Thursday, March 27, 2014
The Bermuda Triangle
When and why does the Bermuda triangle exist?
The Bermuda triangle A.K.A the devil's sea was defined as a
part of the Atlantic ocean but after numerous aircraft and ships are
said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the triangular section
of the ocean started to be called the Bermuda triangle. The
name came from the triangular formation , the triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida
peninsula; in Juan, Puerto; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. Also the location of where
each ship or plane lost communication or crashed formed a triangle
on the sea. After that many people stared to call it the Bermuda triangle.
Some famous reported incidents involving the Bermuda Triangle include:
- The USS Cyclops and its crew of 309 that went missing after leaving Barbados in 1918.
- The TBM Avenger bombers that went missing in 1945 during a training flight over the Atlantic.
- A Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that went missing in 1958, no trace of the aircraft was ever found.
- A yacht was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew.
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The reasons.
According to the US Navy, the triangle does
not exist, and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names and yet people believe that the
triangle has something to do with the paranormal activity and creature that we
do not know of. Scientists have proven that Compass variations, Gulf
Stream, Human error, Violent
weather, Methane
hydrates might be the problem and not some alien.
Compass variations :Compass problems are one of the cited phrases in many
Triangle incidents. While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic
anomalies may exist in the area such anomalies have not been found.
Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators
have known for centuries. Magnetic (compass) north and geographic
(true) northare only exactly the same for a small number of places – for
example, as of 2000 in the United States only those places on a line running
from Wisconsin to
the Gulf of Mexico. But the public may not be as informed, and think
there is something mysterious about a compass "changing" across an
area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.
Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is
a deep ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows
through the Straits of Florida into the North
Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and, like a river, it can
and does carry floating objects. It has a surface velocity of up to about 2.5
metres per second (5.6 mi/h). A small plane making a water landing or
a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by
the current.
Human error
One
of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any
aircraft or vessel is human error. Human stubbornness may have caused
businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, the Revonoc,
as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.
Violent weather
Tropical
cyclones are powerful storms, which form in tropical waters and
have historically cost thousands of lives lost and caused billions of dollars
in damage. The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in
1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane. These storms
have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.
A
powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the
sinking of the Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.
The crew of the sunken vessel noted the wind suddenly shifted and increased
velocity from 32 km/h (20 mph) to 97–145 km/h (60–90 mph).
A National Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated
"during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from
aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall
line of wind and water." A similar event occurred to the Concordia in
2010 off the coast of Brazil.
Methane hydrates
An
explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the large
fields of methane hydrates
(a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves. Laboratory
experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, sink
a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water, any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would
be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. It has been hypothesized that periodic
methane eruptions (sometimes
called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of
frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for
ships. If this were the case, an area forming around a ship could cause it
to sink very rapidly and without warning.
Publications
by the USGS describe large
stores of undersea hydrates worldwide, including the Blake Ridge area,
off the southeastern United Statescoast. However, according to the USGS, no large releases of
gas hydrates are believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past
15,000 years.
Over the years many people died in the seas and the Bermuda triangle might be one of the reasons. Maybe in the future the mysteries could be solved.
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