An Informative Speech

On

MYSTERIOUS BERMUDA TRIANGLE

Purpose:

To inform our audience about Bermuda Triangle.

Central Idea:
We are going to discuss some amazing & thrilling facts about
Bermuda Triangle
today, specifically the historical origins of Bermuda Triangle, some
notable incidents
along with its natural & supernatural explanations.
Introduction: Bermuda Triangle, region of the western Atlantic Ocean that
has become associated in the popular imagination with mysterious
maritime disasters. Today were going to discuss some breathtaking
facts about it, specifically the historical origins of Bermuda Triangle,
and some notable incidents along with its natural & supernatural
explanations.
Body:

Our presentation is divided into 4 main points:

Area
History
Unsolved incidents
Natural & supernatural explanations

First, we will discuss the area surrounding the triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a
region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a
number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have
mysteriously disappeared in a manner that cannot be explained by
human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters. Popular
culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal, a
suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings.
Thereafter, we will discuss the historical origins.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus was on his famous journey, which would

eventually lead him to the West Indies. He noted that the ships
compass was acting strangely and giving inaccurate readings in the
Sargasso Sea, and at one point he saw a frat hall Of fire shoot across
the sky and crash into the sea.
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area
appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by E.V.W.
Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery At Our
Back Door, a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of
several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five
U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article
was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the
losses took place.

Our next point is about natural & supernatural explanations.

Natural explanations
Compass variations, deliberate acts of destruction, Gulf Stream,
Human error, Hurricanes, Methane hydrates, Rogue waves can be the
common natural causes for the unsolved incidents in the triangle
area. We will only be discussing about the gulf stream.
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that originates in the Gulf of
Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida into the North
Atlantic. It has a surface velocity of up to about 2.5 meters per second
(5.6 mph). A small plane making a water landing or a boat having
engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the
current.
Supernatural explanations
Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts to explain the events. One
explanation refers to the leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. .
Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of
Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road.
Believers describe the formation as a road, wall, or other structure.

Writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven
Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
which features the lost Flight 19 as alien abductees.

Finally, there are some unsolved notable incidents which we will be

discussing.

Flight 19
Flight 19 was a training flight of TBM Avenger bombers that went
missing on December 5, 1945 while over the Atlantic. The flight
encountered unusual phenomena and anomalous compass readings.
the accident was ascribed to "causes or reasons unknown." Adding to
the mystery, a search and rescue Mariner aircraft with a 13-man crew
was dispatched to aid the missing squadron, but the Mariner itself was
never heard from again.
Star Tiger and Star Ariel
G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from
the Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17,
1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro
Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American
Airways. Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range
and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from
reaching the small island. One plane was not heard from long before it
would have entered the Triangle.
Incidents like uss Cyclops, kc-135 stratotankers, conemara-4 can
also be mentioned about.
Conclusion: We strongly believe that youve now enriched your knowledge on this
place of scientific wonder through our speech. Perhaps it is the ending
of our speech though the mystery concerning the triangle area still
continues.
Thank you very much for your patience & for being with us.

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