Bermuda Triangle: the expose of the century or the end of a beautiful fairy tale (4 photos)

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Today, 04:10

"Was there a boy?" - this is how you can now ask about the legendary Bermuda Triangle.

Over the past hundred years, more than fifty ships and two dozen planes have disappeared in the waters between Florida, Bermuda and the Greater Antilles. The stories have become overgrown with a thick layer of theories: from aliens visiting for a lunch snack to the death of Atlantis and sea monsters who are simply bored.

And so a scientist named Krushelnitsky came out to the public and said a simple, but deadly thing for all mystery hunters: "There is no mysticism. The percentage of accidents and disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as in any other busy water area." That is, your favorite aliens are sitting around without work in vain.

Facts, unfortunately, are stubborn things. If you take statistics for the Atlantic, then ships sink there regularly: either storms, or human error, or equipment decided to "rest". In the Pacific Ocean, it's the same.

Someone once counted how many disasters happened in the area between Miami and San Juan, turned it into a scary legend, and for decades now people have believed that the ocean square lives by the laws of horror.

Director of RNT after reading this news (joke)

In reality, everything is much more banal. Navigation errors? Yes, please. Unpredictable storms? Of course. Methane emissions from the bottom, due to which ships lose buoyancy? It happens. But this is science, not a paranormal story with UFOs.

As a result, the myth is beautiful, the legend is loud, books and films are sold, tour operators make excursions with the view of "touch the anomaly." But in reality, this is just an ordinary piece of ocean, where, as everywhere, a strict rule applies: relax and that's it, you drown.

So the solution to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle sounds offensively simple: "This is not an anomalous zone, but an ordinary sea crossroads with bad weather and a bunch of mistakes." We counted - wept.