The Bermuda Triangle

[GraceLikeRain]

What are your thoughts about the Bermuda Triangle?
I am watching something about it on the SciFi Channel, and I must say I have always been intrigued about it.

They said in the program that in one area of the Atlantic Ocean floor drops from just a couple hundred feet deep, to suddenly thousands of feet deep. The computer model they had of it was really eerie. And yet, it just shows the majesty of God. I know, I know, weather, erosion, years, and all that stuff, but why so suddenly this way?

But as far as the Bermuda Triangle goes, do you think it's a myth? Or do you think there is really something unexplainable about it? One guy on the show said it defies all logic and explanation.

I did some exploring out on the net, and you get all kinds of theories. One, that it's all blown out of proportion. Another, of course, is aliens. Another, natural gas causing spontaneous combustion.

What are your thoughts?

[HeXp£Øi±]

I think that part of the globe has heavy marine traffic and the worst storms in the world. I live and have worked on the ocean and i have seen many ships lost without a trace. It's the nature of the ocean. She is furious and unforgiving. One wave is all it takes and there's no time for communications.

[70thWeek]

Nothing out of the ordinary. Just hype.

[MedicDave]

Nothing out of the ordinary. Just hype.

There's some speculation it's a flaw in the magnetic field surrounding the Earth. I'm friends with an old airplane pilot who flew through it, and mentioned that his instruments would go haywire.

[Moza]

GraceLikeRain, I started watching that show too (but fell asleep :(: ). Maybe it was a meteor or comet that hit there?

[Gail 55]

Monday night Dec. 5 --Sifi has a ne series starting about B.T. on at 8 or 9

[kjlistrom]

I think that part of the globe has heavy marine traffic and the worst storms in the world. I live and have worked on the ocean and i have seen many ships lost without a trace. It's the nature of the ocean. She is furious and unforgiving. One wave is all it takes and there's no time for communications.
Well said

[greenbrier]

I saw a television show about the triangle a couple of years ago. It claimed that from time to time part of the Atlantic shelf collapses onto the ocean floor and when the collapse occurs, gas is released from the rocks. This gas reduces the boyancy of the sea water so ships can't float. It was the most plausible explanation I have ever heard of the strange happenings in the triangle.

[humbleone]

There's some speculation it's a flaw in the magnetic field surrounding the Earth. I'm friends with an old airplane pilot who flew through it, and mentioned that his instruments would go haywire.


I have heard this theory too, more than once. Ive read stories of those who either flew or boated across the BT and the thing with their instruments going wild is really interesting. There HAS to be a reason for that....

The BT has intrigued me too, for many years now. There are some pretty "out there" theories on it, as someone else said. One I heard was that it -- the BT -- was somehow a link to "another dimension" and that people kind of get sucked into it, another dimension.... but what exactly that means, I dont know.


humbleone

[HTOR87]

The BT has always intrigued me also. The sudden large bubbles of natural gas (or was it some kind of other gas?) that can occur in the ocean sounded like a good explanation but how would that affect planes?

HeXp£Øi± Do you do commercial fishing in Alaska? I love watching The Deadliest Season and can't wait for the next ones to start next year!!!

[Waiting4theKing]

I saw a television show about the triangle a couple of years ago. It claimed that from time to time part of the Atlantic shelf collapses onto the ocean floor and when the collapse occurs, gas is released from the rocks. This gas reduces the boyancy of the sea water so ships can't float. It was the most plausible explanation I have ever heard of the strange happenings in the triangle.


That doesn't sound plausible to me... how does the gas reduce the bouyancy of seawater? :confused

[eaglex]

I believe it is magnetic activity that casues the trouble within the TRiangle. We will know for sure in HEAVEN and when Jesus comes back I postive HE will correct the situation.

[Hootmon]

We are planning on taking a Cruise to Bermuda in April... :fear

[The Sower]

There's some speculation it's a flaw in the magnetic field surrounding the Earth. I'm friends with an old airplane pilot who flew through it, and mentioned that his instruments would go haywire.


yep:wave

[dded0618]

We are planning on taking a Cruise to Bermuda in April... :fear


Well just maybe if you took a big case of gas-x along with you (if it is big gas bubbles) and dumped it in the BT as you go over it, you'd be ok.:pound

[Hootmon]

Hmm...

