Wednesday, April 29, 2009

USS Cyclops

On March 4, 1918 the USS Cyclops headed out towards Norfolk and each time it was contacted, no distress reports were made. The last time the ship was heard from was March 5th. On March 13th the USS Cyclops was reported overdue and a search was issued to look for it or any passengers. Though this sounds like a mysterious disappearance that may be caused by one of the theories of the Bermuda Triangle but really there are several odd things about this missing ship. The last time it was seen, it was going in the opposite direction of its destination, also there was a much larger supply of coal aboard then what was requested. Many skeptics believe that the disappearance of this ship was the result of a hijack that was set up by the captain Worley himself because he was German. There are many possible reasons for the disappearance other then the phenomenon that many people believe in.

Spencer, John. Limbo of the Lost. New York. Bantam Books Inc. 1973.

Winer, Richard. The Devil’s Triangle. New York. Bantam Books Inc. 1974.


-Leigh Noyes

Conclusion

The Bermuda Triangle is still a mystery today. No one can settle on just one theory that explains the disappearences of hundreds of ships and aircrafts. There is not evidence that there is just one cause for the Bermuda Triangle's mysterious behavior it could be a varitey of things, like bad weather, inexperienced crew, methane gas hydrate, or the even the craziest abuduction.

Group 3

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Secrecy

Thomas Arthur Garner had only been in the Navy a year before he disappeared. War was still raging in the Pacific but the PBM Mariner was a plane known as the flying gas tank. The military had used the plane for many reasons and used what is now considered the Bermuda Triangle as an ideal area for training. When Garner was missing no remains we ever found and the family had no idea what had happened. If it hadnt of been for the war maybe the military would inform them and the public of the vanishing craft. It would be fifty-fives years before Garners family knew he went missing in the Triangle.


"Tom Garner." Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Your online source -. 29 Apr. 2009 http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/tom_garner.html.



Mark Lubeskie

Time Travel and The Unexplainable

Among some of the theory's proposed pertaining to the Bermuda Triangle some now bring about aliens and time. Arguing the triangle is a time portal between different worlds. Others claim there could be fields and zones humans just cant grasp. How could one compare the Bermuda Triangle to a blood cell? Some believe there are spaces where time ceases and cannot be retrived. Say a ship passes as you watch and suddenly it vanishes and all connection is lost. There are no holes on earth were ships and planes suddenly. How would one go about proving it passed through a time zone? It is highly unlikely and silly to think this to be a logical answer. Yet many believe it to be true simply because we cannot find these ships and planes. The thought seems ridiculous and something out of a book.


"The Bermuda Triangle, A chronological database of disappearances in the triangle." 29 Apr. 2009 http://www.byerly.org/bt.htm#aliens%20and%20time.


Mark Lubeskie

Bermuda Triangle in Pop Culture


Many different books, movies, and television shows have referenced to the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle was first referenced by George X. Sand in the magazine Fate in the article named, "Sea Mystery at our Back Door." Since then many different authors have taken the time to write many different stories involving incidents and the history of the Bermuda triangle. There also was a TV movie entitled, The Bermuda Triangle which even had the popular actress Naomi Watts in it. The movie was about a ship sailing in the Caribbean the mysteriously vanishes into thin air. Many television documentaries have been made to by networks such as National Geographic, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel. People enjoy reading or watching shows about supernatural things such as the Bermuda Triangle and that is why these things are still being made.

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/

Patrick Leach

An Unexplained Light

A recent encounter of the Bermuda Triangle happened to Paul Vance and Doug Gerdon on June 26, 2001, where they saw an unexplained light in the sky. They were sailing on Paul's boat, "Rare Form" and they had reached the triangle while sailing to the Bahamas. They looked in the sky and saw a single light that they thought was about three to five thousand feet in altitude which they thought might be an aircraft. According to Paul Vance, "A swirling mist then engulfed the light as the light slowly drifted down into the mist. The whole mass of mist then glowed a short time and then dissipated along with the light. Stars could then be seen and the sky was clear. This happened at 9:30 pm EST." He said he tried to videotape the encident but his boat was rocking to much from the sea. Also when they saw the light the engine suddenly stopped running. He talked as if the mist was a door for the light because as soon as the mist went away the light did and then his engine started running well again. This phenomenon can't seem to be explained and is just another encounter survived by someone who went through the Bermuda Triangle.

