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This is a list of incidents attributed in popular culture to the '''[[Bermuda Triangle]]''' or Devil's Triangle.

== Aircraft incidents ==
* 1945: July 10, Thomas Arthur Garner, AMM3, USN, along with eleven other crew members, was lost at sea in a US Navy PBM3S patrol seaplane, Bu. No.6545, Sqd VPB2-OTU#3, in the Bermuda Triangle. They left Naval Air Station, Banana River, Florida, at 7:07&nbsp;p.m. on July 9, 1945, for a radar training flight to Great Exuma, Bahamas. Their last radio position report was sent at 1:16&nbsp;a.m., July 10, 1945, with a latitude/longitude of 25.22N 77.34W, near Providence Island, after which they were never heard from again. An extensive ten-day surface and air search, including a carrier sweep, found nothing.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vpnavy.com/vp2mem.html | title=VPNAVY - VPB-2 Memorial Page }}</ref>
* 1945: December 5, [[Flight 19]] (five [[Grumman TBF Avenger|TBF Avengers]]) lost with 14 airmen, and later the same day [[Martin PBM Mariner|PBM Mariner]] BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while searching for Flight 19.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm|title=The Loss Of Flight 19|publisher=Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970709143048/https://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm|archive-date=July 9, 1997}}</ref>
* 1947: July 3, a [[Douglas C-54 Skymaster|Douglas C-54]] crashed off the Florida coast after the pilot lost control in turbulence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19470703-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-54G-1-DO Skymaster 45-519 Florida coast, USA|author=Harro Ranter|date=3 July 1947}}</ref> 
* 1948: January 30, [[Avro Tudor]] [[G-AHNP "Star Tiger"|G-AHNP ''Star Tiger'']] lost with six crew and 27 passengers, ''en route'' from [[Santa Maria Airport (Azores)|Santa Maria Airport]] in the [[Azores]] to [[Kindley Air Force Base|Kindley Field]], [[Bermuda]].<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480130-0 G-AHNP] Aviation Safety Network – Avro 688 Tudor 1 G-AHNP</ref>
* 1948: December 28, [[Douglas DC-3]] [[NC16002 disappearance|NC16002]] lost with three crew and 36 passengers, ''en route'' from [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], to [[Miami]], Florida.<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19481228-0 NC16002] Aviation Safety Network – Douglas DC-3DST-144 NC16002</ref>
* 1949: January 17, Avro Tudor [[G-AGRE "Star Ariel"|G-AGRE ''Star Ariel'']] lost with seven crew and 13 passengers, ''en route'' from [[Kindley Air Force Base|Kindley Field]], [[Bermuda]], to [[Norman Manley International Airport|Kingston Airport]], [[Jamaica]].<ref>[http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Coates/1422.htm G-AGRE] Avro 688 Tudor Mk.1 G-AGRE c/n 1253 – Jack McKillop</ref>
* 1965: June 9, A USAF [[C-119 Flying Boxcar]] of the [[440th Airlift Wing|440th Troop Carrier Wing]] missing between Florida and [[Grand Turk Island]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650605-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar 51-2680 Crooked Island, Bahamas|first=Harro|last=Ranter|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=15 July 2017}}</ref> The last call from the plane came from a point just north of [[Crooked Island, Bahamas]], and 177 miles from Grand Turk Island. On July 18, 1965, debris from the plane was found on the beach of Gold Rock Cay just off the northeastern shore of [[Acklins Island]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19650811&id=PVYaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ricEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4417,172414&hl=en|title=The Milwaukee Journal August 11, 1965|website=google.com|access-date=15 July 2017|archive-date=27 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727005408/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19650811&id=PVYaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ricEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4417,172414&hl=en|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1965: December 6, Private [[ERCO Ercoupe]] F01<ref>[The Legend lists plane loss as a "Cessna" But see NTSA report]</ref> lost with pilot and one passenger, ''en route'' from Ft. Lauderdale to Grand Bahamas Island.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=72540&key=0|title=NTSB Record as NTSB Identification: MIA66A0065|website=ntsb.gov|access-date=15 July 2017}}</ref>
* 2005: June 20, A [[Piper PA-23]] disappeared between [[Treasure Cay]] Island, Bahamas and [[Fort Pierce, Florida|Fort Pierce]], Florida. There were three people on board.<ref name="recent">{{cite web |url=http://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Recent_Disappearances_in_the_Bermuda_Triangle |title=Recent Disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle |work=lovetoknow.com |access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>
* 2017: February 23, The Turkish Airlines flight TK183 (an [[Airbus A330#A330-200|Airbus A330-200]]) was forced to change its direction from Havana, Cuba to Washington Dulles airport after some mechanical and electrical problems occurred over the triangle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kubaya-giden-thy-ucagi-abdye-zorunlu-inis-yapti-40375567|title=The Turkish Airlines plane ''en route'' to Cuba landed to the US|date=23 February 2017 }}</ref>
* 2017: May 15, A private [[Mitsubishi MU-2|MU-2B]] aircraft was at 24,000 feet when it vanished from radar and radio contact with air traffic controllers in Miami.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 May 2017 |title=U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for four whose plane was lost near Bahamas |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-airplane-missing/u-s-coast-guard-suspends-search-for-four-whose-plane-was-lost-near-bahamas-idUSKCN18F0Q3 |access-date=30 April 2023}}</ref> Plane wreckage was found later.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=195420|title=ASN Aircraft 15-MAY-2017 Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 N220N|first=Harro|last=Ranter|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=15 July 2017}}</ref>

