What is the Bermuda Triangle and where is it located?
The Bermuda Triangle is an invisible triangle that connects off the coast of South Eastern Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico in the Atlantic Ocean and is 500,000 square miles. However the size of the Bermuda Triangle is often decided by whoever is writing about it at the time. Some authors have said it lies somewhere in Virginia, on the western coast of Bermuda and Cuba, Dominican Rebublic and Puerto Rico. This would set the size of it to 1,500,000 square miles!
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What is the reason it is so well know?
The reason the Bermuda Triangle is so well know is because it is said to have many mysterious boat and plane disappearances.Background Information
Vincent Gaddis invented the name "Bermuda Triangle" when he wrote "The Deadly Bermuda Traingle," in the February, 1964, issue of Argosy, a magazine devoted to fiction. However, the name Bermuda Triangle is not recognized as an official name by the US Board of Geographic Names. Also, the US Navy believes the Bermuda Triangle does not exist.
The Triangle's strange phenomenon was said to be first recorded by Christopher Columbus and his sailors in 1492 when they passed through the Sargasso Sea. This sea is know to have extremely salty water bounded by currents, such as the Gulf Stream as well as underwater currents, that are 700 miles wide and 2,000 miles long. This sea in the Triangle is know to have a tremendous amount of gigantic seaweed that many claim its reputation to be a "ships' graveyard."
There have been dozens of articles, books, and television programs pushing the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle over the years however few did any investigation into the mystery, instead they just passed on speculation.
The mystery of The Bermuda Triangle was wrote about in 1974 by Charles Berlitz in his book, "The Bermuda Triangle." The book instantly became a best seller. A year later Lawrence David Kusche published a book, "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved," This was a rebutle from the book published the year before and stated that there was nothing mysterious or supernatural that happens in the area of the Triangle and that Berlitz had misinterpreted and fabricated the information he used. Kusche writes: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red, the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty." However both books were found to have incorrect statements within. Twenty-five years later Gian J. Quasar published, "Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery." This book was written based on 13 years of researched information from sources such as NTSB, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Navy and many foreign archives.
All in all I believe the mystery only came into the spotlight as a communal reinforcement because uncritical authors and a mass media jumped at the first chance to pass on the speculation, as this happens often with other topics.
The mystery of The Bermuda Triangle was wrote about in 1974 by Charles Berlitz in his book, "The Bermuda Triangle." The book instantly became a best seller. A year later Lawrence David Kusche published a book, "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved," This was a rebutle from the book published the year before and stated that there was nothing mysterious or supernatural that happens in the area of the Triangle and that Berlitz had misinterpreted and fabricated the information he used. Kusche writes: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red, the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty." However both books were found to have incorrect statements within. Twenty-five years later Gian J. Quasar published, "Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery." This book was written based on 13 years of researched information from sources such as NTSB, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Navy and many foreign archives.
All in all I believe the mystery only came into the spotlight as a communal reinforcement because uncritical authors and a mass media jumped at the first chance to pass on the speculation, as this happens often with other topics.
Sources
A practitoiner in Russia."The Bermuda Triangle". PureInsight.org. nd. np. 8/1/12. purinsight.org.7/16/12.http://www.pureinsight.org/node/5998
Howard L Rosenberg. "Exorcising the Devil's Triangle". Naval History & Heritage Command. Sealift no. 6 (Jun. 1974): 11-15, May 12 1996. Department Of The Navy - Naval History & Heritage Command. 8/1/12. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-1.htm
I loved this! Totally makes me want to go home and look up stuff. You did a great job. I have always heard stories about the Bermuda Triangle and have not given it thought. Now I do want to go and find out some things, just so I know. It is a great topic. Thanks for sharing.
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