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/rare_form.html

Patrick Leach

Sea Phantom Exploration

The ocean has honed Don Henry's condition and reflex's since the end of World War II. Although, an incident in 1966 had him baffled and unable to explain that day to anyone. He is a man some argue has survived the Bermuda Triangle. On a trip back from Puerto Rico, Henry endured a truly bazaar seven to ten minutes. All power on his vessel drained and even though the generators ran they produced no energy. The horizon seemed to vanish and blended the sea and sky. When he looked down the water was all foam and looked like milk. The barge couldn.t be seen but when he checked the rope was taught. Instinct made him rush to kick the throttle and suddenly slowly they escaped the fog. His experience didnt change his mentality, but allowed him to see how some could believe. Unable to explain even with his knowledge of the sea has him somewhat of a believer himself.


"Don Henry." Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Your online source -. 28 Apr. 2009 http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/don_henry.html.


Mark Lubeskie

The Hutchinson Effect

The Hutchinson Effect deals with theories of electromagnetism in nature. This relates to some of the problems sailors and pilots have had with there equipment while being in the Bermuda Triangle. This electromagnetism causes alternative energies to cause fogs to arise in weather where fogs should not occur. Also the triangle makes sailors equipment go haywire for no apparent reason. People put this into the supernatural category but most of the pilots and sailors who report these problems are experienced so it is hard to believe that they just got lost. John Hutchinson's research into electromagnetism has unintentionally produced every phenomena reported in the Triangle. John Hutchinson's electromagnetism testing has caused things to levatate and also caused non flammable materials to catch fire. He is an experienced scientist who has discovered how electromagnetism could have caused these problems in the Bermuda Triangle.

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the__triangle__machine_.html

Patrick Leach

True vs. Magnetic

When flying or sailing one does not use a compass to point to the true north pole. Instead they know that when a compass points north it is actually pointing to magnetic north. About thirty years ago the coast guard presented a theory to explain why pilots and skippers went missing. As one moves along Earth they must compensate for the degree difference between true and magnetic north. If one forgets to make this adjustment they could find themselves miles from their targeted destination. The coast guard went on to blame this factor for the mysterious disappearances, but what they didn't account for is that if your inside the imaginary triangle the two north's are aligned for the most part with maybe a two degree difference in some locations.

This is the drawing used by the coast gaurd to justify their theory. When we look at the picture you can see that the lines match and are aligned. Every two months a plane is sent to check where the magnetic north is and if it has changed. The real line is now in a different location enabling the triangle to be somewhat directly in line.



"True North/Magnetic North?" Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Your online source -. 28 Apr. 2009 http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/true_north_magnetic_north_.html.



Mark Lubeskie

Vincent Gaddis


Vincent Gaddis is the man who is credited with coming up with the name Bermuda Triangle. He discovered the Bermuda Triangle in February 1964. He published a story in the magazine, Argosy and came up with the phrase, the Bermuda triangle. In the two decades before he discovered the triangle, almost 1,000 people were lost and not one body was discovered. He found it wierd how only this one triangle on our earth is where ships and planes disappear without a trace. This is only one phenomanone Vincent Gaddis wrote about.

http://www.physics.smu.edu/~pseudo/BermudaTriangle/vincentgaddis.txt

Patrick Leach

Christopher Columbus and The Bermuda Triangle

The first believed to come in contact with strange happening in The Bermuda Triangle was Christopher Columbus. According to Columbus' log book the crew spotted weird lights dancing on the horizon. The first sighting was at ten o'clock pm. Columbus and crew members thought that the light was too small to being coming from land. the crew member who first spotted the light said it look like a flame from a candle moving up and down. The second strange encounter recorded was bizarre compass bearings in the area. The light recorded by Columbus was soon disregarded as strange acitivity as it came from a native fire on land. The trick of the compass was due to a flase reading based on the movement of a star.


