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My Sources for the “The Bermuda Triangle, Explained”

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"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."
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabet
ically/e/exorcizing-the-devils-triangle.html
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The Devil's Triangle is a common name for the Bermuda Triangle there was even a film
released in 2021 titled "The Devil's Triangle"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12951846/

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.
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabet
ically/e/exorcizing-the-devils-triangle.html
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Bermuda alone has over 300 shipwreck sights and it has it's own official custodian of
historic wrecks

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/exploring-five-most-iconic-wreckage-sites-bermu
da-180973637/
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Research Paper from 2022 titled "The Bermuda Triangle : Data Science Approach :
Anomaly or Sensationalism?"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4020456
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2:23
NOAA article going over the mythical bermuda triangle, has a map with the triangle
draen from Miami to Bermuda to San Juan.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bermudatri.html
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2:54
The place of the first Caribbean landfall, called Guanahani, is hotly disputed, but
San Salvador (Watlings) Island in the Bahamas is generally preferred to other
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Bahamian islands (Samana Cay, Rum Cay, or the Plana Cays) or to the Turks and Caicos
Islands. Beyond planting the royal banner,

The Fact that he got to an Islan in the caribbean means that he had to go through the
Bermuda Triangle.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus/The-first-voyage
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"the needle now wested a full quarter; they were terrified, they could not account
for it"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44374849#metadata_info_tab_contents
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Columbus's Journal entry translated to English

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/columbus1.asp

"but afterwards the sea rose without wind, which astonished them."

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/columbus1.asp

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The Sea Venture was an extremely famous wreck so much so a scene of it's wreck is
included in the coat of arms of Bermuda.

"Faced with high seas and hurricane-force winds, the Sea Venture became separated
from the rest of the fleet just as the ship started taking on water."

The wreck was discovered in 1958 and was contested but was eventually confirmed

https://bermuda100.ucsd.edu/sea-venture/
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4:20
Due to an arbitrary performance record of November 1, 1611 and a Stratfordian strain
to make travel accounts work as specific sources within the framework of Shakspere's
life, this play's composition has been dated at 1611. They wave forth William
Strachey's account of the wreck of the Sea-Venture in 1609 off the coast of Bermuda
and connect it to Ariel's reference to the "still-vex'd Bermoothes"

Dr. Michael Delahoyde

Washington State University
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https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/tempest1.html
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4:44
"In 1881, legend has it that the Ellen Austin, a ship sailing from Liverpool to New
York, encountered a "ghost ship" in the Bermuda Triangle — and things quickly went
awry."

"Seeing this as an opportunity to seize valuable cargo, they sent some of their men
in to occupy the ship and sail the remaining journey side by side. But a wicked storm
quickly separated the two ships, and when they were reunited the next day, there
wasn't a trace of the crew in sight"

https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/vanished-without-a-trace-insi
de-the-myths-and-mysteries-of-the-bermuda-triangle/slidelist/74309774.cms#slideid=743
09794
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5:02
"But the region didn't get its name until August 1964, when Vincent Gaddis coined the
term Bermuda Triangle in a cover story for Argosy magazine"

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bermuda-triangle-mystery-disappear
ance
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5:14
Great realistic and comprehensive article of the story of the USS Cyclops
also has a map of ship's path going through the triangle area.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/october/uss-cyclops-deadli
est-unsolved-mystery-navy
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"On 15 February, 309 souls departed for Bahia, Brazil, the only scheduled stop before
Baltimore, Maryland. Two days later, at 1800 on 22 February, the ship embarked for
Maryland; she was expected to arrive on 13 March. The last known location of the
Cyclops was an unplanned stop made at Barbados on 3 March, with 1,800 nautical miles
(nm) to go on a 4,844 nm journey.

After the unscheduled stop at Barbados, the passengers and crew were never seen
again. The cause is still a mystery. Even after more than 100 years, the fate of
these souls remains unknown."

