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Why scientists are unable to discovered about the barrumuda triangle mystery?

Is still the barrumuda triangle a mystery?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There are many mysteries in life.

    One theory is hurricanes can gobble up ships and even planes.

    Another theory is that sometimes there can be earthquakes involving the ocean floor where two planes along the divide slide along and one side raises quickly up higher than the other side, raising the water above it and causing a massive tsunami ocean wave that can gobble up stuff.

    Another theory is that there are pockets of methane gas bubbling in spots in the ocean floor and maybe something causes a massive "blowout" of methane gas to the surface, taking out ships and planes above it.

    Sometimes whales and other large sea creatures might bash and sink ships.

    Ships and planes are all subject to breakdowns of a normal sort and could sink that way (or planes could crash or run out of fuel and crash). The titanic sunk due to a leak from hitting an iceberg. Who knows what ships could hit in the ocean? Reefs, large whales, etc. perhaps.

    Also there are many pirates still out on the sea and drug runners that could attack and steal ships.

    All kinds of rational explanations. But I believe I saw on TV that there are lots of methane pockets that bubble in that specific area. Underwater earthquakes could cause them to become unstable. Also earthquakes are what originally caused mountains, volcanoes and islands, so the possibility of earthquake fault lines in the area, leading to tsunamis is possible too. People often get lost in a storm and run out of fuel.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle

  • paul h
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I think the most plausible explanation that has been given so far is the methane hydrates in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. Methane hydrates are a form of methane gas which is locked up in icy solids called hydrates and they are found in abundant volumes in some areas of the ocean floors. Methane hydrates on the sea floors contain nearly twice the amount of energy as found in all other sources of fossil fuels on earth and could potentially be a huge source for future energy needs.

    The theory goes that large areas of these methane hydrates can suddenly dissolve into gas from a geological event like a landslide or from a sudden influx of warm water and those gas bubbles floating upward can destabiilize a ship's bouyancy...causing them to sink. Ships rely on the properties of water to make them float...if you suddenly introduce bubbles of gas or foam into an area, the ship will rapidly sink. Other things like oil drilling platforms are known to have disappeared in a short time from an underwater well blow-out of gas.

    Those huge pockets of gas also rise into the air once they reach the surface and any low-flying plane flying through this gas pocket cloud would have it's engine stall or possibly explode leaving little debris to track....compass needles would also be affected from the ionization of the gas pocket. There may also be areas on earth which have strange magnetic properties and the Triangle may be one of them. There are other areas in the world which have much higher rates of lost ships or sinkings...the Great Lakes for one...so some people suggest the Triangle is not really all that dangerous when compared.

    I suppose the only way to know for sure would be to place a lot of buoys in the area with GPS tracking devices and see if they rapidly sink over a time period....and record if any methane is present when this occurs.

    A few links on the methane hydrates explanation......

    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/22/10666...

    http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2009/bermuda-...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSmAXp_BHcQ&feature...

    http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/hydrate...

  • Gary H
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Scientists were unable to discover the mystery because there was no mystery to discover.

  • 1 decade ago

    They have. Under the sea there edges of tectonic plates that are costantly moving, every so often there is a sharp movement which releases a massive air buuble which causes the ships to sink or disrupts electronics on an aeroplane.

    Source(s): My Geography Teacher
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  • 1 decade ago

    It is just a myth. The area is known for stormy tropical storms - hurricanes etc nothing mysterious about that

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