Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery

What a fantastic book! I was swept up early on! The author really knows how to keep a great mystery going! I was a little behind in the middle of the book when he got very technical about science related stuff. Somewhat over my head. And the Atlantis thing. A little "out there." But he has great research to support it, but it is highly speculative in our modern era, and quite complicated. Overall, I appreciated the fact that he covered every avenue of the Triangle, all the hoopla, all the speculation, all the history, all the possible scenarios. My husband is an airline pilot and has flown the area over and over with never a problem. Hmmmm. However, if you look at the history of missing ships and planes with never a trace to be found, it begs for more research. But today, few planes and few ships have any problems. Is this because our technology is newer and more sophisticated? But still how to explain planes on approach to Miami and St. Thomas when all of a sudden they are gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mystery indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great writer! Great book! Loved it so much I bought his other book!

This book presents a fascinating account of the riddles of the Bermuda Triangle and explores possible explanations. Bermuda Triange is well known not only for missing planes and vanished ships but also UFOs and sunken worlds. Areas in the Bahamas were reported to hold the remains of a vast prehistoric civilization that sank beneath the sea. UFOs and USOs were also frequently reported in the Binini area and other areas of the Bermuda Triangle. In particular, the stories of those who lived to tell are baffling. There are unexplained forces involving electronic drains, radio dead spots, power blackouts, compass malfunction, unusual fogs or flares. Countless theories have been proposed to explain the many disapperances within the Bermuda Triange. The most practical one for vanished ships seems to be environmental (e.g. unusual and extremely sudden winds or volatile weather) and human error. Persistence of unexplained electromagnetic field anomalies at places of most disappearances may suggest transient magnetic vortices there. Ships and planes traveling through or near these vortices might simply disappear by being held in time!

A very good and interesting book.

After reading Quasar's excellent book on Flight 19 I was looking forward to his same investigative style regarding the "Bermuda Triangle"...but I have to say I am disappointed. I think perhaps this book could use a rewrite, it certainly could have used an editor with some knowledge of the subject. Quasar does what a lot of authors have done, he starts the book by providing a long litany of disappearances of ships and aircraft going back not only decades but centuries, so many that it actually becomes tedious. After the first several dozen, we get the point. Unfortunately, as he himself points out, most of these incidents have little context, they are simply reported without any corroborating evidence or resolution, so any assumptions about a relationship to the Bermuda Triangle are just that, assumptions. Where this book starts to take a swerve off the road is when the author, in an attempt to build on the concept of unknown forces, possible natural, at work in the triangle, starts bringing in a lot of questionable information and references, like talking about the musings of psychic Edgar Cayce, for example, and his "visions" concerning ancient Atlantis. While this may have some tangential interest for those interested in the paranormal, it really has nothing to do with ships and planes disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The concept of an ancient, prehistoric civilization, either in the Caribbean (or anywhere else) is not supported by established archaeology or historical research, any such conjecture is in the realm of pseudo-science. Quasar then devotes a number of pages to the "work" of crank John Hutchinson, and his so-called Hutchinson Effect, which has not only never been corroborated by any independent scientific authority or institution, but has been admitted to be a hoax by Hutchinson himself. Yet Quasar treats it all very seriously as some unknown force that might be related to the "unknown forces" at work in the Triangle and perhaps used by the ancient Atlanteans! This is both absurd and embarrassing for any author purporting to be seriously researching this topic. Mr. Quasar mentions the Bimini "wall" and treats it as an actual ancient construct, even though it has long since been satisfactorily explained as a natural formation, and in fact there are a number of similar formations around the world. Legitimate archaeology does not accept this as an actual prehistoric mega-structure. There are no archaeological artifacts or other evidence on Bimini or anywhere in Bermuda that supports the idea of an ancient megalithic culture there. I was tempted to abandon the book at this point, but there was more to come, unfortunately. In the next section the author begins discussing past catastrophes and a global flood event which is also simply not supported by any established science. He even makes the claim that if the polar ice caps melted the Earth would be flooded, which is simply not true, though sea levels would rise significantly. It seems obvious that the author is really out of his element here, choosing to get his information from crank sources, or else just winging it without consulting legitimate experts on climate, geology, or archaeology. Sadly, I've lost respect for Mr. Quasar. He should rewrite this book or disown it, if he has any desire to be taken seriously. That being said, there is probably a lot here that will interest fans of the Bermuda Triangle "mystery", certainly I found the eyewitness accounts to be interesting and well presented, I just wish the pseudo-science had been left out of this book.

Great book for my 5th grader. Great for any kid that is interested in mysteries.

This book is in the direct vein of stuff like Chariots of the Gods. As a teenager, i grew up in the 1970's when this topic was really big. It is fascinating to find out that ships, boats, planes ARE STILL vanishing with people on them ever since the 70's, but nobody talks about it. I am talking hundreds of craft and numerous passengers and crew, right up until now. Plus, there are several documented close calls, where some almost got sucked into a mysterious vortex (both in the air and on the sea). Pretty creepy!!! This is no joke as the records and photos for the disappearances are actual Coast Guard and NOAA duty log books from over the years. They actually have copies of the logs and pictures in the book. If you are a fan of mysterious goings on here on planet earth, then you should read this book. My favorites are boats that are found abandoned with stuff still cooking on the stove and lap tops still on !! Or aircraft that call into air traffic control for standard approach info and vanish within visual distance of the island runway, never to be heard from again! Once you start reading this--you will not put it down.

Its been a long time to know the incidentstaken place in the Barmuda Triangle. This book covers a lot of such incidents as well as gives scientific reasons behind such incidents aginst the myth.

One of the best books on this subject that you can read.

A great deal of detailed information. Very interesting.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is very informative and unbiased. Pages after pages of facts. i havn't finished the book as it was damaged so i have to buy another in order to finish, but i lvoed it up to where i got to! a great addition to my library and a recommended for people any amount of knowledge of the Bermuda Triangle.

Personal curiosity. Next book to read.