Although people throughout the world have built swimming pools to help cool off in the summer and get some low-impact exercise, humans have been swimming before anyone ever got that idea. And while the risk of drowning is always there, most people have been able to safely swim in a wide variety of the world’s gorgeous natural bodies of water.
However, not every lake, pond, bay, and sea was created equal. Although some of these places are as calm as they are beautiful, others use their beauty as a siren call that conceals some serious dangers underneath the surface. Be warned before going anywhere near any of these savage swimming spots.
The Bermuda Triangle
After centuries of mysterious disappearances, The Bermuda Triangle has developed a supernatural reputation for whisking ships, planes, and people away to their likely doom. However, even more mundane explanations establish this nautical region as an extremely dangerous part of the world. But rather than otherworldly phenomena, the National Ocean Service identified three natural occurrences that explain these disappearances.
The Bermuda Triangle has a lot of surprisingly shallow areas where ships can run aground, and its Gulf Stream can also influence radical and sudden shifts in the area’s weather patterns. Perhaps the biggest danger in the Bermuda Triangle, however, is its position. That’s because the majority of the hurricanes and other tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean pass through The Bermuda Triangle at some point.