The bermudia triangle, also regarded by many as the "devil's triangle" is a 500,000 square mile area in the western north Atlantic ocean which is known for the mysterious disappearances of air-crafts and ships. In the last 100 years, many articles has been made in relation to the bermudia such as ; "sea mystery at our back door in 1952", "the deadly bermudia triangle". The " devil's triangle" has brought about the death of thousands and has laid waste to properties. Commonly known for its violent weather, compass variations, leaking methane gas and other unexplained factors, the bermudia has quite earned its name as the devil's triangle. The term was first coined by a writer called Vincent Gaddis in 1964. some writers suggested that the mythical city "Atlantis" may lie at the bottom of the sea bed and could be using its reputed and undiminished " crystal energies" to magnify the gravitational pull, thereby sinking ships and planes. Here are some of the mysterious disappearances of ships and air crafts in the bermudia region.
USS CYCLOPS
In 1918, the collier uss cyclops disappeared along with the 309 crew members on board. The ship was reportedly carrying a full load of Maganesse ore from the island of barbados. This is the single largest loss of lives in the us navy's history not related to combat. In addition, cyclops other two "sisters", proteus and nerues were subsequently lost in the north Atlantic during world war II. These ships were shipping ore similar to that which was loaded on cyclops.
Flight 19
Flight 19 in 1945, which was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdule to their training destinations and back to base. The flight never returned to base. A search and rescue aircraft( PBM Mariner) was deployed to look for them but the PBM mariner with a 13 man crew also disappeared. Author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the leader had been heard saying " we are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, not white".
CAROLL A . DEERING
Caroll A . Deering, a five masted shooner built in 1919 was found aground and abandoned at Diamond shoals in North Carolina on January 31, 1921. Though Rumour has it that it was attacked by a crew of pirates carrying illegal rum running trade, it never had a concrete Evidence to back up its claims.
Other Notable ships which were a victim of this "Bermudia activity" are:
Franscisco de Bobadilla, a spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane due to its violent weather in the bermudia region.
Another one is the " pride of Baltimore", it sunk in may 14, 1986. The crew of the sunken vessel observed the wind suddenly shifted and increased velocity from 32km/hr to 145km/hr while all sailing factor remained unchanged.
Though many scientist refused to believe in these rumours since it does not conform to their scientific beliefs and had on many occasions looked for scientific method to explain it.
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