Bermuda Triangle?

[Icarus]

Okay. If you don't know what the Bermuda triangle is, well, it's a freakin triangle. Located in the Bermudish area. Planes and boats mysteriously disappear in it.

So, the way I see it, there are three ways to look at this:

1: The Bermuda triangle is freakin' haunted. You're taking your life into your own hands every time you go near it.

2: It's all a series of coincidences, the Bermuda triangle is nothing special.

3: The Bermuda triangle has no supernatural or extraordinary goings-ons, it is simply a treacherous stretch of ocean for natural reasons like weather and topography.

So. I don't know what to think about this. What do all of you think?

[JLXC]

When I was more young, and more gullible, I fell for this Triangle bullshit for a while, but I know better now. It's just a silly thing that somehow caught on and now people wont let it go.

[Mari]

Actually what makes the bermuda triangle so weird is the fact that there is an interdimensional portal in that area... That is all and nothing more...

[Canadian Pyro]

Okay. If you don't know what the Bermuda triangle is, well, it's a freakin triangle. Located in the Bermudish area. Planes and boats mysteriously disappear in it.

So, the way I see it, there are three ways to look at this:

1: The Bermuda triangle is freakin' haunted. You're taking your life into your own hands every time you go near it.

2: It's all a series of coincidences, the Bermuda triangle is nothing special.

3: The Bermuda triangle has no supernatural or extraordinary goings-ons, it is simply a treacherous stretch of ocean for natural reasons like weather and topography.

So. I don't know what to think about this. What do all of you think?
The only way to know for sure is to add a poll to this thread.

[void]

it's the rum.. wherever you take off from down there they drink rum like it's water..

"the sky looks like the sea"

"yeah, do you want some ice with that?"

[Unforgiven]

I was going to build a submarine and check the area out, but I ran out of funds after the purchase of one lightbulb. The government refuses to give me a loan.:happysad:

[Boycott]

Actually - They think that the Bermuda triangle is made from methane hydrate deposits on the bottom of the ocean... When it floats up, it makes the ocean there less dense, and a million small bubbles of methane could sink a large ship, since there's only methane for the ship to float on...

[Icarus]

How does that the wreckage of a bunch of ships and planes went missing? Literally gone, no trace of metal or oil or people.

[Descent]

How does that explain the wreckage of said ships and airplanes disappearing?

The methane gas causes ships to literally crack in large bubbles, the immense force destroys the hull and when a bubble rises to the surface and permeates the air it performs extreme harm to any sort of engine.

Methane is highly flammable, but with engines it displaces certain gasses and exhausts and causes the engines to stall, and you can't really start them back up due to the engine conditions.

Bad news for airplanes.

Also the magnetic field is distorted there so compasses go completely off track.

[YUCK FOU!!!]

Okay. If you don't know what the Bermuda triangle is, well, it's a freakin triangle. Located in the Bermudish area. Planes and boats mysteriously disappear in it.

So, the way I see it, there are three ways to look at this:

1: The Bermuda triangle is freakin' haunted. You're taking your life into your own hands every time you go near it.

2: It's all a series of coincidences, the Bermuda triangle is nothing special.

3: The Bermuda triangle has no supernatural or extraordinary goings-ons, it is simply a treacherous stretch of ocean for natural reasons like weather and topography.

So. I don't know what to think about this. What do all of you think?

the reason is, because compasses dont work there, and back in the days where people used compass for long range navigation, it would spin and theyed get lost crash, run out of fuel, sink, shit like that

[Darklight]

hopefully no one discoveres my plot.... wait! I've said too much...

nah I've heard all kinds of oddities on the area... most common is magnetic phenominon that screws up instruments and puts people on wrong courses...

as to where the ships and airplanes go... who the hell knows... maybe they get swallowed into the same dimention that your socks go from the dryer...

[junglizm]

The methane gas causes ships to literally crack in large bubbles, the immense force destroys the hull and when a bubble rises to the surface and permeates the air it performs extreme harm to any sort of engine.

