13. The Bermuda Triangle was not included in a 2013 survey of the world’s most dangerous waters
In 2013, the World Wide Fund for Nature conducted a survey of the world’s most dangerous seas, based on the number of shipwrecks and their potential impact on marine life. The Bermuda Triangle did not make the grade. Strange that an area alleged by supporters of the myth as being the most dangerous track of ocean in the world should not be considered so by scientific reasoning. Or, maybe not so strange. In creating the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, writers and researchers used sloppy techniques, circular reporting, and creative invention. Statistically, their claims of the numbers of sinkings and disappearances attributed to the triangle are skewed. Many moved accidents from outside the triangle into it. In one case, written by Berlitz, a ship was described as leaving an Atlantic port, never to be seen again.
In truth, a ship of the same name sank in the Pacific, and no record exists of the voyage mentioned by Berlitz. Another often cited victim of the triangle is the tanker V. A. Fogg, which exploded and sank in 1972. In 1969 John Wallace Spencer in his book Limbo of the Lost described the only body to be found was that of the captain, sitting at his desk. The Coast Guard found and recovered several bodies from the wreckage, refuting yet another triangle myth. The V. A. Fogg wreck shouldn’t have been assigned to the Bermuda Triangle at any rate. The ship exploded off the coast of Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of miles from the accepted bounds of the Bermuda Triangle. The same is true of many so-called triangle victims, adding to the myth, but unsupported by facts.