And, of course, he apparently missed the only one that matters. Here it is again (Here’s a hint, for you, Acey):
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved (1975). Lawrence David Kusche (ISBN 0-87975-971-2)
If that ain’t good enough for him then he is not, by any goddamn definition, a ‘skeptic’. He’s welcome to remain as gullible as he wishes, however. Pardon my trips to the quarry.
Ace probably doesn’t think that “six” is a big number in itself, after all he can hold his hands up and see 12 things to do numbers with, but “six” might seem, in his world, a lot when it comes to books.
To paraphrase Carl Sagen, no wreckage is often found because ships and planes sink in water. (And, wreckage is actually often found, like from the ship we are talking about) He goes on to say that if a similar size area on land, say centered around Cleveland, where trains, trucks and buses went missing, that would be a mystery.
And then there is this explanation: Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - YouTube Right around 2 minutes in. C’mon, you can waste two stinkin’ minutes!
It was abundantly clear to me Ace was not referencing deaths and losses of ships as fun to watch, there is no need to twist words.
<shrug> The Bermuda Triangle books and documentaries are a fun diversion. There are some interesting elements to a few of the incidents. They are the ones the documentaries investigate. But I’ve always been well aware that this area is a major shipping lane. Given the large amount of traffic you’d expect to find at least a handful of odd sinkings in a hundred year period.
It’s entertainment just like pro wrestling. Everyone knows it’s bs but it’s still a lot of fun to watch.
The thread was started, because the El Faro will eventually get added to the Triangle lore unless some evidence of the wreck is found. It fits the pattern. Doesn’t mean at all that I think anything unique happened. Hurricanes sink ships pretty frequently.
Given modern search technology it seems pretty certain they’ll at least find wreckage. Something. I hope for the families sake they do and can at least give them some closure.
update I see they have located a debris field. At least now perhaps they can recover some remains and comfort the families.
It also seems to me that humans NEED some sort of supernatural or other-worldy pursuits now and then. Thats why they get fascinated by this stuff. Also “conspiracies” like Nazi bases in Antarctica and on the moon.
And yeah, alot of this stuff was big in the 70’s. Coincidence that this came right after all the weird stuff of the 60’s?
Missing ship mysteries were a form of entertainment long before the Bermuda Triangle in particular became a popular topic. Tales of ghost ships that ran aground with their crew missing were quite popular. Many people like mysteries, toss in a hint of the supernatural and you grab a certain segment of the population more likely to spend their time and money in the investigation of a non-phenomenon.
I am certain ancient aliens (who may still walk amongst us) are involved in the triangle situation. There have been books and documentaries! Keep up with science, sheeple!!
The Coast Guard has announced in their morning press conference that they believe El Faro has gone down and the operation is now a search for survivors. One empty lifeboat and several egress suits reported found adrift, one of them containing a fatal casualty.
I too wish people would continue to die in that region for my amusement.
Updating this thread:
Here is the full report:
What the hell are “watch standards?” Are they trying to say “watch standers?” Do they have no editorial or fact-checking process at all?
Probably “watchstander” (it’s one word, isn’t it?) but it’s just a typo. I’m assuming a reporter who was not familiar with nautical terms heard “watch standard” and reported the quote as such. Then a copy editor who was not familiar with nautical terms got a hold of it, and it looked like it was spelled right, so it got through. It happens. It’s a pretty minor and understandable oversight, in my opinion, given the other types of obvious and egregious spelling errors I see in newspapers and on news sites all the time.
I used to be a substitute teacher. One day before I was about to teach a reading lesson, one child (these were second graders, IIRC) started talking about a TV show about the Bermuda Triangle. He said something like “planes fly into clouds and are never seen again”.
Another child shrieked, “My daddy’s plane flew into a cloud!”
I gave an emergency meteorology lesson, which calmed the class.
I can’t remember the number, and its hard to look up. But think the number of ocean-going ships that sink on the high seas is maybe three a week, worldwide.
eta: Here it is: in 2013, 93 ships lost at sea, lover 100 gross tons.
Here is a list of aircraft that have completely disappeared:
Bermuda Triangle=
Radar-Time Bungle
I remember all the hoopla from the 70s. We also had a big UFO craze. But your OP still read like you were a True Believer.
Dang, if you’d waited 12 hours and 3 minutes, you could have posted this exactly 2 years after you posted it the first time.