The Cyclops was nearly feet long, with a crew of people and around 11, tons of manganese aboard. She had been sailing successfully since , traveling between the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean and Mexico and assisting with moving coal around the world and helping refugees. But in , when America entered World War I , Cyclops became a key naval asset, transporting troops and coal to fuel other ships all over the world.
In March , the ship was given a new cargo: She left Brazil loaded up with the brittle metal, then voyaged to Barbados to resupply for the long journey home to Baltimore. The last known message from the ship said simply: A map highlighting the Bermuda Triangle.
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Was the ship eaten by some beast of the deep , carried off as evidence by UFOs, or simply scuppered by a storm? At the time, people wondered whether the ship and crew had been the victim of a German submarine or raider. It was barely a year into the war, and the Cyclops would have made a strategic target. Yet nothing materialized, and as time went on, it has become less and less likely that German crafts had been in the area at all.
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One of them is the methane gas theory, which blamed gas trapped under the sea floor for the scores of plane and ship disappearances. This, the claim went, could erupt, lower the water density and cause ships to sink like a rock. Even planes flying over it could catch fire and get completely destroyed, researchers said. A third theory involves hexagonal cloud and air bombs. Meteorologists discovered strange hexagonal clouds capable of blasting winds to the ocean below at huge speeds.
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Those wind storms on the ocean were said to create waves as high as 14m, ravaging ships and planes caught in it. Australian scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki has also blamed large waves for the apparent disappearance of Flight 19 , which he believed crashed in the Bermuda Triangle due to human error.
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The region has claimed lives as recently as Last year, a plane carrying four people, including a mother and her two children, went missing in the infamous triangle. After years of investigations new report that reveals new information about what happened to MH This article originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission. There are magnetic anomalies in the world that have to do with the Earth's mantle moving beneath the crust, but the nearest one is about 1, miles [1, km] south, off the coast of Brazil — a long way away from the Bermuda Triangle, he said.
Another theory has to do with pockets of explosive methane gas that could, due to some disturbance, float up toward the water's surface and cause the water to be less dense than the ship, leading the ship to sink.
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However, no experiment to date has been able to prove that this is possible, Boxall said. Instead, he thinks the most common cause for the mysterious vanishings is human error. The famous disappearance of Flight 19 — five U. Navy aircraft that vanished during a training mission in — that led one journalist in to give the area its current name, probably occurred because the crew got lost and ran out of fuel, Boxall said.
About a third of all registered and privately owned ocean craft in the U. And according to the most recent figures from the Coast Guard, 82 percent of incidents in this area that year involved people who had no formal training or experience of being at sea, he added. You don't need any licensing or specific equipment like radios or navigation maps to take a boat to sea, he added.
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In addition, "environmental considerations could explain many, if not most, of the disappearances," NOAA wrote on its website. NOAA also says the area could be prone to accidents because of the Gulf Stream , a strong and fast ocean current that can cause "rapid, sometimes violent, changes in weather," and shallow waters around the Caribbean islands that can prove fatal for ships.
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But, you know, maybe it is aliens capturing unsuspecting humans using vortexes that lead straight into their laboratories that they've set up in the lost city of Atlantis. This article was updated on Aug. The original map showing the Bermuda Triangle was incorrect.