Editing Bermuda Triangle (section)

=== <span class="anchor" id="Kusche's explanation"></span> Larry Kusche ===
[[Larry Kusche]], author of ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved'' (1975),<ref name="Kusche, 1975">[[#refKusche,1975|Kusche, 1975]].</ref> argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable. Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved in the initial incidents. Kusche noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman [[Donald Crowhurst]], which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when in fact it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the ''Pacific'' Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents that sparked allegations of the Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events, like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

Kusche concluded:

* The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.
* In an area frequented by [[tropical cyclone]]s, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.
* Furthermore, Berlitz and other writers often failed to mention such storms and sometimes even represented the disappearance as having happened in calm conditions when meteorological records clearly contradict this.
* The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat's disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may not have been.
* Some alleged disappearances were, in reality, not mysterious. Berlitz found that one plane believed to have disappeared in 1937 had, in fact, crashed off [[Daytona Beach, Florida|Daytona Beach]], Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crash of a Douglas DC-2-112 in Daytona Beach: 4 killed |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-douglas-dc-2-112-daytona-beach-4-killed |publisher=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives}}</ref>
* The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and [[sensationalism]].<ref name="Kusche, 1975"/>