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  Bermuda Triangle
The "Bermuda Triangle" or "Devil's Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States of America, which is noted for a supposedly high incidence of unexplained disappearances of ships and aircraft.
The apexes of the triangle are generally believed to be Bermuda; Miami, Florida; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
It has been inaccurately claimed that the Bermuda Triangle is one of the two places on earth at which a magnetic compass points towards true north.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq8-1.htm   (791 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bermuda Triangle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is approximately triangular in shape, with three corners roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the Atlantic Ocean.
The incident that consolidated the reputation of the Bermuda Triangle was the disappearance in December 1945 of Flight 19, a training squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers.
Scientific evaluations of the Bermuda Triangle have concluded that the number of disappearances in the region is not abnormal and that most of the disappearances have logical explanations.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bermuda-Triangle   (8095 words)

  
 GWUP - Bermuda Dreieck
The Devil’s Triangle, better known as the Bermuda Triangle, is the triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean between the Bahamas, Bermuda and the east coast of the United States in which ships and airplanes are said to mysteriously disappear.
The exact position and size of this devil's triangle is somewhat disputed: certain authors say that it has a surface of five hundred thousand square kilometres, others mention figures three times as high and also consider the Azores and parts of West India as being part of the triangle.
All stories about the Bermuda Triangle contain certain similarities: it is always about ships or airplanes that, although in the hands of experienced pilots or sailors, mysteriously disappear in a calm sea and in bright weather conditions.
www.gwup.org /themen/lesetipps/bermudadreieck.html   (657 words)

  
 Matthew900's Home Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is these unexplained disappearances and phenomena that have taken place in the Bermuda Triangle that prove the existence of an unknown power or entity within it.
The region known as the Bermuda Triangle is often defined as a triangle formed by drawing a line on a map from Bermuda to Puerto Rico to the Florida keys and back to Bermuda (Kusche 3).
It is possible that the remnants of this early civilization are the cause of the mysteries that surround the Bermuda Triangle.
hometown.aol.com /Matthew900/paper.html   (2775 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle - Devil's Sea - Crystalinks
Located on the 80th degree longitude, the Bermuda Triangle is one of the two areas on Earth where a compass will point at true north rather than magnetic north.
Contrary to several claims, neither the Devil's Sea nor the Bermuda Triangle is located on the agonic line, where the magnetic north equals the geographic north.
In 2005, as part of a Sci Fi Channel documentary on the Bermuda Triangle, researcher David Childress explored underwater artifacts called the Scott Stones which he and others believe is linked to Atlantis - one of its locations being the heart of the Bermuda Triangle.
www.crystalinks.com /bermuda.html   (3781 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
BERMUDA TRIANGLE [Bermuda Triangle] area in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida where a number of ships and aircraft have vanished.
Also known as the Devil's Triangle, it is bounded at its points by Melbourne, Fla.; Bermuda; and Puerto Rico.
The Bermuda Triangle is still alive and kicking.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/bermudat1r.asp   (225 words)

  
 bermuda triangle
This bermuda triangle sought owing to that mean blood, however, some prosperous brother bit in between this cheese.
An bermuda triangle grew in lieu of that desolate class, however, that ready confidence study in between that aircraft.
A haughty bermuda triangle lucidly fell as to an extension.
arts-myths-folktales.safesources.com /bermuda-triangle.html   (3200 words)

  
 The Captain's Bridge - The Devil's Triangle?
But despite a shortage of hard evidence, the myth of the Bermuda Triangle is still alive and kicking -- albeit in a twilight zone of speculation.
The naming of the Bermuda Triangle myth traces back to 1964, when one Vincent Gaddis published an article in ARGOSY magazine describing a number of unexplained disappearances within a triangle of the Atlantic marked by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
But the ultimate explanation for the Bermuda Triangle is the most disappointing of all: Given the heavy traffic of ships through the area, a significant number of disappearances would be expected.
www.thirteen.org /savageseas/captain-side-bermuda.html   (551 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Paranormal: Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle - A chronological database of disappearances in the triangle.
Bermuda Triangle Frameset - Focuses on the topics of Flight 19, the Marine Sulphur Queen, Charles Berlitz, and the victims of the Bermuda Triangle.
Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Text, photostats of documents, and pictures retell the story of each incident, including those incidents which have happened in the last 20 years.
www.dmoz.org /Society/Paranormal/Bermuda_Triangle   (740 words)

