The Burmuda Triangle has been known for centuries as an area with unusual behavior and unexplained disappearances. Even Christopher Columbus reported strange activity while crossing through the Bermuda triangle. Ships and planes have been disappearing for as long as people have inhabited the area.
Even the United States nuclear submarine Scorpion was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
But there is an area in the United States with far more strange disappearances than the Bermuda Triangle off the Florida coast . These are the great lakes. Particularly Lake Superior.
Located on the border of Canada, the Lake's are Huron, Superior, Erie, Ontario and Lake Michigan. This has been a hub for shipping for centuries.
But as long as mankind has been sailing in these water's, there has been a history of unexplained disappearances. Far more than in the Bermuda Triangle.
One of the Strangest Disappearance's was that of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald was a ship designed for carrying iron ore and when completed in 1957, she was the largest ship of her class.
In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was sailing in tandem with the ore carrier, the Arthur M. Anderson and was within radio and visual contact the entire time, except for ten minutes when the Anderson's radar went down.
When the system came back online, the Fitzgerald was gone.
The Fitzgerald was located several days later near an area called White Fish Bay. But upon examination the ship had seemed to have gone down so quickly, none of the life boat's were prepared for launching.
The phenomena seems to have to do with what is called the "Agonic Line" which is a part of the Earth's electromagnetic field . This is the area of the Earth where true north and magnetic north are exactly the same. This can completely disrupt the ships guidance system's.
The Agonic Line also extendeds into the Bermuda Triangle.
The local Native American population near the Great Lake's have always had stories of giant waves that appeared suddenly and are capable of destroying even relatively large ships.
Oceanographer's call this a Seiche Wave. They sometimes are referred to as "Rouge Waves ".
This is the result of what is called Positive and Negative interference. This is when two opposing waves or currents collide.
The positive and negative waves intersecting can cause the water level to rise to tremendous heights. Sometimes as high as 100 feet
Passenger Planes have also gone down under mysterious circumstances. A pilot flying a commercial passenger jet literally drove the plane straight into the lake with no distress call even going to the tower.
The strange thing is, one is rarely out of visual contact with either other ships or land. A ship or plane is almost always near by.
But the Fitzgerald went down so suddenly, no may day signal went out and the hatches had not even been closed with the accident happening so quickly.
Rouge waves at one time were thought to be a myth. But with new camera technology sailors began capturing footage of these waves finally verifying thier existence.
Even with today's technology, rouge waves are still extremely dangerous due to the fact that they appear without warning and are extremely unpredictable unlike a Tsunami in which there is advanced warning of the impending wave.
Even today, ships still disappear without warning on the Great Lakes.
By
Kenneth Lafler
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