Computer studies of ocean floors around the world, particularly the area known as The Bermuda Triangle, reveal evidence of massive methane explosions in the past. For years, believers in the paranormal, aliens, and other outlandish theories pointed to the the disappearance of ships and aircraft as an indicator of mysterious forces at work in the "Devil's triangle." Scientists have finally pointed the rest of us to a more plausible cause.
The presence of methane hydrates indicates enormous eruptions of methane bubbles that would swamp a ship, and projected high into the air- take out flying airplanes, as well.
Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting.
Link (image: NOAA's National Ocean Service [Flickr])
Therefore, by extrapolation, the biggest methane producers in the sea are whales and a reduction in their numbers should solve the problem of the Bermuda Triangle.
Or,,, wait a minute! Am I getting science mixed up with politics? NAH. Couldn't be. =b
How many planes and ships have disappeared at sea where there are cows? Does the Bermuda Triangle(tm) extend to Wisconsin? ;)
This whole story seems to have been concocted from something that produces methane.
This: "Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting."
Is completely wrong. The density at which an aircraft engine would stall or ignite the methane can not occur in nature outside of a subterranean area. What can happen is that since methane is significantly lighter then air if can through the aircraft readings off leading pilots to believe that they are suddenly climbing very rapidly, when they are not, they send the plane into a dive which they believe will correct this false reading and then splash.
The alleged reports are all poor journalism and rumour. Many flights claimed to have been lost were never missing or were found and never reported on. Looking through the statistics, per voyage (given how busy the area is) there are fewer aircraft and water vessel incidents in that area than outside of it.
The phenomenon of why arm-chair scientists try to solve a myth when they don't bother doing the ground research on the initial assumption is far more of a mystery than the legend itself. :P
(1) Navigation errors (human error). There are a lot of idiots in this area who know nothing about boating.
(2) White Squalls. I've been in a couple. They are super intense thunderstorms. They only last a few minutes. Everything turns white and you can tell where the ocean and rain separate. If you don't have good equipment, or panic, you will sink. I'd hate to fly through one in a small plane. It would slam you into the sea. It is sort of like being hit by a tornado.
(3) Narco Pirates (in the 70s and 80s). This explains the boat disappearances on perfect clear days. A little fast speedboat runs up, shoots all aboard, and then they use your boat for a one time drug run from Columbia. Takes all of 30 seconds, no time for distress calls. They don't care, and they sink the boat after the run and just pirate another one for their next job.
Our GPS went out, so there were navigators bitching about having to use a sextant.
Plus, in engineering, we had a steam-powered main feed pump just quit working. It was the darndest thing. We had the MPA, Cheng and C.O. down in the pit trying to figure out why the damn pump wouldn't work.
When we got back close to Norfolk, everything just started working again.
Something *is* screwed up in the triangle, and it doesn't have anything to do with any damned methane bubbles.
The Bermuda Triangle is also known for both piracy, geomagnetic anomalies, and the usual oceanic sudden storms. Sudden disappearances in that area aren't such stretch to the imagination. My guess is the Dragon Triangle is also such a place of mystery and scary stories. However, these dangers are real in quite a few places; not just those two, and for much the same reasons.
:) No, but Larry's work isn't the only research I've seen on the topic. I'm also quite used to advocates on paranormal explanations being rather sloppy researchers who readily assume the mystery is really mysterious and then proceed to try to cobble together ad-hoc explanations. Those to tend to go back to the beginning quickly find there isn't much of a legend to go on.
That alone should convince us that the Bermuda Triangle(tm) is a load of dingos' kidneys!
Did they draw any connections between it and the Face on Mars(tm)?
The real explanation of the Bermuda Triangle mystery is that there is no mystery to begin with.
http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html
The most plausible explanation is that there isn't anything to the Bermuda Triangle. A lot of accounts of mysterious disappearances in the area never happened there.
Also, it's the ocean: crashed planes or sunken ships tend to disappear when they sink to the bottom of the ocean.
