Modern scholars checking the original log books have surmised that the lights he saw were the cooki

Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Triangle schiff of Evil ("Devil"), is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels schiff have disappeared in what are said to be beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature. Some of these disappearances have been attributed to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings by popular culture. [Though a substantial documentation schiff exists showing numerous incidents to have been inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have issued an official schiff statement that the total loss to be similar to their estimates, many have remained unexplained despite considerable investigation done about it.
Boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle vary with the author; some say it looks like a trapezoid covering the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas, and the entire Caribbean schiff island area east to the Azores; others add to it the Gulf of Mexico. Border triangle of the more common written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.
This area is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, schiff and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between schiff Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily schiff flown route by commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.
Gulf Stream ocean current flows through the Bermuda Triangle after leaving the Gulf of Mexico: as strong current of five to six knots may have played a role in some of the loss. Sudden storms can and do appear, and in the summer to late autumn, sometimes hurricanes strike the area. The combination of heavy maritime traffic and weather makes it inevitable that vessels could founder in storms and be lost without a trace - especially before the technology of communications, radar, and satellite enhanced at the end of the 20th century.
According to the author of the Bermuda triangle, schiff Christopher Columbus was the first person to document something strange in the Bermuda Triangle, reporting that he and his crew observed "strange dancing light on the horizon", flames in the sky, and at another point he wrote about reading compass unusual in the area. From his log book, dated October 11, 1492 he wrote: A crew land was (Rodrigo de Triana), although the Admiral schiff at ten o'clock that evening standing on the (quarter-deck) saw a light, but so small a body that he could not be land; calling Pero Gutiérrez (Groom of the King's wardrobe) it tells Pero about the lights he saw, then take the view Pero towards the light, which Pero also been seen; Pero he did the same to Rodrigo Sánchez of Segovia, who was sent by the King and Queen together with the squadron as comptroller, but he could not see it. The Admiral again perceived it once or twice, appearing like the light of a candle moving up and down, which some thought an indication of land. Admiral held it for certain that land was near.
Modern scholars checking the original log books have surmised that the lights he saw were the cooking fires of Taino natives in their canoes or on the beach; compass reading is reading from one based on the movements of stars.
The first article about the legend of the Bermuda Triangle began appeared in newspapers by EVW Jones written on September 16, 1950, through the Associated Press. Two years later, Fate magazine published a short article "Sea schiff Mystery At Our Back Door" by George X. Sand in the October 1952 issue of the loss of several planes and ships, including schiff the loss of Flight 19, a group of five bombers U.S. Navy TBM Avenger on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses occurred. Flight schiff 19 alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. Article titled "The Lost Patrol", by Allen W. Eckert, and in his story it was claimed that the flight leader was heard saying "We schiff are entering white water, nothing seems right. We do not know where we are, the water is green, no white." It was also claimed that's Officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that's schiff the Planes "Flew off to Mars." "