Dr. C. Sylendra Babu (born 5 June 1962) is an Indian Police Service officer of the 1987 batch belonging to the Tamil Nadu cadre. As of 2012[update],
he is serving as the Additional Director General of Police (Coastal
Security) in Tamil Nadu. He is also the author of various motivational
books and has been manager of the Indian athletics team at the World Athletic Championships.[1]
Babu joined in the Indian Police Service (IPS) as a member of the 1987 batch. He trained at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He has served as the Assistant Superintendent of Police,in Gobichettipalayam, Salem and Dindigul
and as the Superintendent of Police, in Chengalpattu, Sivaganga,
Cuddalore and Kancheepuram districts and as the Deputy Commissioner of,
Adayar-Chennai. He has also served as the Deputy Inspector-General of
Police of Viluppuram Range and as the Joint Commissioner of Police,
Chennai. Later, he became the DIG of Police, Tiruchirapalli before
becoming the Chief Vigilance Officer in Karur, served as Commissioner of
Police, Coimbatore prior to becoming Inspector General for Northern
Zone, Chennai.[4]
He was promoted to the rank of Additional Director General of Police
on April 2012 and is currently ADGP, Costal Security Group, Tamilnadu. [4]
During his tenure as the commissioner of Coimbatore city, he
introduced computer literacy programme in various schools in association
with Lead India 2020.[5]
The schools are also adopted by the local police station under the
program. He has organized free karate camps for children from the poor
economic section. He has also initiated karate camps in various women's
colleges.[6]
Babu was manager of the Indian National Athletic Team for various championships. In 2002, he held the role for the Asian Athletic Championship at Colombo[7] and in 2003 he did so for the World Athletic Championships in Paris, France.[1] He also served as manager of Indian Athletics Contingent for the World Championships held in Osaka-Japan in 2007[1] and as an Observer of Indian Athletics Contingent for the Olympics 2008 held in Beijing.
He is the president of the Coimbatore rifle club[8] He has initiated and set up rifle clubs in various schools across tamil nadu.[9][10]
Raymond John "Ray" Noorda (19 June 1924 – 9 October 2006) was a U.S.computer businessman. He was CEO of Novell between 1982 and 1994. He also served as chairman of Novell until he was replaced in 1994.
Noorda was born in Ogden, Utah, the third son of Dutch immigrants Bertus Noorda and Alida Margaretha van den Berg. He attended Weber State College in Ogden. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy for two years as an electronics technician, working with radar systems. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Utah in 1949. Noorda worked for General Electric from graduation until 1971, after which he worked at a number of California companies.
Up to his death, Noorda owned the Canopy Group. One of its holdings, Caldera, purchased the Unix assets in 1995 from the Santa Cruz Operation, which had acquired them from Novell. In 1996 it also acquired the Digital Research assets from Novell and immediately brought a lawsuit against Microsoft that largely duplicated the claims that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice had pursued in the early 1990s. The lawsuit was ultimately settled in 2000 with a $275 million payment to Caldera.
Noorda received honorary doctorates from the University of Utah in 1994 and Weber State University in 1995. As a consequence of age and associated health issues (Alzheimer's disease and heart disease), Noorda did not participate in the day-to-day management of Canopy's affairs after 1998.[7][8]
Noorda was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1995.
Noorda had four sons and one daughter. His daughter committed suicide in 2005.[9] Noorda died on 9 October 2006 at his home in Orem, Utah, at the age of 82.
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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The triangle does not exist according to the US Navy and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names.[1] Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.[2]
Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the
incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later
authors.[3][4][5] In a 2013 study the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world’s 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.[6] Contrary to popular belief, insurance companies do not charge higher premiums for shipping in this area.[3]
The first written boundaries date from a 1964 issue of pulp magazine Argosy,[7] where the triangle's three vertices are in Miami, Florida peninsula; in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.[4] But subsequent writers did not follow this definition.[4]
Every writer gives different boundaries and vertices to the triangle,
with the total area varying from 500,000 to 1.5 million square miles.[4] Consequently, the determination of which accidents have occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reports them.[4] The United States Board on Geographic Names does not recognize this name, and it is not delimited in any map drawn by US government agencies.[4]
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the
world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe,
and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and
pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the
islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private
aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.
