I'm just wondering what made the disappearance of planes and boats on the bermuda triangle?

Question

What is it in this bermuda triangle that made so famous as one of the mysterious places here on earth???

Answer 1

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is approximately triangular in shape, with three corners roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the Atlantic Ocean. Its size is nearly half a million square miles (1.2 million km²).

Paranormal Claims:

"A significant number of ships and aircraft have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances."
"Paranormal activity where the known laws of physics are violated."
It has even been suggested that "extraterrestrial beings are responsible for some of the disappearances."
Despite popular belief, the United States Coast Guard and other agencies cite statistics indicating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily-traveled region of the world.[1] Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon closer examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades,[2] many others still have no explanation.

Methane hydrates
Main article: Methane clathrate
An explanation for some of the disappearances focuses on the presence of vast fields of methane hydrates on the continental shelves. A paper was published in 1981 by the United States Geological Survey about the appearance of hydrates in the Blake Ridge area, off the southeastern United States coast.[6] Periodic methane eruptions may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning. Laboratory experiments have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water.

Hypothetically, methane gas might also be involved in aircraft crashes, as it is not as dense as normal air and thus would not generate the amount of lift required to keep the aircraft flying. Low levels of methane have also been shown to cause an aircraft engine to stall when added to the intake of air.

US Coast Guard's opinion of the Bermuda Triangle
Although there have been an enormous number of both planes and ships that have disappeared in the area designated The Bermuda Triangle, the number is not far off the number reported missing in other sea areas of comparative size, and the area is prone to powerful tropical storms and hurricanes. There are no official military maps designating the triangle, and the US Coast Guard has determined that in most cases the combined forces of nature, accidents, and the unpredictable nature of man can be indicated as the reason for the disappearances. However, the document, the Aeromagnetic Charts of the U.S. Coastal Region, do cover the Bermuda Triangle, in numbers 9 through 15. The US Coast Guard also recognizes that there will always be some cases that are unexplainable, but that number is small.[14]

Answer 2

The mysterious disappearance of ship and planes that happened in the Bermuda Triangle are what attracts attention ot his area of ocean.. There are a number of theories about what happens there by they have never been proven. Some say the water bubbles change to consistancy of the water and ship no longer float in these condition. There are also thought to be weather disturbances that cause planes to crash into the ocean. There are others who think that it is supernatural forces at work there. Nobody really knows what is going on but there have been too many odd things happen in the Bermuda Triangle to dismiss as mere chance.

Answer 3

There are a couple of reasons boating and flying accidents seem to be so frequent in the public's mind's eye. First if you were to take a globe, put a piece of paper on it and trace out the triangle, then take that triangle and put it on any other frequently traveled area of the oceans, there is not really a significantly higher number of accidents in the triangle than in any other comparatively sized area. That particular section of Atlantic, though was so heavily traveled that there is simply a higher chance of something going wrong. Sort of like Intel's old Pentium processor having only a 1 in a million chance of making one of those miscalculations---well put a million chips on the market in use and the chance is now not such a rare thing. So, more boats and planes in the triangle mean more chances of something going wrong. There is nothing "unnatural" about the accidents or the frequency of the accidents in the triangle at all. The mystique just makes for a great marketing value for books and videos.

Answer 4

Investigations haven't turned up anything unusual about the Bermuda triangle other than the fact it can get some pretty weird weather.

The most famous incident involving airplanes was the 1940's incident of a flight of Navy torpedo bombers. Investigation indicates they simply got lost and ran out of fuel.

The North Atlantic has probably claimed more ships than the Bermuda Triangle.

It's the nautical equivalent of an urban legend. I personally don't think the Bermuda Triangle is any worse than most other bodies of ocean.

Answer 5

Planes and boats "disappear" in the Bermuda triangle a twin of they disappear in the Atlantic, Pacific, or the different body of water on earth. Hollywood likes to make a secret.

Answer 6

check out a documentary called the bermuda triangle

apearently exploding subteranean gas caused freak openings in the water surface that swallowed up ships
many have been found on the ocean floor also planes
these crashed into the ocean and strong currents swepped them away, miles from where they went down
there is alot more
in the documentary
there are some freak natural conditions both in the air and in the water in that place
it is also an infamous place for Modern day pirates ,who kill the passengers and steal the boat for drug running

Answer 7

In the area of the Bermuda triangle, compasses cease to function properly. Reports of those who have been there and did not vanish, said their compasses became useless, spinning around and around.

Without a frame of reference as to which direction you are heading it is very easy to go around in circles until you are out of food, or have some mishap such as a wave swamping and sinking your ship. Planes also have lost all ability to determine which direction they are heading.

This would indicate there are unusually magnetic fields in that area.

When there are so many disappearances in a given area, it becomes a mystery.

Since no one to date has found out why there is this strange affect on the magnetic fields of the earth in that area, it has gained much notoriety.

Answer 8

There are lot of Methane bubbles underneath the ocean floor in that area. Methane is not very dense and cannot hold the weight of the planes in the air. So planes crash. Also the methane get in the plane's engine, the engine stops. Same thing with Boats the boats' and subs' engines stops. They sink because the Methane bubbles hits them at the bottom with great force, which breaks the boat, ship, or sub in half. (Methane is less dense then air, so Methane bubbles come up faster then air bubbles in water.)

This is one theory.

Answer 9

it was just discovered that methane gas was found on the sea floor.
when it surfaces to the top and released into the air.. it only takes 1% of methane to bring down a small aircraft and boats.

i think this was also on myth busters

Answer 10

The wildest theory I've read is that the disappearances involve aliens.