Eniola Olorundare
There is a subdivision of the Atlantic Ocean that has created a huge load of topics for over 60 years now. This area is generally known as the Bermuda Triangle or Devil’s Triangle and covers around 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.
This area of the Atlantic Ocean is confined by experts called Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
The reason this area has been termed “mystical” is that it marks incessant disappearances of dozens of ships and airplanes.
The term “Bermuda Triangle” was coined by Vincent Gaddis in 1964 in a magazine article in which he described the Bermuda Triangle as a place “that has destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace.”
For decades now, scientists and researchers have been trying to find a lasting solution to the havoc usually wracked by the “Bermuda.”
Factually, the exact number of ships and airplanes that have dematerialised in the Bermuda Triangle is not known. However, the most common figures are usually 50 ships and 20 airplanes.
The reason for this mysterious disappearances is not known. Some researchers and thinkers like Larry Kusche have arrived at two phenomenal, the “human error” and the “weather.”
Also, Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis.
This ideology is, however, frowned at by many, as they term inadequate.
On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft, or the 32 people on board, was ever found.
The Bermuda Triangle is also called ‘Hodoo Sea’ or ‘Limbo of the Lost.’
Perhaps it remains a challenge to explorers, geographers and scientists alike.
So also are creative minds who should explore its mystical features to birth great stories.
