Comments on: CNN Report Disputes Bermuda Triangle Myths

By: taylor

taylor — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:36:16 +0000

screw the bermuas triangle

By: bryson

bryson — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:35:29 +0000

the bermuda triangle

By: Lost ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Pilots Honoured | Bernews.com

Lost ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Pilots Honoured | Bernews.com — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:38:02 +0000

[...] Three months after World War II ended, five US Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission and never returned — their disappearance helping to spawn the myth of the Bermuda Triangle. [...]

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:20:43 +0000

I WANT MYTHS!!!!

By: Vampirella: Blood And Pink Sand … | Bernews.com

Vampirella: Blood And Pink Sand … | Bernews.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:38:06 +0000

[...] After Hammer optioned the rights to the character in 1975, British screenwriter Chris Wicking was commissioned to produce a script which tied Vampirella to the then widespread interest in the Bermuda Triangle myth. [...]

By: Adil Ali

Adil Ali — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:44:53 +0000

I have seen few too many documentaries on TV (Nat Geo, Discovery, History channel etc) and the mystique of the triangulated area known as the “Bermuda Triangle” reads as much into folklore as into scientific discoveries. As a qualified pilot I can attest to the westward moving weather (squalls, low pressure depressions off the Florida coast that seem to appear on the radar overnight) that originates within the triangle and the impact upon aircraft in flight. When we look back 60 years, the instrument capabilities of aircraft (and pilots) were primitive compared to today’s glass cockpits and Nexrad radar displays. The dynamics of entering storm cells or even in the vicinity of them (these can produce effects as far as 20NM away from the cells even in good visibility and clear or clouds) have been discovered more recently (thanks to NOAA et al) that the weather and aerodynamics knowledge of a private pilot may be better than the standards of some commercial and military pilots back then! It comes as no surprise that with the advent of oceanic aviation and the unknown factors of the “triangle” that airspeed and attitude indications may have led entire fleets towards spatial disorientation in rapidly worsening visual conditions and turbulence. Such confusion and failure to trust their instruments, coupled with the “black hole” effect and lack of any ground references would have been a recipe for disaster that shows itself even in the modern cockpits of today’s jet aircraft- two examples within the last 20 yrs include the loss of a 757 off Peru, an American Airlines jet in Colombia and another (unknown type) off the Dominican Republic- all attributed to false/misleading instrument indications, pilot disorientation and ultimately confusion.

Daytona Beach, FL

By: Weather Dude

Weather Dude — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:20:58 +0000

When doppler weather radar was first installed in the early 1990s at the National Weather Service Office located in Melbourne, Florida, the Meteorologist in Charge, Mr. Bart Hagemeyer, stated “I think we may have solved one of the mysteries of the Bermuda triangle”. His comment was based on the doppler radar detecting super cell thunderstorms to the east of central Florida. He noted these were similar or stronger than those he had observed at his previous assignment in St. Louis, Missouri.

Since the Bermuda Triangle is outside of the normal great circle naviagation routes, surface weather observations are sparse over this part of the Atlantic Ocean. Also as mentoned in previous articles the Sargasso Sea lies within this region. This is due to a lack of and/or light winds (general center point of the Bermuda High). Cold fronts moving off the North America continent often stall in this region but remain active for weeks. Thunderstorms/squalls will continue to develop along these stalled fronts (per satellite observations), but with a lack of surface observations, they are often not “forecast” as severe nor are warnings issued on them. Ships and airplanes have wandered into the Bermuda Triangle and encountered this weather could easily have sunk or crashed into the Ocean. Reference the 1986 sinking of the “Pride of Baltimore”, a sailing vessel that sank enroute to Bermuda from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:35:33 +0000

true, but i reckon there’s some stupidly superstitious people out there refraining from coming because of the myth. guess its a good thing we are no longer known as the Devil’s Isle on maritime charts, although we might as well be with all the great and wonderful news coming from the place today

By: Citizen Banned

Citizen Banned — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:49:28 +0000

The Bermuda Triangle myth is the best free advertising we’ve ever had.