However, when we take the time to learn more about these events and not jump to conclusions, they start to look much more ordinary.

In some cases there's no record of the ships and planes claimed to have been lost in the aquatic triangular graveyard; they never existed outside of a writer's imagination. In other cases, the ships and planes were real enough — but Berlitz and others neglected to mention that they "mysteriously disappeared" during bad storms. Other times the vessels sank far outside the Bermuda Triangle. TBM-3 Avenger ( BuNo: 53118) – Mystery Solved!", AeroQuest, April 18, 2014, archived from the original on March 23, 2018 , retrieved March 22, 2018 This report was subsequently amended "cause unknown" by the Navy after Taylor's mother contended that the Navy was unfairly blaming her son for the loss of 5 aircraft and 14 men, when the Navy had neither the bodies nor the airplanes as evidence. [8] The Gaddis Argosy article delineated the boundaries of the triangle, [9] giving its vertices as Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda. Subsequent writers did not necessarily follow this definition. [16] Some writers gave different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying from 1,300,000 to 3,900,000km 2 (500,000 to 1,510,000sqmi). [16] "Indeed, some writers [ who?] even stretch it as far as the Irish coast." [2] Consequently, the determination of which accidents occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reported them. [16] Criticism of the concept Larry KuscheGolden, Tim (June 5, 1991). "Mystery of Bermuda Triangle Remains One". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017 . Retrieved September 10, 2014. The undersea explorers who announced last month that they might have discovered five Navy planes that vanished mysteriously in 1945, laying a foundation for the myth of a craft-swallowing Caribbean twilight zone, said that on closer inspection, the planes they found turned out not to be those of the fabled 'Flight 19.' ... Mr. Hawkes said at a news conference that in four of the five cases, the tail numbers of the planes his team had found did not match those of the lost aircraft. The Legend Of The Ghost Ship: Carroll A. Deering". National Park Foundation. November 2, 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-12-09 . Retrieved January 13, 2023.

As noted in the report, Taylor refused to change the radio training frequency to the search and rescue radio frequency. (The training frequency was difficult to use because of interference from Cuban radio stations and also a radio carrier wave.) Persons accepting the Bermuda Triangle as a real phenomenon have offered a number of explanatory approaches. The Loss of Flight 19". history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 2009-04-13 . Retrieved 2006-09-20.One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. [34] Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958. [35] Violent weather a b c Mayell, Hillary (December 15, 2003). "Bermuda Triangle: Behind the Intrigue". National Geographic. p.2. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019 . Retrieved March 10, 2008. Group, David (1984). The Evidence for the Bermuda Triangle. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-413-X.