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Posted on 08/10/2025 1:53:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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An Australian scientist says probabilities are the leading cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances. And he’s not the only one.
Add in suspect weather, and iffy plane and boat piloting, and Karl Kruszelnicki believes there’s no reason to believe in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.
While the conspiracy of the Bermuda Triangle has existed for decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and Lloyd’s of London has long championed the same ideas.
Pick any one of the more than 50 ships or 20 planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century. Each one has a story without an ending, leading to a litany of conspiracy theories about the disappearances in the area, marked roughly by Florida, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles.
Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki doesn’t subscribe to the Bermuda Triangle’s supernatural reputation. Neither does the United States’ own National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). Both have been saying for years that there’s really no Bermuda Triangle mystery. In fact, the loss and disappearance of ships and planes is a mere fact of probabilities.
“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.
And since 2017, Kruszelnicki has been saying the same thing. He told The Independent that the transparent volume of traffic—in a tricky area to navigate, no less—shows “the number [of ships and planes] that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis.” He says that both Lloyd’s of London...
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I knew this decades ago. About 45-50 years ago Charles Berlitz listed many of the ships lost in the triangle. I pinpointed each disappearance and most disappeared well OUTSIDE the triangle. One pleasure boat that disappeared, on it’s way to the Bahamas, next day’s newspaper showed a hurricane was hitting the area.
Berlitz’s last claim on that list was when “Thursday, January 10, 1980. A twin-engine private plane taxied onto the runway of the Shreveport, Louisiana, municipal airport. At the controls was Louis Benscotter, 47. Benscotter, a veteran pilot with 31 years of experience, was preparing to fly to Baton Rouge, a 40-minute hop across the state.”
https://anomalien.com/plane-crash-with-football-coach-bo-rein/
Berlitz wrote that the plane was being mysteriously pulled toward the Bermuda Triangle.
He also tried to claim there was a Philippine area Triangle doing the same, now an Alaskan Triangle.
Most of Berlitz’s claims were in the cheap Tabloids of the 1960s and 1970s. STAR, ENQUIRER, World Weekly News, the same ones that pushed UFOs, The Amnityville Horror and Jean Dixon nonsense. “JEAN DIXON SAYS NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN!” hit the news stands the week Nixon resigned. Ten years later her publicity department claimed she had predicted the resignation.
I saw a program 50 years ago on PBS NOVA. It debunked much of the Bermuda Triangle nonsense. It said the commander of that flight 19 had been drinking before the flight took off. a little later he saw the Bahamas and thought he was over the Keys and told the flight to turn to the East to get back over land which took them out to sea.
As for the search plane that disappeared, it was a refueling plane and reeked of gasoline. In the pressure of the search one of the crewmen probably lit a cigarette and Kaboom! as people on the ground saw a big flash of light in the sky at that time.
I would rather truse NOVA than anything Berlitz says.
“...Clever....”
Not mine. I’m just a parrot keeping the good old ones alive....
[For my own lame amusement]
And you read that?
You know how many people are compelled to answer a ringing telephone? I can listen all day just to spite that crazy tool. It's nothing but a tool.
I had a forty year career in telecommunications and learned quickly that there is no such thing as a great god electron. AI is the same.
Read "The Adolescence of P1" and "Colossus: The Forbin Project." There are lots more.
“....The Sargasso Sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. It is the only named sea without land boundaries. It is distinguished from other parts of the Atlantic Ocean by its characteristic brown Sargassum seaweed and often calm blue water. The sea is bounded on the west by the Gulf Stream, on the north by the North Atlantic Current, on the east by the Canary Current, and on the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current, the four together forming a clockwise-circulating system of ocean currents termed the North Atlantic Gyre....”
Fantabulous book!
It is also a trilogy.
Colossus: The Forbin Project
The Fall Of Colossus
Colossus and the Crab
Do they wonder why “scientist” is like a joke these days?
Statement debunks itself, yo.
Mephisto’s Trapezoid is far more compelling than the Bermuda Triangle.
It never occurred to me to ask Grok, what a cool readout! (I still have an old propeller from one of his planes, the prop is made of wood and simply beautiful.)
Thanks again.
Bermuda is the northernmost point of the triangle. Anything flying out of New York does not enter the triangle.
Front and back album cover from a very interesting LP album that I purchased years and years ago ...
NY?
Most of the article are talks of flights from NY to Bermuda. These are not in the triangle.
Are you “Groking” with a paid subscriber blue “X” (formerly known as Twitter ;-) account or an independent Grok account free or paid?
Did you post M Thatcher’s short Grandpa story as a question to Grok ?
I ask because its a lot more than I think I’d get with a paid ChatGPT account but haven’t tried ...
All you had to do was read “The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved” by Larry Kusche back in the 70s. He researched the cases that were put forth by the likes of Sanderson, Berlitz, Warner and others, and, found an easy explalation for all but one... the disappearence of the Hewett.
Most were in serious if not fatal weather conditions. Some just had stuff made up about what happened. Richard Warner even admitted to the TV show Nova that he made stuff up to make the stories “more interesting”.
As for Flight 19. Lt Taylor didn’t care for the compasses on the planes. He had missed his turn once before in the Pacific and almost lost his flight there. Even so, the Navy knew where the planes were. They had a fix on them off of New Smyrna and that’s why the Martin Mariner was sent up that way. He refused to have his flight change radio frequencies when the radio stations from Havana started bleeding over into the there plane to plane communications.
Kusche also wrote a biography of Lt Taylor. It’s rather sad.
They allowed Richard Warner to admit he lied in his book to make it “More Interesting”.
You can watch the Nova episode here:
https://archive.org/details/TheCaseOfTheBermudaTriangle
I was at the helm of a destroyer when we went through the triangle. It was around 2:00 AM, and I suddenly lost my compass. There was a light on the horizon that we weren’t picking up. We didn’t disappear, though.
I’m not a paid subscriber. Yes, I used his post and fed it into ChatGPT
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