  
 Navis.gr - Bermuda Triangle Fact Sheet
Size of the triangle is dictated by whoever happens to be writing about it, and consequently what ships and the number lost depends largely on which article you read.
Many articles concerning the triangle have made the erroneous statement that the Navy formed Project Magnet to survey the area and discover whether magnetic aberrations do limit communications with ships in distress, or contribute to the strange disappearance of ships and aircraft.
The triangle area happens to be one of the most heavily traveled regions in the world and the greater the number of ships or planes, the greater the odds that something will happen to some.
www.navis.gr /miscella/bermuda.htm   (4238 words)

  
 Scary Places | Bermuda Triangle | Picture | Map | Mystery | Marie Celeste | Flight 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You won't find the Bermuda Triangle on a map but the name can still strike fear into the hearts of some peeps.
The Bermuda Triangle's three corners extend from the island of Bermuda to Miami, Florida to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
More than a few people think the Bermuda triangle is full of UFO activity.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p1136.htm   (445 words)

  
 Great Moments in Science - Bermuda Triangle
But the myth of the vanishings associated with the Bermuda Triangle is so powerful that books, TV documentaries and even movies have been made about it.
Many ships apparently came to foul ends in the Bermuda Triangle, including the 19th century sailing ship, the Marie Celeste, which was supposedly found drifting and abandoned, in perfect sailing condition.
And the Bermuda Triangle has moved with the times, and since then, many more ships, including the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion, have vanished there without a trace.
www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s1061351.htm   (833 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle - Skeptic's Dictionary
Many of the ships and planes that have been identified as having disappeared mysteriously in the Bermuda Triangle were not in the Bermuda Triangle at all.
The modern legend of the Bermuda Triangle began soon after five Navy planes [Flight 19] vanished on a training mission during a severe storm in 1945.
In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in the Atlantic.
www.skepdic.com /bermuda.html   (730 words)

  
 Bermuda - Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is located inside the segment of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida.
Another historical event attributed to the Bermuda Triangle is the discovery of the Mary Celeste.
Public interest in the "phenomenon" was whipped into a frenzy by Charles Berlitz's 1974 bestseller The Bermuda Triangle, a sensationalized and thoroughly inaccurate account that shunned the facts in favor of mysterious excitement.
www.bermuda-island.net /INTRODUCTION/Bermuda_Triangle.php   (1013 words)

  
 The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Bahamas, an island chain off the coast of the United States.
The area known as the Bermuda Triangle is one of the two places on Earth where a magnetic compass does point towards true north, a phenomenon called compass variation.
Scientific evaluations of the Bermuda Triangle have concluded that the number of disappearances in the region is not abnormal and that most of the disappearances have logical explanations.
www.unexplainedstuff.com /Places-of-Mystery-and-Power/The-Bermuda-Triangle.html   (1684 words)

  
 The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle had been told in books, magazine articles, and on television and radio talk shows for several years when, in 1972, Larry Kusche, then a reference librarian, decided to collect all the information he could find on each incident.
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved is the only book written on the Triangle that approaches the topic rationally, rather than as another great unsolved mystery of our time.
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved is the only book that critically examines the "mystery" and provides the reader with an alternative rational explanation to the sensationalist stories in the media.
www.hutch.demon.co.uk /prom/bermuda.htm   (299 words)

  
 The Bermuda Triangle, A chronological database of disappearances in the triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, A chronological database of disappearances in the triangle
Some of the disappearances occurred far from the boundaries of the triangle, some occurred in very bad storms and rough seas, some have other factors which might be responsible, some have no facts that can be verified, but there are a few that are quite strange.
It has been said that the "Devil's Triangle" is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north.
www.byerly.org /bt.htm   (2071 words)

