One of the many mysteries surrounding the Bermuda triangle is the several missing airplanes and ships, such as Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops, but most of these disappearances can be explained by natural occurrences. The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area of the North Atlantic Ocean located off the southeast coast of the United States. The enigma of the area is its great controversy. “The enigma is that more ships and planes disappear in this area, in fair weather, more than in any other place in the world, for no readily explainable reason” (Bermuda Triangle: Introduction).
Flight 19 is a well known aircraft that went down in the Bermuda Triangle. It was an Avenger torpedo bomber on a routine practice mission. It lifted off from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 2:10 in the afternoon. Lt. Charles Taylor was flying students in the plane and miscalculated where he was. “Taylor indicated that his compasses were not working, but he believed himself to be somewhere over the Florida Keys...Apparently Taylor had become confused at some point in the flight...For some reason Taylor apparently thought …show more content…
The ship, “...carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918 after departing the island of Barbados” (Wikipedia). Some of the independent theories blame storms, capsizing, and some even suggest that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss of the ship. Two of the Cyclops’s sister ships, Proteus and Nereus, were later lost in the North Atlantic during World War II. “Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage. In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking”
Flight 19 is a well known aircraft that went down in the Bermuda Triangle. It was an Avenger torpedo bomber on a routine practice mission. It lifted off from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 2:10 in the afternoon. Lt. Charles Taylor was flying students in the plane and miscalculated where he was. “Taylor indicated that his compasses were not working, but he believed himself to be somewhere over the Florida Keys...Apparently Taylor had become confused at some point in the flight...For some reason Taylor apparently thought …show more content…
The ship, “...carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918 after departing the island of Barbados” (Wikipedia). Some of the independent theories blame storms, capsizing, and some even suggest that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss of the ship. Two of the Cyclops’s sister ships, Proteus and Nereus, were later lost in the North Atlantic during World War II. “Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage. In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking”