The Bermuda Triangle: Real Danger or Sea Legend?

For me, the Bermuda Triangle has always existed in my mind as something that’s really there. A certain patch of globe where ships, planes and people go missing in mysterious circumstances. Growing up in Surrey, England, I occasionally wore (probably ill-advised) “Bermuda shorts” as a pre-teen but never gave the area they were named after any more thought.

This was the early 90s so think of something geometric and luminous like the Fresh Prince would rock and you’ll get the general idea. This was probably then teamed with a Global Hypercolour t-shirt that I thought was the epitome of cool before hitting puberty when it was embarrassing that your armpits were a different colour to the rest of your t-shirt.

Anyway, getting back to the point, I definitely was aware of the Bermuda Triangle growing up but without the internet being a thing yet, there wasn’t really much cause for me to question it or really think about it that much. The information I did subconsciously glean must have been references taken from films, tv shows and quite possibly the news. All of which is to say that I never had any particular reason to doubt that the mysterious area was real. Until now. Yes, at the ripe of age of ahem, slightly older than your charming host, I find myself taking my first ever deep dive into the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. And here’s what I found.

The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of ocean that has long been connected to mystery. While it’s not an official region with definitive boundaries, it’s largely agreed on to be an area in the Atlantic with the three points of the triangle being roughly Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. This means it’s difficult to calculate how much of an area it covers but it’s at least 500,000 square miles or nearly 1.3 million square kilometers. For reference, that’s larger than South Africa but smaller than Alaska. Even going back as far as Christopher Colombus, weird things have been reported happening aboard ships that enter this particular area of the Atlantic. These tales have culminated in legends of ships swallowed whole by the ocean, boats and planes that just vanished out of existence without even transmitting a distress call and even extraterrestrial involvement. This has led to the Bermuda Triangle’s other nickname of “the Devil’s Triangle.” Oooooh. In reality, there are many documented instances of weird stuff, crashes and mysterious disappearances inside this fabled triangle so let’s take a look at a few interesting examples. By the way, Simon, I’m pretty sure you’ve already given your spoiler alert probably correct opinions about the Bermuda Triangle by this point but let’s just keep it mysterious for now, eh? We’ll go into all the theories later, promise!

Some Examples

Going all the way back to 1492 when he was sailing the ocean blue, Christopher Columbus wandered into Bermuda Triangle territory. While his original logs and diaries about this event have not survived, transcriptions of them and secondary source material from people who sailed with Columbus have. On the 15th of September 1492, this is reported to have happened: “And on this night, at the beginning of it, they saw a marvelous branch of fire fall from the sky into the sea, distant from them four or five leagues.”

A couple of weeks later they reported having seen a small and faint light “like a small wax candle that rose and lifted up”. Also around this time, when they were in Bermuda Triangle territory, the crew started having problems with their compasses. They used the North Star to navigate and a note about Columbus’s diary from the 17th of September 1492 states: “The pilots took the north, marking it and found that the compasses northwested a full point; and the sailors were fearful and depressed and did not say why.

The Admiral was aware of this and he ordered that the north again be marked when dawn came, and they found that the compasses were correct. The cause was that the North Star appears to move and not the compasses”. Stars moving around and strange lights in the sky?

This set the tone for the triangle’s future reputation and yes, while we will of course go into some cooler-headed reasoning later on, let’s carry on with the weird stuff first.

Here’s a couple more famous examples of creepy Bermuda Triangle goings-on:

In 1918, the USS Cyclops, along with 306 passengers and crew and a cargo of manganese ore, disappeared forever after sailing through the Bermuda Triangle. The ship was an 8 year old naval supply ship and had been commissioned as a transport ship during the first world war. In March 1918, the Cyclops left Brazil and headed back to Baltimore but was never seen again. The last known communication from the ship was a radio message stating “Weather Fair, All Well” but after that…nothing.

The ship basically vanished off the face of the earth and not a single trace of it has been found to this day. The deaths of the 306 people on board the Cyclops represents the US Navy’s largest loss of life outside of a combat situation.

One of the best known stories about the Bermuda Triangle again involves the US military. On the 5th of December 1945, a group of torpedo bombers, collectively known as Flight 19, took off from Florida for a routine training mission. Flying over the Bermuda Triangle, the entire group, which comprised 5 planes and 14 airmen, disappeared. The last communication was from the leader, Lieutenant Charles Taylor who radioed “We are entering white water, nothing seems right.