Methane is highly flammable, but with engines it displaces certain gasses and exhausts and causes the engines to stall, and you can't really start them back up due to the engine conditions.

Bad news for airplanes.

Also the magnetic field is distorted there so compasses go completely off track.This is the most sensible explanation, and what I came into this thread to post. :)

[Bitch]

Well I believe somethign's going on there. it may not be hauntings, it may not be some funky magnetic/methane deposits weirdness either. it might be both. It is strange though. there was a show on the bermuda triange and the methane theory was being tested. although that will sink the ships they only found the deposits were off the coast of north carolina. If that was what was causing the ships to sink then why was it the only evidence of sinking ships was off the coast of florida or in that area and no where near the carolina's? Why do ships disappear then reappear? ...and I'm not talking wreckage. Why would magnetics only effect that area? If it was magnetics messing with the instruments and even methane gasses and weird sightings, why is all this happening in a triangular shape off the coast of bermuda/Florida/north carolina? Why not a square? why not in other places?

I cant' answer the poll because I need more evidence to make a decision on whether this is just some weird phenomenon, paranormal, or just some bad weather in a focused area.

[dull_bullet]

It's been proven that methane deposits can completely destroy boats, and they can also raise up out of the sea and rock the hell out of planes in the air....

[Boycott]

Why not a square? why not in other places?


Umm, I believe shipwrecks happen all over the world, same with plane crashes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle <-- as explained there, there's not more plane crashes, and boat sinkages in the Bermuda triangle in any other part of the world... There's probably just very deep silt deposits where everything disappears, or a whale ate the boats/airplanes...

[I Hate The FCC]

or a whale ate the boats/airplanes...
That'd have to be a big ass whale. :eek:

[jamesp]

Funny, I was reading a book on String Theory just about an hour ago that piqued my curiosity. When they started asking questions about dimensions, suggesting more than three spatial dimensions, some physicists started asking about dimensions big enough for 'things' to get lost in. There was some speculation as to people or even bigger things being 'lost' in these dimensions, though they kept quiet about it to prevent any public fear of falling into to alternate dimensions and never being heard from again. But I kinda got a Bermuda Triangle feel from the wording.

[Icarus]

So bubbles of methane gas can completely eliminate all traces of wreckage?

[dull_bullet]

So bubbles of methane gas can completely eliminate all traces of wreckage?

if the silt on the ocean floor is really fine, the boats can get lost from view. and you have to understand, when the methane hits these boats, they practically shatter.

[Icarus]

If they shatter, fine, then where does the gasoline and oil go? Obviously at least the oil should be on the surface.

I don't think that much silt can be there, but I don't know what the currents are like around there.

[Mini G]

Hmmmmmmmm?!?!?!

[Piro]

This theory was promoted in a semi-serious way by the press at first, but it later came to be dubbed the “Ocean Flatulence Theory,” and in some quarters earned its vociferous proponent the unenviable and humorous nickname of Dr. Flatus.

The theory is lacking for several reasons. One, the Bermuda Triangle is not the area of largest concentration of Methane Hydrates in the world. There are a lot off the Carolinas which, if this is in the Triangle, it depends on your own particular shape for the area. Two, the majority of ships and planes have not disappeared over this section of the “Triangle.” Three, a number of drilling rigs have in fact accidentally bored into beds of methane hydrates and slowly succumbed to the less dense water, sinking to the bottom. However, none of this was so fast that they could not signal their problem, and on a number of occasions news helicopters circling overhead captured every moment on film—but none of them blew to pieces.

There are others in geology who stress that a natural eruption would be so rare it might happen only once every 400 years. They also remind one that the methane has to go through thousands of feet of sediment, thousands of feet of ocean, before it breaks the surface. The chances of a ship being over the precise spot is mathematically astronomical. And it is obvious that no planes are affected by this.

