The territory of the Atlantic Ocean, designated as the “Bermuda Triangle”, consists of a large stretch of water roughly contained within the boundaries of the line from Miami, Florida to the island of Bermuda, south to Puerto Rico and back to the east coast of Florida. Over the past five hundred years, many legends have appeared and many have suggested that something very mysterious is happening in this area of the Atlantic.
There are purely physical reasons that make this a dangerous region for landowning creatures, where you can go further. Weather conditions in this area have several factors that help keep it in a constantly changing flow of conditions. The warm Gulf Stream returns to the colder Atlantic waters along this area, and the temperature drops retain rapid formative storms. This area is also located along the northern edge of the hurricane zone and is often swept up by these massive summer storms.
Located in the area Sargasso Sea. This predominantly shallow area is surrounded and held in place by four major ocean currents, the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current, the Canary Current, and the North Atlantic Equatorial Current. This area contains not only shallow seabed areas, but also some of the deepest trenches in the Atlantic Ocean, thus creating even more dangerous ebbs and streams of these huge currents.
Inside the hour-long whirlwinds of this strong moving water are vast fields of Sargassum algae. This algae plant roots itself to the bottom of the ocean and uses air sacs to lift the upper leaves to the surface for photosynthesis. When in the early 1500s, first discovered by Portuguese sailors, this plant life covered the area so thickly that sailboats could barely penetrate it, and if they did, they often became frozen and stuck in the middle.
From the very beginning of European shipping to the North American continent, this area has been a blessing and a curse. Arriving from Europe, the sailboats followed the wind to the west, which moved along the Equatorial Current and returned, using the Gulf Stream flow back to Europe. Even now, when motorized vessels are the main maritime transport, this area is one of the most visited shipping lanes in the world. With the advent of air traffic a hundred years ago, it became one of the most used traffic lanes.
Yes, the Bermuda Triangle has more than the average number of accidents, deaths and disappearances than in most other parts of the oceans. This should be expected, not mystified, since there is more traffic in this area than in any other shipping lane in the Atlantic. Combine this cluster with the boiling variables of current, climatic and weather conditions that are unique to the region, and you have a ready-made recipe for disaster.
