Australian scientist claims to have solved the Bermuda Triangle

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In the last century, about 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle (actually an undefined area in the North Atlantic Ocean, with one point of the triangle near Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory).

These accidents all have one thing in common: they have no clear ending, and they are the reason why conspiracy theories related to the Bermuda Triangle have skyrocketed.

There have been theories that ships and planes disappear due to the impact of leftover technology from the legendary continent of Atlantis, giant creatures, even UFOs, or supernatural phenomena and powers that humans cannot explain.

In an effort to dispel these views, Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki, a lecturer at the University of Sydney, decided to explain the disappearance phenomenon on a scientific basis.

Earlier this May, he told BGR that despite the number of accidents, the Bermuda Triangle actually has an equal number of missing planes and ships.

According to him, the Bermuda Triangle covers a very large area, up to 700,000 square kilometers of ocean, and is an area with extremely high traffic volume. Therefore, the number of disappearances here is not too many.

“The Bermuda Triangle is located near the Equator, near a wealthy part of the world - the United States - so there is a lot of traffic. According to analysis by Lloyd's of London and the US Coast Guard, the number of missing vehicles in the Bermuda Triangle is equal to anywhere else in the world, if considered in percentage terms," ​​he told the Mirror.

Kruszelnicki also pointed out that most accidents in this area are caused by bad weather, or even by poor decisions by the driver of the missing vehicle.

He cited the disappearance of Flight 19, an event that sparked chilling theories about the Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19 involved a squadron of five US Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers.

The squadron took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 5, 1945, on a routine two-hour combat training mission over the Atlantic Ocean.

However, shortly after arriving in the Bermuda Triangle, the entire squadron lost contact with the base. Despite a lengthy search, no evidence or debris of the planes was ever found.

In this case, Kruszelnicki pointed out that the cause could be the pilots' inexperience. In fact, of the 14 crew members on the five planes, only one was an experienced pilot. But the flight records showed that this person had a history of making bad decisions.

Furthermore, the weather on the day Flight 19 disappeared was terrible, with stormy skies and rough seas with waves up to 5m high.

Radio communications that have survived to this day show that the squadron's commanding pilot, Lieutenant Charles Taylor, and others disagreed about which direction to fly before the group disappeared.

Taylor believed the group was flying over the Florida Keys, so he ordered the squadron to turn east, rather than west, thus sending the group flying deeper into the Atlantic Ocean than towards land.

And because the area of ​​the sea where the planes went missing is quite deep, it will certainly be very difficult to find any debris, if they have all sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Interestingly, Kruszelnicki's view is similar to that of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

In 2010, NOAA stated: “There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, heavily trafficked area of ​​the ocean.”

NOAA also said that environmental factors could explain most of the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, such as the extreme weather patterns of the Gulf Stream, the large number of islands in the Caribbean Sea that make navigation very complicated, and evidence that the Bermuda Triangle area has the potential to cause magnetic disturbances to navigational equipment.

Specifically, when arriving here, the compass in navigation devices often rotates towards true North (geodetic North), instead of rotating towards magnetic North, causing confusion in finding the way.

“The US Navy and US Coast Guard believe there is no supernatural explanation for the disasters at sea,” NOAA added.

“Their experience shows that the combined forces of nature and human miscalculation often lead to results that surpass even the most incredible of science fiction.”

Kruszelnicki frequently attracts public attention for his scientific views on the Bermuda Triangle issue.

He attracted media attention once in 2017 and then again in 2022, before resurfacing this year. Each time, he stuck to the same point: numbers don't lie and there are no supernatural mysteries in the Bermuda Triangle./.

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