Editing Bermuda Triangle (section)

==Notable incidents==
{{Main|List of Bermuda Triangle incidents}}

===HMS ''Atalanta''===
{{Main|HMS Juno (1844)}}
[[File:The missing Training Ship, HMS 'Atlanta' - The Graphic 1880.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Atalanta''. ''[[The Graphic]]'', 1880]]

The sail training ship HMS ''Atalanta'' (originally named HMS ''Juno'') disappeared with her entire crew after setting sail from the [[Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda]] for [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]], [[England]] on 31 January 1880.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dawlishchronicles.com/2020/05/01/training-tragedies-hms-eurydice-and-hms-atalanta |title=Training Tragedies: the Losses of HMS Eurydice and HMS Atalanta |last=Vanner |first=Antoine |date=1 May 2020 |website=The Dawlish Chronicles |access-date=27 July 2021 |archive-date=27 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727234155/https://dawlishchronicles.com/2020/05/01/training-tragedies-hms-eurydice-and-hms-atalanta/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was presumed that she sank in a powerful [[storm]] which crossed her route a couple of weeks after she sailed, and that her crew being composed primarily of inexperienced trainees may have been a contributing factor. The search for evidence of her fate attracted worldwide attention at the time (connection is also often made to the 1878 loss of the training ship [[HMS Eurydice (1843)|HMS ''Eurydice'']], which foundered after departing the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda for Portsmouth on 6 March), and she was alleged decades later to have been a victim of the mysterious triangle, an allegation resoundingly refuted by the research of author [[David Francis Raine]] in 1997.<ref>{{cite book |last=Raine |first=David Francis |author-link=David Francis Raine |date=1 January 1997 |title=Solved!: The Greatest Sea Mystery of All |location=Bermuda |publisher=Pompano Publications |page= |isbn=9780921962151}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hainey |first=Raymond |date=9 February 2011 |title=Solving a mystery of military blunder |url=https://www.royalgazette.com/other/lifestyle/article/20110209/solving-a-mystery-of-military-blunder/ |work=The Royal Gazette, city of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |location=Bermuda |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bermudatrianglecentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/hms-atalanta.html |title=HMS Atalanta, January 31, 1880 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=13 April 2011 |website=Bermuda Triangle Central |publisher=Hungry Hart Productions |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Quasar |first=Gian J. |date=2003 |title=Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery |url=https://archive.org/details/intobermudatrian00gian/page/55/ |via=Internet Archive Digital Library |publisher=International Marine/McGraw Hill |pages=55, 56 |isbn=9780071467032}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/18797/quick-10-10-incidents-bermuda-triangle |title=The Quick 10: 10 Incidents at the Bermuda Triangle |last=Conradt |first=Stacy |date=6 June 2008 |website=[[Mental Floss]] |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref>

===USS ''Cyclops''===
{{main|USS Cyclops (AC-4)}}

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier ''Cyclops'', carrying a full load of [[manganese ore]] and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 306 sometime after 4 March 1918, after departing the island of [[Barbados]]. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that [[World War I|wartime enemy activity]] was to blame for the loss.<ref name="DMerrill">{{cite web |url=http://website.lineone.net/~dmerrill/html/bermuda_triangle.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20021124223248/http://website.lineone.net/~dmerrill/html/bermuda_triangle.html |url-status  = dead |archive-date = 24 November 2002 |title=Bermuda Triangle |publisher=D Merrill}}</ref><ref name="Bermuda Cruises">{{cite web |url=http://www.bermudacruises.net/bermuda-information/myths_folklore.htm |archive-url  = https://archive.today/20090610083610/http://www.bermudacruises.net/bermuda-information/myths_folklore.htm |url-status   = dead |archive-date = 10 June 2009 |title=Myths and Folklore of Bermuda |publisher=Bermuda Cruises |access-date  = 24 July 2006}}</ref> In addition, two of ''Cyclops''{{'}}s sister ships, {{USS|Proteus|AC-9|2}} and {{USS|Nereus|AC-10|2}}, were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic during [[World War II]]. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on ''Cyclops'' during her fatal voyage.<ref name="Kusche, pp. 93–94">{{harvnb|ref=Kusche, 1975|Kusche|1975|pp=93–94}}</ref> In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking.

===''Carroll A. Deering''===
{{main|Carroll A. Deering}}
[[File:deering2.jpg|thumb|The [[schooner]] ''[[Carroll A. Deering]]'', as seen from the [[Cape Lookout (North Carolina)|Cape Lookout]] [[lightvessel]] on 29 January 1921, two days before she was found deserted in [[North Carolina]]. (US Coast Guard)]]

''Carroll A. Deering'', a five-masted [[schooner]] built in 1919, was found hard aground and abandoned at [[Diamond Shoals]], near [[Cape Hatteras]], [[North Carolina]], on 31 January 1921. [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] investigation into the ''Deering'' scrutinized, then ruled out, multiple theories as to why and how the ship was abandoned, including piracy, domestic Communist sabotage and the involvement of [[rum-runner]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/legend-ghost-ship-carroll-deering |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209123222/https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/legend-ghost-ship-carroll-deering |archive-date=9 December 2015 |title=The Legend Of The Ghost Ship: Carroll A. Deering |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2 November 2015 |website=[[National Park Foundation]] |access-date=13 January 2023}}</ref>

===Flight 19===
{{main|Flight 19}}
[[File:Grumman TBF-1 Avengers of VGS-29 in flight over Norfolk, Virginia (USA), on 1 September 1942 (80-G-427475).jpg|upright|thumb|left|US Navy Avengers, similar to those of Flight 19]]

Flight 19 was a training flight of five [[Grumman TBF Avenger|TBM Avenger]] torpedo bombers that disappeared on 5 December 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from [[Fort Lauderdale]] for {{cvt|141|mi}}, north for {{cvt|73|mi}}, and then back over a final {{cvt|140|mi|4=0}} leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance was attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.

