Bermuda Triangle

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er Columbus. “It is mentioned in the great explorer’s chronicle that the night before the history-changing discovery, he and his crew saw what appeared to be a greenish glowing light that at times would move about. Anthropologists theorize that what he saw were cooking fires in fishing canoes of Carib Indians moving up and down in the waves...But no matter what it was, Indians, illusions, or UFO’s, that the mariners saw on that night in 1492 along the eastern fringe of the Bahama Islands, strange and unusual things have been happening in that area ever since” (Winer xiv). Two years after his first trip to the new land Columbus set foot on America soil again. He having sailed the ocean blue once before, noted the wind blowing from the west. This happened to alert his inter-intelligence, for he warned Bobadilla against setting sail for Spain. Needless to say Bobadilla refused to take heed of the warning. From the crews of the five surviving vessels out of twenty-seven ships that began their joinery from Hispaniols to Spain, we learn what happened as they passed through the “Triangle”. “Rain moved perpendicular to its proper direction. Sails disintegrated. Masts snapped. Men screamed. Others knelt down to pray...Then without warning the wind and rain were gone. All was still but the sea. The sun burst through wind-driven clouds. And half the fleet was gone” (Winer 26-7). The men thought that they were in for safe sailing from there on out, they had no way of knowing what was going to pounce on them like a mad, starving tiger. “Again lightning flashed, but there was no sound of thunder. The shrieking winds drowned it out. Paint was blasted from hulls...by the driving rain” (Winer 27). Had their captain only listened to Columbus’ warning, he may have saved his men and himself the pain and suffering that came next. “Caravels smashed together and sank as one. Those who open their eyes into the wind-driven rain had their...