Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Finally Cracked?

[rangerrebew]

 Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Finally Cracked?
Norwegian scientists point to 'methane craters'

http://www.newser.com/story/222056/new-find-may-crack-bermuda-triangle-mystery.html

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff
Posted Mar 14, 2016 6:30 PM CDT
Updated Mar 15, 2016 3:03 AM CDT
 
People look out over the Atlantic Ocean as Hurricane Igor approaches in Bermuda on Sept. 18, 2010.   (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

(Newser) – A new discovery has revived an old theory about ocean water gobbling up ships in the Bermuda Triangle—if, that is, the Bermuda Triangle even exists. Researchers from the Arctic University of Norway say they've spotted large craters apparently created by methane buildups off Norway's coast, Atlas Obscura reports. "Multiple giant craters exist on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea ... and are probably a cause of enormous blowouts of gas," they tell the Sunday Times. "The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic." Other experts have said gas blowouts from such craters, which measure 150 feet deep and up to a half-mile wide in Norway, could explain the sinking of ships in a region between Puerto Rico, Miami, and Bermuda dubbed the Bermuda Triangle.

"There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions," Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov said last year, per the New Zealand Herald. Ice-like underwater methane can break away and form gas that bubbles to the surface, Live Science explained in 2014; Yeltsov says it erupts "like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas." Research has shown that such eruptions could sink sea vessels, as NBC News reported in 2003, and this YouTube video appears to confirm that. But it's not clear these blowouts even occur in the Bermuda Triangle, the Guardian notes. And skeptics say the Gulf Stream's many tropical storms would better account for the Triangle's lost ships and planes. The very term "Bermuda Triangle" is questionable: Still dismissed by the US Navy, it was invented in a dramatic 1964 article that probed the "mysterious menace" behind ships and airplanes lost in the area. (A teacher may have found "the key" to finding Amelia Earhart's plane.)

[ABX]

Methane makes sense without all the pseudoscience woo gibberish like aliens, quantum vortexes, and the Koch Brother's collecting boats.

However, I can't remember where, but I saw a statistical analysis of the triangle comparing the rating of missing ships and aircraft and it was an insignificant difference to any other ocean location on the map. The only thing that made it stand out is the very high traffic rate there. But the rate of ships and planes that go missing in relation to how many travel there was about the same.

[Wingnut]

So the ocean passing gas is the cause.  Who knew it was just one big dutch oven

[Smokin Joe]

"Multiple giant craters exist on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea ... and are probably a cause of enormous blowouts of gas,"

Or maybe the gas blowouts cause the craters, not the other way around.

If methane hydrates change phase and erupt as methane gas, the volume would be tremendous, and the climate effect likely multiples of all the CO2 from all the power plants on the North American Continent. Maybe the planet is the cause of any Global Warming, and not the humans just along for  the ride.

[Frank Cannon]

This is an old theory. Mythbusters even did an episode on this concept a number of years ago.

MythBusters Episode 163: Bubble Trouble

http://mythresults.com/bubble-trouble

[A-Lert]

http://www.adn.com/article/20160329/flights-resume-tuesday-pavlof-volcano-eruption-slows

More than two dozen Alaska Airlines flights affecting 2,900 passengers were canceled Tuesday, even as the eruption of Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula weakened overnight.

Alaska Airlines was conducting flights to and from Fairbanks, Barrow and Prudhoe Bay Tuesday, though the airline warned ash conditions could lead to the cancellation of additional flights. 

Alaska Airlines canceled 41 flights Monday, with ash from the eruption that started Sunday afternoon reaching an altitude of 37,000 feet and drifting hundreds of miles into Alaska's Interior.

Related:
Dozens of flights canceled Monday as Pavlof Volcano ash drifts into Interior Alaska
Eruption of Pavlof Volcano continues, with ash rising up to 37,000 feet

A total of 28 flights were canceled Tuesday due to strong winds pushing ash from Pavlof northward.

All told, about 6,200 Alaska passengers had been affected by the flight cancellations by about 3 p.m. Tuesday.

[Machiavelli]

Whoa: Has the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle just been solved?

Kenya Foy
Hello Giggles
October 21, 2016

Stop and take a seat because the gravity of this news will probably pull you down anyway. According to The Science Channel, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle may have been solved. All this time, we’ve been wondering if the strange disappearances of people, ships and planes were somehow related to an oceanic Loch Ness Monster, an aquatic Chupacabra or some time warp that transports stuff into alternate dimensions. But in reality, the unexplained activities happening in the Bermuda Triangle could be linked to hexagonal clouds.

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[Doug Loss]

Actually, the Bermuda Triangle mystery was solved over 40 years ago, but the folks who were so into it refused to recognize that fact:

The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved

[Oceander]

So the ocean passing gas is the cause.  Who knew it was just one big dutch oven