We don’t know where we are, the water is green, no white.” No wreckage from these planes has ever been found, and the official naval report gave its conclusion as “cause unknown.”

Even more eerily, once the original 5 bombers had been reported missing, 2 search planes went out looking for them. One of these planes, a Martin Mariner with 13 people on board, also disappeared.

On January 30th 1948, a small passenger plane, the Star Tiger, was heading in for a 5 am landing in Bermuda. It never made it. It was last heard from at 3.15 am when the plane checked in with the radio operator in Bermuda.

After that, nothing more was heard, no distress call was ever sent. The plane again, with 25 people on board, had seemingly just vanished. A huge search and rescue mission was launched following the Star Tiger’s failure to arrive but no trace of the plane was ever found.

The British Aviation Ministry carried out an investigation but came to this puzzling conclusion: “In closing this report it may truly be said that no more baffling problem has ever been presented for investigation. In the complete absence of any reliable evidence as to either the nature or the cause of the accident of Star Tiger the Court has not been able to do more than suggest possibilities, none of which reaches the level even of probability…What happened in this case will never be known and the fate of “Star Tiger” must remain an unsolved mystery.”

And how about the disappearance of the perhaps appropriately named “Witchcraft”? On the 22nd of December 1967, Daniel Burack and his friend Father Padraig Horgan were in Burack’s luxury cabin cruiser, checking out the Christmas lights of Miami from the water. One of the men radioed in to the coastguard at 9pm to say they had hit something and needed a tow but it wasn’t an emergency situation.

At this point the boat was less than a mile out. The coastguard reached the Witchcraft’s supposed location about 20 minutes later but couldn’t find any sign of them. Burack had said he would let off a flare to show their location but no flare was seen and no further communications were received.

Burack was an experienced sailor with all the necessary safety equipment onboard plus another safety measure of an extra flotation device that would mean at least part of the hull would always remain afloat, even if it were ruptured or flooded. After a 6 day search, the coastguard called it off with their official verdict given as: “They are presumed missing, but not lost at sea”.

There are plenty more cases I could mention, a lot of which involve no distress calls and no wreckage or bodies found but you’re probably getting the idea by now. So let’s move on and talk about what could possibly be going on in the Bermuda Triangle.

The More “Off the wall” explanations

As you might expect, a lot of weird theories have been given as to what might be going on in the Bermuda Triangle, so I think this is about the time to talk about how and why it’s been given such a spooky reputation. While, as we’ve just found out, strange things seem to have been afoot since the 15th century, the current hype allllll started way back in 1964, which isn’t actually that long ago in the grand scheme of things. This was the time that the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” was first coined when American author Vincent Gaddis used it in an article for Argosy magazine.

It should be noted that Argosy was what was known as a “pulp” or “pulp fiction” mag, which meant it was a cheaply produced publication dealing chiefly in short stories and fictional content. While Argosy did change focus over the years to add in true crime columns and later on got a bit spicier, in the 60s it was primarily a publication for fiction, not investigative journalism.

It seemed that Gaddis did like to write about paranormal things and also liked to expound on his left field theories with no evidence or thoughts of more rational explanations. I mean, where would be the fun in that? To quote from his Wikipedia page, he was known for “inventing mysteries where none exist” which spoiler alert seems to sum up the Bermuda Triangle in a nutshell.

He didn’t come up with this piece totally on his own, though. He seems to have gained inspiration from a 1952 article in “Fate” magazine by a George X. Sands. This is titled “Sea Mystery at our Back Door” and goes on to tell the tales of several disappearances, most of which end up in Gaddis’s article 12 years later.

Sands doesn’t really provide any theories as to what might have happened, just presenting them as mysterious events. He also came agonizingly close to claiming the name of “Bermuda Triangle” himself but just veers off at the last second and calls it “a watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico”. So close, George! Gaddis even lifted the title of this article for use in his own piece in the Argosy which contains the sentence: “During the past two decades alone, this sea mystery at our back door has claimed almost 1,000 lives.”

