The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, the Triangle of Death, the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the Hoodoo Sea, and many other names, is an area formed by an imaginary line drawn from a point near Melbourne, Florida, to Bermuda and Puerto Rica and back to Florida, covering about 440,000 square miles. (Hayman 144-145). The Bermuda Triangle is a deadly place of mystery, where many ships and planes have disappeared, leaving behind many questions as to how they vanished. It was not until 1945 that the first airplanes were lost in the Bermuda Triangle. These first vanishings of the planes of Flight 19 took place on December 5, 1945. Flight 19 was flying over Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by 2:10 in the afternoon. Flight 19 was only a routine practice flight, consisting of five bombers. The flight leader was Charles Taylor, an experienced pilot who had more than 2,500 hours of flying time. The planes were carrying enough fuel for 1,000 miles. The flight was scheduled to take two hours. Flight 19 was headed for Chicken Shoals, near Bikini Island in the Caribbean. There the planes made practice runs on the hulk of an old merchant ship. The runs went fine. The planes then headed east for the next step in the pr
The Bermuda Triangle losses go on. Although most ships and planes cross the Triangle safely, once every several years, a front-page tragedy occurs. What force can devastate so completely? The forces that dwell in the Devil's Triangle leave no evidence. Its destruction is fast and complete. Only three or four disappearances have yielded a single clue. Whatever happens, happens so quickly that there is no time to even send out an SOS. What nameless horror engulfs craft and crew? Science fiction and the occult offer solutions ranging from the presence of a Loch Ness-type monster in the Triangle's water to UFO's (Hayman 151-152). As a species, the human race is now reaching maturity. We cannot retreat from the search for knowledge or new explanations-either in this world, or beyond (Berlitz 182). Shortly after take-off, the patrol plane sent back a message saying there were high winds above 6,000 feet; after that, there was nothing. The plane was swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle. During the incident with the rescue plane, Flight 19 got a message to Fort Lauderdale. With no explanation, Taylor had handed command to Captain Stivers, the Marine pilot of the group. Stivers said, "We are not sure where we are... We think we must be 225 miles northwest of base... We must have passed over Florida and we must be in the Gulf of Mexico..." (Hayman 147-148). Berlitz, Charles. The Bermuda Triangle. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1974. Rescue operations were started at once. All through the first night, Coast Guard ships searched for survivors in the Atlantic. At dawn the next day, hundreds of Air Force and Navy planes combed the Bermuda Triangle for any clue to the whereabouts of Flight
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