WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE? (the mystery about missing ships,planes,people)?

Question

what do you think about it??

do people still fly though it and stuff??

i want to know what you think...

i dont understand how there can be a certain area marked as the bermuda triangle?? isnt there only a spot or something? where can you travel with a plane to fly through it if you live in USA IL? what are the chances of getting lost? could you even see it if you fly with a plane or would you be too high up?

Answer 1

A couple of unexplained occurrences, several odd coincidences. The same kind of things happen all over the world. There is nothing extraordinary about it. There is nothing to see. It is an area of the Atlantic comprising hundreds of thousands of square miles. Thousands of ships and planes have been lost in areas of similar size. Forget about it -- it's the same kind of silly nonsense as UFO sightings, alien abductions and ghosts. People are scientifically illiterate and they love this stuff, so it will never go away.

Answer 2

There are methane stored in the "bermuda Triangle" so when a ship or plane and the Methane comes out it Goes down the there was many experiments about this

But it still is Funny =)

And the chances is umm if you are unlucky if a lot of methane comes out and sink your ship ;)

Answer 3

The traditional triangle sides connect the points in the  Atlantic coast : tip southern Florida, Bermuda, Puerto Rico.

However, this is not standard. Different theories define different boundaries in that general area. You will get list of reference books(ISBN #) and interesting reading covering various aspects at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Tri...

Answer 4

Go find a book in the library called The Burmuda Triangle-Solved in which the author painstakingly researchs all the stories traditionally assigned to the Triangle and tears apart almost all of them (Legend "it was a calm night before the boat disappeared with the loss of all"  Fact "storms in the area were the worst in decades and 10 ships were lost"), missing only those for which data is lacking.

  He also points out that the hysterical stories, besides containing lies, ignore the fact that hundreds more boats are lost in the area than the legend claims because most of those lost were clearly lost in storms.

Answer 5

Bermuda Triangle has methane fields belong the surface of the ocean. When these methane fields "erupt" they lower the density of the water. Lower density means ships sink fast and without warning.

Answer 6

My personal opinion it that the disappearances are the result of a combination of factors, the magnetic factor and the gas bubbling up from the sea floor (both explained below).

Many people still fly and sail through the area.  It isn't just a spot, it is an area between Bermuda. Florida, and Puerto Rico, but its area varies with the source.  The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north.

According to the Triangle authors, Christopher Columbus was the first person to document something strange in the Triangle, reporting that he and his crew observed "strange dancing lights on the horizon", flames in the sky, and at another point he wrote in his log about bizarre compass bearings in the area. From his log book, dated October 11, 1492 he wrote:

The land was first seen by a sailor (Rodrigo de Triana), although the Admiral at ten o'clock that evening standing on the quarter-deck saw a light, but so small a body that he could not affirm it to be land; calling to Pero Gutiérrez, groom of the King's wardrobe, he told him he saw a light, and bid him look that way, which he did and saw it; he did the same to Rodrigo Sánchez of Segovia, whom the King and Queen had sent with the squadron as comptroller, but he was unable to see it from his situation. The Admiral again perceived it once or twice, appearing like the light of a wax candle moving up and down, which some thought an indication of land. But the Admiral held it for certain that land was near...

The best known incident is that of Flight 19.  Flight 19 was a training flight of TBM Avenger bombers that went missing on December 5, 1945 while over the Atlantic. The impression is given that the flight encountered unusual phenomena and anomalous compass readings, and that the flight took place on a calm day under the supervision of an experienced pilot, Lt. Charles Carroll Taylor.  There were radio transmissions indicating that Taylor didn't know where he was and was actually headed in the wrong direction.

Skeptics attempt to disprove the mystery by claiming that the strong currents in the region, that it is the Gulf Stream forcing a large portion of the Bermuda Triangle's tides to flow directly north which would throw many ships off course and further out into sea. Also pointed out is the large discrepancy between Magnetic North and the North Pole in the region - something that Christopher Columbus on his historic journey noted in his journals.

The Bermuda Triangle is one of the few places on Earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north. Normally, it should point towards magnetic north. The amount of variation changes - and sometimes as much as 20 degrees as a ship or aircraft circumnavigates around the globe. Without compensating, a navigator could find himself far off course and in serious trouble.

Oceanic flatulence is believed to be the true cause of the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. We're not joking. Forget ETs, UFOs, time travel, Atlantis, even plain old boring magnetic forces. The sea bed 'breaking wind' is the latest scientific 'truth'. One suddenly doesn't know what to believe... are reports of the mysterious disappearances just a load of old gas?

While studying gas hydrates back in 1984, the late Dr Donald Davidson, a Canadian scientist, proposed the gas theory which has gained much ground over the years.

At enormous pressures and low temperatures (as at the bottom of the ocean), water and gas molecules form gas hydrates. The compounds, it is argued, resemble ice but the water molecules form cages around gas molecules - such as methane. These solid hydrates retain their stability until conditions such as higher temperatures or lower pressures cause them to decompose. When they do decompose, they release enormous amounts of trapped gas. Disappearances of ships and aircraft passing over these 'blowouts' can then be explained. The sea could turn very violent very suddenly, into a mass of froth that could sink any ship in the area. As the methane rises, an airplane flying through the gas would experience engine failure - or worse: a spark from the engine could turn the aircraft into a flying fireball. No one took much notice of these theories until new information concerning blowouts of naturally occurring gas hydrates emerged in 1990.

Solving the tantalizing mystery has come no closer - for 'traditional' scientists - than the work done by marine geologists from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 1996. They believed that the results from drilling the ocean floor in the Bermuda region held the answer to the enduring mystery. Following Dr Davidson's theories, they have found evidence of the frozen methane gas.

The Bermuda Triangle has at least two counterparts in other areas of the world. An area called 'The Devil's Sea' by Japanese and Filipino seamen, which is located off the east coast of Japan, also exhibits the same magnetic characteristics and is also known for its mysterious disappearances. Also, in China in 1995, some 50 scientists surveyed southwest Sichuan Province's notorious high-elevation Black Bamboo Ravine, or Heizugou, where people and livestock have vanished. The Beijing-based Xinhua News Agency reported that scientists believe rotting plants found in the cold, humid region give off a poisonous gas, "suffocating people and making them fall into the abyss". The experts also explained that the magnetic field at Heizhugou "is so strong that it is likely to disable com- passes and cause plane crashes". Sound familiar? Except for the magnetic field part, the Black Bamboo Ravine is similar geologically with Yellowstone's Death Gulch and Java's Poisoned Valley.

Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975) has challenged this trend.  Kusche came to several conclusions:

The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.

In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious; furthermore, Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention such storms.

The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may not be reported.

Some disappearances had in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.