Bermuda triangle
Bermuda Triangle:- Unknown Mystery
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. According to the US Navy, the triangle does not exist, and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names.Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.
Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the
incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later
authors. In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world’s 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.
The Bermuda Triangle is a large area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda.
The Bermuda Triangle’s bad reputation started with Christopher
Columbus. According to his log, on October 8, 1492, Columbus looked down
at his compass and noticed that it was giving weird readings. He didn’t
alert his crew at first, because having a compass that didn’t point to
magnetic north may have sent the already on edge crew into a panic. This
was probably a good decision considering three days later when Columbus
simply spotted a strange light, the crew threatened to return to Spain.This and other reported compass issues in the region gave rise to the myth that compasses will all be off in the Triangle, which isn’t correct, or at least is an exaggeration of what is actually happening as you’ll see. Despite this, in 1970 the U.S. Coast Guard, attempting to explain the reasons for disappearances in the Triangle, stated:
First, the “Devil’s Triangle” is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north. Normally it points toward magnetic north. The difference between the two is known as compass variation. The amount of variation changes by as much as 20 degrees as one circumnavigates the earth. If this compass variation or error is not compensated for, a navigator could find himself far off course and in deep trouble.
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