1. BERMUDA TRIANGLE A PRESENTATION BY M.ARUN KUMAR S.DIVYANANDHAN II YEAR BE MECHANICAL

3. Here ships and airplanes seem to disappear more often than in other parts of the ocean.

4. Usually the craft are never seen again, which is not too surprising in an area noted for hurricanes and high waves.

5. The Bermuda Triangle is also called as Devil’s triangle , Hoodoo sea .

7. which is noted for a supposedly high incidence of unexplained disappearances of ships and aircraft.

8. The apexes of the triangle are generally believed to be Bermuda; Miami, Florida; and San Juan, Puerto Rico

10. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times that size,depending on the imagination of the author.

11. Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the triangle.

13. Even so, estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years.

15. The squadron's flight path was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base, but they never returned.

17. The 542 foot long Cyclops was launched in 1910 and served as a collier ( a ship that carries coal) for the U.S. Navy during World War I.

19. Over the years there have been dozens of articles, books, and television programs promoting the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

20. The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first used in an article written by Vincent H. Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964.

21. In the article, Gaddis claimed that in this strange sea a number of ships and planes had disappeared without explanation.

23. In 1969 John Wallace Spencer wrote a book called Limbo of the Lost specifically about the Triangle and, two years later, a feature documentary on the subject, The Devil's Triangle, was released.

24. These, along with the bestseller The Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974, permanently registered the legend of the "Hoodoo Sea" within popular culture.

25. Why do ships and planes seem to go missing in the region? Some authors suggested it may be due to a strange magnetic anomaly that affects compass readings (in fact they claim Columbus noted this when he sailed through the area in 1492).

26. Others theorize that methane eruptions from the ocean floor may suddenly be turning the sea into a froth that can't support a ship's weight so it sinks (though there is no evidence of this type of thing happening in the Triangle for the past 15,000 years).

28. What he found he published in his own book entitled The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved.

29. Kusche had carefully dug into records other writers had neglected.

30. He found that many of the strange accidents were not so strange after all.

31. Often a Triangle writer had noted a ship or plane had disappeared in "calms seas" when the record showed a raging storm had been in progress.

32. Others said ships had "mysteriously vanished" when their remains had actually been found and the cause of their sinking explained.

34. Strange magnetic fields and oceanic flatulence (methane gas from the bottom of the ocean) are favorites among the technically-minded.

36. During the past century more than 50 ships and 20 aircraft sailed into oblivion in the area known as the Devil's Triangle, Bermuda Triangle, Hoodoo Sea, or a host of other names.

37. Exactly what happened to the ships and aircraft is not known. Most disappeared without a trace.