3. Group Members & Details
Member Class Roll No
ARIJIT SAMANTA 44
SHOUVIK DAS NEOGI 50
SOUMIT KUMAR DAS 51
DEBAJIT DAS 52
PARTHA SARKAR 56
Department – CE (A) Group –
Session – 2012-13 (4th Semester)
4. What is the Bermuda Triangle?
It is a vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocean
bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale,
Florida.
Spans an area of around 500,000 square miles, but some
estimates are up to three times larger.
The Bermuda Triangle is also known as the
Devil's Triangle, Antlantic cemetry,
Twilight zone…
6. Some Facts
• Reports of strange
occurrences have been
recorded as early as the
days of Columbus.
• Sometimes the Coast
Guard answers more than
5,000 distress calls within
the Triangle per year.
7. General Reasoning
• Others believe there are live bombs
under the ocean from past wars.
• Officials still say that the causes of
the sinking ships and crashing
planes are natural.
8. History of The Bermuda Triangle
The most famous disappearances in Bermuda area
was Flight 19 in April 1962
The saga of flight 19 began on December 15th,1945 when
five Avenger torpedo bombers lifted Off from the Navel Air
Station at Fort Lauderdale.
Fliers, heading out to sea, suddenly ran out of fuel and
went down in to the ocean ; where the planes sunk and
the pilots drowned & possibly eaten by sharks
9. Some untold facts about the Flight 19
incident
• “The rescue plane dispatched never returned.” – Only
because it blew up 23 seconds after takeoff. And this
particular design, the Mariner, was well known for it’s
faulty gas tanks.
• “No wreckage was ever found” – The planes were
possibly so far out in the Atlantic that they passed the
continental shelf; which would mean the planes sank
into several thousand feet of water. (The deepest point
in the Atlantic, at 30,100 feet deep, is also located in the
Puerto Rico Trench within the Bermuda Triangle.)
10. History of The Bermuda Triangle
Another incident took place in 1918, when USS Cyclops,
collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with all 309 crew
and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland. This
incident resulted in the single largest loss of life in the
history of the US Navy
Similarly on December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft ,
disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to
Miami. No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people on board was
ever found.
11. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Strange anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle was
recorded by the famed explorer Christopher
Columbus in October 1492 when he and his crew
passed through the area
Christopher Columbus was on
his famous journey, which
would eventually lead him to
the West Indies. He noted that
the ships compass was acting
strangely and giving inaccurate
readings in the Sargasso Sea,
and at one point he saw a
strange dancing light at the
origin and flames in the sky
12. Theories behind these mysterious incidents
1. The first theory claims that the Bermuda Triangle has no paranormal
activities caused by disappearances of ships.
2. Another theory is about the physical forces,which draw everything
that gets in its way.
3. The third theory concerns the nature of water in the Sargasso Sea.
4. The fourth theory argues that in the Bermuda Triangle occasionally
creates a time hole, which takes planes or ships to travel into the past or
the future.
5. The fifth and the most realistic of all the theories talks about the
natural evaporation of gas from underwater rocks, which creates
bubbles on the surface which can capsize whatever is above.
6. The seventh theory argues that in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle
is the lost city of Atlantis.
13. Why do we still believe this?
• The current truth is so widely and easily
circulated and believed that the only way to
eliminate it would be for the Navy to make an
announcement to the Nation about it, but as
that costs lots of money, it’s doubtful they’ll do it
even if they had the inclination to do so.
• Many people have been exposed to the myth of
the Bermuda Triangle before they learn the facts
about the incidents in the Bermuda Triangle,
which aren’t widely circulated to begin with.
17. The Major holes we overlook...
• Most of the associated incidents can be explained by
rational means.
• Most of these same incidents blamed on the Bermuda
Triangle didn’t occur anywhere near the Triangle. (The
Mary Celeste was discovered off the coast of Portugal.)
• Some incidents recorded as far away as the Pacific are
blamed on the Bermuda Triangle without reason.
• The facts do not support the legend; there is no mystery
to be solved and nothing that needs explaining. The
number of wrecks in this area is not extraordinary given
its size, location, and the amount of traffic it receives.
18. Some Scientific Reasoning
• Underwater earthquakes: Scientists have found
a great deal of seismic activity in this area.
• In the Bermuda Triangle, where magnetic north and
true north actually match.
• Gulf stream: This ocean is extremely strong that it
moves faster than 5mph.
• Pirates: A common way to get into the drug smuggling
business in the ‘70s and ‘80s was to pirate a boat for
business.
19. The fairest thing to do...
• Correlation – Investigate past incidents within the
Bermuda Triangle, searching for authentic/government-
issued reports.
• Statistics – Construct a timeline of incidents that
occurred and compare this distribution with that of other
treacherous areas of the world’s oceans to see if this
area’s is significantly higher than that of other areas.
• Conduct a study – Select a sizable number of ships (to
be determined by researchers) that will be passing
through the Bermuda Triangle in a single year (or
multiple years) and survey the Captain and some of the
crew about the voyage across the Triangle.
20. POSSIBLE TRUTHS
•Tropical weather: many short and intense
storms buildup and end up quickly which
are not even detected by satellite systems,
hold waterspouts.
•Amateur sailors: The coast guard gets over
8000 distress calls a year. Most of the
sailors who have run out of gas or
encountered some other problem.
CONCLUSION
