Geographic Boundaries
This Florida city forms the western point of the Bermuda Triangle.
What is Miami
The 1945 disappearance of this training flight of five U.S. Navy bombers remains one of the Triangle's most famous mysteries.
What is Flight 19
This powerful, swift Atlantic current runs through the Bermuda Triangle and can rapidly carry debris far away from a crash site.
What is the Gulf Stream
This legendary lost sunken city is frequently claimed by conspiracy theorists to lie beneath the Bermuda Triangle.
What is Atlantis
Pilots and sailors use this navigational instrument, which points toward Earth's magnetic pole, to keep their heading.
What is a Compass
This island territory forms the northern vertex of the triangle.
What is Bermuda
In 1918, this massive U.S. Navy collier vanished in the triangle without sending a distress signal, losing all 306 crew members.
What is the USS Cyclops
Eruptions of this trapped greenhouse gas from the ocean floor are hypothesized to reduce water density, causing ships to sink.
What is Methane (or Methane Hydrates)
Science fiction lore often attributes unexplained ship and plane disappearances to abductions by these non-earthly beings.
What are Extraterrestrials (or Aliens)
Modern ships and aircraft rely on this global satellite system to pinpoint their precise location anywhere on Earth.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)
This U.S. territory forms the southern vertex of the triangle.
What is Puerto Rico
This famous American aviator vanished over the Pacific in 1937, though her disappearance is often mistakenly grouped with Bermuda Triangle lore.
Who is Amelia Earhart
Navigators in the Triangle must adjust for the difference between magnetic north and this geographic reference point.
What is True North
This author popularized the term "Bermuda Triangle" and brought the mystery to millions in his 1974 bestselling book of the same name.
Who is Charles Berlitz
Emergency distress beacons, known as EPIRBs, send signals to this type of orbital technology to signal rescuers.
What are Satellites
The Bermuda Triangle spans a large portion of this major ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
In 1948, the Star Tiger, a aircraft belonging to British South American Airways, disappeared while flying from the Azores to this island.
What is Bermuda
Sudden, severe weather events in the Caribbean, often called "white" ones can build up quickly and disable light aircraft or small boats.
What are Squalls (or Microbursts)
The popular term "Devil's Triangle" is an alternate name for the region, but this smaller area in the Pacific Ocean is known as the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle."
What is the Devil's Sea (or Dragon's Triangle)
This acoustic technology uses sound propagation under water to detect objects, navigate, or measure water depth.
What is Sonar
The Bermuda Triangle passes near this archipelagic nation consisting of over 700 islands and cays.
What are The Bahamas
In 1963, this 525-foot sulfur-carrying tanker vanished with 39 crew members, leaving behind only a few life rings.
What is the SS Marine Sulphur Queen
Rogue waves, which can reach heights of over 100 feet, are created when several ocean currents collide near this weather-prone region.
What is the Atlantic Ocean / Bermuda Triangle
This mysterious underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas is claimed by some to be a man-made road to Atlantis.
What is the Bimini Road
The loss of radio communication due to atmospheric interference is often called a "radio" this.
What is a Blackout (or Dead Zone)