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The Triangle Of The Bermuda Triangle

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Introduction The Bermuda Triangle also known as the Devils Triangle it is considered to be a cursed region. Over one thousand ships, planes and lives have been lost in the Triangle without leaving a trace of what happened. Many theories have been put forth, but still none universally accepted explanation exists for the mystery that surrounds the Bermuda Triangle. The first written boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle were from an article by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 issue of the pulp magazine Argosy. The Bermuda Triangle is an area between Bermuda Island, Miami, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico where many aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances (Wikipedia Foundation, 2017). The Triangle covers between …show more content…

On October 8th, 1492. The first recorded account of the Bermuda Triangle was made by Christopher Columbus. While in the Bermuda Triangle he and his crew experienced some odd occurrences. The ships compasses began malfunctioning, there were mysterious lights over the water, the sea was rougher than it had been his entire voyage. He said he might have seen a ‘fireball ' fly through the sky and fall into the sea (BuzzFeedBlue, 2017). In 1967 on December 22. Dan Burack, an experienced sailor had taken his father onto his boat ‘Witchcraft ' to see the Christmas lights along the shore of Miami late at night (Dorsey, 2014). This boat was built to be unsinkable, it had a floatation device in it so if the boat was filled with water half the boat will still float (BuzzFeedBlue, 2017). At 9 pm, Dan Burack had called the coast guard and requested a tow to shore, he said he had hit something but it wasn 't an emergency. He said he would fire a flare to identify his position. The coast guard arrived at his location within 20 minutes later but the cabin cruiser was nowhere to be found and there had been no flare fired. A 1,200-square mile search was issued but the cabin cruiser and both passengers were never found (Dorsey, 2014). The most famous disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle is Flight 19 (Allen, 2011). On December 5th, 1945. Five Military Torpedo Bombers were headed for a training session. The planes had been checked before

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