You will not find it on any map, nor will you understand that you are moving in its waters.
Of course, this does not mean that the schematic "Devil's Triangle" does not exist.
Depending on who you ask, and it is very scary, despite the veil of mystery that usually surrounds its infamous passage Atlantic.
Of course, it could be called "Bermuda Triangle" in a 1964 American magazine, but it still has many years of significant activity.
Ask here the "Lost Squadron", these five US Navy bombers with the crew of 14 men who took part in an exercise in 1945 and mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth.
Or ask so many ships that were lost in the middle of the sea, leaving no trace behind.
Is there a logical explanation for all these events? And where does he stop? myth and the truth begins?
After all, there can be no middle ground here. Either what takes place in this hellish passage will be extremely metaphysical or they will be part of sober scientific analyzes that subvert the myths of decades.
So welcome to one of the most persistent mysteries of mankind…
If we draw a triangle with vertices that press on Bermuda, the Miami of Florida and the San Juan of Puerto Rico, we have on the map the famous Devil's Triangle. It is located on the southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic, covering a huge area of more than 500.000 square kilometers.
For about a century now, a remarkably large number of strange disappearances of planes, ships and people have been reported in this triangle, numbers that are not justified by the dangerous coral reefs of the area. Known to sailors and a great fear for navigation.
Only there is no consensus on the number of disappearances. Reports even speak of 100 lost aircraft and ships in the area, raising the tax on human lives to more than 1.000.
At the same time, officials and institutions continue to claim that nothing strange is happening in the Bermuda Triangle, stressing that these numbers do not deviate from normal.
In 1975, Fate magazine reportedly contacted London-based Lloyd's for statistics on accident insurance coverage in the Devil's Triangle area.
According to insurance records, 428 boats had disappeared from the face of the earth in the twentieth year 1955-1975, but noted in its memorandum that the frequency of disappearances was not statistically higher than in other busy parts of the world.
Of course, these do not convince everyone. Not even the monumental research of the US Coast Guard that insisted from the first moment that nothing is magically lost in the Triangle.
Researchers such as Gian Quasar, author of the now classic Into the Bermuda Triangle, claim that Lloyd's does not insure small boats, so it does not keep records from a young age. yacht and private jets. His own pen yielded 300 lost boats (planes and ships) in just 2 years!
As for the US Coast Guard, Quasar said that despite his 12-year pressure, he never revealed her documents and records…
The Bermuda Triangle was formed as a mystery from the much-praised story of 1945 with the lost flock of 5 fighters. And of course the press would not be late to poke its nose in, filling lists and lists with "strange disappearances" of ships and aircraft between its shores. Florida and Bermuda.
The magazine "Fate" had a great contribution here, describing in its pages with the necessary doses of exaggeration and brilliance a series of maritime mysteries that took place in the area, adding fuel to the fire of the newly established legend.
And as the disappearances in the area accumulated (or just gained more publicity), the Trigono's reputation skyrocketed. Every shipwreck of the past was now analyzed in the light of the mystery and the metaphysical.
And in 1964 came the official debut of the Bermuda Triangle, when Argosy Magazine anointed him as his godfather, with a monumental article by Vincent Gaddis today about "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle".
New articles, as well as books, research, films, and studies of all kinds, fueled the myth, embellishing it with imaginative theories that ranged from the abduction of aliens and giant octopuses to bizarre monsters and Atlantis.
Everything that has ever happened in the infamous Triangle has gained the status of a mystery in the last half century. Like the shocking example of the ship "Mary Celeste", found in 1872 floating unmanned.
Or a shipwreck that decided in 1881 to tow "Ellen Austin" to its port New York and was mysteriously lost in the Triangle.
You will find many of these, but none are better known than what happened at the Cyclops in 1918. We are still in World War I when the USS Cyclops returns from Brazil, where it supplied British ships and made a stop in Barbados in early March.
Since then, no one has heard from him again, taking with him a crew of 309 men. It was never located. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the big ship," said US President Woodrow Wilson.
The second biggest mystery is the flight of 19 of 1945 with the 5 aircraft of the American Navy. In short, on December 5 and on a routine patrol, 5 experienced pilots started sending a signal that they were lost, their compasses were not working and everything was going wrong.
It was the last time they gave signs of life and despite extensive American research, which they said combed 647.497 square kilometers of the Atlantic, nothing was ever found. Worse still, of the two Navy rescue planes that took off to search for the missing aircraft, one also disappeared!
Equally mysteriously disappeared was flight NC-16002 in December 1948, from Puerto Rico in Miami, with 29 passengers, but also the tanker "Sulfur Queen" in 1963, which left behind only one life buoy. Another military plane went missing overnight in 1965 and its wreckage was never found.
These are not the only mysterious disappearances, but they were the ones that signaled to some that something strange was happening in the Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle is one of the areas in the world where many views of extraterrestrial activity have been reported. So it is no secret that alien abductions have been proposed as a solution to the mysterious disappearances of ships.
At the same time, a second well-known conspiracy theory, which gathers many believers, tells us that the Devil's Triangle serves as a gateway to other planets.
Here the legend is combined with the other remarkable legend, that the Triangle hosts the lost Atlantis, the occult technology of which could be used for extraterrestrial communication.
There are even occult researchers who claim that when Columbus passed through the area traveling to New world, reported a large fire in the sky that fell into the sea. And a few days later he saw a strange light on the horizon.
Spooky monsters, unheard of magnetic phenomena and much more have been suggested from time to time as metaphysical interpretations of what seems strange to have taken place in the Triangle.
Scientists say a lot and correctly, although there is no single and comprehensive theory to solve the mystery. As one researcher put it, finding a common cause behind any disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle is like having a common cause for every accident that has occurred in an area.
And despite the frequent storms, the reefs and the Gulf Stream (of Mexico), known challenges for navigation, no scientific study has yielded a statistically significant existence of shipwrecks and crashes here.
"Examining many losses of aircraft and ships in the area over the years, nothing has been discovered that suggests that the losses were the result of anything other than natural causes. "Excellent factors have not been identified," concluded the long-term investigation of the US Coast Guard.
At the same time, the area itself is huge in area and high traffic, which makes us expect that some boats will be lost here. Historian John Reilly concluded in 2003. At the same time, scientists know that the weather there can be very dangerous.
Tropical storms and hurricanes pass through there all the time, with the Gulf Stream often bringing rapid weather changes. But so many islands in the Caribbean with their shallow waters create a problem for ships.
And at exactly the same time, in the Triangle one will find a number of the deepest parts of the sea, such as the Trench Puerto Rico (8.229 meters). Whatever reaches the bottom will never be found.
And of course we should never miss the ubiquitous human factor. To which several "mysterious" disappearances within the Triangle have indeed been attributed.
Every now and then you will see a new study claiming to have "solved the mystery" of the Bermuda Triangle. But if you look at them all together, it really seems to dispel any suspicion of mystery.
Science today is able to give us safe explanations for a mystery that looks like this only to anyone who really wants to see it as such. The Triangle itself remains a fantastic area, attracting it from all sides to accommodate a few more unsolved mysteries.