  
 The Bad Fads Museum - Bermuda Triangle
Rather than describing a passageway between wonderful vacation spots, the Bermuda Triangle is known as the place where ships at sea mysteriously disappear.
The Bermuda Triangle phenomenon began in 1918 with the sailing of a grand ship called the Cyclops.
In 1974, author Charles Berlitz penned a book titled "The Bermuda Triangle" and followed this three years later with "Without a Trace." In these books, he hypothesized that the loss of the planes and ships were a result of supernatural forces at work.
www.badfads.com /pages/events/bermudatriangle.html   (315 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The "Bermuda Triangle" and an area in the Pacific ocean, has long been associated with "missing aircrafts, watercrafts and people." Anything caught in this yet unexplainable phenomenon, vanishes forever.
The "Bermuda Triangle" is one of two portals, used by the "human-like" aliens, to travel from their planet to ours.
The "Bermuda and the Pacific Triangles" are linked to other triangles that exist throughout the universe.
www.otherplane.com /et/etbermud.htm   (268 words)

  
 the bermuda triangle map and details
The "Bermuda or Devil's Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, which is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft.
The apexes of the triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda, Miami, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
First, the "Devil's Triangle" is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north.
www.worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/bermudat.htm   (572 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle: Critical Reading, Careful Writing (Skeptical Inquirer Fall 1977)
Yet, a number of writers have used the Sandra as further "proof" that something strange is going on "out there." They failed to prove their theory, but they have helped confirm one of mine, that the less a writer knows about his subject, the better equipped he is to write a mystery about it.
Ignorance of the subject is, in fact, a major technique in writing about the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle and other subjects in the so-called paranormal as well.
Some critics of the Bermuda Triangle refer to it as science fiction, but that is an unfair description.
www.csicop.org /si/7701/bermuda-triangle.html   (1734 words)

  
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The Bermuda Triangle is a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by a line from Florida to the islands of Bermuda, to Puerto Rico and then back to Florida.
Often a triangle writer had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress.
Even though the Bermuda Triangle isn't a true mystery, this region of the sea certainly has had its share of marine tragedy.
www.unmuseum.org /triangle.htm   (1376 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How the Bermuda Triangle Works"
You won't find it on any official map and you won't know when you cross the line, but according to some people, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place where dozen of ships, planes and people have disappeared with no good explanation.
The Bermuda Triangle is located off the Southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, with its apexes in the vicinities of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the "Isle of Devils." Treacherous reefs that have ensnared ships sailing too close to its shores surround Bermuda, and there are hundreds of shipwrecks in the waters that surround it.
science.howstuffworks.com /bermuda-triangle.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Charles Berlitz wrote a book entitled The Bermuda Triangle in 1974 about a mysterious area off the coast of Florida where (supposedly) a large number of ships and aircraft disappeared "mysteriously".
The idea caught the public attention at the time and the Bermuda Triangle showed up in many movies and games.
The game rapidly turns into a "last ship remaining" contest and the ad-libs, jokes and comments made by the players as their ships are sucked out of sight are worth pulling it out for.
www.gamepile.com /game02.html   (295 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bermuda Triangle A triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and a point near Melbourne, Florida, in which numerous watercraft and aircraft are said to have
The Trippy Triangle is the bermuda triangle of cyberspace.
Inventors of the Bermuda Triangle and Round-A-Bout putters.
www.bigtome.com /big/page/Bermuda_Triangle   (530 words)

  
 Bermuda Triangle Books Video The Devil's Triangle Reference Information
Into the Bermuda Triangle is the first comprehensive examination of these baffling disappearances in more than a generation.
When a nuclear missile is launched from the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, ex-Green Beret Eric Dane must lead a team into the mysterious depths to confront an enemy which has but one objective--the total annihilation of all life on Earth.
In the area between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico lies the most mysterious expanse of water in the world: the Bermuda Triangle.
www.walterswebs.com /we96.htm   (454 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Bermuda Triangle continues to mystify 3/1/97
Of all the world's mysteries, none has bedeviled experts more than the Bermuda Triangle, a picturesque, seemingly peaceful patch of the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Florida and Puerto Rico to Bermuda.
One of the most unusual stories was given by the pilot of a Pan-American DC-3 who said he had to swerve violently to avoid colliding with a ``mysterious luminous object'' off the coast of Florida.
Speculation abounds about the Bermuda Triangle's alleged connection with extraterrestrials, time warps, the lost continent of Atlantis or the supernatural.
www.augustachronicle.com /stories/030297/fea_floyd.html   (485 words)

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