown from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico probably knows that's not true. In fact, if it were, pretty much everyone's Caribbean vacation would be ruined. A check on Flightradar24 will show that there are many flights that crisscross over the Bermuda Triangle, so it's clear that the area is not actively avoided.

In terms of navigation, flights are constantly monitored by air traffic control, so pilots have support if there is a navigation failure. Weather conditions are also closely tracked every time a plane is scheduled to take off. Accidents, of course, still happen, but not any more so than in other parts of the world.

Investigating Bermuda Triangle conspiracy theories, in general, is more of a paranormal pursuit than a scientific one, so if there are any pilots who do avoid the Bermuda Triangle, they are probably just interested in the supernatural or UFOs. While entertaining these theories can certainly be fun, you can rest assured that the airline industry definitely doesn't plan its routes around campfire stories.

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What Is the Bermuda Triangle, and Do Pilots Really Avoid It?

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Also known as the Devil's Triangle or Hurricane Alley, this area of the Atlantic Ocean has been credited for causing a mass disappearances and a number of wrecks over the years. While people love to throw around conspiracy theories about each of these Bermuda Triangle stories, there may be perfectly logical explanations for all of them.