On February 22nd USS Cyclops one of the four Proteus-class colliers of US Navy, set out for Baltimore, Maryland carrying 8000 tonnes of manganese ore and around 300 crewmen. That was the last ever contact with USS Cyclops, not a single wreckage was found and all the 300 crewmen were lost in the mysterious Bermuda Triangle forever! The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle or Hurricane Alley, is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean with the vertices at Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda, with a depth of 19000 feet down in the southern tip.

It is one of the most mysterious and widely hypothesized topics of the era, with no definite answers from both the US Navy and other world organizations who have looked into the matter of the disappearance of the many ships and aircraft in this area. The following is the chronological order of the notable missing cases reported in and around the Bermuda Triangle.

With the loss of so many vehicles in the treacherous waters of the Bermuda triangle this has been debated upon since the 20th century. Survivors of unusual encounters speak of “electronic fogs,” strange mists, and electromagnetic aberrations. Compasses spin and electronic apparatus cease to function properly in the Bermuda Triangle. But before we accept any of these explanations, a good skeptic or scientist should ask a more basic question: Is there really any mystery to explain? These are a few reputed explanations that contradict our favorite theories of aliens, sea monsters, time-traveling, and a secret army base.

BERMUDA TRIANGLE: THE VOICE OF SEA

In an article reported by the Novosti Press Agency and sent unsolicited to OCEANS magazine by the USSR embassy, it was stated that during the launching of a regular meteorological balloon probe in the summer of 1932, on the Soviet icebreaker TAIMYR as it was sailing past the Arctic, one of the aerologists happened to put his face close to the balloon and he felt an acute pain in his ears. Intensive vibrations coming from the balloon envelope caused considerable physical pain. That same night a violent storm broke out: both incidents were recorded in the sea captain's log. Researches have concluded that weak infrasounds cause sea sickness in a person and that medium and strong ones may lead to digestive disturbances and mental disorders, attended with fainting and general weakness It has been established that infrasound’s with a frequency above 7 Hz is lethal. According to Shuleikin’s Estimates, infrasound generated at sea during a storm has an average frequency of 6Hz. Vladimir Ashish has cited these facts in Nauka(Science and Life) to explain the mystery of the ships sinking in calm seas. He noted that an infrasonic wave can travel thousands of miles and thus find its victims in some calm sea. If an infrasonic wave has considerable amplitude, a crew may perish practically instantaneously. The voice of the sea is capable of evoking a state of panic among crew members and the ship’s body and masts may crack and break by the infrasonic vibrations.

THE HEXAGONAL CLOUDs

The hexagonal clouds found by NASA’s satellite have baffled meteorologists as they have said that straight-edged clouds are not generally observed. The clouds range from 32 Km to 88 Km across and can create winds of up to 106 mph, which create “air bombs” that can bring ships and planes down. Some of the clouds in the region have also been found to be as big as Ireland and the waves created to be as high as 45 ft, making it difficult for ships to sail past. NBC meteorologist Kevin Morigeau has said that the weather patterns of two regions so geographically diverse cannot be compared. According to him, the reason behind the odd shapes could be the small islands of the Bahamas heating the air differently than the longer Floridian coastline, creating erratic weather patterns. 

THE GULF STREAM THEORY

The Gulf Stream is a deep ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and, like a river, it can and does carry floating objects. It has a surface velocity of up to about 2.5 meters per second (5.6 mi/h). A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.

The Bermuda triangle region has some unusual features. It’s one of the only places on the earth where true north and magnetic north line up, which could make compass readings dicey. Therefore, in brief, we can say that this mystery is still open, still investigated, and still intriguing. Will we find an answer? We still don’t know.

REFERENCES:

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271382978_Lost_in_the_Bermuda_Triangle_The_Significance_of_Locations_in_ Jean_Rhys’s_Wide_Sargasso_Sea

2. The Bermuda triangle: “The voice of the sea” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 63, 1236 (1978); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2033205

3.https://www.livescience.com/23435-bermuda-triangle.html

4.https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bermudatri.html

5.https://www.thequint.com/news/environment/has-the-mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle-finally-been-solved-hexago-nal-clouds-florida-bahamas-puerto-rico