Benjamin Boster

However, according to the USGS, no large releases of gas hydrates are believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 15,000 years.

The sail training ship HMS Atlanta, originally named HMS Juno, disappeared with her entire crew after setting sail from the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, for Falmouth, England, on January 31, 1880.

it was presumed that she sank in a powerful storm which crossed her route a couple of weeks after she sailed and that her crew being composed primarily of inexperienced trainees may have been a contributing factor

The search for evidence of her fate attracted worldwide attention at the time.

Connection is also often made to the 1878 loss of the training ship HMS Eredice, which foundered after departing the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda for Portsmouth on the 6th of March.

and she was alleged decades later to have been a victim of the mysterious triangle, an allegation resoundingly refuted by the research of author David Francis Raine in 1997.

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the U.S.

Navy, not related to combat, occurred when the Collier Cyclops, carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 306 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados.

Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.

In addition, two of Cyclops' sister ships, Proteus and Nereus, were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic during World War II.

Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore, similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage.

In all three cases, structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking.

Carol A. Deering, a five-masted schooner built in 1919, was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on January 31, 1921.

FBI investigation into the Deering scrutinized and ruled out multiple theories as to why and how the ship was abandoned, including piracy, domestic communist sabotage, and the involvement of rum runners.

Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over at the Atlantic.

The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise.

The flight never returned to base.

The disappearance was attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.

One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared.

A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors.