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vessels allegedly disappeared mysteriously. Popular culture has attributed these
disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial
beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the
incidents were inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and
numerous official agencies have stated that the number and nature of
disappearances in the region is similar to that in any other area of ocean.

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The boundaries of the triangle cover the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas and the
entire Caribbean island area and the Atlantic east to the Azores. The more
familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere
on the Atlantic coast of Miami, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island
of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern
boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with
ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the
Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go
back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for
commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and
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Modern scholars checking the original log books have surmised that the lights he
saw were the cooking fires of Taino natives in their canoes or on the beach; the
compass problems were the result of a false reading based on the movement of
a star.

The first article of any kind in which the legend of the Triangle began appeared in
newspapers by E.V.W. Jones on September 16, 1950, through the Associated
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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. Flight 19
alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine.

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y Since the days of early civilization many thousands of ships have sunk
and/or disappeared in waters around the world due to navigational and
other human errors, storms, piracy, fires, and structural/mechanical
failures
y Aircraft are subject to the same problems, and many of them have
crashed at sea around the globe.
y Often, there were no living witnesses to the sinking or crash, and hence
the exact cause of the loss and the location of the lost ship or aircraft are
unknown.
y A large number of pleasure boats travel the waters between Florida and
the Bahamas. All too often, crossings are attempted with too small a boat,
insufficient knowledge of the area's hazards, and a lack of good
seamanship.
y To see how common accidents are at sea, you can examine some of the
recent accident reports of the National Transportation Safety Board for
ships and aircraft. One of the aircraft accident reports concerns an in-flight
engine failure and subsequent ditching of a Cessna aircraft near Great
Abaco Island in the Bahamas on 13 July 2003. This is the type of accident
that would likely have been attributed to mysterious causes in the
Bermuda Triangle if there had been no survivors or other eyewitnesses of
the crash.
y It has been inaccurately claimed that the Bermuda Triangle is one of the
two places on earth at which a magnetic compass points towards true
north. Normally a compass will point toward magnetic north. The
difference between the two is known as compass variation. The amount of
variation changes by as much as 60 degrees at various locations around
the World. If this compass variation or error is not compensated for,
navigators can find themselves far off course and in deep trouble.
Although in the past this compass variation did affect the "Bermuda
Triangle" region, due to fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field this has
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disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. The 542-foot (165-meter) navy ship was
traveling from the island of Barbados near South America to Baltimore, Maryland.
Cyclops carried more than 300 people. Many people suggested reasons for the
disappearance. Some stories said a weapon from a German submarine hit the
Cyclops.

1939 In it, David Duchovny's character, Fox Mulder, is rescued during an

investigation of the Bermuda Triangle - only to find himself on board a boat
stranded in the year 1939. Both Duchovny and co-star Gillian Anderson are
delighted to be working in the California sunshine, after moving from Vancouver,
Canada.

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1945 One day in December 1945, five US Navy Bombers took off together.
At 3:45 pm, the leader of the flight telephoned the base. He had lost his way.
Then all five planes vanished. They were flying through the Bermuda Triangle, a
place where many aircraft and ships have disappeared. Read this book to find
out more mysteries of the Triangle, and what people think happened.

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1964 In this environment of bizarre suppositions, in February 1964, Vincent

Gaddis published a fictional story 'The Deadly Bermuda Triangle' in the Argosy,
an American weekly pulp fiction magazine. As mentioned previously, the term
'The Bermuda Triangle' was taken from the title of this story. Gaddis had
previously written a number of books and short stories and he frequently included
references to various types of 'Fortean' phenomena

-1974 Charles Berlitz had published a book, ³The Bermuda Triangle,´ a

collection of various mysterious disappearances in this area. The book became a
best seller, and after its publication, theories of the unusual features of the
Bermuda Triangle became especially popular. However, later on, it was shown
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Ñ1975 - Perhaps the best point about the Bermuda Triangle "mystery" was
made by a US Navy officer quoted in Time magazine in January 1975. He
pointed out that the heavily traveled triangle between the Sable Islands, the
Azores, and Iceland had been the region of many more unexplained
disappearances than the Bermuda Triangle region. 4 But, as Kusche points out,
the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery.

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&211995 http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html . 21 Sep 1995 . This page

talks about the book, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery- Solved written by Larry
Kusche. Provides up- to-date, in-depth research on the mystery of the Bermuda
Triangle and the disappearance of Flight 19. Bermuda Triangle or Devil s triangle
in the Atlantic Ocean is infamous for devouring many ships planes passing
through it. Read to know facts, mystery,

+ñ212009 October 21, 2009. Hello history-addicts! I know it s been a long

time, but your overwhelming support . A Brief History of Bermuda Triangle Limbo
of the Lost. The Twilight Zone. Hoodoo Sea. The Devil s Triangle. The vast
three-sided segment of the Atlantic .

  
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