Lost Ships

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The Bermuda Triangle or Devil's Triangle

is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the

United States of America

HISTORYSome people trace the Bermuda Triangle history back to the time of Columbus. Estimates range from about 200 to about 1,000 incidents of ships and airplanes disappearing in the past 500 years. It was in 1952, when the author George Sand first mentioned about the Bermuda triangle in a magazine called Fate

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Where Is Bermuda Triangle ???

Bermuda Triangle is noted for many unexplained disappearances of ships

and aircraft

Lost Ships

The first ship and crew to go into the Bermuda Triangle was the Santa Maria with the crew of Christopher Columbus, (40 crewmen) with the ships Pinta and Nina holding 20 and 30 crewmen. He went in the Bermuda Triangle Sargasso Sea on Sunday the 23rd of September, 1492.

Santa Maria

USS Cyclops

This navy ship disappeared resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy.

It went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 souls

It disappeared on March 4th 1918

• On December 5th, 1872, a ship was found abandoned

• They had thought that the crew had just left in a hurry

• The crew on the Marie Celeste were never heard from or seen ever again.

The Marie Celeste

The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict disappeared.

Ellen Austin:

USS Scorpion

The USS Scorpion was a nuclear powered attack submarine of the United States Navy that also disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in May 1968.

The Sea Venture was actually very famous back in its time. It was the first boat that brought settlers to the island Bermuda.

The Sea Venture

The Cristobal Colon was famous for being one of the most largest boats that sank in bermuda waters. It was 499 feet long and three decks high, it could held 344 passengers when it sunk.

The Cristobal Colon.

The Constellation sunk on july 30th,1943. It was sold to the director of jaws and was in the movie.

(And final boat) The constellation

T2 tanker ship converted to carrying molten sulphur, noted for its disappearance in 1963 near the southern coast of Florida, taking the lives of 39 crewmen.

SS Marine Sulphur Queen:

There are some ghost ships too which went there:-

1. The DEERING

The Deering never reached Norfolk. Instead it was found off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina completely abandoned – no crew, no lifeboats. Some suggest possible causes such as mutiny, piracy, hurricanes, or rum runners. However, the United States government felt uncomfortable that several ships, from many nations, had disappeared or were found wrecked in this area – the Bermuda Triangle.

2. The Valencia

As the crew members of the Valencia struggled to escape the sinking ship, they hastily deployed six lifeboats. In the chaos, they frantically lowered three full of men, but on the way down, each tipped, causing all the men to plunge into the water. Three of the lifeboats were successfully set onto the water, but two subsequently capsized, and one was never seen again.

Bermuda Triangle Natural Explanations

The Compass Theory Methane Hydrates The Nature Theory The Gulf Stream and Freak Waves The impact of human error