I know what you’re thinking, “Aliens!”
Sorry though, you’re wrong.
Oh, you were thinking “bizarre government cover-up?”
You’re still wrong.
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as “the Devil’s Triangle” has been home to disappearing ships and planes for over fifty years. The first allegations of the unusual disappearances were in a newspaper article in September of 1950 but the idea quickly spread, usually incorporating some sort of extraterrestrial explanation. So ships sunk and airplanes crashed. It happens. What made this area so special? The amount of incidents in the area was extremely high and dated well into the 1800s.
What was responsible for all these accidents? The answer lives on the ocean floor. Two researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia surveyed the bathymetry of the ocean floor, specifically the area near the triangle. They discovered that there is evidence of past massive methane explosions in the triangle area.
The presence of methane hydrates indicates enormous eruptions of methane bubbles that could swamp a ship, causing it to immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. These gas bubbles, if projected high enough into the air, could also cause airplanes to crash with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles would lose their engines, perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them, and fall into the ocean.
So there you have it, a logical explanation to just one of our planet’s mysteries. While I would have preferred little green men abducting people from outer space, I’m happy to finally have an answer. Even if that answer is "The Bermuda Triangle just has gas."
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LOOL! i would have preferred little green men too! but im glad its not, because then we would have to worry about invasion! thank you for posting this, it really helped me understand more. :)
ReplyDeleteHey I"m doing a project on the Bermuda Triangle for my individual research project. Thank you sooooo much for making this blog, it helped me :)
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