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Bermuda Triangle mystery solved?

Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 21:30 MJA Uncategorized 29

FOX: British scientists believe 100ft ‘rogue’ waves could be the reason why so many boats have been sunk in the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.

The infamous body of water in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean stretches 700,000 square km (270,271 square miles) between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto-Rico.

Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, the area features multiple shipping lanes and has claimed over 1,000 lives in the last 100 years.

But experts at the University of Southampton believe the mystery can be explained by a natural phenomenon known as “rogue waves.”

Appearing on Channel 5 documentary “The Bermuda Triangle Enigma,” the scientists use indoor simulators to re-create the monster water surges.

Rogue waves – which only last for a few minutes – were first observed by satellites in 1997 off the coast of South Africa.

Some have even measured 30 meters (nearly 100ft) high.

The research team built a model of the USS Cyclops, a huge vessel which went missing in the triangle in 1918 claiming 300 lives.  more here

 

29 Comments on Bermuda Triangle mystery solved?

  2. My father was on a Navy ship during WW2 in the Bermuda Triangle and it almost sank.

    But his ship wasn’t named Cyclops. Who on Earth would ever board a ship named after a monster?

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  4. Methane Hydrate releases in large enough amounts can mess with water displacement and if rich enough, maybe affect air intake on planes.
    Next to interdimensional beings its decidedly the less romantic explanation

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  10. “What about all the aircraft that has gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle? Their theory doesn’t compute.”

    Exactly. I think there’s actually been more planes go down than ships lost. As I remember ship were found intact wit nobody on them as well. Either these guys are full of crap or I need to stop watching late night TV.

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  13. Bad_Brad,Goldenfoxx-
    I wondered the same thing.
    There was a theory for the missing aircraft- Methane Gas bubbles. Also, all of the triangle maps I’ve seen are different than the one in this video.

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  14. Different Tim, damn you, why did you have to bring that up. I lived near Duluth at that time, and yes it hit home for a lot of people around us, but that song. I’ll curse Gordon Lightfoot till my dying day. I guarantee I won’t be able to get that out of my head the rest of the night. It may take a couple days.

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  19. Isaac Kappy may be to blame, always Honest LAPD are looking into it.
    These Scientist’s are Brilliant,did they discover this first by spilling their glass of Water on the Table.

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  20. @Aaron Burr:

    Wait…so you people are saying it wasn’t Bush’s fault?

    I, for one, do indeed think it was Bush’s fault. Prescott Bush, that is. Look at all the other crap he foisted on us: GHW Bush, and then W and the awful Jeb!

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  22. In the very early phases of our involvement in WWII, my father quit high school, lied about his age and joined the 8th Army Air Corps as a tail gunner on a B17. (All in, you might say). After training, prior to deployment to England, it was typical for the planes to fly up and down the east coast on submarine surveillance. During an early flight, in the vicinity of Bermuda, their navigation instruments went haywire and they were dis-oriented, but did fly out of it. Their nose art reflected that flight. He went on to personally shoot down 9 messerschmitts and come home.
    It wasn’t a rogue wave or swamp gas.

