The secrets of the Bermuda Triangle have been haunting the minds of the world community for more than half a century. Mysterious disappearances attract the attention of scientists, the press and ordinary people. However, scientists who understand the issue see no reason to believe that there is something anomalous in this area. Journalists? After all, it is their job to look for sensations. Isn't it?
Geography
The Bermuda Triangle is a part of the Atlantic Ocean. If you draw imaginary lines across the water, then the vertices of this triangle form Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. By the name of the latter, the region, in fact, was named. To a large extent, the Bermuda Triangle coincides with the Sargasso Sea.
A story of notoriety
The first report of unexplained and all-too-massive disappearances in this geographical area was reported by an Associated Press correspondent in 1950. Although the very concept of the "Bermuda Triangle" appeared only in the middle1960s. Journalists around the world enthusiastically picked up this fascinating and therefore profitable topic. During the 60s and 70s, hundreds of publications appeared about the mysterious and unsafe region. The Bermuda Triangle, whose photos were increasingly appearing on the front pages of newspapers, has become a worldwide scarecrow. In 1974, a book of the same name was published, where all the facts of disappearances in the ocean between Miami and Bermuda were collected. Charles Berlitz, a supporter of mystical concepts, presented facts in the spirit of anomalous phenomena. The book quickly became a bestseller, not least inflating the notoriety of these waters to the whole world. A year later, another author, Lawrence Kusche, published a book in which he presented his own version of what was happening. He tried to prove that nothing unusual there, in general, never happened, and all speculation about mystical phenomena is just a consequence of the indefatigable search for sensations by journalists.
Versions about the nature of the phenomenon
More than a hundred disappearances of ships and planes have been linked to the Bermuda Triangle. However, it is important to note that today many of these cases have been refuted: some of them occurred for completely studied and rational reasons, others were recorded outside the region, and still others never happened at all, being only the fruit of journalistic fantasies. In fact, in a serious society, the Bermuda Triangle is no longer perceived as something anomalous. After all, a number of accidents and crashes happen all over the world. And here, moreover, there are verybusy transport and passenger routes. Not surprisingly, the number of accidents here may seem somewhat high. At the same time, there are still supporters of anomalous phenomena: wormholes to parallel worlds, tricks of aliens, and so on. By the way, this soil is very fertile in the cinema. Only in the last two decades, a whole series of films has been released, one way or another telling about the mysticism in these waters. In addition to anomalous versions, some rationalists put forward their natural versions, which could explain the causes of the crashes. Among them are hypotheses about methane emissions from deposits on the seabed, which seriously thin the water and literally cause ships to sink, versions of possible underwater air pockets that from time to time provoke a whirlpool of water. And a number of others.
