Bermuda Triangle - Anita

• The first person to document strange goings on in the area was actually Christopher Columbus, on his first trip through the area. He stated that he saw mysterious lights and had difficulty with the compass as it did funny things.

• The area of the Bermuda Triangle is said to be around 440,000 miles of sea. The Bermuda Triangle is larger than Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana combined.

• There have been approximately 1,000 lives taken in the last 100 years by the Bermuda Triangle. Not all of these in suspicious circumstances, but it just goes to show that it is tricky to navigate the area.

• There is also another mystery in a mystery as the exact location of the Bermuda Triangle is not actually known, making it even more of a talking point.  The said three points of the Bermuda Triangle are said to be Florida, Puerta Rico and of course Bermuda. As said before though, the exact co-ordinates are not known precisely.

• An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves. Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water; any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. It has been hypothesized that periodic methane eruptions (sometimes called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning.

• Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK5LryVZ4Go