Bermuda Triangle "Mystery" Solved? Scientists Pinpoint Deep-Ocean Craters as Likely Cause
By Kelly DickersonMarch 16, 2016 10:46 AM
A group of scientists caused a stir this week when they suggested a new explanation for the huge number of ships and planes that seem to have disappeared in the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
The scientists think deep deposits of oil and methane gas burst through the seabed and formed deep-ocean craters half a mile wide and 150 feet deep off the coast of Norway. They speculate that the huge methane bursts could churn up water, affecting ships, and even escape into the atmosphere, which could threaten aircraft.
The scientists suggest the methane bursts may be responsible for the supposed graveyard of shipwrecks and plane crashes in the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle, the area of the Atlantic Ocean cornered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami, Florida, is often called the "devil's triangle."
Estimates vary widely for how many people, ships and planes have been lost there. Some say more than 100 ships and planes have disappeared in this location over the last several decades.
The line between fact and fiction has blurred over time, and the Bermuda Triangle is now steeped in wild theories involving things like aliens, portals to other dimensions and the lost city of Atlantis.
Is the Bermuda Triangle mystery even real? Probably not, many experts say.
According to journalist Larry Kusche, some of the ships and planes that allegedly sank in the Bermuda Triangle were completely made up by writers. Moreover, others that "mysteriously sank" actually went down during violent storms, and some ships that were lost far outside the Bermuda Triangle's perimeter get lumped into the total.
Additionally, the Bermuda Triangle is a path for many major cruise lines and trade routes, so it sees more ship traffic than many other parts of the ocean.
"The region is highly traveled and has been a busy crossroads since the early days of European exploration," John Reilly, a historian at the U.S. Naval Historical Foundation, told National Geographic. "To say quite a few ships and airplanes have gone down there is like saying there are an awful lot of car accidents on the New Jersey Turnpike — surprise, surprise."
So there might not be a mystery to solve at all. These types of methane bursts that the scientists describe are a well-documented phenomenon in other areas, but other scientists debate how much they could really interfere with ships and aircraft.
To say; it is entirely possible to break ship in half along its length no matter of how strongly the ships are built, in only a second or two.
A bubble would only need be as large as maybe 1/4 the length of the ship or even less.
Some Nuke torpedoes are designed for this method of ship sinking.
One of the conditions to Methane 'Bubble' modeling is that there is a 'trigger' event. At some point a balance moves towards the event by a change in pressure or temperature.
So a pressure change of a ship passing above the methane while still locked in a frozen state might happen at just the right time to where that is all 'it takes'.
As evidenced in every methane release in these conditions, the trip point is always met.
I believe the 'trip' would always been influenced by a ship passing and the possible event resulting would be determined by the balances at play at the moment.
They are on to something here, like walking through a mine field for a example, the Methane is waiting.
From an abstract published March 2016:
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, scientists detailed a number of craters in the Barents Sea, an area in the Arctic Ocean with a basin shared by Norway and Russia.
(Note: The craters are _Nowhere_ Near Bermuda)
(Also Note: The time frame. Unless Neanderthals were flying planes or sailing ships, these blowouts were not responsible for any mysterious disappearances.)
"These craters likely were formed by gas "blowouts" from the seabed, when methane in the form of ice thawed as the last ice age waned and the Earth warmed, said Andreassen, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at The Arctic University of Norway."
But "blowouts" of the type that shaped the craters were particular to that period in Earth's history; they were triggered by geologic processes that followed roughly 100,000 years when much of Earth was covered by ice sheets.
"Conditions during the last ice age cannot be compared with what we see today," Andreassen said. "We are not making any links to the Bermuda Triangle."
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