The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil’s Triangle) is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Legend has it that many people, ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. How many have mysteriously disappeared depends on who is doing the locating and counting. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times the size depending on the imagination of the author. (Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the “triangle”.) Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Even so, estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years. So has been claimed that in 1973, the U.S. Coast Guard answered more than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century.
Some theories surrounding the Bermuda Triangle:
- The Sargasso Sea: This strange sea has no shore but bounded by ocean currents on all sides making ships go motionless.
- Methane Gas theory: A huge amount of methane is trapped beneath the ocean floor at Bermuda Triangle. If this gas gets released, water density in that area can reduce and ships can no longer stay afloat on the frothy water.
- Gulf Stream: It is a very powerful ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and moves through the Straits of Florida. It is like a river in an ocean and can carry objects.
- Electronic Fog: Sometimes ships get engulfed in an electronic Fog, and, eventually, all their electronic equipments start to malfunction.
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