Why do ships disappear and reappear in specific locations, with their navigational systems working properly?

Question

It's a mystery!

Answer 1

It's called sailing...they sail away from one place and disappear and reappear in someplace else when they dock LOL.

Answer 2

One theory I heard in the 60's has stuck in my head as the one I'd most like to believe.  A ship sailing in the ocean seemingly normal suddenly drops off radar, sonar, and all radio contact.  3 hours later it reappears, about 1 mile from where it vanished.  Where did it go? The captain said he sailed on course and at the same speed, so the ship should have been nearly 100 miles from where it appeared.  The theory of the day was that the ship entered a time warp and was frozen nearly immobile in time for the space of 3 hours, when it came out of the time warp 1 mile from where it entered.  Impossible?  Probably, but I always liked the story.

Answer 3

MS C:

I've been reading maritime history for 45 years, including the fluff on the Bremuda Triangle and  like stuff.

I've been sailing small ( under 60') yachts around about the world for 30 years.

I've passed thru the Bermuda Triangle a dozen times.

It's all nonsense.

Death from Above has a good answer. So does the guy with the point about no pro sailor believes this.

It aint happening.

Answer 4

CONSPIRACY! The terrorists win!

Answer 5

It's the Bermuda Rectangle.

(It used to be the Bermuda Triangle, but when they found out  Vanna White was from Myrtle Beach, they added that point to the danger zone.)

Answer 6

Sounds like another Bermuda Triangle conspiracy theory. The triangle, BTB, is one of the safest places to sail in the world. The entire North Sea, and the northwest Atlantic has a lot more mystery and disappearances and such.

If you want a mystery, look up Plane Sailing. The math behind laying out a straight course on a curved earth is, frankly, elegant and mysterious in itself.

Anyhow, no one in the little tiny american shipping community believes in that ship dissappearing thing. If the tradesmen don't buy it, don't buy it yourself.

Answer 7

There is not a SINGLE credible occurence of that which was scientifically documented. Perhaps you heard of the Philadelphia Experiment, but, alas, that never happened the way it was described...

No, it is not a mystery, it simply does not happen...

I am afraid it would be really interesting to find out it is true, but, no miracles...

The disappearance of the object of the size of a large ship would necesarily require conversion of the mass into energy via E=mc(exp)2. That would be equivalent to hundreds  of thousands of Megaton size nuclear weapons, surely somebody would have noticed, as it would be the end of the life on earth... and then you have to make them appear... hmmm....

Answer 8

It just the magnetic abnormalities of the Earth's magnetic field.

Answer 9

aliens, or maybe gremlins, or were they munchkins, maybe they were the goonies, either way i was doped up, i dont remember

Answer 10

lol.  that's funny.