Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved



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])

Obviously, the triangle must be a gathering ground for whales. I know from personal experience, seafood creates terrible intestinal gas, methane. As some eminent U.S. scientists have deduced, on land the biggest methane producers, by population density, are cows. And a reduction in their number would solve the methane problem.
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
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So--
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.
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Discovery ran a special on this a few years ago.

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.
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The real secret of the Bermuda Triangle is that the rate of ships or planes disappearing is the same as for any other area of ocean of a similar size with a similar amount of traffic in it. There simply isn't an anomoly.
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|if this was a true "breakthrough", it lacks further explanation... plus I've heard and read this theory so many times before, but why wasn't it confirmed if it was obviously the reason why?
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There is a far simpler explanation that fits the evidence much, much better - there is nothing unusual about the Bermuda Triangle. In fact, if anything, there is a slight (statistically non-significant) favour towards it being safer than other oceanic areas.

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
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I use to sail all the time in that area. I always believed it to be exaggerations. Of the real lost planes and ships, I attribute them to three things:

(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.
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I was in the Navy when our ship went through the triangle and that place is screwy.

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.
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Large amounts of plant material which eventually fall and die can, in large amounts, periodically produce the kind of methane bubbles they're describing. The eastern end of the Bermuda Triangle is also a part of the 'Sargasso Sea', known for it's large amounts of sea weed. It's been quite thoroughly proven that yes, under the right conditions (big enough bubble, or an overweight ship perhaps) a methane bubble in the water can indeed sink a vessel. A plane? The demonstrations I've seen don't indicate much to bet on. Sudden exhalations of gas can also be caused by volcanic activity, which has been noted in the Dragon's Triangle just south of Japan.

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.
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@BenEshbach
:) 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.
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ETA: Not saying the methane bubble explanations are paranormal. However, even in a rush to provide 'logical' explanations, many make the same mistake of presuming that the mystery has been established as such. I'd suggest that before people rush to explain a phenomenon, they do the homework to establish whether there really is something to be explained in the first place.
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"Wow. I was listening to this being discussed on Coast to Coast around June."

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)?
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Giant bubbles of methane rising out of the sea so large and so often that they can sink ships and crash planes, and that we have not been able to directly observe until just recently? And this theory is presented as reasonable? Aliens is a more likely explanation!

The real explanation of the Bermuda Triangle mystery is that there is no mystery to begin with.
http://www.skepdic.com/bermuda.html
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A lot of shipwrecks in a very large, high traffic area of the ocean? No way, it must be aliens using their methane bubble rays! Cmon, I thought common sense had already prevailed over all these crackpot theories.
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"Arm-chair scientists" :) Are arm_chairs so mysterious that they need their special scientists? Can one major in arm-chair science in college? If there are so many of these arm-chair scientists, why don't we have better arm-chairs by now?!! :P
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What about the magnetic field around this area? Tell us it is methane but please tell us where it is coming from - the ring of fire I'm sure, but why such an intense build up in this triangle only. Why cant you scientists let mysteries just be mysteries - Ill go check it out myself when Im on my death bed - take a yacht and travel there.Thanks, fellow arm-chair scientist
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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. It isn't just a random source of methane coming from the water, it's already in the sedimentary rock underneath the ocean.
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http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=2&pid=84

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.
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I'm with a bunch of the other commenters, here - everything credible I've read suggests that there is no effect to explain in the first place. The Bermuda Triangle is just a place where ordinary (though still tragic) wrecks are considered ominous, even though they're no less explainable and no more numerous than wrecks occurring in other parts of the world.

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!
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>> sounds like a job for Myth Busters!

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?
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when this bubble hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit..
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..
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I remember watching the "Tonight Show" years ago (the first time Jay Leno was the host) when a scientist was on showing what he thought was happening in the Burmuda Triangle--and it was this theory. He showed it using a large body of water in plexiglass and pumping methane into it. The toy boat sank like a rock and the model airplane burst into flames (I believe).

While I can not remember how plausible the scientist's credentials were, I thought it was an interesting segment.
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Hmmm ... methane hydrates and enormous eruptions of methane bubbles ...
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!
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Man, I couldn't resist the urge to reply to this comment!

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!
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You would expect to find 1 single item of wreckage from all of thee ships and planse that were destroyed by a giant fart bubble, but not 1 item has turned up.
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I have heard this before. I think it is something like methane trapped under the ocean floor in the earth materials. Then there is a slide of materials on certain ocean floor cliff-like structures. The methane is several small bubbles, possibly forming into one large bubble. Zero buoyancy in aerated water causes ships to sink.

