Benjamin Boster

Radford further noted the importance of double-checking information, as the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle had been created by people who had neglected to do so.

NOAA attributes most Bermuda Triangle disappearances to environmental factors such as hurricanes, sudden weather shifts from the Gulf Stream, and hazardous shallow waters.

the U.S.

Navy dismisses supernatural claims, emphasizing natural causes and human error.

Additionally, the U.S.

Board on Geographic Names does not list the Bermuda Triangle as an official location, given the lack of evidence distinguishing it from other ocean regions.

Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts to explain the events.

One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost city or state of Atlantis.

Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the triangle by some definitions.

Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road.

Believers describe the formation as a road, wall, or other structure, but the Bimini Road is of natural origin.

Some hypothesize that a parallel universe exists in the Bermuda Triangle region, causing a time or space warp that sucks the object surrounded into a parallel universe.

Others attribute the events to UFOs.

Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces.

Compass issues are frequently cited in accounts of triangle incidents.

While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found.

Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact that navigators have known for centuries.

Magnetic compass north and geographic true north are exactly the same, only for a small number of places.

For example, as of 2000, in the United States, only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico.

but the public may not be as informed and think there is something mysterious about a compass changing across an area as large as a triangle which it naturally will