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One of the most famous mysteries is the Bermuda Triangle. Do planes and ships really disappear there miraculously?

A flight of United States military aircraft - TBF Avenger bombers, similar to Flight 19. Source: Wikimedia
A flight of US military aircraft - TBF Avenger bombers, similar to Flight 19. Source: Wikimedia

Daniel Plyder, a young Galileo

The combination "Bermuda Triangle" indicates one of the most famous mysteries, but what is hidden at the base of this couplet?

The Bermuda Triangle is an area whose shape - as its name suggests - is a triangle, which covers about one million square kilometers in the Atlantic Ocean. At its ends are the east coast of Florida in the west, Puerto Rico in the south and the Bermuda Islands in the north - hence its name. The area is rich in sea and air transport routes, and following serious accidents in not entirely clear circumstances, due to which transport vehicles disappeared and never returned, its name became associated with mystery: supernatural effects, the presence of extraterrestrials, strong magnetic fields, a "hole in time", the lost continent of Atlantis at the bottom of the sea, etc. , which caused these accidents.

In 1974, Charles Berlitz wrote about the famous Sabbath in accidents, or rather in mysteries, in his book "Bermuda Triangle". This is the story of Flight 19 - five US Navy bombers that took off on a routine training flight in December 1945 from Florida. During the flight, the pilots reported strange phenomena, and the flight commander reported that there was a malfunction in the compass system on his plane. All the pilots and their planes did not return to their base, and moreover - no sign of an accident was found. They just disappeared. What added to the mystery is that the plane that was sent to search for survivors or the parts of the aircraft in the middle of the sea disappeared.

Later, several "holes" were discovered in Berlitz's story - from the version of the flight controllers who were in wireless contact with the pilots of Flight 19, it turned out that these were inexperienced trainee pilots led by a commander with a navigation system malfunction, and apparently they deviated from their course, the weather was stormy, and the fuel in the planes ended when they flew over the ocean, and therefore their chances of being saved were nil. The plane that was sent to look for them apparently exploded in the air - according to the testimonies of sailors who saw an explosion of an aircraft in the air. The point is that this model of plane was notorious as a "flying bomb" - and this was not the first or second accident of this type of plane. Berlitz's critics accused him of "inflating" the "mysterious" aspects, and claimed that the "disappearances" in the Bermuda Triangle are not more numerous than in any similar area in the ocean.

To date, the uniqueness of the Bermuda Triangle has not been scientifically proven, or alternatively not refuted. However, insurance companies routinely insure air and sea transport vehicles that move on routes that pass within the Bermuda Triangle, and insurance feasibility calculations, as we know, rely on statistics.

The writer is the director of "Scientist Born" from "A wide horizon of educational initiatives",

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  1. Asaf
    Are you sure you came to the right site? The questions you ask are not the concern of this site. You probably have cardinal problems with reading comprehension. Your misspellings are unbecoming of a person trying to be intelligent. My impression is that in the best case you lost your mind and in the worst case a 5 ton block fell on your head or maybe you sensed something.

  2. Below are questions for Bibi: Are you in favor of raising the minimum wage, or in favor of increasing allowances? Does poverty bother you? How does the government intend to increase the supply of apartments? Is it in favor of building in SH? Is it fair to pay tax on water? Is he in favor of an apartment from a contractor? Is he in favor of a civil marriage? Can the conversion process be made easier? What is his opinion about the Alaluf Committee?

  3. To the point. It is desirable to criticize Bibi as much as possible. Because in a democracy the leader has to give answers to the public. Therefore, I would like to thank you for your response. How could it be that the Prime Minister does not hold press conferences? How could it be that the public debate focuses only on security?

  4. There was a film in the National about the fact that huge ships also sank in the Bermuda Triangle and a solution was found but indirectly. A Canadian explorer searched for gas in the area and found it in huge pockets coated with salt. Think of a gas lake completely covered with thick layers of salt.
    Sometimes the upper layer of salt crumbles and then a lake of gas rises in the sea. If there is a ship above it, it just sinks to the bottom.

  5. When you repeat a lie many times in the end many people believe it.
    For example: "Bibi is good for the Jews" or "Bibi is strong in security, strong in the economy"

  6. Life
    great. I looked at the site you linked to and read some links from there as well. The man is constantly trying to sell his book. His book talks about forests and lakes on Mars. To believe such a man you have to conclude that a huge group of scientists are liars or idiots.
    You did the right thing - you saw something strange and asked. It's fine

  7. Miracles
    I have nothing to do with these people and I stay away from them like fire. I am very far from Missitika. I can only say one sentence about all spiritual people, if I stand next to a ventilator I will also be spiritual. All in all, the photographs piqued my curiosity. Ami and Tami's answer answered my curiosity. That's why I worded my words carefully "very strange photographs" and I didn't try to reach any sweeping conclusions.. I have no shame in saying that I was wrong.

  8. Life
    I suggest you check what kind of people get caught up in this nonsense - and stay away from them.

  9. Google announced a year ago that the "strange photographs of the ocean floor" are actually due to the nature of the scanning of the ocean floor that was done by different ships with different sonar equipment and all the photos were put together by a computer according to considerations of quality, resolution and location. This method created artificial configurations on the map that do not exist in reality.

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