The Bermuda Triangle There is a place in the Atlantic Ocean where ships and airplanes seem to disappear more often than anywhere else on Earth. It seems to form. a triangle between Miami, Bermuda, and the ocean east of Puerto Rico. This place is called the Bermuda Triangle. Over 100 planes and ships have been lost there since 1945. Over 1,000, people have disappeared. It is almost as ff the lost planes had gone into a hole in the sky, as if the slips had been suddenly sucked clown into a huge whirlpool. The strangest thing is that nothing is ever found: no bodies in the water or washed up on the beach. The biggest single loss of planes happened in December of 1945. Five Navy planes from Florida were flying together. There were 14 men in them. They radioed back to their Base that their flying instruments were not working, they did not know where they were. The base radioed back to them to follow the sun vest. They answered that they could not see the sun, even though the weather was good. They also said that the ocean didn't look as it should. Finally they said they could not hear the base. But the base tower could still hear them talking about strange 'white water'. The last thing the tower heard was: 'Don't come after us. It looks like...' Then there was silence. In the meantime, 13 men in another plane had been sent to help them. But they sent just one message. It said that they were coming to the place where the planes were lost. Then it also disappeared and was never heard from again. After checking and searching for many months, a Navy officer said, 'It's almost as if they had gone to Mars.' Sometimes a plane or ship will disappear fight after sending a message saying that everything is OK. During Christmas of 1963 a DC-3 passenger plane was coming into Miami for a landing. The pilot asked for landing directions. Then he said, 'Would you believe it? The passengers are still singing Christmas carols!' Then suddenly the plane's radio went off the air. Neither the plane nor any of the passengers in it were ever heard from again. It is known that pilots of planes often have trouble with their instruments in the Bermuda Triangle. Many people have studied the Triangle to find out what could be causing such things to happed there. In 1965 a Navy plane was sent to study the magnetic field in the Bermuda Triangle. Soon after flying into the area, the plane disappeared. The 10 men in it were gone, too. Instrument trouble alone can't be the whole answer. Most of the ships and planes have vanished close to land, in good weather, and often in daytime. Whatever happens seems to happen very quickly. A small boat once disappeared right off Miami harbor. Its owner, Dan Burack, had stopped at Buoy No. 9 to admire the Christmas lights on shore. He suddenly sent a call for help to the Coast Guard. He didn't say what was wrong. A Coast Guard boat hurried to Buoy No. 9. On its radio, the men heard Burack say,' I've never seen one like that before.' Nobody knows what he meant. By the time the Coast Guard boat got there, Burack's boat and its passengers had disappeared. Many large ships have vanished, too. One weighed 20,000 tons. Another had more than 300 people on board. The radio on one large ship from Japan sent a very strange last message. It said, 'Danger like dagger now. Come quickly! We cannot escape.' After this message, the ship vanished from the sea. Something in the Bermuda Triangle causes flight instruments to go out of order. This might explain how planes get lost and crash. But it would not explain why planes would vanish suddenly in good weather and sometimes when they are coming in for a landing. Some of the ships could have been turned over or destroyed by accidents. Or a small boat could be run into and sunk by a larger one. This is not likely, though. And in any case, something would have b