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In the early 20th century, when modern transportation and communication systems developed, Bermuda became a popular destination for wealthy American, British, and Canadian tourists. In addition, the tariff decreed by the United States in 1930 damaged the agricultural export trade - mainly of fresh vegetables with the United States - thereby stimulating the development of the tourist industry in the overseas territory, which, after international trade, is the second in economic importance of the island.



During World War II, Bermuda rose to prominence as a military base due to its strategic position on the Atlantic Ocean. In 1941, the United States signed a loan-lease agreement with the United Kingdom, giving the British the American army destroyers to spare in exchange for lease rights for 99 years, to establish naval and air bases in Bermuda. ]. The bases consisted of 5.8 square kilometers (2.25 sq mi.) Of land, largely reclaimed from the sea. The US Naval Air Station was on Saint David's Island, while its Annex was at the western end of the island, at the Great Anchorage.



Since September 1, 1995, both bases were closed, since they were British and Canadian bases on the island. Unresolved questions about the withdrawal of US forces in 1995 - mainly related to environmental factors - delayed the formal return of the lowlands to the government of Bermuda. The United States formally returned the land from its bases in 2002.







Bermuda (Bermuda, in English), is an archipelago of North America in the Atlantic Ocean, which is part of the British Overseas Territory. It is one of the 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories under the supervision of the United Nations Committee on Decolonization, in order to eliminate colonialism.

The discovery is attributed to Juan Bermúdez, from Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, Spain), at the beginning of the 16th century, probably in 1503.



Bermuda Triangle

Although the mystery dates back to the mid-19th century, most of the alleged disappearances have occurred since 1945.

As of this date, it is said that more than a thousand people have been lost, in the air or at sea, without having been able to recover a single body.



One of the legends of the island is that of a French citizen, Robert Lamaison, who is said to be a great alchemist, who in 1685 found a huge fortune in gold and valuable jewels while navigating around the Triangle of Las Bermuda. Legend has it that Robert Lamaison, possessor of esoteric knowledge, periodically reincarnates, being born in the years ´´61´´ of each century.



Other legends of the region speak of boats found abandoned with food still warm on the tables, and planes that disappeared without even having launched a call for help. It is said that sometimes live animals have been found adrift in boats or boats, such as dogs or canaries, but never anyone who could tell what happened. Others allege that the absence of remains, since in most cases they disappear completely, could be due to strong currents (both marine and wind) and the depth of the waters.



These stories have contributed to increase tourism in the ´´Las Bermuda´´ area.



Other researchers, including Jacques Cousteau himself, have stated that in this part of the Atlantic there is nothing especially mysterious or different from what can be found anywhere else in the ocean.



The University of Arizona librarian and pilot Lawrence Kusche studied the cases published by authors such as Chaerles Berliz as mysterious disappearances and concluded that many of them were ships and planes that never existed, others had disappeared on other dates and in other regions of the planet. and those that did exist, such as the US bombers that disappeared in the late 1940s (the Grumman TBF Avenger from Flight 19), they did so after several hours of flight trying to find visual references to return to base and completely exhaust their fuel. , without ever losing contact on the radio, as the BBC demonstrated. The seaplane that disappeared in their rescue belonged to a model with numerous explosions in flight due to the lack of security in the fuel tanks (PBM Mariner flying boat). Finally, concluded the BBC program, rescue experts report that not finding the remains of a shipwreck or splashdown is completely normal because the water dissolves a good part of the stains and the remains are scattered until they are almost irrecoverable; that is one of the reasons why ships and black boxes are equipped with radio beacons to mark their location.

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