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Article: Mystery still unsolved.(Column)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2001
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QUESTION In these days of global navigation systems, do ships and planes still disappear in the Bermuda Triangle?
THE Bermuda Triangle, sometimes called the Devil's Triangle, is an indistinct area whose boundaries are not universally agreed upon, but which has a vaguely triangular shape marked by the southern U.S. Coast, Bermuda and the Greater Antilles.
It comprises an area of about 500 square leagues, 1,500,000 square miles, of sea. Reports of unexplained occurrences - of shipping and aircraft which have disappeared or gone down for no apparent reason date back to the mid-19th century.
No ships have gone down in the triangle since the ...