==Incidents at sea==
* 1800: {{USS|Pickering|1798|6}}, on course from Guadeloupe to Delaware, lost with 91 people on board.<ref name=Berlitz77>Berlitz, Charles, and J. Manson Valentine. Without a Trace. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Print.</ref> (Possibly lost in a gale)
* 1814: {{USS|Wasp|1814|6}}, last known position was the Caribbean, lost with 140 people on board.<ref name=Berlitz77/> (Possibly lost in a storm)
* 1824: {{USS|Wild Cat|1822|6}}, on course from Cuba to Tompkins Island, lost with 14 people on board.<ref name=Berlitz77/> (Lost in a gale with 31 on board)
* 1840: ''Rosalie'', found abandoned.<ref name=Berlitz77/> (Possibly the "Rossini" found derelict)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_derelict_rosalie.html |title=The derelict Rosalie |work=www.bermuda-triangle.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305030805/http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_derelict_rosalie.html |archive-date=March 5, 2016 }}</ref>
* 1881: According to legend, a sailing ship, the ''Ellen Austin'', found a derelict vessel and placed a crew to sail the vessel to port. Two versions of what happened to the vessel are: the vessel was either lost in a storm or was found again without a crew. Lawrence David Kusche author of "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" found no mention in 1880 or 1881 newspapers of this alleged incident-he did trace the legend to a book by Rupert Gould "The Stargazer Talks" published in 1943. The ''Ellen Austin'' did exist; a check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of ''Meta'', built in 1854, and that in 1880, ''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 although one website includes the alleged derelict vessel incident it does find that Rupert Gould talked about the legend on radio in the 1930s;<ref name="Sometimes Interesting">{{Cite web|url=http://sometimes-interesting.com/2015/12/10/the-ellen-austin-encounter/|title=The Ellen Austin Encounter|last=Sometimes Interesting|date=2015-12-10|website=Sometimes Interesting|access-date=2017-07-17}}</ref> likewise the website traces the derelict story to a June 1906 newspaper story-which claims the derelict ship incident took place in 1891;<ref name="Sometimes Interesting"/> however the 1906 story does not give a reference of where this story came from.
* 1918: {{USS|Cyclops|AC-4|6}}, collier, left [[Barbados]] on March 4, lost with all 306 crew and passengers en route to [[Baltimore, Maryland]].<ref>[http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c/cyclops.htm USS Cyclops] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100810203810/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c/cyclops.htm|date=2010-08-10}} Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center – Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</ref>
* 1921: January 31, ''[[Carroll A. Deering]]'', five-masted schooner, Captain W. B. Wormell, found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JuNcIrkjx8C|title=Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals|last=Simpson|first=Bland|publisher=UNC Press Books|date=2005|isbn=9780807856178}}</ref>
* 1925: December 1, {{SS|Cotopaxi}}, having departed [[Charleston, South Carolina]] two days earlier bound for [[Havana, Cuba]], radioed a [[Distress signal|distress call]] reporting that the ship was sinking. She was officially listed as overdue on 31 December.<ref name=Times311225>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Mails and Shipping |date=31 December 1925 |page=18 |issue=44157 |column=D}}</ref> In 1985 an unknown shipwreck was found off St Augustine, Florida; in 2020 it was identified as the remains of the SS Cotopaxi.<ref>[https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a30714772/ss-cotopaxi-ghost-ship-found/ Popular Mechanics 2020]</ref>
* 1941: {{USS|Proteus|AC-9}}, lost with all 58 persons on board in heavy seas, having departed [[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]] in the [[Virgin Islands]] with a cargo of bauxite on 23 November. The following month, her sister ship {{USS|Nereus|AC-10}} was lost with all 61 persons on board, having also departed St. Thomas with a cargo of bauxite, on 10 December. According to research by Rear Admiral George van Deurs, USN, who was familiar with this type of ship from their service in the USN, the acidic coal cargo would seriously erode the longitudinal support beams, making these aging and poorly constructed colliers extremely vulnerable to breaking up in heavy seas.<ref name="familyheritage">{{cite web|url=http://familyheritage.ca/Articles/merchant1.html|title=Naval History.ca – History of the Royal Canadian Navy – Canadian Merchant Ship Losses, 1939–1945|author=Rob Fisher}}</ref> They were both sister ships of the USS Cyclops.