History
Origins
The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones.[8] Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door",[9] a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. NavyTBM Avenger
bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out
the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19
alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine.[10] It was claimed[by whom?]
that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white
water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is
green, no white." It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board
of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars."[dubious– discuss] Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis's
article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other
disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region.[7] The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.[11]
Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973);[12]Charles Berlitz(The Bermuda Triangle, 1974);[13]Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974),[14] and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.[15]
Larry Kusche
Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975)[16]
argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were often
exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable. Kusche's research revealed a
number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts
and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved in
the initial incidents. Kusche noted cases where pertinent information
went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst,
which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the
contrary. Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as
lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific
Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents that
sparked allegations of the Triangle's mysterious influence actually
occurred well outside it. Often his research was simple: he would review
period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports
on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never
mentioned in the disappearance stories.
Kusche concluded that:
The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was
not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other
part of the ocean.
In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious;
Furthermore, Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention
such storms or even represent the disappearance as having happened in
calm conditions when meteorological records clearly contradict this.
The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A
boat's disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual
(if belated) return to port may not have been.
Some disappearances had, in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.
The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery,
perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of
misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.[16]
Further responses
When the UK Channel 4 television program The Bermuda Triangle (1992)[17] was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London
was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda
Triangle area. Lloyd's determined that large numbers of ships had not
sunk there.[18] Lloyd's does not charge higher rates for passing through this area.[3]United States Coast Guard
records confirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed
disappearances is relatively insignificant considering the number of
ships and aircraft that pass through on a regular basis.[16]
The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle, noting
that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, much
documentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the
Triangle authors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and
sinking of the tanker SS V. A. Fogg, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies,[19]
in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had
vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in
his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.[12] In addition, V. A. Fogg sank off the coast of Texas, nowhere near the commonly accepted boundaries of the Triangle.
The NOVA/Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle,
aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that "When we've
gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery
evaporates. Science does not have to answer questions about the Triangle
because those questions are not valid in the first place ... Ships and
planes behave in the Triangle the same way they behave everywhere else
in the world."[20]
David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda
Triangle stories and theories: "Say I claim that a parrot has been
kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove
that is not true. You can even use Einstein's Theory of
Relativity if you like. There is simply no way to prove such a claim
untrue. The burden of proof should be on the people who make these
statements, to show where they got their information from, to see if
their conclusions and interpretations are valid, and if they have left
anything out."[20] Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves[21] and Barry Singer,[22]
have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular and
profitable. This has led to the production of vast amounts of material
on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle. They were able to show that some
of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or inaccurate, but
its producers continue to market it. Accordingly, they have claimed that
the market is biased in favor of books, TV specials, and other media
that support the Triangle mystery, and against well-researched material
if it espouses a skeptical viewpoint. Finally, if the Triangle is
assumed to cross land, such as parts of Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, or Bermuda itself, there is no evidence for the disappearance of any land-based vehicles or persons.[citation needed] The city of Freeport,
located inside the Triangle, operates a major shipyard and an airport
that handles 50,000 flights annually and is visited by over a million
tourists a year.[23]
Supernatural explanations
Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts to
explain the events. One explanation pins the blame on leftover
technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions. Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce
take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968 as
referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road. Believers describe the
formation as a road, wall, or other structure, though geologists
consider it to be of natural origin.[24]
Other writers attribute the events to UFOs.[25] This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction filmClose Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees. Charles Berlitz,
author of various books on anomalous phenomena, lists several theories
attributing the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained
forces.[13]
Natural explanations
Compass variations
Compass
problems are one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents. While
some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in
the area,[26] such anomalies have not been found. Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have known for centuries. Magnetic (compass) north and geographic (true) north
are only exactly the same for a small number of places – for example,
as of 2000 in the United States only those places on a line running from
Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico.[27]
But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something
mysterious about a compass "changing" across an area as large as the
Triangle, which it naturally will.[16]
False-color image of the Gulf Stream flowing north through the western Atlantic Ocean. (NASA)
Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a deep ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida
into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean,
and, like a river, it can and does carry floating objects. It has a
surface velocity of up to about 2.5 metres per second (5.6 mi/h).[28] A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.
