Bermuda Triangle Fact or Fiction?

One of the few Bermuda Triangle facts that can be confirmed is the location of the Bermuda Triangle. In fact, the location of the Bermuda Triangle is also somewhat arbitrary. There are no official borders. However, the triangle is generally assumed to extend from Bermuda to Puerto Rico, Miami, and back to Bermuda.

An unexplained fact about the Bermuda Triangle is that electromagnetic compasses that normally point to the magnetic north pole, point to the true north pole when used within the Bermuda Triangle area. This phenomenon occurs in only one place besides the Bermuda Triangle: the Devil’s Sea off the east coast of Asia.

In fact, the term Bermuda Triangle was first used in an Argosy magazine article written by Vincent H. Gaddis in 1964. Since then, various “nicknames” have been submerged for the Bermuda Triangle: Limbo of the Lost, Hoodoo Sea and even Devil’s Triangle – some coined in literature.

One fact is undeniable about the Bermuda Triangle. There have been a number of strange and sometimes unexplained disappearances in the Triangle. The story of Flight 19, a group of five Navy torpedo bombers and a search plane missing in the Bermuda Triangle area (perhaps!), is the most notorious of all.

However, strange occurrences have also been observed in the Bermuda Triangle area. Even as far back as the 1492 Atlantic crossing by Christopher Columbus, these have been recorded. Columbus documented in his logbooks strange occurrences with his compass in the area we now consider the Bermuda Triangle.

Another undeniable fact about the Bermuda Triangle is that the area has claimed more than 1,000 lives in the last 100 years. Some of these are the result of “human error” when navigating the area. However, suspicious or unexplained disappearances always happen in the Bermuda Triangle.

There is a wide variety of knowledge about the existence of the Bermuda Triangle. Some of this stems from the idea that within the Bermuda Triangle lies the lost city of Atlantis in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Off the coast of Bimini, there is a set of underwater passes that are believed to be part of that civilization. Little exploration can be done because the Bermuda Triangle includes some of the deepest trenches in the Atlantic Ocean, too deep to explore.

Today, thousands of crossings are made through the Bermuda Triangle every year. Virtually all Caribbean cruises that originate on the East Coast of North America pass through part of the Bermuda Triangle. Modern aircraft fly to hot spots in the Caribbean and from the southern United States to Europe via the Bermuda Triangle. Perhaps the next time you travel through the Bermuda Triangle by air or sea, you will think of the lost civilization of Atlantis and its great power?