just off southeast Florida (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia). Although, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official name and does not maintain an official file on the area, (Sidsvisions) it does not lower the amount of interest put forth by tourist and scientist. To most it is known as a triangular area bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, where the disappearance of ships and airplanes on a number of occasions has lead to speculation about unexplainable turbulence and other atmospheric disturbances (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia). The Coast Guard is not impressed with supernatural explanations of disasters at sea. It has been their combined forces of nature and unpredictability of mankind outdo even the most far fetched science fiction many times each year (Sidsvisions). But, whether it is really to be proven as something else such as: UFO, unpredictable weather, (Rosenberg) mystical rays from the sun to the lost continent of Atlantis, giant sea monsters, supernatural beings, explosive ice, (McWilliams) or monstrous-sized bubbles of methane gas escaping

Finally, in 1975 a librarian at Arizona State University, named Larry Kusche, decided to investigate the claims made by these articles and books. What he found, which he published in his own book entitled The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved. Kusche had carefully dug into records other writers had neglected. He found that many of the strange accidents were not so strange after all. Often a triangle writer had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress. Others said ships had "mysteriously vanished" when their remains had actually been found and the cause of their sinking explained. More significantly a check of Lloyd's of London's accident records by the editor of Fate in 1975 showed that the triangle was a no more dangerous part of the ocean than any other. U.S. Coast Guard records confirmed this and since that time no good arguments have ever been made to refute those statistics. So the Bermuda Triangle mystery disappeared, in the same way many of its supposed victims had vanished. Only, one still remains, the saga of Flight 19. It is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle. The planes, and their pilots, even found their way into the science fiction film classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But, where is Flight 19 now? Well, in 1991 five Avengers were found in 600 feet of water off the coast of Florida by the salvage ship Deep Sea. Examination of the planes showed that they were not Flight 19, however, so the final resting place of the planes, and their crews is still the Bermuda Triangle's secret (The Un-Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle).

throughout the history of the area. The most practical would seem to be human error, but the

extensive shoals around the islands to some of the deepest marine trenches in the world. With

cases have lent credence to the popular belief in the mystery and the supernatural qualities of the

First, the triangular area is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point

the interaction of the strong currents over the many reefs, the topography is in a state of constant

flux, and development of new navigational hazards is swift (The Bermuda Triangle Fact Sheet).

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