Shanmu Uncle: What happens to Ships entering Bermuda triangle ?

*FB Chat Sound*

Ganesh sent me a link. Opened it. AND it read BERMUDA TRIANGLE: SHIP REAPPEARS 90 YEARS AFTER GOING MISSING.

Phoned Shanmu Uncle. He told that he was about to call me for the same reason.

Reminded me of one of our previous conversations.

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“The very first problem of Bermuda triangle lies with defining it..”

“Defining it? I heard that it is an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by imaginary lines that run from Bermuda down to Puerto Rico, over to southeast Florida, and back up to Bermuda.”

“Area? Well define that area. Give me the coordinates. Though rough estimates states that it is around 500000 square miles, some of the events that has been linked to Bermuda Triangle had actually happened outside the proposed one! To include more disasters, Bermuda Triangle proponents have at times extended the region to a much larger area of the Atlantic known as the Limbo of the Lost. This area is shaped like a dented trapezium, and extends west to include the Gulf of Mexico, north to New Jersey, and northeast to the Azores!”

“Oh …”

“And any idea on who was the first to witness Devil’s Triangle’s DARK SIDE?”

“No”

“Come on…. This is an obvious one !!”

“Columbus?”

“Yes. The Bermuda Triangle’s bad reputation started with Christopher Columbus. According to his log, on October 8, 1492, Columbus looked down at his compass and noticed that it was giving weird readings. He didn’t alert his crew at first, because having a compass that didn’t point to magnetic north may have sent the already on edge crew into a panic. He also reported that a great flame of fire, probably a meteor, crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later.”

“But the modern legends says that ships entering Bermuda triangle would disappear.”

“Well. The modern Bermuda Triangle legend didn’t get started until 1950 when an article written by Edward Van Winkle Jones was published by the Associated Press. Jones reported several incidences of disappearing ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle, including five US Navy torpedo bombers that vanished on December 5, 1945, and the commercial airliners “Star Tiger” and “Star Ariel” which disappeared on January 30, 1948 and January 17, 1949 respectively. All told, about 135 individuals were unaccounted for, and they all went missing around the Bermuda Triangle. As Jones said, “they were swallowed without a trace.” While there was merely less public interest on this subject initially, even after the 1955 book, The Case for the UFO, by M. K. Jessup that started pointing fingers at alien life forms.  “

“By 1964, Vincent H. Gaddis, who coined the term “Bermuda Triangle”, wrote an article saying over 1000 lives had been claimed by the area. He also agreed that it was a “pattern of strange events.” The Bermuda Triangle obsession hit its peak in the early 1970s with the publication of several paperback books about the topic, including the bestseller by Charles Berlitz, The Bermuda Triangle.”

“So what happens to Ships that entered Bermuda Triangle? I mean how did they disappear ?”

“Actually there are several reasons to give. In 1975, Lawrence David Kusche determined to find more on the triangle. He contacted shipping companies, government agencies, and libraries. He researched journals, Coast Guard reports, and newspaper stories for information about the missing vessels. The result was a well-written book titled The Bermuda Triangle Mystery — Solved.”

“Kusche said that there could be no single common cause for all the disasters and also found out that in many cases, ships were victims of natural causes, such as storms, compass failures, hurricanes, lack of radio on board, and structural weaknesses. He concluded on the second-last page of his book: ‘It is no more logical to try to find a common cause for all the disappearances in the Triangle than, for example, to try to find one cause for all the automobile accidents in Arizona.’ The unpredictable Caribbean-Atlantic storms that give birth to waves of great size as well as waterspouts often spell disaster for mariners. The topography of the ocean floor varies from extensive shoals to some of the deepest marine trenches in the world. With the interaction of strong currents over reefs, the topography is in a constant state of flux and breeds development of new navigational hazards.”

“Yeah … But what about the wreckages ? How did they disappear?”

“It might be due to the ocean currents. The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico around the Florida Straits northeastward toward Europe, is extremely swift and turbulent. It can quickly erase any evidence of a disaster. “

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“Any idea on how did this ship resurfaced?”

“That’s what they are trying to find,” said Shanmu Uncle.

I replied Ganesh, “Answer is simple : Aliens :P”

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Written by SGA Thomas