If you hear about some massive oceanic fart towards the end of April, you will know why I stopped posting.

[Catwoman]

I think Steven Spielberg is right. The Bermuda Triangle is controlled by aliens and all the people that disappear are sucked into a big mother space ship. Didn't anybody watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ?

Seriously I don't know what it could be. The gas theory I hear all the time though.

[Becky]

That doesn't sound plausible to me... how does the gas reduce the bouyancy of seawater? :confusedHalf gas/half water won't float a ship. It will sink. It's like if you were wearing a life jacket and where you were swimming turned into the base of a waterfall. Half water- half air. You would not float.

[MedicDave]

What about all the planes that have over there disappeared too? If memory serves me right, the Navy lost 5 planes out there in the 40's? And others have been lost too I think.

Not sure, Bermuda is outside my sphere of "weirdness" I tend to linger around.

[Becky]

I think it has to do with a combination of the magnetic field and the gases. This phenomenon could cause an electro-magnetic event. The instruments in the plane would go haywire.

About those planes from the 40's; they flew in the wrong direction and ran out of gas according to history. :noidea

[Mindenite]

What about all the planes that have over there disappeared too? If memory serves me right, the Navy lost 5 planes out there in the 40's? And others have been lost too I think.

Not sure, Bermuda is outside my sphere of "weirdness" I tend to linger around.
The gas released woudl not stop in the water, per say. It could get into the air above the sea and potentially mess up with teh gauges on planes. It could not "sink" a plane, so to speak, but it could disrupt the instruments and make the pilots think they are level when in fact they are losing altitude.

[gardener]

One possibility is those rogue ocean waves that can suddenly (and unpredictably) appear. They have been known to pop up in the Bermuda Triangle, and they would certainly do for the shipping (although not the airplanes). Check this out article from Boat/US Magazine:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQK/is_6_9/ai_n7071517

[BloodoftheLamb]

The gas released woudl not stop in the water, per say. It could get into the air above the sea and potentially mess up with teh gauges on planes. It could not "sink" a plane, so to speak, but it could disrupt the instruments and make the pilots think they are level when in fact they are losing altitude.

This was done on discovery the lighter methane makes the pilot think he is gaining altitude :"thinner air" so they push down the stick, then the methane actually gets thicker and kills the motor.....all the while the altimeter shows he is flying up!

[HarbingerSinger]

Years ago I read The Bermuda Triangle: Solved, a real eye opener.

Many of the disasters attributed to the BT actually occurred far outside the boundaries of the BT - as far away as a couple of hundred miles from Ireland, in the Gulf of Mexico, even on the Pacific Ocean side of Mexico.

Many other disasters did not require any mysterious features of the BT to be understood. For instance, it's not surprising that very heavy weather anywhere on Earth could sink a ship that had part of its primary structure weakened to make room for heating equipment, plumbing, and storage space required for transporting molten sulphur. (If I recall correctly, the particular ship in question was in fact one of those which sank outside the BT.)

The loss of the military flight of five Grumman Avengers was not a particular mystery. Personnel in radio stations on the ground heard the plane-to-plane communications, which revealed that the pilots ended up flying back and forth on a roughly north-south line after getting lost. If they had turned northwest right after getting lost and stuck to it, they would have had enough fuel to make it all the way to the northern coastline of the Gulf of Mexico even if they missed the southern end of Florida. (The ground crew of course attempted to communicate with the flight crew. The book speculated about why the flight crew unfortunately never got any messages, but I don't recall the details.)

[HTOR87]

Half gas/half water won't float a ship. It will sink. It's like if you were wearing a life jacket and where you were swimming turned into the base of a waterfall. Half water- half air. You would not float.
Yup, also when they did a scale reinactment on some show I watched, the huge bubble of gas that came up from the "floor" created a huge tidelwave of water. This water went onto the deck of the cargo ship and caused it to sink. It happened within a few seconds. They say that there is no way anyone would have had a chance and they would have all probably died and would not have been able to radio for help.

[deafchristian]

I think it is a magnetic mixup, and thats why many things get lost. If I remember, I saw a show they found one of the plane that got lost in the triangle in the ocean.