Anyway, Gaddis’s take on said triangle was attention-grabbing as he landed the front cover of Argosy with the title “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle - who will be its next victim?” The cover image is a skull on a red triangle with a black background. All the images I found had a sticker covering some of the subtitle but it goes on to say “UFO? Flying Saucer?

Natural Phenomenon?” Then maybe “Water Monster Claimed the Sub Scorpion, 10 ships, 12 Airplanes” and then a number of people which I couldn’t read but it’s probably “thousands”. His article starts: “What is there about this particular slice of the world that has destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace?”

The piece is not written as a story, it’s written more as an editorial with lots of examples of incidents in his now-named Bermuda Triangle, a couple of which we talked about earlier. While steering clear of out-right mentioning UFOs or other supernatural phenomenon as causes, Gaddis cloaks every incident in mystery and tries to hint at the unlikelihood of rational explanations. He ends the article with “The sea guards well her secrets.”

So Gaddis was taking the idea of unexplained happenings in the area, giving it a good brand name and sending this idea out into the world. And the next person to grab on to the idea really took it to the next level. Enter Charles Berlitz. If the surname sounds familiar, yes he was a member of the Berlitz family who started the language centers.

He was something of an enthusiast in the realms of the mysterious and was obsessed with the lost city of Atlantis, ancient astronauts and all that type of stuff. Go on Simon, you have your say and then I’ll just add that I personally think it’s extremely fun to dip into all kinds of stuff like that but it’s probably not a great idea to make it into your life’s work.

In 1974, Berlitz published the best-selling and unoriginally titled book “The Bermuda Triangle - an incredible saga of unexplained disappearances.” One of the things he managed to shoehorn into the book was his theory that, yes, Atlantis was located somewhere on the seafloor inside the triangle and that it had, in fact, been a victim of the paranormal forces prevalent in the area. This idea was then elaborated by other alternative thinkers to suggest that the Atlanteans were in fact the cause of the disappearances due to the crazy energy crystals they used or that were left over when Atlantis sank. These crystals would mess around with compasses and end up vaporizing the boats and planes.

I feel like these kinds of things are popular because they’re entertaining and people are along for the ride and just ingesting the information presented to them without much thought about it either way. It was quite telling, though, that several reviews of the Berlitz book mentioned how the readers loved it when they were younger but now, thinking about it, they realized that the whole idea had no corroborating factual evidence and seems completely laughable.

So yes, we’ve now got the name and a strong association with the paranormal, read by thousands and thousands of people. In fact I just looked it up and Berlitz’s book sold almost 20 million copies worldwide. Wowsers. This book was the seed that spawned the legend of the Bermuda Triangle as we now know it by inspiring movies, tv shows and more books about the phenomenon.

While it might already be clear that we’re leaning on the side of skepticism here, there are real instances of boats and planes going missing in the Bermuda Triangle. So what might be causing these strange disappearances of aircraft, ships and possibly entire cities?

Aliens

It’s time to say hi to our extraterrestrial pals! They haven’t had much of a look-in on this channel recently but now’s their time to shine. Remember Columbus seeing the lights on the water? Well yes, there’s a theory that the lights were from alien spacecraft.

This particular example isn’t a great one, though. While I gave actual examples of what someone had written about the lights, albeit not Columbus himself, other sources have stated things like he saw lights shooting up into the sky or stars spinning around. This is not the case and seems to be people taking the notes on his diary completely out of context and interpreting them however they want. These sensationalized and inaccurate examples then got picked up and re-used in future pieces on the Bermuda Triangle, so as we’ve seen many many times before, these alternative “facts” get attached and embedded into the narrative.

We know from as close to a primary source as we can find that Columbus did see some lights but nothing flying-saucer like at all. The first instance of “a marvellous branch of fire” that fell from the sky was more than likely a comet or asteroid or something really cool like that. There was no indication given of the crew feeling scared or of further paranormal things happening related to this event so I think it’s safe to say it was a one-off.

It seems that our friends in flying saucers are always on the shortlist when it comes to unexplained disappearances but as usual, why they would choose to pick up ships and aircraft from this particular piece of the planet is up for debate. We don’t seem to have pinned any other disappearances from anywhere else on the seas to them so why here? Maybe they’re using a tractor beam to try and raise Atlantis from the depths and these ships and planes happened to get in the path at exactly the wrong time? I don’t know if Berlitz came to that conclusion but hey, it ties it all together nicely for me.

