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Essay / Bermuda Triangle - 709
It claims its victims without warning. Stretching from Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda, it is more than 500,000 miles wide. To some it is known as the Devil's Triangle, but to others it is known as the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is a pilot or ship captain's worst nightmare. Two of the major disappearances in the Triangle are Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops. Flight 19 was a set of US Navy bombers in formation. They lost their communications signal and disappeared above the triangle. The USS Cyclops had the same communication problems. Both got lost and somehow ended up in the Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle holds many mysteries, but there are logical explanations for these disappearances. They say it comes out of nowhere. A fog that disrupts compasses and other electronic equipment on ships and planes. Electronic fog is known to have claimed many lives in the Triangle. The story of Flight 19 is so bizarre. This is about five Avenger Torpedo bombers doing a training session. On the way back to Ft. Lauderdale, Lieutenant Charles Taylor begins to ask his second-in-command for help. Taylor keeps asking Edward what his compass reads. “I don’t know where we are. We must have gotten lost after this last turn. (Taylor 54) Taylor finally admitted that they were lost. The two compasses he owned were out. Radio transmissions picked up Taylor saying he wasn't far enough east. Taylor had led his crew to their demise. He changed course several times to try to find his way back. He led the crew further out to sea instead of taking them to land on a small island they had seen miles before. After five days of searching for the planes, the runway became cold. On December 5, 1945, the search was completed. (66) It is... middle of paper... that gave the Bermuda Triangle its fame and glory. Nothing truly disappears without a trace. With hundreds of kilometers of our oceans unexplored, what else is there? The USS Cyclops and Avenger Torpedo bombers could be right under our noses. There are still many unexplored territories that could harbor many unexplained mysteries. Works Cited “A “rogue wave” is large, unexpected and dangerous. What is a rogue wave? National Ocean Service, January 11, 2013. Web. October 25, 2013. “Life and Earth Sciences”. Science channel. Discovery Communications, LLC, 2013. The Web. October 13, 2013.Lulko, Lyubov. "The most mysterious phenomena of the world ocean." English Pravda.ru. Pravadu.ru, nd Web. October 25, 2013.MacGregor, Rob. The fog: a never-before-published theory of the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon. G558.m33 2005 Llewellyn Publications, 2005. XVII-208. Print. October 10 2013.