Human error
One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error.[29] Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, the Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.[30]
Violent weather
Hurricanes
are powerful storms, which form in tropical waters and have
historically cost thousands of lives lost and caused billions of dollars
in damage. The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's
Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive
hurricane. These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents
related to the Triangle.
A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of the Pride of Baltimore
on May 14, 1986. The crew of the sunken vessel noted the wind suddenly
shifted and increased velocity from 20 mph to 60–90 mph. A National
Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated "during
very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft
can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall
line of wind and water."[31] A similar event occurred to the Concordia in 2010 off the coast of Brazil.
Worldwide distribution of confirmed or inferred offshore gas hydrate-bearing sediments, 1996.
Source: USGS
An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves.[32]
Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that
bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density
of the water;[33][34][35] any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. It has been hypothesized that periodic methane eruptions (sometimes called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning.
Publications by the USGS describe large stores of undersea hydrates worldwide, including the Blake Ridge area, off the southeastern United States coast.[36]
However, according to the USGS, no large releases of gas hydrates are
believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 15,000
years.[18]
The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew,
and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the
stories, the derelict disappeared; others elaborating further that the
derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a
second prize crew on board. A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin.
There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that
time, that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on
board a derelict that later disappeared.[37]
The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the
history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier
USS Cyclops, carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one
engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309
sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados.
Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many
independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and
some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.[38][39] In addition, two of Cyclops's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic during World War II. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops
during her fatal voyage. In all three cases structural failure due to
overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the
most likely cause of sinking.
A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time indicated the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship, SS Hewitt,
which disappeared at roughly the same time. Just hours later, an
unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of the Deering, and ignored all signals from the lightship. It is speculated that Hewitt may have been this mystery ship, and possibly involved in the Deering crew's disappearance.[40]
Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger
torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the
Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east
from Fort Lauderdale
for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile
leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The
disappearance is attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error
leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.
One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion[41]
and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for
survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.[42]
According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of
explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a
potentially long search and rescue operation.
G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were AvroTudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways.[43]
Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the
slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching
the small island. One plane was not heard from long before it would have
entered the Triangle.[16]
On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002,
disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No
trace of the aircraft or the 32 people on board was ever found. From the
documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a
possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched
upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and
found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a
recharge by the pilot while in San Juan. Whether or not this led to
complete electrical failure will never be known. However, since
piston-engined aircraft rely upon magnetos to provide spark to their cylinders rather than a battery powered ignition coil system, this theory is not strongly convincing.[44]
KC-135 Stratotankers
On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air ForceKC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic. The Triangle version (Winer, Berlitz, Gaddis[7][13][14])
of this story specifies that they did collide and crash, but there were
two distinct crash sites, separated by over 160 miles (260 km) of
water. However, Kusche's research[16]
showed that the unclassified version of the Air Force investigation
report stated that the debris field defining the second "crash site" was
examined by a search and rescue ship, and found to be a mass of seaweed and driftwood tangled in an old buoy.
Connemara IV
A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on
September 26, 1955; it is usually stated in the stories (Berlitz, Winer[13][14] that the crew vanished while the yacht survived being at sea during three hurricanes. The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season shows Hurricane Ione passing nearby between the 14th and 18th of that month, with Bermuda being affected by winds of almost gale force.[16] In his second book on the Bermuda Triangle, Winer quoted from a letter he had received from Mr J.E. Challenor of Barbados:
On the morning of September 22 Connemara IV was lying to a heavy mooring in the open roadstead of Carlisle Bay.