You might recall that Columbus’s voyage did also have issues with navigating as well as seeing those lights. We’ll talk more about the compass bearings later so for now, let’s knock this alien theory on the head.

Other Kinds of Science Fiction Stuff

True story: I mentioned to my friend that I was writing a piece on the Bermuda Triangle and their response was: “oh, wasn’t that where that one ship went missing? Isn’t there like a hole or something?”

Me: “A hole?”

Them: “Not in the sea! In the air! Like a black hole!”

Me: “No.”

Them: “Wasn’t that where that female pilot went missing?”

Me: “Do you mean Amelia Earhardt? No.”

I was going to direct them to the Amelia Earhardt episode of this show but I’d kind of lost the will to live by then. Anyway, the wormhole / time portal / interdimensional black hole theory is of course on the list. Do these craft enter some sort of rip in space and time and pop out somewhere else?

Ehhhhhhh, due to the fact that they have never reappeared in the past or the future that we know of so far, we can only conclude that no, this is not what is happening. Of course if the Witchcraft or the Cyclops suddenly rematerialises then I’ll be happy to retract this entire section but I think I’m in quite safe territory here.

There are scenes from movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” where all sorts of things previously abducted by aliens do make a reappearance but that’s a movie, not real life. There has never been any sort of rift or opening detected in that area of the Atlantic or, in fact, anywhere. Of course there’s always the possibility of a huge government cover-up about the existence of such a portal but then there’d probably be manufactured reasons to not travel through that area and there are currently no restrictions so, yeah, again I’m going to say that this is not a viable theory.

Sea Monsters

Oh yeah, we’re keeping going with the weird stuff. There have been legends about krakens, giant sea snakes, huge tentacled things and other monsters of the deep since humans first started sailing the oceans. Could something be lurking way down in the depths of the Atlantic that occasionally pops up and grabs a tasty boat snack with a side of human?

While we know very little about what goes on in the depths of the seas, it’s not that likely that a huge sea creature is the cause of these disappearances. Yes, enormous squid do exist. A 30 foot or 9 meter one was found off the coast of Japan in 2005 and the largest one recorded to date was nearly 43 feet or 13 meters long.

I guess it is not impossible for an animal of any description to maybe take out one very small boat but the Cyclops? This was a very large coal ship. The biggest squid in the world would have no chance.

And none of the examples we have given ever gave any sort of distress call. There would be time to mention that a sea monster was attacking before the whole ship went down, surely. And don’t forget that some of the most well-known disappearances are aircraft.

Unless they were skimming the waves, which they weren’t, I think they should have been high enough to be safe from a monster attack. Unless they were in “Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus” where, yes, a Mega Shark does indeed jump out of the water and take out a plane.

As if we don’t have enough to worry about when flying thousands of feet over the planet in a metal tube they go and add shark attacks in? Yeesh.

You may have guessed from the tone of this section that sea monsters are not high on my personal list of explanations but hey, it’s a free country, unless you’re watching from somewhere that isn’t, so you can go ahead and hold on to this theory if you want to.

Let’s move on now to some more likely theories. Or at least some theories that are based in the real world.

Magnetic Anomalies

Is there some sort of electromagnetic thing happening in the Bermuda Triangle that makes compasses and navigational equipment go haywire? Columbus’s men had trouble lining up with the North Star and the pilots of the ill-fated Flight 19 also apparently couldn’t work out where they were. I’ve seen a couple of explanations here.

One is that sometimes magnetic north and true north line up in what’s called an “agonic line”. Columbus could have passed through an area like this in the Bermuda Triangle and this would have changed the readings for magnetic north related to the north star. I think, anyway.

To be honest I got a bit confused here and it seems to turn out that there shouldn’t really be any issues with compasses in this area more than anywhere else. Even if the compass is pointing to true north for a time as well as magnetic north, it’s still also pointing to magnetic north so navigating shouldn’t be an issue. Columbus also may have been in some rough weather which caused his rudimentary compass to spin a bit.

There aren’t any known magnetic disturbances or anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle area so I’m thinking this can probably be put down to later writers exaggerating things that weren’t a big deal to begin with.

