It also has the highest number of missing people who are never found. In 2007, for instance, 2,833 people were reported missing, and when compared to the state’s comparatively low population of around 670,000 at the time, that equates to about 4 in every 1,000 people a staggering amount. In 2007, Alaska state troopers added 2,833 missing person notices to their Missing Persons Clearinghouse that maintains all related information. In a state with just over 670,000 residents, that figure averages out to about four in every 1,000 people.Īlong with missing persons reports, state troopers oversee search and rescue operations. In 2007, they performed 42 missions related to overdue hikers, 85 related to overdue boaters and 100 related to overdue snow machine operators who were temporarily missing. There are many more just like it, but the Bermuda Triangle is certainly the most famous one.The Civil Air Service also assists with search and rescue missions, and Alaska's branch received the most state funding and saved the most lives in 2006 out of all other state branches.
Scientists aren’t really sure why.įor what it’s worth, the Bermuda Triangle is just one of the ten Vile Vortices around the world. Microbursts aren’t technically very common occurrences, but the Bermuda Triangle seems to be a hotspot for this kind of activity. This is for sure an interesting theory that makes a lot of sense. These incredible forces of nature have been responsible for the loss of more than 1,000 lives in the past 100 years, and at least four planes and 20 ships are said to go missing on an annual basis.
In a microburst, a high-speed burst of air exits the clouds in the sky and forces its way down towards the Earth's surface or in this case, the Atlantic Ocean. “Most of the time, clouds are random in their distribution.” “They are formed by what are called microbursts and they're blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud and then hit the ocean and then create waves that can sometimes be massive in size as they start to interact with each other,” Meteorologist Randy Cerveny explains. These ‘air bombs,’ more prominently known to the world as microbursts, can occur in certain atmospheric conditions and can literally swat a plane out of the air and over-turn large ships with Hurricane-force wind speeds of more than 170 miles per hour.
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