Ships, planes, and helicopters have all been drawn into the Bermuda Triangle at some point and some of them have never returned. It has been discovered that various ships and aircrafts had been lost, apparently without explanation in the triangular area off the south-east of the United States bounded by Bermuda, Peurto Rico, and Florida. The first documentation that anything was amiss in the Bermuda Triangle came from Christopher Columbus in1492, who reported compass malfunctions and a bolt of fire that fell into the sea. Since that time there have been hundreds of disappearances in the area.
The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred in 1918 when USS Cyclops went missing without a trace with a crew of 306, after departing the island of Barbados.
On December 5th, 1945, five Avenger torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training flight over the Atlantic. They never returned and no trace has ever been found. Adding to the mystery, a search and rescue Mariner aircraft with a thirteen-man crew was dispatched to aid the missing squadron, but the Mariner itself was never heard from again.
Hurricanes and thuderstorms are common in the Bermuda Triangle area. Jim Lushine, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida studies the weather in the Bermuda Triangle and reports that there are more hurricanes in that particular area than in any other in the Atlantic basin. In 1986, a historic ship called the Pride of Baltimore vanished from radar screens while it was in the Bermuda Triangle. Approximately four and a half days later, the wreckage and eight survivors were found and they revealed that the ship has been hit by a microbust: 80 mile per hour winds emanating from a freak thunderstorm. Apparently, it happened so quickly that the crew did not have time to make a distress call.