One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a [[Martin PBM Mariner|PBM Mariner]] with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion<ref name = "The_Loss_of_Flight_19">{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm |title=The Loss of Flight 19 |publisher=history.navy.mil| access-date = 20 September 2006| archive-date = 13 April 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090413074152/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm| url-status = dead}}</ref> and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_disappearance_of_flight_19.html |title=The Disappearance of Flight 19 |work=Bermuda-Triangle.Org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819190905/http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_disappearance_of_flight_19.html |archive-date=19 August 2006 |access-date=26 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> According to contemporaneous sources, the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation.<ref name=Leadbeater-2020>{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/the-strange-tale-of-flight-19--the-mystery-that-sparked-the-bermuda-triangle-myth-20201215-h1stmu.html |title=The strange tale of Flight 19 – the mystery that sparked the Bermuda Triangle myth |last=Leadbeater |first=Chris |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=16 December 2020|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926073624/https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/the-strange-tale-of-flight-19--the-mystery-that-sparked-the-bermuda-triangle-myth-20201215-h1stmu.html|archive-date=26 September 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

===''Star Tiger'' and ''Star Ariel''===
{{Main|BSAA Star Tiger disappearance|BSAA Star Ariel disappearance}}

[[BSAA Star Tiger disappearance|G-AHNP ''Star Tiger'']] disappeared on 30 January 1948, on a flight from the [[Azores]] to Bermuda; [[BSAA Star Ariel disappearance|G-AGRE ''Star Ariel'']] disappeared on 17 January 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. Both were [[Avro]] [[Tudor IV]] passenger aircraft operated by [[British South American Airways]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_tudors.html |title=The Tudors |work=Bermuda-Triangle.Org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929153837/http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_tudors.html |archive-date=29 September 2019 |access-date=26 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island.<ref name="Kusche, 1975"/>

===Douglas DC-3===
{{Main|1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 disappearance}}

On 28 December 1948, a [[Douglas DC-3]] aircraft, number [[1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 disappearance|NC16002]], disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft, or the 32 people on board, was ever found. A Civil Aeronautics Board investigation found there was insufficient information available on which to determine probable cause of the disappearance.<ref name="Aviation Safety DC3">{{cite web |url=http://www.avsaf.org/reports/US/1948.12.28_AirborneTransport_DouglasDC-3.pdf#search=%22Airborne%20Transport%2C%20December%2028%2C%201948%2C%20Miami%2C%20Florida%22 |title=Airborne Transport, Miami, December 1948 |publisher=[[Civil Aeronautics Board]] |format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103193538/http://www.avsaf.org/reports/US/1948.12.28_AirborneTransport_DouglasDC-3.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2007|access-date=5 October 2015}}
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===''Connemara IV''===
A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on 26 September 1955; it is usually stated in the stories (Berlitz, Winer)<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="Winer, 1974"/> that the crew vanished while the yacht survived being at sea during three hurricanes. The [[1955 Atlantic hurricane season]] shows [[Hurricane Ione]] passing nearby between 14 and 18 September, with Bermuda being affected by winds of almost gale force.<ref name="Kusche, 1975"/> In his second book on the Bermuda Triangle, Winer quoted from a letter he had received from Mr J.E. Challenor of Barbados:<ref name="Winer, 1975">{{harvnb|Winer|1975|pp=95–96}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|On the morning of September 22, ''Connemara IV'' was lying to a heavy mooring in the open [[roadstead]] of [[Carlisle Bay, Barbados|Carlisle Bay]]. Because of the approaching hurricane, the owner strengthened the mooring ropes and put out two additional anchors. There was little else he could do, as the exposed mooring was the only available anchorage. ... In Carlisle Bay, the sea in the wake of [[Hurricane Janet]] was awe-inspiring and dangerous. The owner of ''Connemara IV'' observed that she had disappeared. An investigation revealed that she had dragged her moorings and gone to sea.}}

===KC-135 Stratotankers===
On 28 August 1963, a pair of [[US Air Force]] [[KC-135 Stratotanker]] aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic {{Convert|300|mi}} west of Bermuda.<ref>{{ASN accident|title=61-0322|id=19630828-1|access-date=2 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{ASN accident|title=61-0319|id=19630828-0|access-date=2 February 2013}}</ref> Some writers<ref name="Gaddis,1964"/><ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="Winer, 1974"/> say that while the two aircraft did collide, there were two distinct crash sites, separated by over {{convert|160|mi|km}} of water. However, Kusche's research showed that the unclassified version of the Air Force investigation report revealed that the debris field defining the second "crash site" was examined by a search and rescue ship, and found to be a mass of [[seaweed]] and [[driftwood]] tangled in an old [[buoy]].<ref name="Kusche, 1975"/>