Expert: Tom Whiting - 11/21/2011

Question
sir i am suraj from india i want to ask u that what is the main history or hidden story behind bermuda triangle. why all the radio stations,radar,satellite channels ,compass etc stop working when it comes in contact with bermuda triangle? what happened to that airplane which has passed above the bermuda triangle why our technology is not able to detect its secret.................


         thank you          regards  

         suraj mukhopadhyay

Answer
Hi Suraj,
You've been watching too much of that science fiction on TV (or reading too much metaphysics reports on the internet!).  There have been no more ship and plane losses in that region of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean sea than anywhere else in the world. When I was in the US Air Force
I flew over that region hundreds of times out of McCoy AFB, Orlando Florida without incident, in a KC-135 tanker aircraft, mid-air refueling other Air Force aircraft.  In addition, hurricane hunting aircraft fly into that region on a regular basis from May through November, evaluating hurricanes and all without incident.
All the hundreds of Space Shuttle launches go over that region, yet we only lost one craft about 70 seconds after launch and that was due to cold/weather and a defective rubber "O" ring seal.  (How come we didn't lose say, 10% of the launches due to the "dreaded" Bermuda Triangle effect????)
Satellites transit over that region all the time without incident. Hundreds of passenger aircraft traverse that region (say from Miami to the West Indies Islands, including Aruba) daily... with no incidents.  The only real thing about that region is that the seas are very shallow,  relatively speaking compared to the open deep ocean. So when a storm does come up, it's one crashing wave after another without the benefit of huge swells, which allows ships to more easily survive stormy conditions.  You get no breaks in the action when it's one large wave after another, crashing into your ship.  That's the real story for ships in that region.
Also in those tropical warm seas, localized storms can form up very quickly, giving the ship's captain very little time to react to the high seas, and head to a sheltered harbor.
Hope this helps,
Clear Skies,
Tom Whiting
Erie, PA USA
PS... I'll bet you 'buy into' alien flying saucers (and astrology) too, which also don't exist.