Planning Document Bermuda Triangle- Myth or Fact?

• Now coming to more recent times, One of the most well-known encounters in the Bermuda Triangle happened to Bruce Gernon Jr. on December 4, 1970. Bruce Gernon Jr, his father and a business executive were travelling from Andros Island to Miami. They had made this journey many times before and completed the journey in 75 minutes. But, this time while they were travelling, they got engulfed by an enormous lenticular cloud and somewhat went through a time vortex and completed the journey in 47 minutes. They checked the number of kilometers covered and saw that the distance covered was 250 kms! After they got out of the cloud, the sky had strips of grey lines and through that, they saw the blue sky and the Miami Beach.  
•   The next instance is about a ship journey of Don Henry, a sea captain who had also captained tugs during the World War II. This instance happened on a journey in 1966. The thing that happened here was something that held common with every other incident. The electrical equipment drained out and the compass went haywire. Even the batteries which were bought just before departing went dry. They were surrounded by fog everywhere and it felt as if the barge was stuck to something in the ocean. Even when they accelerated the ship, they couldn’t feel a thing. The horizon and the ocean looked like they were merged together.

Counter-Claims:-

1. 21 Sep 1995 the book, 'The Bermuda Triangle Mystery- Solved' written by Larry Kusche is published
2. The proportion of those ships and airplanes reported missing to those travelling through the Bermuda Triangle area was not significantly greater than any other ocean area.
3. In an area frequented by tropical storms, the total disappearance of some ships was neither unlikely nor mysterious.
4. The number of disappearances had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but not necessarily its eventual if belated return to port.or went missing in a different part of the world.
5. The circumstances of confirmed disappearances were frequently misreported in  accounts. The numbers of ships disappearing in supposedly calm weather, for instance, did not tally with weather reports published at the time.
6. Research has shown that freak, or rogue waves can reach up to up to 30 m (100 feet) in height and are capable of sinking the largest ships within moments. Although these are very rare, in some areas ocean currents mean they happen more often than the norm. Such waves have now been hypothesized as a cause for many unexplained shipping losses over the years.
7. Finally, if the Triangle is assumed to cross land, such as parts of Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, or Bermuda itself, there is no evidence for the disappearance of any land-based vehicles or persons. Located inside the Triangle, Freeport operates a major shipyard, an airport which yearly handles 50,000 flights and is visited by over a million tourists annually.
8. Certain bacteria called Archaea that live in a methane-rich environment on the ocean floor, and they both make and eat methane. They even release the methane gas, which then burps its way up to the surface - and when it gets there, this methane gas can be quite dangerous.
9. It is possible that the ships could have been sunk by enemy ships during wars or pirates
10. Hurricanes are extremely powerful storms which are spawned in the Atlantic near the equator, and have historically been responsible for thousands of lives lost and billions of dollars in damage. The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane. In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert, one of the most powerful hurricanes in history, set back Jamaica's economy by three years. These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.
11. The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, and then through the Straits of Florida, into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and like a river, it can and does carry floating objects. A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble will be carried away from its reported position by the current, as happened to the cabin cruiser Witchcraft on December 22, 1967, when it reported engine trouble near the Miami buoy marker one mile (1.6 km) from shore, but was not there when a Coast Guard cutter arrived.

Conclusion:-

So, is the Bermuda Triangle a myth or a fact? It is all based on the perception of one’s mind.

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