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/october/uss-cyclops-deadli
est-unsolved-mystery-navy
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"Speculation swirled. Could the heavy ore have ruptured the hull, sinking the ship
instantly? Did the unfamiliar cargo leak fumes that poisoned the crew? U-boat
torpedoes could have sunk the ship, but where was the debris? Rough seas could have
swamped it, but there was no storm, and no distress call."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-bound-uss-cyclops-vanished-100-years-a
go-its-fate-remains-a-mystery/2018/03/15/f50a3682-279f-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.h
tml
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LINK [Page 50, Volume 15]:
https://books.google.com/books?id=D-PNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summ
ary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
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“There has been no more baffling mystery in the annals of the Navy than the
disappearance last March of the U.S.S. Cyclops,” Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels
wrote. “There has not been a trace of the vessel, and long-continued and vigilant
search of the entire region proved utterly futile.”

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-uss-cyclops-20180312-story
.html
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"In an eerie set of coincidences, both of the USS Cyclops’ sister ships, the USS
Nereus (AC-10) and the USS Proteus (AC-9), also disappeared with all hands lost in
the Atlantic. At the time of her disappearance, the USS Nereus was on the same route
as the doomed USS Cyclops."

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/10/28/her-loss-remains-unknown-the-m
ysterious-disappearance-of-the-uss-cyclops-ac-4/
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"In an eerie set of coincidences, both of the USS Cyclops’ sister ships, the USS
Nereus (AC-10) and the USS Proteus (AC-9), also disappeared with all hands lost in
the Atlantic. At the time of her disappearance, the USS Nereus was on the same route
as the doomed USS Cyclops."

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/10/28/her-loss-remains-unknown-the-m
ysterious-disappearance-of-the-uss-cyclops-ac-4/
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5 TBM Avengers left a Fort Lauderdale airbase and never returned, the rescue plane
that was sent to look for them was never found either. Not a trace of any of the
aircraft were found.
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https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/disasters-and-phenomena/flight-19.html
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Almost a year to the day after the disappearance of the Star Tiger, another Avro
Tudor IV belonging to BSAA vanished between Bermuda and Jamaica.

Exactly one hour after departure from Bermuda on 17 January 1949, the pilot of the
Star Ariel sent a routine communication of his position. But then the plane vanished
without trace at 18,000 feet.

According to experts, this would have required a sudden catastrophe.

Again, no wreckage, debris or bodies were ever found.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8248334.stm
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"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.

Exactly what happened to the ships and aircraft is not known. Most disappeared
without a trace. Few distress calls and little, if any, debris signaled their
disappearance."

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabet
ically/e/exorcizing-the-devils-triangle.html

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7:15
1952, George X. Sand in the conspiracy theory magazine, "Fate" Page 17

https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/BermudaTriangle/GeorgeXSand.pdf
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7:17
We got these high quality scans of Argosy Magazine from

Robert Deis
Editor of the Men’s Adventure Library book series, the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, and
MensPulpMags.com
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7:33
August 1964, when Vincent Gaddis coined the term Bermuda Triangle in a cover story
for Argosy magazine about the disappearance of Flight 19.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bermuda-triangle-mystery-disappear
ance

"This area is by no means isolated. The coasts of Florida and the

Carolinas are well populated, as well as the islands involved. Sea
distances are relatively short.Day and night, there is traffic over
the sea and air lanes. The waters are well patrolled by the Coast
Guard, the Navy and the Air Force. And yet this relatively limited
area is the scene of disappearances that total far beyond the laws
of chance."

https://www.physics.smu.edu/~pseudo/BermudaTriangle/vincentgaddis.txt

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7:38
Berlitz, Charles. The Bermuda Triangle . Doubleday, 1974.
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In this chapter he talks about how the atlanteans might have brought their own
downfall using some kind of crystal technology and that crystal technology might be
one of the reasons for signal interruption in the BT.

Berlitz, Charles. “Chapter 8 The Surprises of Prehistory.” The Bermuda Triangle /C

Charles Berlitz, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1974, pp. 181–230.
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But the book sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and was translated into 22
languages.