The theory gained circulation probably because it was something new, and because both the public and Dr. Clennell had a complete ignorance where most planes and ships disappeared in the Triangle. Such a rare occurrence cannot account for the hundreds of losses over the last centuries, nor explain any aircraft disappearances. It also cannot explain those that vanished over the Bahamas, where the water depths are only 50 feet or so deep, not 1,000 feet. During his dissertation, Clennell admitted that he discovered large beds of methane on the coast line “near the Bermuda Triangle” which is itself enough rebuttal. Near may matter in horse shoes and hand grenades, but not for ships and planes.

This cold gas is all hot air.


This is another interesting one, I'm very skeptical about it: The Hutchison Effect (http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the__triangle__machine_.html)

[Mini G]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?!?!?!?!?

[RedOctober]

Hmmmm what?

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Well, because I once was a sailor I can tell you the ocean is much bigger than you can imagine. A lot of traffic by ship or airplane uses somewhat the same routes. So there are large areas of the ocean where a ship or plane could dissappear without leaving a trace.

Even if there would be oil spillage, you would need a lot of planes to search for it. That's why sea traffic is using standard routes most of the time.

Only the navies boldly go where no man has ever been before ... :rolleyes:

[Mini G]

well i fink we should just send loadsa ships n planes thruoght it n see what happens!:thumbsup:

[unit.x9]

the ocean floor is composed of alternating strips of orck all with magnetic propertys. in the bt(bramuda triangle) the magnitisam will mess with all electroninc equipment sending planes and ships off course. planes sprial into the sea and ships become lost. there was even a case of an air force squadrin becoming lost over the bt. some people belive there is pirates treasure on a island near there and the treasure is cursed.*i like the pirate theory*

[RedOctober]

Well...
Because there are kids here that seem to believe in the Bogey man, I'll try to explain it once again.

Imagine you're the pilot in a plane, and you see nothing but air and water.
No land. You don't have a reference point. You're magnetic compass goes banana's. Then you still have the sun in daytime or the stars at night!!
Even if it's foggy, you could climb untill you see the sun to be able to navigate. You have your watch, haven't you?

Now guess what.. If you want to know in what direction you want to fly, you have to know where you are... right?
Suppose you think you fly on the west coast of Florida, where would you fly to go to Florida? To the east... right?
But what if you got some tailwind in southern direction, so you drifted more south than you think you are? You would be flying east straight into the Atlantic Ocean, untill you ditch because your motors go prrrt prrrt prrrrt...
That's about what happened with those planes.

And don't forget the pilots in those days were trained to follow the leader, wherever he went.. No big deal.

[sporko06]

Broccoli is the answer to the phenomenon! Eat broccoli before the trip through the area and you'll be fine. This theory has not yet been tested and i assume no responsibility for any resulting accidents.




.....It also cures cancer.

[CHAIRMAN YIN]

because plane crashes/boats sinking leaves vivid imagery in your head, you tend to notice them over the boats that don't sink/the planes that didnt crash. you especially notice it if its in the infamous triangle. truth is, accidents happen all over the world, and people never payed attention to those as they did in the triangle, over time, accidents gather.

I could say "the earth is where planes crash and boats sink, something weird is going on here..." well, wtf?! im completely accurate.

[Icarus]

:rolleyes:

That is a dumb response.

In the Bermuda Triangle such accidents occur much more often, and more often than not no traces of wreckage or evidence is found, the ships and planes have simply disappeared.

Read and think before you post in my threads.

[latinmaxima]

at this point no one really knows. i am actually surprised someone hasnt said aliens take them from right out of the triangle on their hidden ships that our radar cant see....:rolleyes: w/e the truth is we really dont know. that is all there is to it.

[hy565]

When I first heard of this, I was like freak outed o_o" . Even after i read all the scientific explanations it remains thought-provoking. I remember once I put "travelling through the bermuda triangle" as one of my life wishes xD
I read some books/sites on it...but it still looks rather suspicious.>_>

[kid_dude_64]

Jamesp:Funny, I was reading a book on String Theory just about an hour ago that piqued my curiosity. When they started asking questions about dimensions, suggesting more than three spatial dimensions, some physicists started asking about dimensions big enough for 'things' to get lost in. There was some speculation as to people or even bigger things being 'lost' in these dimensions, though they kept quiet about it to prevent any public fear of falling into to alternate dimensions and never being heard from again. But I kinda got a Bermuda Triangle feel from the wording. String theory rules. I love the fact that it says that all the things in the universe are holograms of music playing in eleven dimensions. Priceless.

