Researchers in the US claim they have discovered the answer to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. 

 

美国的研究者声称已经破解了百慕大三角之谜。
 

 

Covering more than half a million square miles of ocean located between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rica, the term "Bermuda Triangle" was first coined by writer Vincent H. Gaddis in 1964.

 

The area is notorious for (legend has it) the unusually high number of planes and ships that go missing there without trace. 

 

In a new Science Channel documentary, meteorologists claim that an unusual type of cloud located in the region could be behind a number of the disappearances¹. 

 

The hexagonal-shaped clouds, measuring between 20 and 50 miles across, can cause extremely localised high winds which, they speculate, could be the cause of some of the previously-unexplained incidents. 

 

These types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence, 'air bombs,'' said Dr Randy Cerveny of Arizona State University. 

 

They're formed by what are called microbursts. 

 

They're blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of the clouds and hit the ocean, and they create waves that can sometimes be massive in size once they start to interact with each other."

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