Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a geographical area in the shape of an equilateral triangle, located in the Atlantic Ocean, between the Bermuda Islands, Puerto Rico and the American city of Miami (in the state of Florida). By joining these three points with an imaginary line, a triangle of about 1600 to 1800 km on each side is formed, and an area of approximately 1.1 million km².
The term was created in 1953, by several writers who published articles in magazines about the presumed dangerousness of the area. However, the statistics of the United States Coast Guard do not indicate that there are more disappearances of ships and planes in that area than in other areas of equal traffic.
History of the Bermuda Triangle
The first documented mention of the Bermuda Triangle was made in 1950: Edward Van Winkle Jones - an Associated Press journalist - wrote about some lost ships in the area of the Bahamas.2 3 Jones said that the disappearances of ships, planes and small boats were "mysterious." And he gave this area the nickname "Devil's Triangle."
Two years later, in 1952, George X. Sand stated in a Fate magazine article that "strange marine disappearances" occurred in that area.
In 1964, sensationalist writer Vincent Gaddis (1913-1997) coined the term "Bermuda Triangle" in an article in the American pulp magazine Argosy.5 The following year he published the book Invisible horizons: true mysteries of the sea (' Invisible Horizons: The True Mysteries of the Sea '), which included a chapter called "The Mortal Triangle of Bermuda." 6 Generally, Gaddis is considered the inventor of the term.
Popularization of the Bermuda Triangle
In 1974 -10 years after the invention of the Triangle-, the alleged mystery became a true myth thanks to Charles Berlitz (1914-2003), a New York science fiction writer, who published the bestseller The Triangle of Bermuda, where he copied quite a text from Gaddis and compiled cases of disappearances (very manipulated and poorly presented), mixed with falsehoods and flagrant exaggerated inventions.
The Bermuda Triangle has received the credit for many disappearances that occurred far from its "official" limits. To date, some 50 ships and 20 aircraft have been lost in that particular area of the Atlantic Ocean. Although most of these disappearances can be explained, others can not be, and the issue continues to be a debate between believers and skeptics.
1909, November: The Spray, a small yacht of Canadian adventurer Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 - November 14, 1909, or days later).
1917: the SS Timandra sinks, that went to Buenos Aires from Norfolk (Virginia) with a load of coal and a crew of 21 people. He did not broadcast any radio signal, even though he had the ability to do so.
1919: USS Cyclops cargo ship (AC-4) sinks with 308 men on board, due to a hurricane.
1921: Carroll A. Deering cargo ship sinks at Cape Hatteras (1050 km west of the Bermuda Islands and about 800 km northwest of the triangle).
The Flight 19 (1945)
One of the most famous and probably the most famous incidents about the Bermuda Triangle is about the loss of a squadron of five TBM Avenger bombers from the US Navy during a training flight that left Fort Lauderdale (Florida) on December 5, 1945
According to the fantastic writer Charles Berlitz (1914-2003), the case was that several naval aviators simply disappeared after they reported several strange visual effects, a claim that is not entirely accurate. In addition, Berlitz said that because the remains of the Avenger TBM would float for long periods of time, they should be found the next day considering that those days were recorded with calm tide and clear skies.
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