MYSTERIOUS PLACES ON EARTH
CAN YOU SOLVE IT?
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
- Located at western part of the North Atlantic Ocean.
- Lies in and around three nodal points - the island of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- It is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes and flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands.
- History
In 1492, Christopher Columbus is the first to have sailed through the Bermuda Triangle and reported unusual events :
- a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later.
- erratic compass readings, perhaps because at that time a sliver of the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined.
- The name "Bermuda Triangle" is generally attributed to the writer Vincent H. Gaddis who first used it in a 1964 article he wrote.
Missing Ships and Planes
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2. Mystery of Mary Celeste 1872
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"We can't find west. Everything is wrong. We can't be sure of any direction. Everything looks strange, even the ocean."
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THE DRAGON‘S TRIANGLE
- The Japanese call it the Ma-no Umi: the Sea of the Devil.
- The actual area encompasses a triangular line from western Japan north of Tokyo, to Guam to Taiwan. Off the coast of Japan, almost exactly opposite the Bermuda Triangle.
- Often compared to the Bermuda Triangle, the Dragon's Triangle is an area where sea-going vessels and aircraft allegedly mysteriously disappear.
- History :
- 1000 B.C.E.
- Japanese legends tell of unknown forces that overpowered the strongest of ships, and great sea monsters that dragged sailors to their death.
- Ancient Chinese records tell of ships have been recorded to be missing in the triangle for more than 3000 years, with vivid records been traced back to the Song and Yuen dynasty of ancient China. These stories say that even on a windless day the sea in the triangle were simply too rough to travel safely.
- A long list of natural phenomenon has been reported such as hugh unexpected sea waves, minicanes, sea quakes, giant whirlpools and sankaku-namis. Sankaku-namis are also known as the triangle waves, waves that come to you from three different directions.
VANISHING SHIPS AND PLANES
Vanished Ship, Kaiyo Maru No 5
- Author Charles Berlitz in his book "The Dragon's Triangle" (1989), reports that in the years from 1952 to 1954, five Japanese military vessels were lost in the triangle with personnel totaling over 700 people.
- Alerted Japanese Navel send a research vessel, Kaiyo Maru No 5, with 22 crews and 9 scientists aboard to investigate the strange disappearances.
- Despite enjoying good visibility and calm seas, the Kaiyo Maru No 5 disappeared without trace on 24th September 1952. The lives of all aboard were declared lost.
- Ever since, the area has been designated a "Danger Zone" by the Japanese government and even the United States Air Force has expressed concern over aircraft disappearances there.
- In most cases, no wreckage, oil slicks, or flotsam was ever found to indicate a sinking.
- Among the missing ships are tankers weighing over 200,000 tons, Japanese and American warships, airplanes (including one that was transporting an early atomic bomb), and Soviet nuclear missile submarines. Some of these vessels became ghost ships that turned up, empty of crew, in distant seas.
"Something is happening in the sky . . . the sky is opening up"
- Simultaneous mass disappearance of five Japanese warships at the beginning of 1942 while on maneuvers close to the shores of Japan.
- Sinking of the aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku along with 340 planes in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
- The loss of the carrier Zuikako with four battleships, three other aircraft carriers, ten heavy cruisers, and nine destroyers in the Japanese escape from Leyte Gulf.
- The loss of five ships and 4,000 kamikaze planes at Okinawa - One of the vessels was the huge battleship Yamato, sent into battle with insufficient fuel for a return voyage.
Explore the mystery deeper :
Similarities between both Triangles
- Both the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon’s Triangle is included as the world’s 12 existing vile vortices.
- The existence of the Vile Vortices was first advanced by naturalist and author Ivan T. Sanderson.
- Sanderson thought conflicting air and sea currents in the regions covered by the vortices contributed to the anomalous phenomena he observed there.
- These phenomena included strange sky and sea conditions, mechanical and instrument malfunctions, and mysterious disappearances.
- Geographically, the two triangles are located at 35 degree west and 35 degree east latitude and longitude, which means that if you were to start out in the Bermuda triangle and were to travel straight through the centre of the earth, you would come out at Ma-no Umi.
- Both triangles are located on the eastern edges of continental shelves, where the ocean floor drops off into deep trenches where strong currents sweep over actively volcanic areas.
- Both spots also mark nodal points where major surface and tidal currents turn, usually in opposite directions.
- Certainly, as Ivan Sanderson has pointed out, there are some interesting time effects to be found in these areas: cases of carefully clocked airline flights arriving early, sometimes so far ahead of their estimated time of arrival.
POSSIBLE ANSWERS?
2. Environmental
3. Supernatural
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BLOOD FALLS
- This blood-red waterfall seeping through Taylor Glacier, which flows into Lake Bonney in East Antarctica.
- Discovered in 1911 by an Australian explorer and geologist Griffith Taylor.
- About 5 million years ago, the ocean flooded East Antarctica, creating a salty inland lake. Around 3 million years later, glaciers formed over the saline lake, trapping a basin of pristine saltwater that has been isolated for nearly 2 million years.
- Frozen water on the subglacial lake made the liquid below become saltier. Now, the water is about three times saltier than the ocean.
- Because of is salty properties, the water does not freeze, even in the temperature of 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
- Blood Falls gushes out of Taylor Glacier, and empties into Lake Bonney, a permanently ice-covered lake. Blood Falls’ outflow helps make Lake Bonney saline, although not nearly as salty as Blood Falls’ source lake.
- Chemical reaction between iron and oxygen results in the formation of reddish particles. The reaction is enhanced by the presence of salt, allowing the salty water at Blood Falls to appear bright red as it trickles down the glacier.
- Iron is believed to originate from the activity of rare microbes called extremophiles, and entered Blood Falls’ subglacial lake through the scraping motion of Taylor Glacier.
- Extremophiles are capable of surviving in harsh environment, including freezing and boiling temperatures.
- One unique feature of extremophiles is that they do not use photosynthesis, which means they do not require sunlight and oxygen, like most autotrophs. Instead, the extremophiles use a rare process called chemosynthesis. Chemosynthesis produces energy through sulfur and iron compounds conversion.
- As Blood Falls’ chemosynthetic bacteria extract iron from the rocks they come in contact with, they gradually erode the bedrock around the lake.
- Several tests was conducted by geomicrobiologist Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth College, by collecting water samples from Blood Falls over a period of 6 years. The results revealed that its waters contained almost no oxygen and hosted a community of at least 17 different types of microorganisms.
- Blood Falls provides one model for how life can exist under ice in very harsh environments—no oxygen, no light, sub-zero temperatures.
References
- Bhattacharya, R. (n.d.). Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Facts and Myths. Retrieved Apr 22, 2014, from http://www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda2_00004e.htm
- Caryl-Sue. (n.d.). Blood Falls. Retrieved Apr 23, 2014, from http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/blood-falls/?ar_a=1
- Goolrick, A. (n.d.). Blood Falls: Antarctica's Stunning Secret . Retrieved Apr 23, 2014, from http://www.weather.com/news/stunning-secret-blood-falls-20130826
- harman03. (2010, Oct 10). List of all known Bermuda Triangle accidents. Retrieved Apr 22, 2014, from http://www.unp.me/f8/list-of-all-known-bermuda-triangle-accidents-108289/
- Quasar, G. J. (n.d.). The Disappearance of Flight 19. Retrieved Apr 22, 2014, from http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/flight_19.html
- What is the Bermuda Triangle? (n.d.). Retrieved Apr 23, 2014, from http://coolinterestingstuff.com/what-is-the-bermuda-triangle
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