To carry on with the last persons answer about gas "nodules". What happens on the most part with underwater gas is that it "aerates" the water, making it much lighter, thus making a ship lose it's bouancy... I work in the oil field and quite often there are casing blow outs on platforms under the water (lots of natral gas escapes a hole in the casing under the ocean or under the ocean floor).. much of this gas dissolves in the water as it percolates to the surface, making the water much less dense. Boats have tried to tie up to such platforms and have sank in seconds --- like a trap door openned up underneath them and the sea swallowed them whole. Nobody survives such an event. It's a serious issue for divers who approach such undersea blowouts. Normal scuba gear no longer works as they end up falling to the ocean floor and can't swim. Usually hard-hat divers are pulled in (big bulk helmet and lead boots like the old days)...
This loss of bouancy usually occurs before the gas on the surface is to a volitile point. I have flown in and landed on platforms with these types of blowouts. If the blowout is under the sea floor, the gas spreads out and percolates through the sand on the bottom and gives the water a sort of a fizzy property like "7-up". Boats don't appoach this area.
You get some events such as this by natural seepage in areas where there is lots of natural oil (The North Sea and the West Coast of California). Most of the tar balls and spills that wash up on the beach in California are actually caused by this same natural seepage (Captain Cook encountered a 200 mile long oil slick when he first charted the coast of California - long before there was any oil drilling)
But there is no oil of any significance in the "Bermuda Triangle" to create such methane releases. There are hurricanes and tropical storms all the time. Most of the cases of ships with spinning compasses and and alien spacecraft or sunken cities of Atlantis are simply pseudo science and conjecture based on exaggerations that if were exammined a little bit closer, would be proven to be something that could be naturally explained -- as was the case of the missing air squadron in WW2. It fun to believe that theres something magical going on.. but it's simply not true.
2006-08-14 00:13:03
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answered by Moose 4
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Planes and ships went down for many reasons. The Bermuda triangle has higher than average sea and air traffic, more than average bad weather, so there have been more losses. On a statistical basis, scientists have found that the losses are about average for the numbers of ships and planes using the area.
There are all kinds of theories and lots of unanswered questions about the various losses. The problem is that all of the evidence sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
The most interesting and hardest to trace theory is one involving methane gas nodules.
These gobs of methane exist on the ocean floor. Possibly the Gulf Stream stirs them up. They come to the surface, form a cloud of gas. If something comes along to set off the gas, the explosion blows the ship apart, so suddenly and so violently that no one has a chance to call for help.
2006-08-14 06:05:51
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answered by regerugged 7
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This is what alot of people try to find out. Do you know near Japan there also a Devil Triangle like the Bermuda Triangle?
2006-08-14 08:49:54
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answered by Clive 2
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Because there got so many devils and demons... they'll hide the ships and flights once they starts enter the bermuda triangle.
2006-08-14 05:58:10
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answered by Linda 3
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There are no more missing ships & aircraft in the Bermuda
Triangle than in any other area of comparable traffic...
This is a popular myth...
2006-08-14 10:27:32
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answered by Anonymous
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actually many ships came out also and claimed that the weather was horrible and comp[asses didnt work but many ships did disappear
2006-08-14 06:04:50
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answered by keerthan 2
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Like the dark hole in the space everything else is also a mystery down here...............there are many things on this planet which exists but there are still no explanations for it...................this is beyond our Grey matter and something from nature!!!!
2006-08-14 05:58:21
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answered by payal m 2
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this is a myth. and you misspelled bermuda triangle.
Ask your question in the mythology/folklore section
2006-08-14 05:55:15
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answered by Anonymous
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