Deep Diving the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, a mysterious body of water that conjures up the names of the lost. Such as the USS Cyclops, Flight 19 and the Marine Sulphure Queen. All victims of this fatal, deceptively picturesque location. The Bermuda Triangle goes by many names: The Limbo of the Lost, The Devil's Triangle, The Sargasso Sea, Lair of Lost Souls, Atlantic Graveyard of Ships and so on...

 

The Bermuda or Devil's Triangle is part of a larger triangle or Trapezium which encompasses all of the Carribean Sea going out into the Atlantic Ocean with the highest concentration of disappearences within the borders of Miami, Bermuda andPuerto Rico. You could say that I have a personal interest in this topic as I am a natural born South Floridian. I remember many summers swiming off the Florida beaches into it's mysterious waters.

 

I originally became aquainted with it through a documentary that was played a lot called The Devil's Triangle. Narration by Vincent Price added an aura of spookiness to the topic. I had a book about it titled Limbo of the Lost that I would carry with me everywhere. One summer I was with some other bathers andI mad a joke about being in the Devil'sTriangle. They madeit clear that it wasn't something to joke about. There is a certain amount of respect for the triangle by the Floridians. My parents avoided boating in it's waters and we later spent our summers in the Florida Keys. I discovered many years later that we were in the triangle's grasp all along!

 

The earliest known recording of it's mysterious happenings was in 1492, when Christopher Columbus's expedition experienced compass problems and saw green lights shooting across the night sky. To the relief of the frightened crew, land was discovered two days later. Centuries laterwith more boat traffic came stories of disappearing ships, ghostships andother strange happenings.

 

The triangle startedclaiming planes on December 5, 1945 when a flight of five Avenger fighter bombers with 14 crew members left Fort. Lauderdale Naval Air Station for a routine bombing exercise thatwas done many times before with no problems. On the flight back to base, however, was when troubles happened. THe flight leader reported that everybody's compasses weregoing haywire and didn't know where they were, that they couldn't tell the ocean from the air. They vanished into oblivion. A rescue plane with a crew of 13 also vanished!

 

The greatest Naval catastrophy happened in it's waters when the USS Cyclops vanished with 309 crew and passengers on board in March 4, 1918. The Cyclops was a coal bearing ship that was last seen leaving Barbados with the only message stating that the weather was all clear-then nothing. There were many theories: a mutiny, the ship was overloaded, giant octopus attack but no solid answers.

 

In 1963, a molten sulphure bearing tanker named the Marine Sulphure Queen with her crew of 39 vanished along the southern coast of Florida. Despite it's historyof problems and bits of debris recovered - it was the first ship to be attributed to the Bermuda Triangle in 1964. That it sailed off into the unknown...

 

Between 1924 and 1944 the 'Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce made some predictions that proof of Atlantis would rise out of the depths in 1968. 1969 brought the discovery of the Bimini road or wall off of Bimini in the Bahamas. Supposedly, further underwater were power crystals, an Atlantean power source that erratically still powers on and off destroying anything in it's range! What might give this theory some credence is that the triangle is a hotbed of electro-magnetic anomalies that could bend time and space or disintergrate unfortunate ships and planes. The area is also known for violent erratic wather that could change in an instant, such as rogue waves that would claim quite a few souls as well. These conditions are becoming more intense due to climate change.

 

Since the time of Columbus there have been reports and sightings of mysterious lights and craft flying and going into and out of water plus glowing objects cruising underwater. Some may want to dismiss these sightings but for a little known base stationed off Andros island in the Bahamas, a former submarine base named AUTEC or Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center. It has developed a reputation as the Navy's Area 51! Rumored to be studying these unusual happenings.

 

Well theses are the conjecures and theories about the Bermuda Triangle - the ones we know of anyway. Could any of them be the answer? A combination or none of the above? All I can say is that I swam and snorkled in its waters many times and I was never affected...or was I?