Popular Mechanics has recently reported that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is solved. Everybody can breathe a sigh of relief.Like quicksand, the Bermuda Triangle was one thing I thought I'd have to worry about often as a child, but it turns out, according to one scientist, conspiracies about the legendary patch of ocean between Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda have been overblown.Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki apparently has been saying for years that it's all a bunch of hooey. Way back in 2017, he told news.com.au, "According to Lloyds of London and the U.S. Coast Guard, the number of planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis."Any accidents or disappearances are a combination of bad weather, human error, and misfortune, compounded by the triangle's proximity to the U.S. and our busy shipping lanes. With hundreds of disappearances over decades, theories have ranged from aliens to weird vortexes to the lost city of Atlantis.“They vanish without a trace, then another plane sent out to look with them vanishes ... [so some people claimed] it must have been aliens,” Kruszelnicki said.Our own National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) agrees.“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,” NOAA wrote in 2010.So with the mystery apparently solved, let's look back at some of the more fantastical portrayals of the Bermuda Triangle in film and...
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