The Bermuda Triangle, also known as
the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of
the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under
mysterious circumstances
Triangle area
The first written
boundaries date from an article by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 issue of the pulp magazine Argosy, where the triangle's three verticesare in Miami, Florida peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. But subsequent writers did not follow
this definition. Every writer gives different boundaries and vertices to
the triangle, with the total area varying from 1,300,000 km2 (500,000 sq mi)
to 3,900,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi). Consequently,
the determination of which accidents have occurred inside the triangle depends
on which writer reports them. The United States Board on Geographic Names does not recognize this name, and it is
not delimited in any map drawn by US government agencies.
The area
is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with
ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise
ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and
forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route
for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean,
and South America from points north.
Supernatural explanations
Triangle writers have used a
number of supernatural concepts to explain the events. One explanation pins the
blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is
the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some
definitions. Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis
would be found in 1968 as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road.
Believers describe the formation as a road, wall, or other structure, though
geologists consider it to be of natural origin.
Other writers attribute the
events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science
fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews asalien abductees.
Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous
phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the Triangle to
anomalous or unexplained forces.
Natural explanations
1. Compass variations
2. Gulf Stream
3. Human error
4. Violent weather
5. Methane hydrates
Notable incidents
1. Ellen Austin
The Ellen
Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed
on board a prize
crew, and attempted to
sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict
disappeared; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the
prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board. A check
from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was
renamed Ellen Austin.
There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time,
that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on board a
derelict that later disappeared.
2. USS Cyclops
3. Carroll A. Deering
4. Flight 19
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Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance is attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.
One of the search and
rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker
off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion and observing a widespread oil slick when
fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end
of the incident. According
to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to
vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a potentially long search
and rescue operation.
11.
What the other name of Bermuda triangle
A.
Devil’s
triangle
B.
Angel triangle
C.
Demon’s triangle
D.
Monster triangle
E.
Ghost Triangle
22.
Where is Bermuda triangle ?
A.
Hindia ocean
B.
Pasifik ocean
C.
Atlantik
ocean
D.
Arafuru sea
E.
South china sea
33.
Who has the first written boundaries of Bermuda
triangle
A.
Colombus
B.
Marcopolo
C.
Vincent
Gaddis
D.
Ceng Ho
E.
Dick
44.
Mentioned three boundaries of bermuda triangle
A.
Miami, Puerto Rico, mid-Atlantik
B.
Kosta Rica, Ekuador, Pasifik ocean
C.
Nambia, Ghana, Atlantik Ocean
D.
Miami, Dominika , mid-Atlantik
E.
Miami, Haiti, mid-Atlantik
55.
Connected with whether the Bermuda triangle ?
A.
Atlantis
Story
B.
Prambanan Story
C.
Bandung Bondowoso
D.
Malin Kundang
E.
Flying dutchman story
66.
Who is Charles Berlitz?
A.
author of romance novels
B.
film director
C.
racer
D.
author
of various books in anomalous phenomena
E.
history of the American continent author
77.
Below are natural explanation about bermuda
triangle, except
A.
Compass variations
B.
Gulf
Stream
C.
Human
error
D.
Violent
weather
E.
Because
of Atlantis Story
88.
The area is one of the most heavily
traveled. The
underlined word has similar meaning to
A.
Hard
B.
Thin
C.
Small
D.
Soft
E.
Easy
99.
When is the Flight 19 that disappeared while over the Atlantic
A. on September 6, 1946
B. on December 5, 1945
C. on December 5, 1956
D. on September 5,1945
E. on December 5, 1955
110.
What the plan of Flight 19 above bermuda triangle’s
A. To Attack another
country
B. To rescue the lost
plane
C. To deliver passengers
D. To drop a bomb
E. to complete the
exercise
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