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
2
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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
3
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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
4
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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
5
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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
6
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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
9
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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