Natural Weather Occurrences

Weather can do weird stuff sometimes. There are things like katabatic winds and ball lightning which have been given as possible and plausible reasons for the events of Dyatlov Pass - another great Decoding the Unknown episode, by the way. In the ocean there are seaquakes and waterspouts which, while I’m plugging past episodes, may have had a hand in the mysterious circumstances surrounding the Mary Celeste. Basically, strange things can happen at any given moment and we’re all just hanging on here by the skin of our teeth and the grace of our alien overlords.

Yes, it’s possible that rogue waves can capsize a boat or that a ship could be taken down by a sudden eruption from the sea floor or a plane could run into some kind of atmospheric mega storm but how often is it likely that these things happen? I’ve been reining it in this whole time but I’ve now come to the rather disappointing conclusion about the Bermuda Triangle mystery and that is…

There is no Mystery.

Boooo! Hissss! We want mystery!

We want aliens! We want black holes opening up and swallowing planes whole! Well, sorry but you ain’t going to get any of that stuff off the coast of Puerto Rico.

What we’ve been skirting around this entire time is that while there have been incidents in the so-called Bermuda Triangle, there have been no more than in any other routinely-traversed area of ocean anywhere else. There are no definitive numbers and I found a huge disparity but it’s estimated for certain that at least 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared in the area which is nowhere near the “hundreds of ships and planes” as reported by Vincent Gaddis. In fact, in 2013, the World Wildlife Fund didn’t even place the Bermuda Triangle area in the top 10 most dangerous bodies of water for shipping.

Yes, there have been disappearances but there have been disappearances all over the world with nothing paranormal attached. It was just assumed that the ship sank or the plane crashed and that’s it. And that’s what happened in the Bermuda Triangle cases too.

Let’s go back and look at the ones we talked about at the beginning in slightly greater detail.

We’ve covered Columbus already and I’ll just add that they were voyaging into the unknown and didn’t even know if the world was flat or not so a small, faraway light going up and down a bit could have been anything. A light on another boat. Light from a settlement on land they had no idea they were close to. Etc.

Let’s revisit the USS Cyclops now with the 306 people on board. This massive ship just disappeared but there are the deepest trenches in the Atlantic in the area and if something like that sank down to the very bottom, no trace would be found from a sea search. There are lots of other factors that could point to it sinking rather than, for example, being abducted by aliens.

It was potentially overloaded with manganese ore which, when wet, could turn it into a shifting load that could help unbalance the ship. Add in that one engine was reported as not working, a heavy storm that was documented and revelations in the years after that those classes of ships had structural issues and you’ve got the perfect situation for a big ol’ ship to go down.

Moving on to Flight 19 or the 5 planes that went missing. The flight leader was Charles Taylor and he was the only really experienced pilot among the 14 airmen. He also had a history of getting lost, having ditched into the sea to be rescued at least twice during the war.

While the weather started off fine, Taylor managed to get the group lost and as time went on, the weather got worse and they ran out of fuel. An article I saw on “the conversation.com” stated that this type of plane could sink in under 45 seconds once it hit the water. What is even more sad is that radio communications confirmed that at least one trainee knew which direction they should be flying in but everyone bowed to Taylor’s leadership.

The planes have never been found as, again, bad weather and a lack of knowledge as to where they actually were hampered any search. You’ve also got the Gulf Stream passing through the area so debris and wreckage could be carried far away by the time a search party starts looking. The planes are somewhere on the bottom of the sea, waiting to be found.

The missing Martin Mariner search plane that went to look for them is also mostly explainable. At the time it was flying, another ship, the SS Gaines Mills, observed an explosion which coincided with the position of the Martin Mariner at the time. So it blew up. Apparently these planes had a history of gas leaking from their tanks and this could have been ignited in a variety of ways to cause this plane to explode.

This is actually the most mysterious of all the Bermuda Triangle examples as what caused the explosion is not known for certain. It’s been theorized that the phenomenon of St. Elmo’s Fire might have created the spark but no official cause has been given.

The Star Tiger passenger plane also has a plausible reason for vanishing. This theory goes that the plane had been flying abnormally low, around two thousand feet, due to bad headwinds at their normal flying height of twenty thousand feet. The pilots were tired and had at least on one previous radio call said they were at twenty thousand feet when they meant two thousand.

