The Bermuda Triangle

[Alecto]

Not sure where this one was supposed to go

The Bermuda Triangle has always been a fixture for the world. There’s dozens of accounts of ships and planes being lost in that area and never heard from again.



But could there be a more natural explanation for the losses? Something that is rare, but totally natural.



Bubbles. Giant bubbles. The area inside the Bermuda Triangle is rich in methane gas, built up in pocket underneath the sea floor. Occasionally, the landscape shifts and releases a giant bubble which rises to the surface and breaks. What would happen if a ship were sailing over that area when it happened?



A boat relies on the balancing of two forces. The buoyant force of the water, and the downward force of the boat. If either one of the forced is disrupted or imbalanced, the boat can sink. So if you make the water less buoyant, you give the boat less to float on and it sinks.



A bubble breaking under a ship creates a momentary withdrawal of seawater that causes the ship to fall into that “hole” created by the bubble, the water rushes in and seconds later, the boat is covered by water and sinks in less than a minute. If the bubble breaks under the bow, the bow will slide into the water using the boat’s own inertia to just slip beneath the waves, the same is true of the stern. But if the bubble breaks in the MIDDLE of the ship, the pressure from both the bow and the stern can literally snap a ship in half, resulting in near instant sinking. The upward pressure on the bow and stern lift them both up, while the lack of upward pressure from water in the center of the ship makes it bend beyond the point it was designed for and the ship snaps in half.



On small craft (such as yacht or pleasure boat) the ocean can literally swallow a ship in a matter of seconds with no warning and not nearly enough time to get off a distress call. On a large tanker, lab tests conducted at a US Navy test facility have shown that in under one minute, a large bubble can sink a fully loaded tanker or cargo ship, giving the crew no time to don life preservers or call for help.



But what about planes? The methane gas contained in the bubbles don’t sink back into the sea or rise into the stratosphere, it hangs in a haze above the ocean for several hours at a time. This gas pocket can spell disaster for planes flying into it, as it can interfere with altimeters that judge altitude by measuring the outside air pressure, making the pilot think he is climbing, when in reality he is plunging his plane into the ocean. The gas also interferes with the internal combustion of the plane engines and can cause them to cut out and stall.



Also, methane gas, while not toxic, cannot replace oxygen. The human body needs oxygen to survive, and if a methane bubble erupts under a ship or if a plane flies into a cloud of methane gas, the people on board are going to experience lower oxygen levels. In severe cases this can kill you, as you are taking in a purely methane or almost totally methane atmosphere with no or little oxygen. In most cases, the lack of oxygen can result in dizziness, impaired vision, and impaired judgment, not something you want to have at a time like that.

 

[Alecto]

Perhaps I didnt put this in the right place

 

[Pentecostal Boy]

lol

 

[looking4wisdom]

It is fascinating stuff....People will never know if it exist until they experience it for themselves...By that point they would be out of luck.

 

[GoSeminoles!]

The BT is just hype. Ships and planes crash/disappear all over the world. The real question is whether they crash at a higher rate in the BT than in other places, given the volume of traffic in the area. This is the first point that has to be demonstrated and to my knowledge it has not. In another CF thread someone reported that Lloyd's of London charges no extra premiums to insure ships passing through the BT. I don't know if this is true or not, but if it is then I think that would be all the proof one would need that the BT is an imaginary danger. If it were a death trap, commercial and military shipping would avoid the area like the plague.

 

[AngCath]

I've seen studies on the methane bubble theory... seems interesting, maybe even an explanation. But, like mentioned before, planes and ships disappear all around the world and the BT rate, as several documentaries have noted, is right along with the rest of the world.

 

[Alecto]

The BT is just hype. Ships and planes crash/disappear all over the world. The real question is whether they crash at a higher rate in the BT than in other places, given the volume of traffic in the area. This is the first point that has to be demonstrated and to my knowledge it has not. In another CF thread someone reported that Lloyd's of London charges no extra premiums to insure ships passing through the BT. I don't know if this is true or not, but if it is then I think that would be all the proof one would need that the BT is an imaginary danger. If it were a death trap, commercial and military shipping would avoid the area like the plague.

Alot of the incidents dont get reported because the people dont survive.

What I find interesting is that about a year or so ago, they were looking for a group of planes that went down a couple decades ago. It was a group of 5 Navy Avenger airplanes, better known as Flight 19. A marine archeologist (Not the one mentioned in the article) went out searching for wreckage of the planes and he found the wreckage of 5 Avengers off the coast of Ft Lauderdale. But...it wasnt Flight 19, they were 5 Navy Avengers that had gone down within less than a mile of eachother on 5 separate dates, sometimes a year or so appart. The archeologist said that "The chances of finding 5 Navy Avengers in the same spot that all went down on different dates is about as good as hitting a hole in one while being struck by lighting and having a winning lottery ticket in your pocket."

As for Flight 19, some of what they reported can be attributed to methane gas. The flight commander became very confused and panicked, not unlike someone who isnt getting enough oxygen. The pilots also reported that thier engines were loosing power, indicating something might have been upsetting the internal combustion process.

 

[GoSeminoles!]

Alot of the incidents dont get reported because the people dont survive.

All planes and ships have departure manifests that are filed with various port/aviation authorities. If the plane or ship does not arrive at its destination or anywhere else, it gets reported as missing. Whether people survive to tell the tale doesn't really matter in terms of the reporting.

I have no doubt that weird things have happened in the BT, but so what? Weird things happen everywhere. If there were really something unusually dangerous about the BT, then commercial interests would avoid the area and insurance companies would charge extra to insure vessels that do go through the area. I don't think either is the case.

 

[koban4max]

i think bt exists..or...is it maybe that these pilots keeps losing their map..so they that the triangle island usa or something..haha jk

but i think there's a high wind torrendo around there...it probably just sucked it up and toss it to heaven or something..
ya never know..it's one of the x-files thing.
have imagination.