Great mysteries of the Earth

The Bermuda Triangle

 

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"The amount of discrepancies in the documentation is astounding."

 

US Navy link

Bermuda Triangle Defined


Sargasso Sea                                                                         
Doldrums
Horse Latitudes
Gyres - "This circulation pattern causes the water to ‘pile” up in the center. "
 

Ekman Spiral

 

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gfd_exp/exp_e/exp/ek/1/res.htm


The Perfect Storm
Blue holes
 "Devil's Triangle"

Bermuda
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 "Exorcizing the Devil's Triangle"
Net Research By Sadia Hanif


Ghost ships
Vanishing Planes & Ships



Richard Winer
 

Charles Berlitz

 

The Mantell incident


Vincent Gaddis

The “Triangle” in History: a shape takes form October 1952 in a short article for Fate magazine
 

Argosy Magazine -- "Generally credited with being the first true "pulp fiction" magazine"

-- "Obviously not a major source for nautical research but definitely a place to spin a tale or two."


Traditionally - The Triangle goes from Miami Florida to San Juan Puerto Rico to the Bahamas back to Miami

The "Extended Triangle" (Polygon) goes further to Boston, Ireland and the Azores

TBF/TBM Avenger


Vincent Price

Columbus’ light show -- Meteor or  "The light Columbus had seen on the night of Oct 11 was probably from Man Island near Hispanola or from Hispanola itself. He failed to wake the crew because he did not want to report yet another false sighting. Four hours later, Rodrigo de Triana, aboard the Pinta, signaled land-in-sight. Land was spotted in the vicinity of where the light had been seen."
THE COLUMBUS MYTH

The compass issue was only mentioned because at the time sailors believed that compass needles pointed to the north star, not magnetic north.



Magnetic Deviation  

The Truth: About Flight 19

5 December, 1945 Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida weather report (in progress)

Flight 19 (Official US Navy site)

The Un-mystery of the Bermuda Triangle ...a very good read.

Sea and weather conditions - cool and calm as Berlitz states?


The rescue plane - Martin Mariner suddenly disappears not during the day but at 7:27pm in bad weather conditions in an aircraft known as the flying gas tank because it carried so much fuel and had a tendency to leak fumes excessively. It had a reputation as being a "flying bomb"

Blue holes
Whirlpools


Chuck Wakely
Chuck Wakely Incident

Edgar Cayce

Grand Turk Island Incident



Philadelphia Experiment    Link#2    Official US Navy Link
USS Eldridge History
"
it's a good movie, but there's no truth to it"

Mary Celeste   

Raifuku Maru

La Dahama

Marine Sulfur Queen -- Writing in the Seamen's Church Institute of New York's magazine, The Lookout, Paul Brock said that officers on a Honduras flag banana boat "reported to the Coast Guard that their freighter ran into a 'strong odor' 15 miles off Cape San Antonia, the western tip of Cuba, just before dawn on February 3. The odor was acrid.'"

USS Cyclops

Lucky Lady

Sargasso Sea

Horse Latitudes

Ekman Spiral

Puerto Rico Trench

USCGC Vigilant

 

MAPS

Large

Overview

Topographical

Topographical

 

Items to Investigate

 

 

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