* 1958: ''Revonoc''. A 43-foot racing [[yawl]] was lost with owner Harvey Conover and four others aboard, between Key West and Miami in a hurricane. The only trace found was the ''Revonoc'''s 14-foot skiff, near [[Jupiter, Florida]].<ref>[https://www.si.com/vault/1958/01/20/570455/nature-keeps-a-grim-date-at-sea Nature Keeps a Grim Date at sea Sports Illustrated January 20, 1958 Archive accessed September 29,2018]</ref>
* 1967: December 22, Miami hotel owner and yachtsman Dan Burack set out on his [[cabin cruiser]] ''Witchcraft'' with a priest named Patrick Horgan.<ref name="Cock-Starkey 2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84242/7-ships-disappeared-without-trace|title=7 Ships That Disappeared Without a Trace|last=Cock-Starkey|first=Claire|date=August 5, 2016|website=[[Mental Floss]]|access-date=June 4, 2021}}</ref>{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=20}} The ship was taken one mile off the Miami coastline so that Burack and Horgan could view the [[Christmas lights]] visible from the shore.<ref name="Cock-Starkey 2016" />{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=20}} That night, Burack radioed a distress call to the Coast Guard, informing them that the boat's propeller had struck something underwater, and that the vessel would need to be towed in.{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=20}} The Coast Guard requested that he send up a flare in roughly 20 minutes so that the boat could be more easily located.{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=20}} The official who received the call reportedly later noted that Burack did not seem too concerned about the ''Witchcraft'',<ref name="Cock-Starkey 2016" /> a boat that Burack had fitted with a special floatation device in its hull.{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=22}} When the Coast Guard arrived at the location from which Burack called, he, Horgan, and the ''Witchcraft'' were nowhere to be found.<ref name="Cock-Starkey 2016" />{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=22}} Over the following days, a search was conducted over hundreds of square miles of ocean, but the boat and its passengers were never found.<ref name="Cock-Starkey 2016" />{{sfn|Stewart|2009|p=23}}
* 2015: Late July, two 14-year-old boys, [[Disappearance of Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos|Austin Stephanos, and Perry Cohen]] went on a fishing trip in their 19-foot boat. Despite the 15,000 square nautical mile wide search by the Coast Guard,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://madmikesamerica.com/2015/07/2-boys-in-a-fishing-boat-vanish-in-the-bermuda-triangle/|title=2 Boys in a Fishing Boat Vanish In the Bermuda Triangle|date=26 July 2015|website=madmikesamerica.com|access-date=15 July 2017}}</ref> the pair's boat was found a year later off the coast of [[Bermuda]], but the boys were never seen again.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cbs12.com/news/local/one-year-later-austin-perry-boat-found|title=One Year Later: Austin & Perry Boat Found|first=Greg|last=Angel|website=cbs12.com|access-date=15 July 2017|date=2017-04-23}}</ref>

== Incidents on land ==
* 1969: August, [[Great Isaac Lighthouse]] ([[Bimini]], [[Bahamas]]), during a hurricane, two keepers disappeared and were never found.<ref name="Quasar, Gian 2004">Quasar, Gian. ''Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery'' (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2004), Chapter 3: The Riddle of the Vanished Ships, p.71.</ref>

== References ==
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|last=Stewart|first=Gail B.|date=2009|title=The Bermuda Triangle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aFp1DDcCUCUC|publisher=ReferencePoint Press, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60152-336-5}}

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060709202845/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-2.htm The Bermuda Triangle: A Selective Bibliography]
* [http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/moa/reportindexcas.htm United States Coast Guard casualty reports]

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