The Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary area in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The boundaries of the triangle include Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Several ships and planes have gone missing in this area, including USS Cyclops in 1918 and Flight 19 in 1945. Strong ocean currents, violent storms, and other natural explanations are often cited as the most likely reasons for disappearances, rather than supernatural or alien events.

1. „The Bermuda Triangle”

2. „The Bermuda Triangle”
"Bermuda Triangle„ is an imaginary area
located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the
United States of America, which is noted for a
supposedly high incidence of unexplained
disappearances of ships and aircraft. The
apexes of the triangle are Bermuda; Miami,
Florida; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The US
Board of Geographic Names does not recognize
the Bermuda Triangle as an official name.

3.  The boundaries of the triangle cover the Straits of Florida,
the Bahamas and the entire Caribbean Island area and the
Atlantic east to the Azores. The more familiar triangular
boundary in most written works has as its points
somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami; San Juan,
Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with
most of the accidents concentrated along the southern
boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.
The area is one of the most heavily travelled shipping lanes
in the world.

4.  A significant factor with regard to missing vessels in the
Bermuda Triangle is a strong ocean current called the Gulf
Stream. It is extremely swift and turbulent and can quickly
erase evidence of a disaster. The weather also plays its
role. Prior to the development of telegraph, radio and
radar, sailors did not know a storm or hurricane was
nearby until it appeared on the horizon. For example, the
Continental Navy sloop Saratoga was lost off the Bahamas
in such a storm with all her crew on 18 March 1781. Many
other US Navy ships have been lost at sea in storms
around the world. Sudden local thunder storms and water
spouts can sometimes spell disaster for mariners and air
crews.

5. Evidence
The most famous US Navy losses which have occurred
in the area popularly known as the Bermuda Triangle
are:
USS Cyclops & the Aircraft of Flight
USS Cyclops in March 1918 and the aircraft of Flight 19 in
December 1945. The ship probably sank in an unexpected
storm, and the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed into the
ocean - no physical traces of them have ever been found.

6. SS Marine Sulphur Queen
 Tanker SS Marine Sulphur Queen carrying bulk molten
sulfur sank in February 1963. Although the wreck of
Marine Sulphur Queen has not been located, a life
preserver and other floating artifacts were recovered.
These disappearances have been used to provide credence
to the popular belief in the mystery and purported
supernatural qualities of the "Bermuda Triangle."

7. Douglas DC-3
 On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number
NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan,
Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32
people onboard was ever found.

8. Star Tiger and Star Ariel
 G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a
flight from the Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel
disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from
Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro Tudor IV
passenger aircraft operated by British South American
Airways. Both planes were operating at the very limits of
their range and the slightest error or fault in the
equipment could keep them from reaching the small island

9. KC-135 Stratotankers
 On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air Force KC-135
Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the
Atlantic. The Triangle version (Winer, Berlitz, Gaddis) of
this story specifies that they did collide and crash, but
there were two distinct crash sites, separated by over 160
miles (260 km) of water

10. Entertainment & Films
Entertainment
 The Sea World amusement park on the Gold Coast
operated a ride called Bermuda Triangle.
Films
 The first film based on the Triangle was The Bermuda
Triangle in 1978. After that, other films included The
Triangle in 2001, The Triangle (a TV miniseries) in 2005,
and Triangle in 2009.

11. Music
Music
 Composer Isao Tomita released an album, Bermuda
Triangle, inspired by the region.
 Singer and songwriter Barry Manilow released a single
"Bermuda Triangle" in 1981, taken from his 1980 album
Barry. The song references the area to depict loss ("The
Bermuda Triangle makes people disappear"), however the
allusion is centred around romantic loss, and caused by
fickleness rather than paranormal activity.

12. Quiz
1 What is the Bermuda Triangle?
2. Where is the Bermuda Triangle?
3. What’s happened in this place?
4. How many disasters were there?

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Konrad Szota
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