Bermuda Triangle

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The Bermuda Triangle On a bright, clear June day a plane, passing through what is called the Bermuda Triangle, sends a SOS signal to the tower. Suddenly, the radio contact suffers a break, the plane never makes contact again. One can only imagine what happened to those people aboard the aircraft, many may say that the disappearance concerned UFO’s, while others say that it had to be a mistake. Yet, there appears to be another explanation, they were victims of the “Devil’s Triangle”. “It was described as a place where ships sail off the end of the earth, where planes climb up into the sky never to come down again, and where sailors and airmen disappear forever.”(Winer xiii) Even though this area consumes ships and planes “at a rate of 40 to 50 a year”(unknown 9), Ralph Stephen, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution insist that “There’s absolutely nothing scientific supporting the phenomenon[Bermuda Triangle]. There’s nothing mysterious there” (unknown 9). If nothing were there, the unexplainable could be explain and century old mysteries solve, yet no reasonable explanation has come forth, therefore the Devil’s Triangle lies waiting for its next victim. The Bermuda Triangle/Devil’s Triangle covers about 1,140,000 sq. km (about 440,000 sq. mi.) between the island of Bermuda, the coast of southern Florida, and Puerto Rico. Actually, “The Devil’s Triangle” is not a triangle at all. It is a trapezium, a four-sided area in which no two sides or angles are the same. And the first four letters of the word trapezium more than adequately describe it”(Winer 9). This stretch of sea usually generates fair weather and good seafaring water conditions, these conditions make it hard for some to understand why so many ships and planes seem to disappear in this area. The Bermuda Triangle has been around for many centuries. Actually, it began way before America was named America, it began with Christoph...