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王海峰原创免费资源。 未经授权，禁止用于任何以营利为目的的商业出版活动。 B6 Unit 5 The power of nature Bermuda Triangle - Facts and Myths By the simplest of all definitions, Bermuda Triangle is located off the South - Eastern coast of the United States and forms a triangular zone in the Atlantic Ocean. The three corners of the triangle are: Miami (in Florida); San Juan (in Puerto Rico); and Bermuda (a north-Atlantic island on which it has been so named). The American author Vincent Gaddis was the first to define this boundary in 1964 in an issue of the magazine named Argosy and called the area The Deadly Bermuda Triangle. However over the years, several other authors kept extending the area beyond its original boundary because they seemed to identify mysterious incidents in nearby areas as well. More than 1,000 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangle area over the past five centuries and such mysterious incidents on the Atlantic continue to take place even at present days. So getting excited already? Well, the facts however are quite far from what is generally known or believed to be true. Many stories and myths have been created by writers through pure imagination which they used wildly to draw publicity to their books. In many cases, the facts got confused. Many theories, disputes and opposite arguments have come up over the years challenging the mysteries that cre