The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier Cyclops, carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 306 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss. [51] [52] In addition, two of Cyclops 's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus, were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic during World War II. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage. [53] In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking. On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft, or the 32 people on board, was ever found. A Civil Aeronautics Board investigation found there was insufficient information available on which to determine probable cause of the disappearance. [59] Connemara IV

The deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, the Milwaukee Depth, is located in the Bermuda Triangle. The Puerto Rico Trench reaches a depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 meters) at the Milwaukee Depth. Kaye, Ken (April 2, 2015), "Were two dead pilots part of Lost Patrol?", Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL, archived from the original on April 5, 2015 , retrieved April 6, 2015 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn (2003). "Bermuda Triangle: dichotomy, mythology, and amnesia". Journal of Teacher Education. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. 54 (4): 275. doi: 10.1177/0022487103256793. S2CID 145707847. Charles Berlitz popularized the legend of the Bermuda Triangle in his best-selling book The Bermuda Triangle (1974). In the book, Berlitz claimed that the fabled lost island of Atlantis was involved in the disappearances. Radio conversations between the pilots were overheard by base and other aircraft in the area. The practice bombing operation is known to have been carried out because, at about 15:00, a pilot requested and was given permission to drop his last bomb. [2] Forty minutes later, another flight instructor, Lieutenant Robert F. Cox in FT-74, who was forming up with his group of students for the same mission, received an unidentified transmission. [3]

The Gulf Stream—a strong ocean current known to cause sharp changes in local weather—passes through the Bermuda Triangle. Leadbeater, Chris (2020-12-16). "The strange tale of Flight 19 - the mystery that sparked the Bermuda Triangle myth". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26 . Retrieved 2023-09-26. The Loss of Flight 19". history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 2009-04-13 . Retrieved 2006-09-20. Gruy, H. J. (March 1998). "Office of Scientific & Technical Information, OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE". Petroleum Engineer International. OTSI. 71 (3). OSTI 616279. U.S. Navy Historical C/ The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets, Sci Fi Channel documentary (November 2005)

As noted in the report, Taylor refused to change the radio training frequency to the search and rescue radio frequency. (The training frequency was difficult to use because of interference from Cuban radio stations and also a radio carrier wave.)

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Singer, Barry (1979). The Humanist. XXXIX (3): 44–45. {{ cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= ( help) The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat's disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may not have been.

National Geomagnetism Program | Charts | North America | Declination" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27 . Retrieved 2010-02-28. The aircraft was TBM Avenger 45798, lost January 1945 off Florida coast from USS Solomons. NAS Ft Lauderdale Museum and J. Baugher aircraft listing a b "Online Video Extract from 'The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves' ". YouTube. 2004. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016 . Retrieved September 10, 2014. a b Higginbotham, Adam (March 2012). "Graham Hawkes and the Race to the Bottom of the Sea". Men's Journal. p.3. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014 . Retrieved September 10, 2014. Hawkes has since changed his story. Now he says both he (because his investors didn't want to waste valuable time on an investigation) and the Pentagon (because they had more important things to worry about) had an interest in making the story go away. He admits that while he didn't find conclusive evidence that the planes were the same group that went missing in 1945, he consulted a statistician to establish the probability that they were not. "He said, 'You've got Flight 19,' " Hawkes says.Radford, Benjamin (22 February 2016). "Lessons From A Middle School Bermuda Triangle Q&A". Center for Inquiry. Archived from the original on 21 November 2019 . Retrieved 21 November 2019. Did you know? After gaining widespread fame as the first person to sail solo around the globe, Joshua Slocum disappeared on a 1909 voyage from Martha’s Vineyard to South America. Though it’s unclear exactly what happened, many sources later attributed his death to the Bermuda Triangle. But if 1,000 aircraft fly through the Bermuda Triangle and we can explain what happened to 990 of them, should we say the other 10 were supernatural cases? No. And once something stands out to us, it can form the basis for further attention. It’s a form of what’s called a frequency illusion , sometimes referred to as the Baader-Meinhof effect. Essentially, once we’re introduced to something once, we tend to notice it more often all around us. That can lead us to think whatever we’ve noticed is becoming rapidly more common, when, in reality, we’re just noticing it more. One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. [34] Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958. [35] Violent weather

Has the 'Mystery' of the Bermuda Triangle Finally Been Solved?". The Quint. October 24, 2016 . Retrieved October 24, 2016. Taylor also had a history of getting lost while flying. He had twice needed to be rescued in the Pacific Ocean. The navy itself had a good idea of what had happened ahead of the disappearance. An unidentified crew member asked Powers, one of the students, for his compass reading. Powers replied: "I don't know where we are. We must have got lost after that last turn." Cox then transmitted; "This is FT-74, plane or boat calling 'Powers' please identify yourself so someone can help you." The response after a few moments was a request from the others in the flight for suggestions. FT-74 tried again and a man identified as FT-28 (Taylor) came on. "FT-28, this is FT-74, what is your trouble?" "Both of my compasses are out", Taylor replied, "and I am trying to find Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I am over land but it's broken. I am sure I'm in the Keys but I don't know how far down and I don't know how to get to Fort Lauderdale." [2] The incidents cited above, apart from the official documentation, come from the following works. Some incidents mentioned as having taken place within the Triangle are found only in these sources: If we don’t accept his paranormal theories, he hopes we can accept other phenomena cited around the Bermuda Triangle. He reports bizarre lighting around the Bahamas, large sea monsters, glowing patches of ocean, and deep, hollow abysses. Eyewitness accounts support his descriptions, as those who have survived their brush with odd phenomena in the area recall feeling there is something off and unnatural about it. They also report feeling trapped in a whirlpool or having no recollection of the events.Kusche, Lawrence David (1975). The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0879759712. Since then, scores of fellow paranormal writers have blamed the triangle’s supposed lethalness on everything from aliens, Atlantis and sea monsters to time warps and reverse gravity fields, whereas more scientifically minded theorists have pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor. A piece of debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was displayed during a remembrance ceremony in Kuala Lampur in March last year, to mark the fifth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. Fazry Ismail/EPA Moving on from old tales