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The Bermuda Triangle, fact and fictionWe can be very short about the facts of the Bermuda Triangle, as they are few and very plain and simple. The fiction department is a whole different ball game. Isn´t it always?But for the fun of it, let's take a look at the facts first, shall we?Facts: The Bermuda Triangle covers about 500,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. It´s funny how people claim that the ´official´ boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle are formed by Bermuda, San Juan-Puerto Rico and Miami-Florida if you consider the fact that the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize ´The Bermuda Triangle´ as an official name and doesn’t keep an official file on the area. But there you have it, those are the ´official´ boundaries. However, if you start plotting ocean disasters attributed to the Triangle, its boundaries shift all over the North Atlantic and occasionally into the Eastern Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. The name ´Bermuda Triangle´ was first introduced in an article written by Vincent H. Gaddis, published in 1964 in an Argosy Magazine. Since then, a number of ´nicknames´ have immerged for the Bermuda Triangle. Among those are: Devil's Triangle, Limbo of the Lost and Hoodoo Sea . One fact really is undeniable about the Bermuda Triangle. Over the years, numerous reports have surfaced about strange and sometimes unexplained disappearances in the Triangle. The most famous of all these disappearances, is the saga of Flight 19. A group of five Navy torpedo bombers and one search plane are said to have vanished without a trace in the area of the Triangle. Another undeniable fact about the Triangle, is that the area has claimed over a 1000 lives in the past 100 years. Some us these are a result of 'human error', yes. But there are always questions lingering. ´What if-` |
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Over the course of time, there were just too many suspicious and-or unexplained disappearances in that area, to not fault the area itself. Considering that today, thousands of passages are made through the Triangle every year, be it by boat or air, it is safe to assume that the number of disappearances is quite a bit smaller than the number of traffic that does reach its destination. To this day, there are numerous ´theories´ explaining the why and the how of the mysterious disappearances. The list includes natural storms, transportation by extraterrestrial technology, high traffic volumes (and correspondingly high accident rates), a "temporal hole," the lost city of Atlantis empire and other natural and supernatural causes. Writer Charles Berlitz was responsible for a boost in the fame of the Triangle. In 1974 his book 'The Bermuda Triangle' was published and consisted of a series of recountings of mysterious disappearance of ships and planes |
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