Ship GPS, Transponders, Sonar, weather information from a data feed, and the large scale deployment of sea monitoring bouys allowing us to observe and measure storms and rogue waves.
There wasn't a higher proportion of lost ships and planes even before advances in technology. It was a busy area, so a large number of ships and planes were lost, like how an equal murder rate has more murders per square kilometer in a city compared to rural areas.
The whole thing was drummed up in the 60s and 70s when supernatural stuff was having a heyday in popular media.
But this particular triangle of the North Atlantic Ocean was put on the hoodoo map by a story that appeared in Argosy magazine in 1964, "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle."The American author of the piece, Vincent Gaddis, posits the "Bermuda Triangle" as an enigmatic slice of the world that destroys ships and planes without a trace.
But as shipping insurer Lloyds of London notes, the number of incidents is so unexceptional that premiums for voyages within the Triangle are the same as anywhere else in the world. However, such myth-busting facts struggle to rise above the waves of sensationalism.
A more rational explanation comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — the same U.S. agency that recorded the sound of the Titan submersible as it imploded during its ill-fated dive on the Titanic wreck. NOAA says, "There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean."
Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/1926095/do-ships-still-disappear-in-the-bermuda-triangle/
Do you expect me to trust statistics over Leonard Nimoy?
I heard he disappeared there and was never seen again.
So it was not methane leaks that let the engines/motors explode?
I've heard the triangle is a lot like a country-sized whirlpool that churns up rogue waves due to cross-path currents and seasonal shifts in said currents.
Nah, it's not any more dangerous than any other part of the ocean.
So it's more frequency of traversal compared to relative distance from shore I suppose?
Yeah, it's just a super busy shipping lane. Kinda like how there's more murders in higher population density areas.
Yah, it's way more dangerous than any other part of the ocean.
Except it isn't. Even insurers don't charge more for excursions to it.
It is. Insurers specifically charge extra for excursions to it.
But as shipping insurer Lloyds of London notes, the number of incidents is so unexceptional that premiums for voyages within the Triangle are the same as anywhere else in the world. However, such myth-busting facts struggle to rise above the waves of sensationalism.
Same shit that happened to Big Foot and UFOs .. technology..
Quicksand...
Ok but I'm still afraid of quick sand.
And spontaneous human combustion
That was when they replaced all the birds with bird-shaped drones. People think it was for surveillance, but it was actually to contain the Bermuda Triangle threat.
I mean we still dont know how Eels reproduce but it has something to do with the Sargasso Sea / Bermuda triangle being their breeding ground.
They exist all over the world, but have never been seen to breed. They all go to that one location. Something happens. Then more come out
They did, but only just recently: https://www.intelligentliving.co/scientists-finally-figured-out-how-eels-reproduce/
I feel like I didn't learn the secret from the article, only that we're tracking them better
That was actually very interesting. Thanks for the share!
Well, for starters, almost nobody's going on a plane or cruiser trip anymore.
edit: oh wait it says 2000s not 2020s
it inverted
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