What is actually happening in and around the Bermuda Triangle that causes all the plane crashes and boat capsizes?
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There’s a huge amount of sea and air traffic that goes through there. Statistically, there’s no more chance of a ship disappearing there than any other body of water. Just more cases because of more ships.
Because of the number of small islands, there’s quite a bit of general aviation and small aircraft charter services. Like all tropical seas, the area is prone to sudden squalls. So there really no mystery if light aircraft occasionally crash.
There’s also the occasional tropical storm or hurricane.
Mostly it’s overblown and cherry-picking of a small number of cases.
Most documented cases were later proven to be made up or exaggerated. It’s just a myth. The same number of ships etc that had issues there are the same as there have been anywhere else.
I was under the impression that it’s some kind of EM disturbance that played (plays) havoc with navigational equipment
The most likely reason is that it is an area known for many weather disturbances. But let’s be real, there have only been about 50 boats and 20 planes that disappeared there. It’s not a statistically large number compared to disappearances and crashes elsewhere in the world.
Not to discredit your question, but we don’t know. That’s what makes it mysterious.
But the generally accepted explanation is that so many ships/planes travel through the area that the number of crashes seem high, but statistically its pretty average.
It’s a huge, huge area of empty sea – no islands, no nothing (outside of on the southwest edge). In times past, if you miscalculated your fuel or strayed off your bearings, you were lost and done. Or you could literally just miss Bermuda which is just a tiny speck in the ocean and then sail/fly into this vast empty area and, well… again, you just disappear. But for its size and traffic… probably not worse than anywhere else, and with modern navigation, it’s no longer an issue. Source: live in Bermuda
It’s all made up, it comes from a 1950’s science fiction magazine that said there’s something mysterious going on in this area. People just went with it. Many losses attributed to the triangle didn’t even happen within the triangle, many times nowhere near it at all. You can look at online marine and flight traffic to see the area is filled with boats and planes and none of them are sinking or being taken away by aliens.
Here’s a 25 minute video on the triangle and why it doesn’t exist. https://youtu.be/AgMcqNnqatw
Nothing, it is a bunch of crap.
In the 1950s and 1960s pulp magazines started writing stories with a supernatural slant using poorly source information about evidence that often didn’t even occur within the triangle. The idea caught on and became a modern myth.
The reality is it sees no more accidents than any other similarly sized high traffic region prone to tropical storms.
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