2: Crazy weather patterns This theory about crazy weather isnt actually so crazy at all. The tropical skies over the Bermuda Triangle are prone to intense, severe storms as warm and cold air masses collide over the ocean. Seriously, it IS kind of smack in the middle of hurricane alley. Add to that the swift-moving Gulf Stream that cuts right through the Triangle, and youve got some very difficult territory for both ships and planes. To add another level of mystery to the legend, just take the underwater terrain: Its rugged and deep, and is home to the Puerto Rico trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. Good luck finding anything that does wreck in that region. Between the depth and the currents, wreckage is long gone …or as some might say, its just disappeared. Image Credit: Jeff Spielman/Getty Images 3: Magnetic fields askew Weve all heard myths about compasses in the Bermuda Triangle spinning wildly out of control. Legend has held that the Bermuda Triangle is one of only two places on the planet where a compass points true north, as opposed to the magnetic north. Now, navigators know that a compass must be calibrated to compensate for the deviation depending on the location on the globe. While the Bermuda Triangle was once, during the 19th century, a place where a compass pointed true north with no variation, the Earths magnetic field is constantly changing, and along with it, compass variations. These days, the Bermuda Triangle does not sit in any kind of strange magnetic area, and pilots and sailors know well to adjust their compasses to compensate for the variation, called declination, between magnetic north and true north. There are plenty of charts to help them out with that.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:56:39 +0000
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