I’ve never been there. Bermuda.
Heck. I’ve never even owned a pair of Bermuda Shorts.
The closest I’ve come to the place was when I’ve visited the Cayman Islands for so many years. Even still, that’s about 1,560 miles as the crow flies. If crows lived there. But they don’t.
Anyway. I’ve always been interested in the Bermuda Triangle. It seems mysterious. And eerie. Things go away there.
You see, while no exact count of all disappearances has been published, several dozen incidents have been reported over the years involving ships, aircraft, and even people.
One of them includes this incident.
It happened at 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945. That is when five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 took off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida. They were on a routine three-hour training mission. Kind of like Gilligan on that three-hour tour.
Anyway. Things went like this. After having completed their objective, Flight 19 was supposed to take them due east for an additional 67 miles, then turn north for 73 miles, and back to the air station after that, totaling a distance of 120 miles.
But. They never returned. That was right in the midst of the Bermuda Triangle.
Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and backup compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions.
Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m.
Never to be heard from again. And that is one of the many the Bermuda Triangle Mysteries.
I like the mysterious. The things that cannot be explained. Why do so many vessels disappear in this place? Some kind of energy vortex? Or something of another world we cannot yet perceive? The enigma remains.
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“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” — Neil Armstrong
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” — Anaïs Nin
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein
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The mystery triangle. Oh. You know the place.
