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The Bermuda Triangle, Before It Was the Bermuda Triangle
What came before the mystery we know today
When I first got to know about the Bermuda Triangle, I had a completely different picture of it in my head. I thought there was this huge area in the middle of the ocean where the water would spin really fast, with a giant hole in the centre. Anything that got too close would get dragged into it and disappear. I imagined it almost like a sinkhole, but on a gigantic scale, except it was in the middle of the ocean. So, this was the only explanation that made sense to me.
But the actual Bermuda Triangle is nothing like that. There is no giant whirlpool sitting somewhere in the Atlantic waiting for ships and planes to come too close. In fact, the first thing that surprised me was that there isn’t even an official boundary for the Bermuda Triangle. The area is usually described as a rough triangle between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
And there is something about the name that I had never really thought about before. Bermuda is actually a place. It is an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, meaning it is made up of a group of islands. I had always known the word “Bermuda” because of the Bermuda Triangle, but I had never connected it to an actual place.