"History of the Triangle" Bermuda-Triangle.org. 1999-2009. 28 April 2009. http://www.crystalinks.com/bermuda_triangle.html


Cassie Ivey

The Witchcraft

On December 22, 1967 Dan Burack left Miami's Yacht Marina to ship out of the coast to admire Miami's Christmas time lights. Around Bouy #7 in Miami's Harbor, less then a mile from shore Dan sent a message to RCC Miami asking for a tow. The message was recieved at 9 o'clock om and told it was not urgent, Dan's cruiser had just hit something below. The Coast Guard responded immediately and arrived at the scene at 9:19. They arrived to nothing but empty water. In nineteen minutes the boat, the men, and everything aboard disappeared without a second call for help or even flares. The Coast Guard explanded their search to fifty square miles surrounding the spot but found nothing. What makes the disappearance some mysterious is Dan Burack and experienced boatsman paided for floatation to be built into his boat, meaning that the cruiser was unsinkable. They stopped searching for the missing vessel and occupants on December 28.


"Witchcraft" Bermuda-Triangle.org. 1999-2009. 28 April 2009. http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/witchcraft.html


Cassie Ivey

Monday, April 27, 2009

The Last Aircraft Disappearance


On Decemeber 15, 2008 a Britten-Norman Islander was labeled missing. The aircraft was traveling towards the Bahamas when it went it disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle. The pilot and the eleven passengers were not found, nor was the plane. The airplance presumed to have ditched into the water and sunk. The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom Government. The disappearnce was labeled as accident and fatal because there is no evidence found to what really happened.
"Preliminary Report Aviation" Bermuda-Triangle.org. 1999-2009. 27 April 2009. http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/GenPDF.asp?id=ERA09WA113&rpt=p
Cassie Ivey

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Bermuda Triangle Mystery


In 1981 geochemist, Richard Mclver went public with his view on the Bermuda Triangle myth. His reason behind all the disappearances is methane gas hydrate. The link between the Bermuda Triangle and methane gas hydrate are landslides that takes place north of the Bermuda Triangle on the North American continental shelf. Such landslides can bring down large boulders that rupture the layer of gas hydrate beneath the sea floor. This frees the gas beneath the hydrate cap and also frees the methane that is within the hydrate itself. When a methane gas pocket ruptures it sends gas to the surface of the water. If a ship gets caught in the is surge of gas it can be taken down in moments because the water becomes less dense causing the ship to sink.



"The Bermuda Triangle Mystery" Edugreen.com. 2009. 26 April 2009
http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/renew/bermuda.htm

Cassie Ivey

Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Theory of Oceanic Flatulence

Many people believe in different theories of what the phenomenon in the Atlantic Ocean, called the Bermuda Triangle, is all about. One theory people have set their minds on is often called oceanic flatulence. This theory explains that there is methane gas trapped under the ocean floor in this area and when it is released, the density of the ocean water is reduced which would cause a ship above this to sink and could possibly cause a plane to ignite on fire. Although to many people (including several of my peers) see this as a logical explanation, there is no specific evidence proving this. Also, there are several facts that could help disprove this theory such as that the Bermuda Triangle is not the area with the largest concentration of methane gas. Another would be that several drilling companies have accidentally drilled into areas containing methane gas but had enough time to make a distress call before the ships sank. The theory of oceanic flatulence may seem reasonable and scientific but when a theory lacks evidence proving it and has facts showing that it probably isn't true, it most likely should not be taken seriously.

Bermuda Triangle Mystery. Ed. Gian J. Quasar. 1999-2008.

-Leigh Noyes

Flight 19

People believe "Flight 19" to be the beginning of the myth of the Bermuda Triangle. On December 5, 1945, five TBM-3 Avenger Torpedo Bombers went missing during a training flight. That evening, a distress call was made from the flight leader explaining that they didn't know where they were and they were running out of fuel but that was the last thing heard from the five planes. The Martin Mariner PBM Flying Boat was sent out to search for and rescue any survivors found from the Avenger planes. Later that night the Mariner also lost contact with the towers and went missing. The Navy and Coast Guard searched the area the vessels were last heard from and although there were some reports of exlposions during this search, no wreckage from Flight 19 was ever found.

Spencer, John. Limbo of the Lost. New York. Bantam Books Inc. 1973.

-Leigh Noyes