It also earned its author a reputation, in the words of the Washington Times, as "the
de facto expert on weird phenomena."

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Charles-Berlitz-Bermuda-Triangle-author-283239
5.php
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9:12

NYT article from 1975 Berlitz already had haters, a reference librarian named Kusche
wrote a book debunking some of the popular myth and tore apart Berlitz story on
Flight 19.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/16/archives/ah-sweet-mystery-the-last-word.html
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Another common explanation for the Bermuda Triangle rests on magnetism. The Earth’s
magnetic North Pole isn’t the same as its geographic North Pole, which means that
compasses usually don’t point exactly north. Only along what’s known as agonic lines,
which line up magnetic and geographic north, are compasses truly accurate.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-bermuda-triangle-what-science-can-t
ell-us-about-the-mysterious-ocean
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10:52
Article about how methane could be behind some of the strange happenings in the
Bermuda Triangle

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2016/mar/14/giant-gas-bubbles-myste
ry-bermuda-triangle

Extra source about how underwater methane stores can create craters

"The Arctic sea floor was once like a pressure cooker, with methane gas building,
building, building beneath an ice sheet for thousands of years. But when the ice
eventually melted, the lid suddenly burst off, unleashing enormous amounts of methane
and forming deep craters."

https://mashable.com/article/methane-blowouts-arctic-ocean
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Another popular theory is that the missing vessels were felled by so-called “rogue
waves,” which are massive waves that can reach heights of up to 100 feet (30.5
metres) and would theoretically be powerful enough to destroy all evidence of a ship
or airplane.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bermuda-Triangle#ref1259820
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13:01
We originally got the idea of how to map this question from this paper: Fleiss,
Alexander and Kuan, Jin, The Bermuda Triangle : Data Science Approach : Anomaly or
Sensationalism? (January 28, 2022). Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4020456 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4020456

We're using the ‘Marine Casualty and Pollution Data for Researchers’ dataset
provided by the United States Coast Guard (150,000+ records, spans 1982-2015). This
dataset reports only investigations pursued by the Coast Guard pertaining to
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US-related activities, which is a source of bias, but it remains suitable for our
usage as it covers the Bermuda region, as well as other oceanic regions around the
globe.

Exclusively including events categorized under "Involved in a Marine Casualty", We

mapped this casualty data using QGIS, and omitted some records with clear typos,
formatting errors, and missing data. Some anomalies may still exist.
We used open source Javascript programs (node.js, NPM's geojsplit) to convert this
data into an animatable vector. This process can slightly widen the margin of
geographical plotting error at the macro level, but serves its purpose for our
argument all the same.

Original data can be found here:

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Prevention-Policy-
CG-5P/Inspections-Compliance-CG-5PC-/Office-of-Investigations-Casualty-Analysis/Marin
e-Casualty-and-Pollution-Data-for-Researchers/

Our refined dataset can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ltkrhYTku7iOa_fcJFvJCQKWPjSoXTARmkMIkETZ7u0/e
dit?usp=sharing

Or you can view an interactive version of our dataset here:

https://felt.com/map/JH-Bermuda-Triangle-Casualty-Data-Eg49CTiGoToSGbpSrcgE3kB
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13:07
Source: AGCS’ Safety & Shipping Review 2021
https://www.agcs.allianz.com/news-and-insights/expert-risk-articles/shipping-safety-2
1-security-sanctions.html
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13:11
Here's another analysis of Marine accidents that we didn't show
The WWF Accidents at Sea Infographic
http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/accidents_at_sea_lr_1.pdf

https://techeconomy.ng/2021/08/allianz-shipping-losses-still-at-historic-lows-but-cov
id-supply-chain-other-challenges-loom-large/
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13:32
Analysis of large shipping vessels (100GT and over) provided by a Lloyd's List
analyst who sent the results to us over email.

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Same Lloyd's List analysis as above.
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