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  26. …..On December 8, 1942, a year and a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, the RMS Queen Mary left New York with over 16,000 American troops heading for Gourock, Scotland, 3,000 miles across the stormy Atlantic. A 1,000 feet long and 81,000 gross tons (cargo volume), she was the fastest ocean liner in the world. She could reach any British port in just five days (compared to two weeks for convoys of Liberty ships) and she could outrun any German U-boat. It was a sunny day with bands playing, crowds cheering, and fireboats shooting streams of water high into the air as she cruised past the Statue of Liberty and out into the Atlantic. By the fourth day at sea, however, the weather had turned foul and high winds generated huge waves. The Queen Mary was carrying seven times the normal number of passengers along with weapons, ammunition, and other equipment, most of it above the waterline. That made her top heavy, and her stability problems only got worse as the voyage went on, because the oil she consumed came from fuel tanks located below the waterline. So Mary pitched and rolled, and thousands of landlubber soldiers were overcome by seasickness. Their bunks became immersed in the smell of vomit, and the ship’s hospital was overrun with dehydrated soldiers.
    …..The next day the howling winds reached hurricane strength. As far as the eye could see the Queen Mary was surrounded by an angry ocean with white frothing peaks and deep dark valleys. She shook viciously each time she climbed up an enormous wave crest and then fell forward into a deep wave trough to be pummeled by the next wave. Water was everywhere on the ship’s decks, from the spray as Mary’s bow crashed down on the next wave and from the high winds shearing off the tops of waves and throwing water at the ship. And through it all, the soldiers remembered what they had been told. Do not go near the railings, because if you fall over, you are lost. For even if you survived the fall (65-five feet from the main deck), and then survived the icy Atlantic waters (numbness and incapacitation setting in within a few minutes), the ship would not stop to look for you. With German U-boats everywhere, 16,000 lives would not be risked to save one.
    …..But the worst was still to come. About 700 miles from Scotland, the Queen Mary suddenly fell into an almost bottomless pit. She was then broadsided on her port side by a monstrous wave crest that was at least twice as high as any wave she had encountered. This mountain of water shattered windows on the bridge, 95 feet above the waterline. It tore away all the lifeboats on the port side of the top deck. It broke through portholes, sending water rushing into hundreds of cabins. But most seriously, the weight of this stupendous wave, many thousands of tons of water, slowly rolled the Queen Mary over farther than she had ever rolled over before. The lifeboats on the starboard side swung down with the ship and almost touched the sea. Soldiers on the lower decks of the starboard side looked out of their portholes and saw dark seawater. Many were thrown out of their bunks and broke arms and legs or suffered concussions. In the dining rooms, chairs slid from one side to the other, and dishes and glasses shattered. For the soldiers at antiaircraft positions, a hundred feet above the waterline, the scene they witnessed was especially harrowing. Those on the port side stared in disbelief as a mountain of water appeared to come right at them, and those on the starboard side were one minute a hundred feet high and the next swinging wildly through the air until they almost touched the ocean itself. Soldiers slid out doorways riding torrents of water from broken portholes. Many soldiers threw on life preservers, convinced the ship had been torpedoed. When Mary had listed over on its side farther than any ship’s crew had ever experienced before, and when she seemed to stay there for an eternity, those seamen figured that the ship would never right itself again. In fact, according to later calculations, if the Queen Mary had listed over only three more degrees, she would have capsized. If she had capsized, she would have almost certainly sunk, taking with her 16,000 lives and instantly becoming the largest maritime disaster in history. A tragedy was apparently avoided, only due to the “exceptional seamanship on the part of her bridge officers … a quick turn of her helm [so that] her bow was brought dead on to this exceptional wave.” Decades later such a uniquely monstrous wave would come to be called a rogue wave or a freak wave. Many disasters caused by rogue waves would be reported (and often not believed), and many ships would not be as fortunate as the Queen Mary.

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  28. On February 14, 1929, members of Bugsy Moran’s gang were murdered in what has come to be called “The St. Valentines’ Day Massacre.” While everybody “knows” it was done by the Capone mob, no definitive proof was ever found so the case is still listed as “unsolved.”

    The same can be said of most – if not all – of the Bermuda Triangle mysteries. Much has been made of the fact that many of the official reports conclude with official language saying that investigators do not know what happened. The operative phrase here is “official reports.” They are legal documents. They may have very good ideas as to what happened but, since they have no concrete proof, they are not at liberty to say conclusively what happened because civil and perhaps criminal liability may rest on official conclusions. However, many of those reports do include a great deal of credible speculation. Speculation, however, cannot be the official conclusion.

    Years ago I read a book called Bermuda Triangle Mystery – Solved by Larry Kusche. He went over a number of supposed mysteries. One of the things he found was that the “Bermuda Triangle” often was extended to include most of the Atlantic Ocean. He also found that there was supposedly a counterpart to the Bermuda Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. When all was said and done, most of the deep water in the world was included under the heading of “mysterious.”

    In his book, Kusche had a chapter on the missing squadron of fighter planes in 1945. Kutsche presented some very credible possibilities as to what happened. After the book came out, a noted author on the Bermuda Triangle – whom my brothers and I called “Charles ‘Anything is a Mystery if you ignore Half the Facts’ Berlitz” – criticized Kutsche for, among other things, never having even been to the area. In response, Kutsche – who was also a pilot – followed up with a lengthy book titled The Disappearance of Flight 19 . Among the things Kutsch found in official reports was that the leader of the squadron had just transfered to the squadron’s base on one side of Florida after being stationed at a base on the other side of Florida. This made it possible that habit told him to go towards what he thought was land but in reality was further out over water. The leader also forgot his watch, an important item when it comes to navigation. He also failed to switch to a night-time radio frequency, staying on a frequency that would be all but useless after dark. People have asked why someone else in the squadron did not take command. The reason? The military tends to call such actions “mutiny.” The first Navy inquiry, after a lengthy investigation, put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the squadron leader. Much has said about how the Navy reversed itself later. Kutsche writes how this was after a quick hearing that was done more to placate the squadron leader’s family than to examine fact.

    Do mysteries exist? I am sure that they do. However, we don’t need to muddy the waters by ignoring available evidence and calling everything a mystery.

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