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Tagline: Devil's Triangle is real ... or what?

by Paul Quek, from Singapore
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[Master of Applied Science, Computing Science]
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1.0   Preamble

T his web page is about that famous and strange place that has been variously called the Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Triangle. Let's see if there really is a Mystery here ...


2.0   YouTube Videos & Brief Notes

F irst and foremost, let us see if this Mystery is of any importance to anyone ...

Well ... consider this: does the loss of 13 young American pilots and crewmen as well as the 5 Navy Avenger bombers of any importance to anyone?

Here are two YouTube video clips about Flight 19 ... one is a segment of a FirstScience.tv documentary, the other is the beginning sequence from the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind ...


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- Loss of Flight 19 in Bermuda Triangle


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Here is the story as described in the Discovery Channel:

Probably the most attention-getting Bermuda Triangle disappearance occurred on Dec. 5, 1945, when five Navy Avenger bombers and 13 crewmen took off from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and disappeared. Their destination was a nearby reef, where they were to conduct a simulated bombing run. According to U.S. Naval Historical Center records, there was light rainfall, with a cloud level of 2,500 feet, visibility of between six and 12 miles, and wind gusts of 31 knots — not ideal weather, but later judged by investigators to be safe enough for a training exercise.

Nevertheless, at around 4 p.m., according to a transmission intercepted by the Fort Lauderdale base, the instructor leading the flight radioed one of his pilots and said that he had lost track of the Florida coast. Other planes reported that their compasses were malfunctioning, and that they were similarly disoriented. The flight tried to ask Fort Lauderdale for help, but interference — possibly caused by the weather and radio signals from Havana — made it difficult for them to get through. Somewhere east of land, they lost radio contact and were never heard from again.

At 7:30 that evening, a search and rescue plane took off in an attempt to locate survivors. It also promptly vanished, along with its 13-man crew. That evening, two Navy ships spotted a brief flash of flames and oil slicks out at sea, but despite several days of searching, no trace of the lost planes was found.

Historian Michael McDonnell, who reexamined records of the incident in a 1973 article for Naval Aviation News, hypothesized that the flight instructor, who had recently been assigned to Fort Lauderdale and was unfamiliar with the coast, may have inadvertently led his students astray. McDonnell suspected that the instructor and his students struggled to find their way back until they were nearly out of fuel, and then were forced to bail out into the stormy waters, where survival was nearly impossible.

But while wreckage of other aircraft lost in the Bermuda Triangle has been recovered, Flight 19's final resting place remains a mystery.

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3.0   Postscript

T his is a preliminary exploration of the area called the Bermuda (or Devil's) Triangle ...


'Nuff said!



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    As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading, viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.

    Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies, competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in ... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World .

  3. Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
    As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize, here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."

    Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules as the center of the universe.

    So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations beyond.

    [...]

       — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
            Sub-title: Merging East and West
            (1994, 1996)

  4. Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
    It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course]. Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of accumulated knowledge.

    The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which, in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.

    This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".

    [...]

       — Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
            (2005)

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