How would you explain the disappearences in the bermuda triangle?

Question

doesn't let me sleep.

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Answer 1

I think they never found the planes or ships that crashed there because the waters are so deep, and the bottom of the ocean there is very rocky, which would brake up the pieces.

Answer 2

Clowns.

Answer 3

Possibly under ground (water) magnetics forces compass to error.

Answer 4

Natural phenomena, human carelessness.

Answer 5

The Sirens

Answer 6

bad weather...hahaha...i have no idea

Answer 7

An explanation I've heard is that there is much gas under the water (methan).

So ships aren't hold by the water and go under.

Answer 8

not everything has an explaination...

thats the best i can come up with

Answer 9

i dont know but its funny when that gnome in that commercial dissapears.

dangit now youve got me thinking about it constantly

Answer 10

This isn't what you want to hear I'm afraid. But the sinkings and disappearances in the Triangle are no more common than any other place in the oceans. Anywhere there is high ocean traffic, Philippines, north of Australia, the Baltic, the rate of mishaps are close to the same.

Answer 11

they say "electromagnetic anomalies".

Answer 12

NOT SURE BUT ONE DAY IM GOING TO VISIT THERE!!

Answer 13

The high natural gas level in the water means the water is not as dense and the ships are less bouyant or something. The phenomena of the bermuda triangle has been explained scientifically loads of times...

Massive gas bubbles rising from the sea floor may be capable of sinking ships and could explain the disappearance of a vessel in a North Sea "Bermuda Triangle", Melbourne researchers have concluded.

In a report published in the September issue of the American Journal of Physics, Monash University's Professor Joseph Monaghan and honours student David May said that a trawler discovered resting in a large methane crater off the east coast of Scotland may have been sunk by a huge gas bubble. The possibly lethal gas bubbles are created by underwater deposits of methane that have built up over thousands of years.

"It's long been known that there are pockets of methane gas, known as methane gas hydrates, beneath the ocean floor that could erupt if they're disturbed or if their internal pressure becomes too large," Professor Monaghan said.

The massive gas bubbles had the potential to cause aircraft to crash, Mr May said yesterday. "In the Bermuda Triangle, methane gas is known to be present and the release of that gas could cause not only boats to sink, as shown in our study, but also aeroplanes to crash," he said. The gas could cause an explosion if it came in contact with the hot engine of a plane.

Oil-drilling platforms are aware of the dangers of ocean floor gas bubbles and have safety procedures to follow if they hit a methane pocket. But the discovery of the fishing trawler in the North Sea suggests that not all vessels were as well prepared. Sonar surveys of the ocean floor 150 kilometres east of Scotland have revealed high levels of methane and gas eruption sites. At a site known as the Witch's Hole, a documentary film crew in 2000 discovered a wreck resting in the centre of an underwater crater, likely caused by a huge methane gas release. The wreck was a 22-metre, steel-hulled fishing trawler, built between 1890 and 1930. The trawler was relatively undamaged and was horizontal on the sea bed.

From laboratory experiments, the Monash University researchers were able to conclude that large gas bubbles, theoretically, had the ability to sink ships. "It is quite possible that the trawler languishing in Witch's Hole was sunk by a bubble with a radius equal to or bigger than the trawler's hull," Professor Monaghan said.

Mr May said they had made a small perspex boat and conducted a number of experiments examining how the size of the bubble related to the size and position of the boat.

They found that if a ship was directly above a gas bubble it was relatively safe, but a vessel on the edge or in the trough of a bubble may be swamped.

"The sinking occurs because a mound of water is raised above the region where the bubble reaches the surface," Professor Monaghan said.

"The flow from the mound creates a deep trough on each side of the mound, and the flow from the mound carries the boat into the trough."