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.
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BP spill has made the phenomenon even worse. Methane bubbles coming out the Gulf through Gulfstream are adding into triangle's own methane. Gas masses are giving a special look to sunsets and dawns so that someone from Siberia described them as Auroras. Meanwhile, NASA is launching satellites to monitor the Triangle 24/7. Hopefully the bubbling-suckers are not that powerful to gobble the satellites or even images themselves.
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I can understand this kind of stuff showing up on the Sci-Fi Chan but where do we see it the most??? The Discovery Chan, The Learning Chan, The Nat'l Geographic Chan and let's not forget The Hysterical Chan seem to be the ones perpetuating such Myths & Legends!!! Just as there is No $$$ in Peace, there is also No $$$ in dispelling such Myth-mongering!!! The Triangle supposedly connects Miami, Bermuda & Puerto Rico but most of the sited examples seem to run up the East Coast of Florida into the Carolinas and further North and also down in the Florida Keys---What do any of those locations have to do with the TRIANGLE??? Same goes for Crop Circles, Aliens, UFOz, Ghosts, Witches, Demons, Vampires, Werewolves, Trolls, Fairies, Bigfoot and all the other Haunts of Childhood!!! Come on Kiddos, let's grow up---There are enough Camers/Video Recorders out there---Why are we still waiting to exhale after all these years???
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Goober is correct. The Bermuda Triangle is actually a preferred route for commercial shipping and air traffic. There just is no there there. Never has been. Flight Nine (or whatever) is pretty creepy though.
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What did people do in the middelages, to prefent people to get inside a cafe or swim in water.

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
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bhupendra The burden of proof is with the one claiming some supernatural explanation of Bermuda triangle events. This is simply giving a plausible explanation of how some craft may have disappeared.

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.
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Uhm... it has been verified that there is no "Bermuda triangle", i.e. no more ships or planes disappeared in that area than anywhere else.
So we don't need new explanations for a non-existing phenomenon!
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Who are the "scientists" behind this 'explanation'? The article cites no names, so it might simply be the invention of "Johnny Cat" himself, self-acclaimed "Scientist". There are not links to renowned scientific organizations that can provide validation to this claim. In this end, this very light article is just a methane bubble about to burn by itself.
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Please read the latest explanation of this mystery. It account for the magnetic disturbances and loss of radio signals.

http://salem-news.com/articles/august132010/bermuda-triangle-ma.php

It should be the final solution
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ok
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?????????
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u.s got many drone planes why dont they use them for solving the mystery. Humans are reaching to moon and mars but is shame that we havent even explored fully our homeland (earth). M 16 yrs old.
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i think that explanation is not so convincing, that too much methane gas could make a ship sink and crash the plane?or maybe there are some reasons aside from that. it is not bad if we believe in paranormal or extraordinary explanations.but still, this case was not actually solved.just a feed back. thanks!
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so methane is whats taking these planes and boats out cus i heard its really strong turbulence which takes the planes out and rough waters and whirl pools which sinks ships due to all the fog.
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friends i,m not satisfied by this methane phenomenon i want real reason behind this mysterious triangle i also want to tell readers you guy,s will get far above knowledge from films about it
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when i was in the airforce i flew through the bemuda triangle and i tell you now something freaky about it. All my tech logs and speed thermo were going crazy, my engine was making weird sounds.Im just so glad i made it out.
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I always find it poignant that people, with full knowledge of no knowledge, make the 'this is how it is claim'. If the only thing you have is a feeling, or the hearsay of another who's information you cannot vouch for, becareful not to be caught extrapolating false premises.
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well i have heard about methane in bermuda but i have no idea of methane in bermuda.infact bermuda is not the only place in world which is so mysterious.there are several places in earth facing the same thingand its not for every place of having so much methane with it.even in himalyas there are many places where we cannot survive we cant says about
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IF THE METHANE GAS BUBBLES ARE SUNTTING DOWN THE AIRCRAFT THEN IT MUST HAPPENED THAT BECAUSE OF THE METHANE GAS THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT NEAR TO THE AIRCRAFT CATCHES FIRE AS METHANE GAS CATCH FIRE.BUT IT S NOT HAPPENING RATHER THAN THAT THE ENGINE OF THE AIRCRAFT ARE SHUTTING DOWN INSTED OF GETTING FIRE.
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What? we've been blaming ourselves for global warming and it's been the earth farting the whole time? If methane has been floating into the atmosphere for years,where is it ending up?and why the hell aren't we using it?wtf?
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YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE? ITS AN OPPORTUNITY ITS ONE GIANT TREASURE CHEST! FULL OF SUNKEN SHIPS AND PLANE WRECKS! WHAT DO YOU THINK THEIR CARGO WAS? SO IN SHORT ITS FULL OF JUNK WRECKAGE IMPORTANT MATERIALS MAYBE GOLD AND OTHER VALUABLE CARGO'S AND A LOAD OF CRAP! WHICH EXPLAINS THE BUBBLE THINGY YOU KNOW METHAINE GASSES! SO THAT EXPLAINS WHERE IT CAME FROM.

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!
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True? or just another theory of a scientist? but for me? why don't we go there ourselves to see what really happens. The explanation doesn't convince me, I'm still believing on extraordinary and paranormal activity happening there.
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what a idiotic answer, we are living in mordern or computer world. so believing ghost and alien is the foolish things. it might be the place of earth,s whole gravitation...........
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its USA's testing ground ...
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 .
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there is no such thing as an alien OMG! you people are so predictable aliens are a myth its just that methane is in the atmosphere and with global warming the methane will heat up and cause bubbles. you people believe in fiction movies too much.
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how do you know thers no such thing as aliens were one earth we havnt been to any other universe so if you havnt been or dont know SOO SHUT YOUR MOUTH INNIT :)
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its USA's testing ground ...
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
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