The Bermuda Triangle

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The Bermuda Triangle

• Kelly Fischer
• LT 130
• May 18, 2006

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Location

• The Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary line meeting
  at 3 points creating a triangle.
  
• The triangle connects Miami, FL, Bermuda, and San
  Juan, Puerto Rico.
  
• Also known as the Devils Triangle.

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Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

• Since WWII, approximately 1,000 people have
  disappeared along with over 100 planes and
  ships.
  
• The legends began in the 1500s during a time of
  trade between Spain and the Americas.
  
• Columbus was one of the first to report something
  unusual about this area.
  
• He reported their compasses going haywire and
  seeing a bolt of fire that fell into the sea.

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Disappearances

• The earliest recorded disappearance of a United
  States vessel was in March, 1918.
  
• It was the USS Cyclops, which typically carried
  coal and cargo. When returning from a voyage to
  Brazil, it vanished, never to be found.

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Flight 19

• The most well-known incident occurred on December
  5, 1945.
  
• Flight 19, a training squadron of 5 torpedo
  bombers, disappeared.
  
• It is said their instruments stopped working,
  they lost their sense of location and flew
  further into the Atlantic Ocean, where they
  vanished.
• When a Navy Search and Rescue plane went to look
  for Flight 19 it also disappeared.
  

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Unexplained Bermuda Find

• In 1970, as Dr. Ray Brown was scuba diving in the
  Atlantic waters, he came across a smooth,
  mirror-like structure below the surface.
  
• The structure was in the shape of a pyramid,
  which upon inspection revealed an entrance. It
  opened into a small room where Brown found a
  brassy, metallic rod with a red gem attached to
  the end hung from the middle of the ceiling.
• Oddly enough the room contained no algae or
  coral.
  
• The gem which Brown kept, is rarely seen, but is
  believed to have healing powers.

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Facts

• Large amounts of gas hydrate in the sea floor
  sediments generates a foamy surface.
  
• Because of the foams low density a ship is
  unable to displace enough to float.

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Facts

• A paper published in 1981 by the US Geological
  Survey stated that the area has a magnetic force
  surrounding it.
  
• This area is one of only two in the world where
  the compass will point true North instead of
  polar North.
  

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Environmental Factors

• The area is known for volatile weather patterns.
  
  
• Frequent storm systems develop because the waters
  are so warm. The result is sometimes a
  hurricane.
  
• Water spouts are also spotted often.

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Websites

• http//students.depaul.edu/mvalenzu/subject.html
  
• http//woodshole.er.gov/project-pages/hydrates/ber
  mudaTriangle.html
  
• http//byerly.org/bt.html
• http//www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/
  cyclops.html
  
• http//bstar.net/bermudatriangle/