In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long US navy cargo ship set sail with over 300 men and 10,000 tonnes of manganese on board. The ship was last heard from Barbados where it halted to load more cargo, before heading on to Baltimore, its final destination. The ship never arrived. The ship never sent out a distress signal and despite massive searches, no trace of the ship was ever found. This unexplained disappearance still remains a mystery and makes for one of the largest losses of lives in the mythical Bermuda Triangle. “Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship,” then US President Woodrow Wilson had said. In 1941, two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished along nearly the same route. In another shocking incident in 1945, five training flights that took off from Florida naval base never returned to the base. In fact, a rescue plane and its 13-member crew also disappeared.
The Bermuda Triangle, or the Devil's triangle, is a region in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where many ships and airplanes have mysteriously disappeared. For decades, this region has remained one of the world's greatest mysteries. Fanciful theories—from aliens, to sea monsters, to more scientific ones like magnetic anomalies—kept cropping up, hoping to find a possible explanation.
Scientists have now come up with a new explanation that seems to finally solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. Using satellite imagery, meteorologists at Colorado State University discovered bizarre hexagonal shaped clouds forming over the patch of water. These clouds can create 'air bombs' propelled by winds at the speed of 170 mph. These deadly blasts of air are so powerful that they could bring down planes and ships. According to the team, these blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud, hit the ocean and create massive waves. Further, the density of these clouds could also prevent the transmission of radio signals, which can explain why most of these missing planes and ships never sent out distress signals. Scientists believe that this weather phenomenon could possibly be the reason behind the Bermuda Triangle mystery.