Because of the approaching hurricane, the owner strengthened the
mooring ropes and put out two additional anchors. There was little else
he could do, as the exposed mooring was the only available anchorage.
...
In Carlisle Bay, the sea in the wake of Hurricane Janet was awe-inspiring and dangerous. The owner of Connemara IV observed that she had disappeared. An investigation revealed that she had dragged her moorings and gone to sea.
The incidents cited above, apart from the official documentation,
come from the following works. Some incidents mentioned as having taken
place within the Triangle are found only in these sources:
Berg, Daniel (2000). Bermuda Shipwrecks. East Rockaway, N.Y.: Aqua Explorers. ISBN0-9616167-4-1.
Berlitz, Charles (1974). The Bermuda Triangle (1st ed.). Doubleday. ISBN0-385-04114-4.
Group, David (1984). The Evidence for the Bermuda Triangle. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Aquarian Press. ISBN0-85030-413-X.
Jeffrey, Adi-Kent Thomas (1975). The Bermuda Triangle. ISBN0-446-59961-1.
Kusche, Lawrence David (1975). The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved. Buffalo: Prometheus Books. ISBN0-87975-971-2.
Quasar, Gian J. (2003). Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery. International Marine / Ragged Mountain Press. ISBN0-07-142640-X. Reprinted in paperback in 2005; ISBN 0-07-145217-6.
"Great Hunt On For 27 Navy Fliers Missing In Five Planes Off Florida", The New York Times, December 7, 1945.
"Wide Hunt For 27 Men In Six Navy Planes", The Washington Post, December 7, 1945.
"Fire Signals Seen In Area Of Lost Men", The Washington Post, December 9, 1945.
SS Cotopaxi
"Lloyd's posts Cotopaxi As 'Missing'", The New York Times, January 7, 1926.
"Efforts To Locate Missing Ship Fail", The Washington Post, December 6, 1925.
"Lighthouse Keepers Seek Missing Ship", The Washington Post, December 7, 1925.
"53 On Missing Craft Are Reported Saved", The Washington Post, December 13, 1925.
USS Cyclops (AC-4)
"Cold High Winds Do $25,000 Damage", The Washington Post, March 11, 1918.
"Collier Overdue A Month", The New York Times, April 15, 1918.
"More Ships Hunt For Missing Cyclops", The New York Times, April 16, 1918.
"Haven't Given Up Hope For Cyclops", The New York Times, April 17, 1918.
"Collier Cyclops Is Lost; 293 Persons On Board; Enemy Blow Suspected", The Washington Post, April 15, 1918.
"U.S. Consul Gottschalk Coming To Enter The War", The Washington Post, April 15, 1918.
"Cyclops Skipper Teuton, 'Tis Said", The Washington Post, April 16, 1918.
"Fate Of Ship Baffles", The Washington Post, April 16, 1918.
"Steamer Met Gale On Cyclops' Course", The Washington Post, April 19, 1918.
Carroll A. Deering
"Piracy Suspected In Disappearance Of 3 American Ships", The New York Times, June 21, 1921.
"Bath Owners Skeptical", The New York Times, June 22, 1921. piera antonella
"Deering Skipper's Wife Caused Investigation", The New York Times, June 22, 1921.
"More Ships Added To Mystery List", The New York Times, June 22, 1921.
"Hunt On For Pirates", The Washington Post, June 21, 1921
"Comb Seas For Ships", The Washington Post, June 22, 1921.
"Port Of Missing Ships Claims 3000 Yearly", The Washington Post, July 10, 1921.
Wreckers
"'Wreckreation' Was The Name Of The Game That Flourished 100 Years Ago", The New York Times, March 30, 1969.
