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What Is The Bermuda Triangle
What Is The Bermuda Triangle
EVAN ANDREWS
Writers like Charles Berlitz helped popularize the Bermuda Triangle mystery in
the 1960s and 1970s, and its treacherous reputation has since been chalked
up to everything from intergalactic portals and time vortexes to paranormal
phenomena and even the lost city of Atlantis. But despite the hysteria,
government organizations and shipping companies don’t show the triangle on
any official maps, and groups ranging from the U.S. Coast Guard to the global
insurance outfit Lloyd’s of London maintain that the region doesn’t have an
unusually high rate of maritime disasters. Other skeptics note that the triangle
sits in an area famous for rogue waves and storms, and they blame any
disappearances on extreme ocean depths and the effects of the Gulf Stream,
which can combine to quickly erase all evidence of plane crashes and
shipwrecks.