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Bermuda is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, with a population of less than 65,438+million, 10,000 kilometers away from Beijing. This place has nothing to do with our life in principle. But when it comes to the name Bermuda, I'm afraid many young people don't know it.

In the big extra-curricular books we read since childhood, Bermuda Devil's Triangle? The concept of appearance rate is quite high. The so-called Devil's Triangle generally refers to the triangle area connecting Bermuda, Miami and San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. According to legend, there are frequent paranormal in this area, whether it's an airplane or a ship, it's bad luck when you come in.

(Bermuda Devil Triangle icon. Image source: Wikipedia shared resources)

It is said that there is a Bermuda Devil Triangle in the just visiting, which will transport the plane to a strange world, where passengers will stop? Disappear into the air? . Others even associate the Devil's Triangle with Atlantis myth or aliens, speculating that those who disappeared were taken away by mysterious forces.

These supernatural stories are really attractive and can be made into several sci-fi blockbusters. But don't take it seriously. Bermuda in reality is not a terrible forbidden place, and there is no just visiting you yearn for. Most stories about Bermuda are fictional and distorted. The so-called devil's triangle is not a natural phenomenon in essence, but a popular cultural phenomenon created by human beings themselves.

In reality, Bermuda is a comfortable paradise and a famous tourist destination.

Image source: (WT-en) Legrospaum? | Wikileaks)

The devil Bermuda, how terrible?

The supernatural phenomenon of Bermuda's Devil's Triangle sounds mysterious, but it is actually nothing more than these two categories: either shipwreck or missing flight. But what is the devil's triangle? Eat? How many ships and planes have been lost, and the relevant works can't come up with accurate figures. According to the statistics of folk enthusiasts, there have been more than 900 traffic accidents in this area in the past 200 years, but this figure is probably biased [1]. Actually, admire? Devil's triangle? Our folk experts never want to attract attention with amazing statistics, but rely on those confusing case stories.

In stories about shipwrecks, cases of missing warships and ghost ships (unmanned ships floating on the sea like ghosts) are often used to prove the horror of the Devil's Triangle. What are the classic cases? Cyclops? And then what? Carol Dilling? . Cyclops is a naval transport ship with more than 300 crew members and a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons. 19 18 March, loaded with ore, but suddenly disappeared when passing through the Devil's Triangle, even the ship and people disappeared without a trace [2]. It is amazing that a giant steel ship with powerful equipment and tonnage equivalent to that of a light aircraft carrier disappeared inexplicably, even leaving no trace.

The old shadow of the cyclops transport ship. Image source: The photo was taken by new york Naval Shipyard | Wikipedia Shared Resources)

In contrast, the experience of the ghost ship Caroline is described more bizarre. This sloop was built in 19 19, and is usually responsible for pulling goods in the waters near Bermuda. As a result, it disappeared less than two years after it was launched. It was not until 192 1 that people found it on the coast of North Carolina, USA. The hull is intact, but there is no one on board.

Similarly, the disappearance of military aircraft is widely circulated. 1945 12, five bombers went out for training, and the signal disappeared in the sea near Bermuda. Then, the navy sent a seaplane for search and rescue, but the search and rescue plane disappeared soon [4]. On this day, a total of 6 planes and 27 pilots were missing.

The old shadow of the missing naval bomber. Image source: lt.comdr.horacebristol | wikimediacommons)

In addition to these classic cases, there are many supernatural stories in Bermuda Triangle, but the story structure is similar, and most of them are cases in which a certain type of vehicle disappeared for no reason after arriving in the area. At first glance, Bermuda seems to be really evil, instilling such an idea: Bermuda Triangle is very dangerous. The disappearance of vehicles violates common sense of life and cannot be explained scientifically. It only makes sense to introduce the concept of time tunnel or aliens? . But in fact, this concept is wrong from beginning to end, because Bermuda is not dangerous, and the traffic accidents there can be completely explained by science, and the connection with just visiting or UFOs is even more unfounded.

Bermuda is not even among the top ten most dangerous waters in the world?

First of all, it is certain that most traffic accidents related to the Devil's Triangle do exist, and a few are fabricated out of thin air, which can be proved by the news newspapers at that time. But there are too many exaggerated elements, and some important details are deliberately erased.

