What is the other name for the Bermuda Triangle?

Player Cosmo Chic, yes I sailed there some years ago and the navigation charts give a magnetic variation of plus or minus 40% ... made navigation very tricky in those days before GPS! And also explains disappearances as you say... but what intrigued me was... what on earth is causing such a disruption in the earth's magnetic field there???? Anyone know?

Birdiemom, A co-workers only daughter went to Florida with a friend. They met a couple of men who were flying to Bimity an island in the Bermuda Triangle. The plane disappeared before reaching island. The thing found was on oil slick and a piece of metal. My co-worker was never the same. No bodies had been recovered. After some time past the family had a memorial service.

irishlass7769, Didn't the Edmund Fitzgerald go down in the Lake Superior???

I suspect odd happenings have to do with high & low pressure weather cells. Might they cause fluctuations in magnetic fields. When I lived on the Atlantic coast in Florida, stormy weather seemed to form suddenly & out of nowhere. I can only imagine what it must be like in open ocean waters.

ZyggyStardust, planes too? am curious

I have traveled through the Bermuda triangle six times. Each time the ship I was on suffered engine loss as well as communication loss. Meaning the ship had loo all forms of communication. After the pumps mysteriously shut off we only had a few more hours before the ship would begin to sink. From the storms at sea in the midst of ths Atlantic Ocean each time we traveled something mysterious happened. These traumatic experiences are to this day unforgettable and very disturbing.

Diver Dan, and where the weather is sudden and severe, as in the Bermuda Triangle...

There is also a similar triangle in the south Pacific, off the coast of Japan. It has similar peculiar aspects.

Foster, It went down in Lake Superior 17 miles off Michigan's coast.

cKit, The deepest of the Great Lakes.

Uninitialized, yes, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior

Uninitialized, Lake Michigan

Just don't go there!

Player #1137636, yes, it is called almost the same “The Devil’s Sea”: “The Devil's Sea (Japanese: 魔の海, Hepburn: Ma no Umi), also known as the Devil's triangle, the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo. The Devil's Sea is sometimes considered as a paranormal location, though the veracity of these claims has been questioned.” (from Wikipedia)

I thought it’s magnetic field good to know

Uninitialized, yes, it did, but it was during a storm in November. Check out the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

The English Channel and The Great Lakes have higher levels of shipwrecks per number of vessels navigating through them than The Bermuda Triangle. It's a case of concentration of traffic in a small area, the higher the concentration the greater the likelihood of accidents.

Davy, Livingston, hmm good theory

because it has magnetic force so it should be magnetic triangle

VividPotion6704, yup.different places on Earth have more magnetic pull than other places . there are more places other than Bermuda triangle that have occurrences of similar nature

Been there...uh...done that. SCOTTY, Beam me up!!!

ZyggyStardust, ship that comes to mind is tanker Edmund Fitzgerald.