6) The Bremuda Triangle Flashcards

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What and where is the Bermuda Triangle (2)

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  • The triangle is also known as tge Devil’s Triangle

- It is situated in the region to the West of North Atlantic Ocean

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Why is the Bermuda Triangle a mystery (2)

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  • Numbers of aircrafts have disappeared in tge area without a trace
  • People speculate other forces made the aircrafts and ships vanish
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When was the earliest disappearance (3)

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  • September 17 1956
  • It was from an article published in Miami Herald
  • 2 years later, Fate published a shirt article covering the disappearance of many ships and aircrafts
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What was included in Fate’s article (3)

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  • Included flight 19
    • a group of 5 US Navy toroedi bombers on a training mission
  • they had the first lay out of the area where lisses took place
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What is the USS Cyclops (3)

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  • A ship carring a full load of maganese
  • It went missing in 1918
  • They had a crew of 309
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What is the theories behind the USS Cyclops (3)

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  • One was blamming storms
  • One blamed capsizing
  • One blamed their wartime enemy activly
  • One blamed the Bermuda Triangle
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What other ship was lost similar to tge USS Cyclops (3)

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  • Proteus + Nereus were also lost in the Bermuda Triangle during WorldWar2
  • Both we’re transporting ore ( heavy loads of metallic)
  • Similar to the ore of the USS Cyclops
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What was the USS Cyclops most likely reason for disappearaning (1)

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The load was too heavy for that design of cargo and sunk

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What is flight 19 (6)

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  • Flight 19 was a training flight of 5 torpedo bombers
  • they disappeared over the Atlantic in 1945
  • they were scheduled to take the planes from the fort to Lauderdale and back.
  • The flight didn’t return p
  • The Navy investigators say it’s because of a navigational error
  • leading to the aircraft running out of fule
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Discuss the search and rescue craft that also disappeared looking for Flight 19 (1)

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  • 1 search + rescue craft was lost
  • A ship on Florida cost reported seeing an explosion
  • and observing a widespread oil slick when searching for survivors
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