The discovery of underwater pyramids makes the mystery of Bermuda Triangle more mysterious. Is it man-made or natural? What does it have to do with the successive shipwrecks in Bermuda? These all need further discussion. Bermuda, the black hole, has not bottomed out yet.
The non-existent Bermuda Devil Triangle
Author: Fang
"Bermuda is a famous tourist destination in the Atlantic Ocean, but it is associated with a terrible name. There is no such division as Bermuda Triangle in geography, but the proponent of the mysterious phenomenon simply drew three lines to form a triangle, namely Bermuda, Miami, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then claimed that there were many inexplicable ships and planes missing in this sea area, which was called the "Devil Triangle". Some people even claim that there are many such "devil's triangles" on the earth, and the more famous one is the "devil's sea" in Japan. After countless articles and books, this statement has become more and more popular, not only a household name, but also believed by some professionals. For example, the China Ocean Information Network sponsored by the National Ocean Information Center also regards the Bermuda Triangle as a "marine wonder" and a "marine mystery", and has included several related articles. Ocean World, the main popular marine science magazine in China, introduced the Bermuda Devil's Triangle to China people for the first time in the early 1980s, and then raised this topic many times. Until 2000, there were at least two articles on it, one was Zhao Juntao's Bermuda: The Triangle of Death (No.2, 2000), and the other was Yang Yang's Mysterious Zone in the Ocean (No.4, 2000), claiming that in this sea area, unmanned ghost ships were floating around, strange lights and fog were flashing ... Bermuda Triangle was called the Triangle of Death.
People have put forward various theories and hypotheses to try to explain this mysterious phenomenon, which has become a science. For example, alien abduction, laser emission by western countries, black hole theory, infrasound vibration theory at sea, high pressure oil and gas theory, parallel universe, second gravity, four-dimensional space, space-time contraction theory and so on mentioned in the above article. The most popular view is that there is an alien base at the bottom of Bermuda Triangle. The missing planes and ships were taken away by aliens, and the missing people were taken by aliens for experiments. The sci-fi movie Close Encounter of the Third Kind shows the missing pilots being put back by aliens decades later. They are as young as before they disappeared. There is also a fascinating science fiction that these planes and spaceships have entered the "whirlpool of time" or the fourth dimension and gone to another world. Some people try to give reasonable explanations based on the existing scientific knowledge, such as tsunami, earthquake, tornado, gravity anomaly and magnetic anomaly (the US Navy measured this sea area during the census and mapping, and found no anomalies). There is a saying that the magnetic declination is abnormal, which seems reasonable and even accepted by some skeptics. As we all know, the magnetic pole and geographical pole of the earth are often inconsistent, which leads to a certain deviation between the north pole pointed by the compass and the actual north pole, and the magnetic declination is generally different from place to place. This magnetic declination phenomenon was discovered by China people as early as the Song Dynasty, which is a basic navigation knowledge.
Some people claim that the Bermuda Triangle is different. The magnetic north pole and the north pole are on the same line, that is, the magnetic declination is zero. If sailors and pilots keep the habit of correcting the magnetic declination of Bermuda Triangle, they will lose their way. This statement can't stand scrutiny. Every sailor and pilot will always remember the phenomenon of magnetic declination. If they forget for a while, they will go off course elsewhere, but when the declination is zero, they will not. Even if the sailor or pilot loses his mind and suddenly corrects the compass where no correction is needed, it can only explain why the plane and ship deviate from the course, but not why they disappear. There are many places in geomagnetism where the declination is zero. Connecting these places becomes an imaginary "zero magnetic declination line", which starts from the Great Lakes of the United States, passes through the eastern United States, Florida and Cuba, and extends to South America. In fact, the Bermuda Triangle is not all on the zero magnetic declination line. The magnetic declination is only near Florida, and gradually increases eastward, reaching 15 degrees in Bermuda.
Advocates of mystery admit that there is no reasonable theory or hypothesis to explain the mysterious disappearance of Bermuda Triangle. The question is, if this mysterious disappearance didn't exist in the first place, why bother to explain it? But none of these "researchers" thought of investigating whether so many ships and planes really disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Larry Kusche, a librarian at Arizona State University in the United States, decided to do this for them and investigate more than 50 cases mentioned by supporters of the mysterious phenomenon one by one (because it is difficult to say whether some related accidents should be counted together or separately, there is no need to determine the numbers). The truth of the case, referring to the relevant investigation reports of the US Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Lloyd's Insurance Company in London, the newspaper reports at the time of the accident, and writing letters to relevant personnel for inquiry, published "The Mystery of Bermuda Triangle-1975 Solved", and introduced his investigation results of each case in detail. This book is regarded as the final conclusion of Bermuda Triangle phenomenon by the United States Coast Guard, Lloyd's Insurance Company of London and many authoritative organizations.
In this book, Kugan gave up ten conclusions:
First, after finding enough information, most accidents can be reasonably explained, which is not mysterious. For example, some are due to hurricanes, some are due to defects in the hull structure itself and bad weather. These are the conclusions in the post-investigation report.
Second, some legendary "accidents", key details, and even the whole accident are fictitious.
Third, some accidents that obviously occurred elsewhere have also been included in the Bermuda Triangle. The most notorious is a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean in 1902, and an air crash in Ireland in 195 1 year, all of which are accidents in the Bermuda Triangle. If the Bermuda Triangle accident is defined according to the proponent, it will include the vast sea areas of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic. The disappearance of ships and planes occurs all over the world. For example, since 1850, nearly 200 ships or planes have disappeared or been abandoned between New England and Northern Europe. In fact, the disappearance of the Bermuda Triangle is not prominent.
Some missing ships pass through Bermuda Triangle, but we don't know whether they disappeared there.
In many cases, the missing location of a ship or plane is almost completely unknown, and searchers have to be asked to look for vast sea areas.
6. When many accidents happened, people didn't think there was any mystery at that time, but many years later, the advocates of mysterious phenomena began to count them as mysterious accidents when they were looking for evidence. At this time, it is generally difficult to fully understand the details of the accident that happened many years ago.
Contrary to legend, when many accidents happen, the weather is very bad. In several accidents, the hurricane was the chief culprit.
Eight, many accidents occurred in the afternoon or evening, which made rescuers wait until the next morning to see the scene clearly, so the sea had a whole night to "destroy" the scene, and it was difficult to find the wreckage.
Nine, many authors did not do the original investigation when introducing the accident, but only quoted other authors' articles. Therefore, the misinformation is getting more and more outrageous.
10. When introducing some accidents, the advocate concealed important details that could clearly explain the disappearance.
Cusher's book (second edition) does not specifically count how many accidents can be determined to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle. I calculated according to his specific description of each accident. Of these more than 50 accidents, only about 20 can be confirmed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle or its adjacent waters. Considering that it is an area with frequent traffic between ships and planes, these accidents only happened in 100 years, which is not too much. In addition, contrary to legend, some accidents in the Bermuda Triangle have found wreckage and even survivors.
These conclusions also apply to other "devil's triangle", such as Japan's "devil's sea", which Kushe found was actually fabricated by Americans.