“The Bermuda Triangle” is a
documentary by BBC’s SuperNatural series which depicts many theories and
mysterious incidences which occurred in the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda
Triangle is considered by many, to be the most dangerous area of water in the
world. There have been so many cases to support this idea which the documentary
makes evident.
Part 1 of the documentary
This name “The Bermuda Triangle” is
reserved for an area of water where many planes and ships have disappeared
without any traces of evidence. The primary case and mystery of the Bermuda
Triangle is “Flight 19” which consisted of 5 American bomber planes that never
returned to land after leaving Florida’s naval base at 2:10 pm, on December 5,
1945. Taylor, the lead pilot of that day had originally planned to fly the 5
planes towards the Bahamas and then return to Florida’s naval base. While out
there he became confused and did not know which direction they were in, Taylor
believed he was over the Florida Keys instead of the Bahamas which is an easy
mistake to make as they are so similar in appearance from above, so Taylor
decided to fly north believing he would fly into Miami but instead Flight 19 never
returned. Flight 19 was actually on their correct route and flying north of the
Bahamas would have meant flying over open water, eventually they would’ve ran
out of fuel as land is nowhere nearby when travelling just north of the
Bahamas. While communicating with the base in Ft. Lauderdale, Melvin Baker, a
radio man had been telling Taylor how to return back to Ft. Lauderdale, he
realized that Taylor had to be over the Bahamas because the reception was too
strong to be coming from the Keys. However, Baker did not have authority to
order Taylor in which direction to head so Taylor stubbornly disobeyed Baker’s
expertise and ended up flying flight 19 into a place that would never be known.
That was not the end of the story as two Mariner planes were launched to search
for Flight 19 and only one returned, the other had been said to disappear into
thin air.
The disappearance of Flight 19 was
just one of the mysteries; one of the many other cases occurred in 1967 in
which the “cabin crews of witchcraft” disappeared, when the coastguard
eventually reached their location, their boat was nowhere to be found. There
are so many theories about the Bermuda triangle and ways in which how certain
cases have been solved but there are just too many cases to say it was due to
bad weather. In reality, many years after, research had been done and it had
been discovered that in many ship and plane disappearances, bad weather had
occurred those days but that cannot prove anything. One of the believable
theories about how the Bermuda triangle is able to make all of these
disappearances occur was the theory about Methane Hydrate which is a highly
occurring solid in the Gulf of Mexico area. The problem is that when this
methane hydrate is formed from methane gas, it creates an immense amount of
bubbles which lowers the buoyancy of ships and it was proven by Dr. McIver in a
smaller scaled trial at the University of Texas when their boat sank in the
water filled with methane Hydrate, it was also explained as to how this would
affect planes, the methane would penetrate the surface and the reach the air in
which planes flew, then the methane would make the air highly combustible.
However, a fatal flaw was found to his theory, if his theory was true, boats
and planes would not be disappearing only in this concentrated area as methane
is dispersed throughout the oceans. One theory that has not been proven wrong
is the theory of microbursts which are quick powerful bursts of sinking air
which can happen at any time and do occur in the area. Microbursts could easily
bring down a plane keeping this theory alive.
In my opinion
the mystery of the Bermuda triangle is something that may be discovered in the
future but there are just too many possibilities right now as to how all these
disappearances have occurred. This documentary truly depicts all factors of
this mystery, it proves how certain cases occurred which seemed to be mysteries
at one time but later had a full explanation. But only few cases have had
explanations and the current theories are called theories for a reason, many of
the theories and cases that have been solved have been kept from the public’s
eye making this mystery seem even more mysterious. If you ask the average
person about the Bermuda Triangle they will most likely only know about the
disappearances but not the solved cases and possible explanations. What I
believe is that something is down there sucking all these planes and ships down
because it can’t be a coincidence that these disappearances are concentrated
into this small area of earth’s oceans. I don’t know what it could be, it seems
to be one of the true mysteries of the world and it doesn’t look like it will
have an explanation in the near future.
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