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Bermuda Triangle
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.i have nooooo idea how accurate this is, but in discussion at a very bubbly natural pool on holiday in turkey, we theorised that perhaps the water in this region contains a lot of gas, and so is less dense. as a result, there would be less upward force on a boat, and so it would be harder to stay afloat, hence lots of boats (ships?) sinking in this region.
not sure if that's true or not, but it's plausible!
As QM says, it as a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by a line from Florida to the islands of Bermuda, to Puerto Rico and then back to Florida.
The mystery was more media hype than reality. Many of the strange accidents were not so strange after all. Often a 'triangle writer' had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calm seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress. Others said ships had "mysteriously vanished" when their remains had actually been found and the cause of their sinking explained.
The only story that really fuelled the imagination of the reporters was of Flight 19 in Dec 1945. The pilot actually got lost and crashed into the sea somewhere near the BT. The remains of the plane were never found and the navy recorded pilot error, but the pilots mother refused to accept that and finally got the Navy to change the report to read that the disaster was for "causes or reasons unknown." Which led to further media frenzy.