This may have caused them to recalibrate the altimeter incorrectly, for example. It was dark, they were at the end of a long flight and did not realize or remember their height. On approach to Bermuda they began their descent from what they thought was 20,000 feet and basically just flew straight into the ocean.

No wreckage was found as it was a small plane and could easily have been carried away in the rough seas by the time the search started, which wasn’t for several hours after the last known communication. As with all these cases, we can’t definitively say for sure what happened as no wreckage has turned up but this is at least one sad but plausible explanation.

And how about Daniel Burack, Father Padraig Horgan and the missing Witchcraft? There are multiple theories here too, including that the boat wasn’t where they originally thought and a sudden storm then carried them even further out from the search area. There’s also the suggestion, though, that the whole radio call was faked so Burack and Horgan could secretly sail off into the holiday sunset together. Maybe the coastguard even suspected this had happened as their verdict of “They are presumed missing, but not lost at sea” seems to hint that they thought the boat hadn’t sunk.

When you really start drilling down, there is no real mystery around the Bermuda Triangle at all. In fact, articles like the one by Gaddis in Argosy add in cases that happened outside of the theoretical triangle, which inflates the figures, and don’t even entertain alternative possibilities. The “Sub Scorpion” that’s namechecked on the cover of the Argosy didn’t even sink anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle. It was found a few hundred miles southwest of the Azores which is over 2000 miles or 3200 kilometers from Bermuda.

As you can see from the way I originally presented the stories, many pertinent bits of information are intentionally left out to preserve the air of mystery when most things come down to human error or bad luck. For many decades there have been ships and aircraft traveling through the area on a daily basis and apart from the few accidents we have mentioned, nothing untoward ever happens. And going back to the article I found on “the conversation.com” which was in answer to a question asked by a child, I found this quote that also underlines why there is no real mystery:

“In fact, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1980s, more small planes have crashed over the US mainland than in the Bermuda Triangle. But because they crashed on land where the wreckage was found, they were not considered mysterious.” Exactly.

In 1975, writer Larry Kusche published a book called “The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved.” After much research and actual gathering of facts, he concluded that previous writers had exaggerated, misinterpreted and sometimes just made up information in relation to events happening in the Bermuda Triangle area.

So there you go. After knowing very little about it, I feel that this may be the first time I can say that the unknown has been decoded. For me at least, I’m sure most of you reached this conclusion a long time ago. So happy travels and don’t worry about accidentally entering a different dimension if you’re heading to Bermuda - but maybe keep an eye out for those mega sharks.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of ocean in the Atlantic with the three points of the triangle being roughly Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. It covers at least 500,000 square miles or nearly 1.3 million square kilometers.

What are some famous examples of mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle?

Some famous examples include the disappearance of the USS Cyclops in 1918, Flight 19 in 1945, the Star Tiger passenger plane in 1948, and the luxury cabin cruiser Witchcraft in 1967.

What did Christopher Columbus report seeing in the Bermuda Triangle?

Christopher Columbus reported seeing a ‘marvellous branch of fire’ falling from the sky and a small, faint light like a candle rising and lifting up. He also noted issues with their compasses.

Who coined the term ‘Bermuda Triangle’?

The term ‘Bermuda Triangle’ was first coined by American author Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 article for Argosy magazine.

What are some of the more ‘off the wall’ explanations for the Bermuda Triangle mysteries?

Some of the more ‘off the wall’ explanations include alien involvement, wormholes or time portals, and sea monsters.

What are some more plausible explanations for the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle?

More plausible explanations include magnetic anomalies, natural weather occurrences, human error, and structural issues with ships and planes.

How many ships and planes have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle?

It is estimated that at least 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, which is not significantly more than in other routinely-traversed areas of the ocean.

What did Larry Kusche conclude in his book ‘The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved’?

Larry Kusche concluded that previous writers had exaggerated, misinterpreted, and sometimes made up information in relation to events happening in the Bermuda Triangle area.

Sources

• Original Decoding the Unknown video: The Bermuda Triangle: Real Danger or Sea Legend?
• Hero image source by Brandon Zhang / openverse, cc0.