In 1918, the USS Cyclops enroute across the Atlantic disappeared in the region south of Bermuda now known as the Bermuda Triangle without a trace. Her crew were all lost with no survivors and no bodies to recover.
In 1921, the sailing ship the Carroll A. Deeriing, a five-masted trading schooner, made a voyage through the triangle from Barbados to Bermuda. Reported missing, the ship was later found on a reef with all crew missing. All that remained aboard were three cats.
In 1945, a flight of Navy bombers known as Flight 19 took off from Ft. Lauderdale for Europe, a route that took them right across the triangle. Unexpectedly, not long into the flight the control towers ashore lost radio contact will all of the planes.
When radio contact was not remade, authorities assumed the worst and deployed a Navy seaplane with 13 crew to search for the flight. Flight 19 was never found and, sadly, that night the seaplane and its crew also vanished without s trace.
All told there have been more than 50 ships and 20 aircraft lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century. We know it is a region of the North Atlantic prone to sudden revolving cyclones, hurricanes and fierce line squalls. And, the weather in the triangle is seriously affected by the north-flowing Gulf Stream
But is the Bermuda Triangle a jinxed piece of the ocean> Are the danger real or simple a fiction created to explain what is otherwise unexplainable?
