• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    You know what. God dammit. He’s closer than a lot of people said to be lost to the Bermuda Triangle.

    The Bermuda Triangle doesn’t really exist, so it’s boundaries are kind of fluid. When depicted on a map, it’s usually drawn from the speck on the map that is Bermuda 400 miles East of North Carolina, down to somewhere on the North Coast of Puerto Rico, then over to…somewhere on the Florida Foreskin, often Ft. Lauderdale or Miami.

    Though I have seen the Bermuda Triangle drawn…however the fuck the author wants to. I’ve seen it drawn as a triangle centered on Bermuda with vertexes in Galveston, Natal and Cork, which is basically the entire mid-Atlantic.

    The Carroll A. Deering, a 5 masted American schooner launched in 1919, was found run aground without her crew near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921. She was last seen with a crew on board as she passed the Cape Lookout light ship and actually spoke via bullhorn. So the entire mystery took place in Carolinian waters, ~400 miles from the nearest edge of the (typical) Triangle.

    Meanwhile, if you use the typical Ft. Lauderdale - San Juan - St. George vertexes, Daytona Beach is about 220 miles outside the triangle. But if you’re willing to put the corner of the triangle at the Hooters on International Speedway Boulevard, you could legitimately say Dale Earnhardt died inside the Bermuda Triangle.

    I want to take a bath now.