S.S. Suduffco
"To Search For Missing Freighter", The New York Times, April 11, 1926.
"Abandon Hope For Ship", The New York Times, April 28, 1926.
Star Tiger and Star Ariel
"Hope Wanes in Sea Search For 28 Aboard Lost Airliner", The New York Times, January 31, 1948.
"72 Planes Search Sea For Airliner", The New York Times, January 19, 1949.
DC-3 Airliner NC16002 disappearance
"30-Passenger Airliner Disappears In Flight From San Juan To Miami", The New York Times, December 29, 1948.
"Check Cuba Report Of Missing Airliner", The New York Times, December 30, 1948.
"Airliner Hunt Extended", The New York Times, December 31, 1948.
Harvey Conover and Revonoc
"Search Continuing For Conover Yawl", The New York Times, January 8, 1958.
"Yacht Search Goes On", The New York Times, January 9, 1958.
"Yacht Search Pressed", The New York Times, January 10, 1958.
"Conover Search Called Off", The New York Times, January 15, 1958.
KC-135 Stratotankers
"Second Area Of Debris Found In Hunt For Jets", The New York Times, August 31, 1963.
"Hunt For Tanker Jets Halted", The New York Times, September 3, 1963.
"Planes Debris Found In Jet Tanker Hunt", The Washington Post, August 30, 1963.
B-52 Bomber (Pogo 22)
"U.S.-Canada Test Of Air Defence A Success", The New York Times, October 16, 1961.
"Hunt For Lost B-52 Bomber Pushed In New Area", The New York Times, October 17, 1961.
"Bomber Hunt Pressed", The New York Times, October 18, 1961.
"Bomber Search Continuing", The New York Times, October 19, 1961.
"Hunt For Bomber Ends", The New York Times, October 20, 1961.
Charter vessel Sno'Boy
"Plane Hunting Boat Sights Body In Sea", The New York Times, July 7, 1963.
"Search Abandoned For 40 On Vessel Lost In Caribbean", The New York Times, July 11, 1963.
"Search Continues For Vessel With 55 Aboard In Caribbean", The Washington Post, July 6, 1963.
"Body Found In Search For Fishing Boat", The Washington Post, July 7, 1963.
SS Marine Sulphur Queen
"Tanker Lost In Atlantic; 39 Aboard", The Washington Post, February 9, 1963.
"Debris Sighted In Plane Search For Tanker Missing Off Florida", The New York Times, February 11, 1963.
"2.5 Million Is Asked In Sea Disaster", The Washington Post, February 19, 1963.
"Vanishing Of Ship Ruled A Mystery", The New York Times, April 14, 1964.
"Families Of 39 Lost At Sea Begin $20-Million Suit Here", The New York Times, June 4, 1969.
"10-Year Rift Over Lost Ship Near End", The New York Times, February 4, 1973.
SS Sylvia L. Ossa
"Ship And 37 Vanish In Bermuda Triangle On Voyage To U.S.", The New York Times, October 18, 1976.
"Ship Missing In Bermuda Triangle Now Presumed To Be Lost At Sea", The New York Times, October 19, 1976.
"Distress Signal Heard From American Sailor Missing For 17 Days", The New York Times, October 31, 1976.
Website links
The following websites have either online material that supports the
popular version of the Bermuda Triangle, or documents published from
official sources as part of hearings or inquiries, such as those
conducted by the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard. Copies
of some inquiries are not online and may have to be ordered; for
example, the losses of Flight 19 or USS Cyclops can be ordered direct
from the United States Naval Historical Center.
Most of the works listed here are largely out of print. Copies may be
obtained at your local library, or purchased used at bookstores, or
through eBay or Amazon.com. These books are often the only source material for some of the incidents that have taken place within the Triangle.
The Devil's Triangle, (1974), Richard Winer (ISBN 0-553-10688-0);
this particular book sold well over a million copies by the end of its
first year; to date there have been at least 17 printings.
