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First mention of the Bermuda Triangle
The first documented mention of the Bermuda Triangle was made in 1950: Edward Van Winkle Jones, an Associated Press journalist, wrote about some ships lost in the Bahamas area. He said the Bermuda Triangle is an equilateral triangle-shaped geographic area located in the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the American city of Miami (in the state of Florida). Joining these three points with an imaginary line forms a triangle of about 1600 to 1800 km of side. -
The start of the Bermuda Triangle
Two years later, in 1952, George X. Sand stated in an article in Fate magazine that strange marine disappearances were taking place in that area. -
Hypothesis
He was created in 1953 by several writers who published articles in magazines about the alleged danger of the area. However the surrounding area, especially the coast of the Carolinas, was known for its numerous shipwrecks to the point of being called "The Atlantic Cemetery".. Jones said the disappearances of ships, planes, and small boats were "mysterious". And he gave this area the nickname "Devil’s Triangle". Some people theorize that UFOs are the term causative -
The deadly Bermuda Triangle
In 1964, sensational writer Vincent Gaddis coined the term "Bermuda Triangle" in an article in the American pulp magazine Argosy.8 The following year he published the book Invisible horizons: true mysteries of the sea ('Invisible Horizons: The True Mysteries of the Sea'), where he included a chapter called "The Mortal Triangle of Bermuda". Gaddis is generally considered the inventor of the term. -
Popularization
In 1974, 11 years after the creation of the Bermuda Triangle, the alleged mystery became a true myth thanks to Charles Berlitz, a New York science fiction writer, who published the best-selling The Bermuda Triangle, where he copied a lot of text from Gaddis and collected cases of disappearances (highly manipulated and poorly presented), mixed with falsehoods and flagrant exaggerated inventions. Some people believe they are UFOs. -
Some incidents
• 1976: SS Sylvia L. Ossa sinks in a hurricane west of Bermuda (outside the triangle).
• 1978: Abandoned to SS Hawarden Bridge in the West Indies. Presumed due to a crime committed. Months earlier, in February, the United States Coast Guard had arrested him in Cape Knox and found marijuana.
• 1980: SS Poet sinks in a hurricane, transporting grain to Egypt.
• 1995: sinking of the freighter Jamanic K (built in 1943), sailing from Cap-Haitien.
• 1997: German yacht sinks. -
Carroll A. Deering
A five-masted schooner built in 1919, Carroll A. Deering was found stranded and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on January 31, 1980. Rumors and more at the time indicated that Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly related to the illegal rum trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship, Hewitt, which disappeared at about the same time. -
Flight 19
One of the best-known and probably most famous incidents over the Bermuda Triangle is about the loss of a squadron of five US Navy TBM Avenger bombers during a training flight that left Fort Lauderdale (Florida) 5 December 1982. According to Charles Berlitz’s book, a squadron of naval aircraft disappeared without a trace after reporting several strange visual effects. A rescue seaplane PBM Mariner also disappeared during the search for this squadron. -
KC-135 Stratotankers
On August 28, 1986, a pair of U.S. Air Force Stratotanker KC-135 aircraft. They collided and crashed into the Atlantic 300 miles west of Bermuda. Some writers say that while the two planes collided, there were two distinct crash sites, separated by more than 160 miles (260 km) of water. -
Mystery solved
An explanation for some of the disappearances points to the presence of vast deposits of methane hydrates under the continental plates. In 1981, the United States Geological Survey reported the occurrence of these hydrates in the Blake Ridge area on the southeast coast of the United States.
Periodic eruptions of methane could produce regions of sparkling water that might not give enough lift to ships. If such an area formed around a ship, it would sink very quickly without warning.
