THE TRIANGLE OF MYSTERIES
The Bermuda triangle also called the Devil's triangle by some, is a slackly defined triangular region in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean.It is the 'Triangle of doom' where numerous amounts of ships and air-crafts have disappeared in the past and that too under obscure circumstances.The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is one of the most traversed ship routes in the world, with ships frequently travelling through it to reach European, American and Caribbean ports.
THE BOUNDARIES
Vincent Gaddi, the American author who invented the concept of Bermuda triangle, told in the Pulp magazine the exact boundaries of the Bermuda triangle.As per Mr. Gaddis, there are three vertices; one in Miami, the second one in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the third one in Bermuda.Subsequent authors didn't necessarily follow these boundaries.Some other authors even gave new boundaries and area size of the triangle ranging from 1300000 to 3900000 sq kilometres.
THE BEGINNING OF PROMINENCE
The earliest suggestion of disappearances dates back to 1950 when an article was published in the Miami Herald by Edward Van Winkle Jones.Two years later the fate magazine also wrote about an incident involving the disappearance of flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission.The others followed with their own works concentrating more on Gaddi's idea:John Wallace Spencer(Limbo of the Lost,1969,repr 1973),Charles Berlitz(the Bermuda Triangle,1974);Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle 1974), all mainly concentrating on super natural elements.
CRITICS
Lawrence David Kusche, author of the Bermuda Triangle mystery argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent authors were dubious and false. Kusche's study revealed that there are many inaccuracies in the data provided by Berlitz.The information provided by Berlitz in his books and what the eyewitness, participants and others involved in the incidents were not matching.Kusch noted that some important information also went unreported for eg. the disappearance of the around the world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz depicted as the mystery was on the contrary, having a clear evidence.Kusch also stated that a lot of incidents told by the authors happened actually outside the Bermuda triangle.
CONCLUSION
The number of ships that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle was significantly not greater than the ships disappearing in any other part of the ocean.Further studies proved that in an area frequently pay a call such incidents of mysterious disappearances would not be so mysterious.Berlitz also failed to mention the incidents happening in calm conditions.The numbers have been exaggerated by a sloppy research, some incidents never happened.
Thus the Bermuda Triangle Mystery is just a manufactured myth
The Bermuda triangle also called the Devil's triangle by some, is a slackly defined triangular region in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean.It is the 'Triangle of doom' where numerous amounts of ships and air-crafts have disappeared in the past and that too under obscure circumstances.The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is one of the most traversed ship routes in the world, with ships frequently travelling through it to reach European, American and Caribbean ports.
THE BOUNDARIES
Vincent Gaddi, the American author who invented the concept of Bermuda triangle, told in the Pulp magazine the exact boundaries of the Bermuda triangle.As per Mr. Gaddis, there are three vertices; one in Miami, the second one in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the third one in Bermuda.Subsequent authors didn't necessarily follow these boundaries.Some other authors even gave new boundaries and area size of the triangle ranging from 1300000 to 3900000 sq kilometres.
THE BEGINNING OF PROMINENCE
The earliest suggestion of disappearances dates back to 1950 when an article was published in the Miami Herald by Edward Van Winkle Jones.Two years later the fate magazine also wrote about an incident involving the disappearance of flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission.The others followed with their own works concentrating more on Gaddi's idea:John Wallace Spencer(Limbo of the Lost,1969,repr 1973),Charles Berlitz(the Bermuda Triangle,1974);Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle 1974), all mainly concentrating on super natural elements.
CRITICS
Lawrence David Kusche, author of the Bermuda Triangle mystery argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent authors were dubious and false. Kusche's study revealed that there are many inaccuracies in the data provided by Berlitz.The information provided by Berlitz in his books and what the eyewitness, participants and others involved in the incidents were not matching.Kusch noted that some important information also went unreported for eg. the disappearance of the around the world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz depicted as the mystery was on the contrary, having a clear evidence.Kusch also stated that a lot of incidents told by the authors happened actually outside the Bermuda triangle.
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