Objectively speaking, the shipwreck of a warship is a very regrettable but common thing. Let's say that in the past two years, a military plane crashed almost every month in our South Asian neighbors, and there have been more than 30 naval accidents in the past decade. The news of the crash of warships and submarines all over the world is endless. However, before the birth of GPS, computers were not widely used, airplanes were still using propellers, and weather forecasts were mostly based on speculation. From the beginning of 2009 to the first half of the 20th century, it was not inconceivable that there were plane and ship crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. What's more, WWF has counted the ranking of the places with high incidence of shipping accidents in the world, and the most accident-prone areas are the Sea of Japan, the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf and other places, while Bermuda is not even in the top ten [5]! Moreover, it is worthy of the name to find the wreckage of a crashed ship or plane in the vast sea? Looking for a needle in a haystack? So it is difficult for people to find traces of it, and it is easy to form a kind of? Disappear for no reason, leaving no trace? Hallucinations.

As for the so-called ghost ship, it is not surprising at all. According to Asahi Shimbun, in 20 17 years, more than 65,438,000 ghost ships floated on the coast of Japan. The owners of these ships may have died at sea and their bodies were washed away by the waves. It is also possible that it was left unattended at the dock, and then the cable broke and was washed into the sea. Some ghost ships in the Bermuda Triangle probably appeared in this way. In addition, like the Carodillin mentioned earlier, according to the witnesses at that time, it should have been attacked by pirates, and the crew escaped or was killed, so it was empty when it was found.

Besides, there is a man named Larry? Larry Kusche's pilot (who is also a master of library science) wrote a book based on his driving experience and literature records to reveal the truth about Bermuda [6]. He found that in the past, an important detail was erased from supernatural stories about ship and plane crashes? weather

Hurricanes in the waters off Bermuda. Image source: Jesse Allen's picture, based on the data of MODIS rapid response team of NASA -GSFC.

There are often hurricanes or thunderstorms in the waters near Bermuda, which pose a great threat to maritime traffic. Like Cyclops, it was mentioned in its accident report that the ship was probably sunk in a storm with a speed of 50-70 kilometers per hour. In addition, many missing ships and flights in this area encountered bad weather on the same day. But the devil's triangle? Loyal powder? But deliberately did not mention the weather to increase the mystery of the incident. After all, if the disappearance is only the result of bad weather, it may not attract much attention.

The carnival of popular culture

Generally speaking, the traffic accidents in the waters near Bermuda are not supernatural and can be completely explained by science. The so-called Bermuda Devil Triangle is not a natural phenomenon, not to mention an academic achievement discovered by scientists.

But if you want to ask whether the Bermuda Devil's Triangle exists? Then we should answer: does it really exist? It does not exist in nature, but as a fictional cultural phenomenon exists in human books, television, internet and minds.

(Bermuda Devil's Triangle exists as a fictional cultural phenomenon. Image source: Wallpaper Abyss)

The concept of Bermuda Devil's Triangle has been a cultural product since its birth. Vincent suggested it? Gaddis is not a scientific researcher, but a writer. 1964, he wrote an article entitled Bermuda's Death Triangle, which was published in Argosy magazine. The key point is that this magazine is actually a popular culture magazine, and most of the contents published on it are fictitious, which is equivalent to the familiar story meeting in China. Before it was renamed, Ship magazine was called Golden Ship, and it was positioned as a children's literature magazine, which was equivalent to the king of fairy tales we watched when we were young.

Imagine if someone wrote an article about supernatural phenomena in a story club or the king of fairy tales, which often happened there. Do you think this is fiction or a real event?

After a long time, Bermuda Triangle is a literary creation, which has nothing to do with natural science research. However, the concept of Bermuda Triangle is really attractive, because this sea area was a hot spot in the last century. It is close to Florida, a famous tourist resort in the west, with Cuba as the front line of the Cold War confrontation in the south and an important Atlantic trade route in the middle. And in time, just in time for the sixties and seventies? UFO fever? . Four hot spots in one breath, it is difficult for the Bermuda Triangle to think about fire. For a time, all kinds of magazines, TV programs, B-class movies, cultural shirts and other peripheral cultural products about the Bermuda Triangle flocked out [7]. The famous director Spielberg was inspired and even made a sci-fi blockbuster "The Third Intimate Contact". Later, the Bermuda Triangle was introduced to China, which became a lot of post-80s and post-90s? Collective memory? .

(Bermuda Triangle, once a hot spot in Florida resorts. Image source: daniel christensen | Wikipedia Shared Resources)

From this point of view, although the Bermuda Triangle is fictional, it does add a lot of wonderful content to people's cultural life, and even stimulates the interest of many young people around us in scientific research. But in any case, we should give Bermuda a true face, not a virtual shadow in the eyes of bloggers.

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[5] News/Science-Environment -22806362

[6] Lawrence David Cusher (1975). Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved. London: New English Library.

[7] Brett Nelson. Deregulation of Bermuda Triangle: The Myth of Popular Geography and Globalization. Space and culture, 2000.