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Disappearances The Bermuda Triangle is on record as causing disappearances for at least 500 years. Some explanations for the disappearances involve weather. The disappearances may have been caused by waterspouts or freak waves. Waterspouts are tornadoes that touch down on water and cause huge water cyclones that can be hazardous to planes and ships. Freak waves are huge waves that happen without warning. Some freak waves can be 100 feet tall, and can easily sink many kinds of ships. Some other disappearance theories include the idea of a time warp in the Bermuda Triangle. The time warp’s location is not known. Others think that the planes and ships are sent to another time dimension. Some think it is just due to bad navigation. Others believe it has to do with the legendary lost city of Atlantis, a place of paradise that mysteriously sank into the ocean. It could be death rays from Atlantis. They believe there are magic crystals, left from the time of Atlantis, that make the ships sink. Some people believe it could be a reverse gravity field. The magnetic variation theory may indeed be the most logical. Check that you understand what these words mean in this document Hazardous: dangerous. Time warp: a theoretical change in the measurement of time in which people and events from one part of history are imagined as existing in another part. Freak: something or somebody who or which is unnatural or very unusual. Reverse: opposite. Magnetic variation: the angle between the magnetic north and the true north.