The truth is generally disappointingly ordinary.
Proposing methane bubbles to explain the Bermuda Triangle is like proposing solar storms to explain Sudden Kitten Levitation - since the phenomenon itself is a fantasy, there's really nothing to explain!
they did it -- at least for ships. it's also been tested on other shows, and usually and shown feasible (whether it's plausible is another story, but I believe MB at least concluded that such rising bubbles were indeed capable of taking down a ship.
>> The bubbles of methane are actually methane hydrate which is "frozen" underneath the ground at the bottom of the ocean. It is formed when bubbles of methane are trapped in water ice crystals and in specific conditions, the methane can be released causing these bubbles.
doesn't ice (especially ice with methane in it)..um, float? or are we talking ice-that-turned-to-stone at some point before being at the bottom of the ocean?
this news is so old i had to check what year it was.
(note the date on the article)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/22/1066631498889.html
we are fed the same crap over and over and over and over and..
While I can not remember how plausible the scientist's credentials were, I thought it was an interesting segment.
So what scientists are saying is FARTS are being lighted in the big bathtub known as the Bermuda Triangle?
And ships, airplanes and probably rubber duckies are sinking to the bottom bas a result?
I live in Miami and there have been plenty of days when the air has smelled terrible! Finally the truth comes out!
Barry Obama said:
"Is there some way I can tax this?"
Pfffft...I know of a really easy and efficient way you could do that, no problem. Buuuut, I won't divulge the details of that plan unless you pay me a $2M consulting fee. In cash. I've got a convenient meeting place, it's about 150 miles due east of Miami, accessible only by seaplane. Just keep flying east from the coast until you see glowing lights and lose all instrumentation. I'll be waiting there for you...promise!
I like the idea of pirates. If I were a Narcopirate (whatever that is) I would totally target that area as a missing boat would raise less suspicion.
Also, have loved Neatorama long time. You must be getting popular if you get lame /b/ children commenting.
They told there were monsters or dragons or ghosts.
Only to keep people away from hidden treasury or gold away from pirates.
I think Atlantis is there, filled with newest technology, unknown for here on earth. free energy modules. ZPM zero point modules.
What happens, earth runs out of oil,
Amerika reveals new technology. and keeps others away from it.
Did you imprison a man who has seen you found a diamond mine, and starts calling friends, to help him gather the(your) diamonds?
Bermuda triangle is a scam, to keep people out of it.
is there any plane or boat missing reported in that area?
no, all ships and planes missing in that area have not been reported. the revelaed sunken ships and planes all missed the black box.
They keep something secret. overthere
Ron Larson's explanation seems more logical.
You should dismiss the stupid title of the article as another stupid attempt by a journalist to sensationalize a story. Idiot journalists do that all the time.....falsely characterize what the article really means by using a sensational title. You should be intelligent enough to see that for yourself.
Read what Athon says.
So we don't need new explanations for a non-existing phenomenon!
http://salem-news.com/articles/august132010/bermuda-triangle-ma.php
It should be the final solution
i understand the thing , but what is it about the fog????????????????????????????
Bruce Gernon is the only person in the world to witness what creates the Bermuda Triangle. Others have seen parts of this phenomenon and some have seen it but vanished. Gernon is the only one to see this from its birth stage through its mature stage and enter the heart of the Timestorm and escape through a Tunnel Vortex and experience a time warp of 30 minutes forward in time and 100 miles forward in space.
who can explain about it?????????
what about the flight 19 incident??
its debris was found in a lake if i m right.........
i agree with dean
Chootiya bana raha hai Chodeeka....
pata nahi to gand nahi maraaneka.... Maamu
for revealing the reason and cause of the bermuda triangle which had wonned me a bet with my friends...........
