As we continue our journey past Florida, we also head into the area covered by the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean . The US Navy does not believe that the triangle exists, and the name is not recognized by the US Board on Geographic Names. Since the middle of the 20th Century, popular culture has attributed various disappearances of ships and planes to the paranormal or activity by extra-terrestrial beings.

The area covered by the Bermuda Triangle is one of the most heavily travelled shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and privately owned boats regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.

At one of the ships lectures, the lecturer noted that when you actually look at closely, the documented evidence for things happening in the triangle, indicates that a significant percentage of them were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors. A 2013 study identified the world's 10 most dangerous waters for shipping; unsurprisingly the Bermuda Triangle was not listed as one of them.

All I can say is that for somewhere so notorious, the weather is quite pleasant and the seas relatively calm.

Fun fact:
The actual boundaries of the triangle vary depending on who you ask. The three points are usually Miami, Florida peninsula; San Juan, Puerto Rico and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.