Bermuda Triangle

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle goes back almost 500 years. As far as we know, Christopher Columbus, on his famous voyage in 1492, was the first to wonder about the strangeness of the Bermuda Triangle.

Part of the Sargasso Sea lies within the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle. The Sargasso Sea is art of the Atlantic Ocean, with less win, rain, and cloud than the rest of the ocean. Huge masses of seaweed cover the ocean floor in this area. Sailors passing over describe it as a gigantic jungle beneath the ocean. The add to the strangeness of this area, the Sargasso Sea is often so calm it is more like a lake tan an ocean. Sometimes there is only a hint of breeze. The water is very still. Many old sailors’ tales tell of giant seaweed tangling around passing ships. The sailors, unable to breathe for a lack of air, choked to death. It is no wonder then, that the crew of the Santa Maria was terrified as it sailed, day after day, thorough this eerie stretch of the sea. Columbus’s crew grew so nervous they wanted to turn back. But Columbus sailed on. Then something strange happened. It was the evening of September 13, 1942, a month before the discovery of America. The compass on the Santa Maria no longer pointed directly toward the North Star. Instead, the compass needle pointed about six degrees northwest. The crew became upset. Sailors knew that they could count on the rising of and setting of the stun, on the fixed positions of the starts and on their compasses always pointing north. Their lives depended on such facts. The laws of nature seemed to have gone wild when they entered this area of the ocean.