The Bermuda

Triangle

Made by:
Dardenne Naia
Schneider Vanessa
Simon Sarolta
 Legend of the Bermuda Triangle
 The Bermuda Triangle has been synonymous with strange
happenings and mysterious disappearances since the
discovery of the Americas.
 Also known as The Devil’s Triangle, the stretch of ocean
between Miami, Bermuda, and Costa Rica is a unique part of
more than 50 ships and 20 airplanes are said to have
mysteriously disappeared the Atlantic Ocean in that it has
been the site of over the last century.
 Not marked on any commercial maps, the infamous area of
mystery is speculated to sit somewhere between 500,000 and
1.5 million square miles of open water.
Location  Bermuda Triangle,
section of the
North Atlantic
Ocean off North
America.The area,
whose boundaries
are not universally
agreed upon, has a
vaguely triangular
shape marked by
the Atlantic coast
of the Florida
panhandle,
Bermuda, and the
Greater Antilles.
 Some legends
 After gaining widespread
fame as the first person to
sail solo around the globe,
Joshua Slocum disappeared
on a 1909 voyage from
Martha’s Vineyard to South
America. Though it’s
unclear exactly what
happened, many sources
later attributed his death to
the Bermuda Triangle.
 1872 - British merchant ship
Mary Celeste. Known as the
greatest mystery of the
Bermuda Triangle, the type of
mystery in which an intact
ship with no crew is found is
named after this ship. They
did so despite the fact that
the ship was found at 1060 km
west of Gibraltar, and was on
its way from New York to
Genoa, so it never crossed the
Bermuda Triangle. The last
entry in the logbook was dated
24 November, when the
Briggskoon was 180 km west of
the Azores.
 1881 - The case of the British
ship Ellen Austin with the
unknown abandoned
ship.According to the basic
story, the Ellen Austin found an
abandoned ship and sent a
salvage crew to rescue it. The
two ships soon became
separated, and by the time
they met again, the rescue
party was gone. The captain of
the Ellen Austin was unable to
organise another rescue mission
as no one was available to
help, and the orphaned ship
was abandoned.
 1948 - DC-3 aircraft
The Legend: the DC-3 airliner,
route from San Juan, Puerto Rico
to Miami, disappeared when it
was within sight of its
destination. The weather was
perfect and no anomalies were
observed by experienced pilots.
Captain Linquist radioed that
they could see the airport lights
and would be landing shortly, but
by the time the control tower
gave landing instructions, the
plane had stopped responding.
The plane disappeared in a flash,
almost within arm's reach of the
mainland. The large-scale search
operation yielded no results.
 Columbus wrote in his ship's log
about the calm waters, calm winds
and seaweed around the Sargasso
Sea. In one chapter he mentions
unknown flying objects. The
seafaring legends later magnified
these and spoke of irregular
compasses, strange light
phenomena and all sorts of other
ominous signs. Yet it is not relevant
to the legend, which is only
mentioned to prove that the very
first European sailor to sail there
was already grappling with the
mysteries. It should be added that
the Sargasso Sea, crossed by
Columbus, extends into the
Bermuda Triangle only by its tiny
south-western tip.
 A pattern allegedly began
forming in which vessels
traversing the Bermuda Triangle
would either disappear or be
found abandoned. Then, in
December 1945, five Navy
bombers carrying 14 men took off
from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
airfield in order to conduct
practice bombing runs over some
nearby shoals. But with his
compasses apparently
malfunctioning, the leader of the
mission, known as Flight 19, got
severely lost. All five planes flew
aimlessly until they ran low on
fuel and were forced to ditch at
sea.
 March 1918 - Cyclops naval
coal carrier. The Cyclops set
sail from Barbados for Norfolk.
Narratives dismiss the theory
of a run-on mine, the
possibility of German
submarine activity and talk of
calm weather. The cause of
the accident is still unknown,
which is why Woodrow Wilson
is often quoted as saying: '...
only God and the sea know
what happened to the great
ship'. The legend places great
emphasis on the fact that this
was the first ship to disappear,
equipped with a radio.
The truth
 The Bermuda Triangle is one of the windiest areas
on the planet, with an average of 130 major
storms a year, and devastating hurricanes half the
year. There have been many tragedies here, but
are they all caused by natural phenomena?But a
horde of experts are helping to prove that even
the most mysterious tragedies have trivial causes,
usually weather events and human error.
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