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A story has gone viral this morning claiming that experts have finally 'solved' the Bermuda Triangle mystery, with the discovery of strange, hexagonal-shaped clouds covering the region.
According to a new Science Channel documentary on the issue, these hexagonal clouds are creating winds of 106 kilometres per hour (65 mph) that act as "air bombs" to sink ships and bring down planes.
But there's one problem - the Bermuda Triangle actually doesn't exist, and there is no 'mystery' to solve. There are actually no extra unexplained plane crashes and shipwrecks in the area, despite what you might have heard.
The name Bermuda Triangle refers to a region of ocean bordered by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, and it was first coined back in the 1950s by a journalist named Edward Van Winkle Jones, who wrote a story for the Associated Press about a large number of ships and planes that had disappeared in the region.
https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-claim-they-might-have-have-solved-the-bermuda-triangle-mystery
https://web.archive.org/web/20161022110103/http://www.sciencealert.com/experts-claim-they-might-have-have-solved-the-bermuda-triangle-mystery
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 24 2016, @11:05AM
The Bermuda Triangle is, and has been for a few hundred years, one of the busiest marine "crossroads" in the world. Not THE busiest, but one of the busiest. Traffic flows through the triangle like few other places.
Just like a crossroads on land, you can expect more accidents than on some lonely stretch where few ships travel.
I spent some time in the Triangle. Our magnetic compass acted weird a couple times. No big deal, even forty years ago, because we didn't rely on the magnetic compass. The sky piled high with cotton candy puffs of cloud a few times, maybe those were these researcher's "hex clouds". Every cloud a different color at sundown. Again, no big deal - they didn't affect visibility or anything. And, no wind - the Sargasso Sea remained as smooth as glass, reflecting the clouds overhead.
Much ado about nothing.