Back to the Bermuda Triangle: Part I

Ah, yes...
Skeptics make up stuff...

Like Atlantis rising from the depths of the ocean in the 60's:rolleyes:
 
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I've recently managed to get my hands on both of the Richard Winer 'Devils Triangle' books from the 1970's and (To my surprise.) the second one reprints a letter that Winer received that basically marks case closed on one 'classic' triangle story, as the excerpts below show (Note also the dates.).

On the morning of September 22 Connemara IV was lying to a heavy mooring in the open roadstead of Carlisle Bay. Because of the approaching hurricane, the owner strengthened the mooring ropes and put out two additional anchors. There was little else he could do, as the exposed mooring was the only available anchorage.
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In Carlisle Bay, the sea in the wake of Hurricane Janet was awe-inspiring and dangerous. The owner of Connemara IV observed that she had disappeared. An investigation revealed that she had dragged her moorings and gone to sea.
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(Italics as original.)

Mr J. E. Challenor, quoted on pages 95-97 of The Devils Triangle 2, by Richard Winer

However, Winer also pointed out the 'echo chamber' phenomenon (eg Only the more sensational version of the story is quoted verbatim from book to book.) and then tried to have his cake (supernatural story) and eat it as well by claiming that there was something 'strange' about the boats drift rate.
 
Statistically, the Triangle is just the same as any other section of airspace in the world.

"Atlantis" is a fictitious place invented by Plato. It doesn't exist except in the mind of an ancient Greek. The Atlantic has been scoured by undersea SONAR and other mapping gadgetry and no undersea civilisations discovered.

Flight 19's aircraft type was known to have an explosion problem - a bit like centre wing fuel tanks in Boeing 737 and Boeing 747 Classics. Back then they didn't have fuel tank inerting systems, or at least not that I am aware of anyway.

Pilot incompetence and Air France's complacency in replacing unsuitable pitot tube heaters caused the A330 crash in 2009. Other near disasters with Airbus's daft fly by wire system are well documented.
 
insidespace said:
So, why is it impossible to understand that magnetic anomalies or gravitational anomalies can exist over the ocean in the part of the world called the "bermuda tri-angle."
Does that help?
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I know this is some time on now, but I thought it was interesting to note that the "first global map of magnetic anomalies", WDMAM, was published only one month before insidespace made that comment. Note the complete lack of anything distinguishing about the Bermuda triangle area.
 
Just noticed the date - scrub the comment about AF447; this thread was 6 years before the crash d'oh
 
Apologies for the long bump, but here is the latest 'faux' solution to what is going on. Of course explanations are only needed if what is being claimed is real. And the Bermuda Triangle is definitely not real...

After claiming the lives of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships the mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle may have finally been cracked.The 500,000km square stretch in the North Atlantic Ocean has been blamed for the vanishing of ships and aircrafts for centuries.


But scientists claim they have discovered the truth behind the triangle's deadly mystery - hexagonal clouds that create terrifying 170mph winds air bombs.

It is believed these deadly blasts of air can send tear down trees, flip over ships and bring planes crashing into the ocean.
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http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world...louds-solve-the-mystery/ar-AAjeZxD?li=AAgfLCP
 
Oh, Science Channel. Now I understand it. They're a branch of Discovery Communcations, who jumped the Shark Week years ago. They also own Animal Planet, who brought you not just one but TWO mermaid specials.

Confession time: I watch Gold Rush. There's probably more reality in the mermaid shows, but I watch it.
 
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