Why Bermuda Triangle has claimed so many ships and planes?

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These are just a few of the theories that have been postulated as to why the Bermuda Triangle has claimed so many ships and planes:
  1. THE WEATHER. The Triangle's location in the Caribbean makes it subject to unpredictable weather changes, ones that especially prey on inexperienced navigators and/or smaller, weaker boats and planes. Water spouts, sudden thunderstorms, and the like can catch a careless pilot unawares. The Gulf Stream also is brutal in that region and can easily sweep away any evidence of a disaster.
  2. THE LOCATION. Located on the 80th longitude, it's one of two areas on Earth where a compass will point at true north rather than at magnetic north. This compass variation can be as much as 20 degrees, enough to throw one catastrophically off-course. (The other spot is the "Devil's Sea" located off the east coast of Japan, also the site of many a lost vessel.)
  3. THE SEABED. In the 19th century, many sailors in Key West, Fla., made their living as wreckers, salvaging ships that rode up on the reefs off the coast of Florida. The seabed in the vicinity is incredibly hazardous, filled with reefs and constantly shifting. Weather patterns there create new undersea topography and have produced some of the deepest marine trenches in the world. (The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest point in the Atlantic, at 27,500 feet.)
  4. THE LOST CITY. Legends about the lost city of Atlantis have abounded for thousands of years. One of its alleged locations is at the heart of the Bermuda Triangle. Some proponents of this theory speculate that the cataclysm which is said to have claimed Atlantis might well be the very first recorded incidence of the Bermuda Triangle's destructive power.
  5. GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. The Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) are located in the Bermuda Triangle. Sometimes called the "underwater Area 51," the U.S. Navy's research center is a top-secret facility whose exact mission statement is not known to the general public.
  6. THE COMET. A comet of unknown composition is believed to have crashed to Earth 11,000 years ago and embedded itself in the Bermuda Triangle, beneath the ocean floor. If such an object is there, it could still possess electromagnetic properties that we don't entirely understand.
  7. HUMAN ERROR. It might not be the wrath of Mother Nature, the mystery of odd phenomena, or the treachery of the U.S. government that causes ships and planes to vanish in the Bermuda Triangle; sometimes, people simply make tragic mistakes.
  8. UFO. Some theorists claim extraterrestrials are the reason of disappearances by abducting ships and aircraft. [citation needed] This was given a boost when topics like ESP, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and the like flowered in the middle-to-late 1960s, and was used as storylines for popular films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The UFO Incident.