ABOUT THE MALFUNCTIONING OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENTS WELL THATS GREAT YOU WONT NEED ANY HIGHTECH EQUIPMENTS TO GET THERE THAT SAVES YOU A LOT OF MONEY TO PLUNDER THE TREASURE THAT AWAITS YOU THERE. AND IF PIRATES WERE ACTUALLY THERE WELL YOU DONT NEED TO WORRY BECAUSE THERES NOTHING FOR THEM TO TAKE FROM YOU HEHE! (EXCEPT YOUR LIFE MAYBE) BUT THATS A CHANCE YOU MUST TAKE TO GET TO THE TREASURE AND AT THE SAME TIME SOLVE THE MYSTERY ITSELF! ITS A WIN WIN SITUATION WITH CERTAIN RISKS OFCORSE!
PERHAPS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH IS THERE! WOW IMMORALITY AWAITS YOU THERE! LIFE IS SHORT ANYWAY! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE!
NOBODY FINDS OUT BECAUSE NOBODY IS TAKING THAT RISK TO GO THERE DUE TO FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN AND CERTAIN DEATH. BUT WHAT IF THEY ARE WRONG AND I AM RIGHT?
SORRY I CANT GO THERE MYSELF COZ I DONT HAVE A BOAT AND IM SO FAR AWAY I CANT EVEN LEAVE MY COUNTRY BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NEAR THAT PLACE AND HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO GO THERE! GOOD LUCK AND GODSPEED! IF YOU EVER DECIDE TO GO!
how can Methane GAS do all that??
i mean Black hole
the bermuda triangle starts from the horizon seen from the beaches of bermuda . no one can really see the bermuda triangle from shore . the US navy and airforce shoot down at wtv comes into the territory ... reason why you dont find any sunken ships/planes is that , they dont sink as ships or plane . they go down as debris . all into pieces . there was a lot of trade happening between africa and america in the 17th and 18th century . if such a triangle had really existed , they would have done something about it . a detour route would have been established 200 years ago .
what do you think about NASA . are they fools .. ?
how long would it take for them to find out the reasons of such a mystery (providded if there was one) ....
an aircraft can always be tracked down by its black box .which can never be destroyed . then where are the boxes of these sunken planes ??? ... USA , u have created a wonderful story for the past 80 years so that u can test all your missiles and nuclear weopons in that triangle and no one would notice . if someone notices , u'll kill them . bloody F***s ...
if methane concentration is so high , aquatic life will be disturbed . u will see small bubbles constantly on the water surface . well , as u said , if the bermuda triangle really existed , the amount of methane that came out from the triangle for the past 5 million years would have destroyed the earth completely and it would have been like venus 2 million years ago ...
WELL DONE USA .... YOUR CODE HAS BEEN FINALLY CRACKED .
that's not enouth to know what is the problem there.
tell me more.
the bermuda triangle starts from the horizon seen from the beaches of bermuda . no one can really see the bermuda triangle from shore . the US navy and airforce shoot down at wtv comes into the territory ... reason why you dont find any sunken ships/planes is that , they dont sink as ships or plane . they go down as debris . all into pieces . there was a lot of trade happening between africa and america in the 17th and 18th century . if such a triangle had really existed , they would have done something about it . a detour route would have been established 200 years ago .
what do you think about NASA . are they fools .. ?
how long would it take for them to find out the reasons of such a mystery (providded if there was one) ....
an aircraft can always be tracked down by its black box .which can never be destroyed . then where are the boxes of these sunken planes ??? ... USA , u have created a wonderful story for the past 80 years so that u can test all your missiles and nuclear weopons in that triangle and no one would notice . if someone notices , u'll kill them . bloody F***s ...
if methane concentration is so high , aquatic life will be disturbed . u will see small bubbles constantly on the water surface . well , as u said , if the bermuda triangle really existed , the amount of methane that came out from the triangle for the past 5 million years would have destroyed the earth completely and it would have been like venus 2 million years ago ...
WELL DONE USA .... YOUR CODE HAS BEEN FINALLY CRACKED .
I BELIEVE THIS ONE .. a normal life is too boring