[afiq980]

Cant you all face the reality that aliens visit the bermuda triangle every week on monday, 3pm!!!

[gallowraven]

Ok, some scientists think it has something to do with the "top secret" naval base under the ocean in that area, and a lot of the disappearences are people unwittingly traveling through that area during the experiments...anyone remember the philladelphia experement???

The other theory, seemingly a little more far-fetched, is that it has something to do with atlantis. They said there is an atlantian power station or generator in that area, and when the sunlight hits the crystals at just the right angle it causes the station to activate, thus causing the little portal through the dimmensions....still no explanation for the thick fog that seemingly comes from nowhere, and attatches itself to metallic objects, such as planes and boats, though.

[Thor98x]

I agree with Mini G there... send as many ships and planes as we can at it and see what happens. If any get out the other side, ask them about the experience, and if none do then you gotta know theres something REALLY funky bout it. In that case it would well and truly deserve a good WTF!

[Hayleigh]

Actually - They think that the Bermuda triangle is made from methane hydrate deposits on the bottom of the ocean... When it floats up, it makes the ocean there less dense, and a million small bubbles of methane could sink a large ship, since there's only methane for the ship to float on...


Why not create something that wont sink?

duh ... jj

[Hayleigh]

[QUOTE=gallowraven]anyone remember the philladelphia experement???QUOTE]

no not familiar with it. care to explain?

[Life Sucks]

first the idea of something unsinkable is very hard see it would need to be unbreakable and since we need to see where it goes if any were it would have to be maned. So to say that it would need to be made out of some string ass titanium along with a O2 tank that wont burst under the pressure along with a opening. See the opening is were the true flaw lies. Trust me if you could weld the guy right on in and give him a tool that could cut titanium go right a head till then I say if they really wanna know than go if they don't return at least they know where it went and there goal was achieved.

[gallowraven]

[QUOTE=gallowraven]anyone remember the philladelphia experement???QUOTE]

no not familiar with it. care to explain?

Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center have been repeatedly searched, but no documents have been located which confirm the event, or any interest by the Navy in attempting such an achievement.


The ship involved in the experiment was supposedly the USS Eldridge. Operational Archives has reviewed the deck log and war diary from Eldridge's commissioning on 27 August 1943 at the New York Navy Yard through December 1943. The following description of Eldridge's activities are summarized from the ship's war diary. After commissioning, Eldridge remained in New York and in the Long Island Sound until 16 September when it sailed to Bermuda. From 18 September, the ship was in the vicinity of Bermuda undergoing training and sea trials until 15 October when Eldridge left in a convoy for New York where the convoy entered on 18 October. Eldridge remained in New York harbor until 1 November when it was part of the escort for Convoy UGS-23 (New York Section). On 2 November the convoy entered Naval Operating Base, Norfolk. On 3 November, Eldridge and Convoy UGS-23 left for Casablanca where it arrived on 22 November. On 29 November, Eldridge left as one of escorts for Convoy GUS-22 and arrived with the convoy on 17 December at New York harbor. Eldridge remained in New York on availability training and in Block Island Sound until 31 December when it steamed to Norfolk with four other ships. During this time frame, Eldridge was never in Philadelphia.

[1ct-on!]

we are in the fridge !!!

an the bermuda triangle is false , a bremuda is a short !! no just kidding

i think the story is kinda true

[Devien]

i dont personally know what to believe. i heard about the methane bubbles theory long before i saw this post, however the COMPLETE dissapearance of ships and planes in the region is (to me) kinda weird, surely at least some wreckage would be found in the area? if not (even if wreckage is found somewhere else) then something weird is going on.

[cashman99]

the bermuda triangle migh be on top of atlantis and they keep shooting he planes and boats down for materials to use

[cashman99]

if it really was the weather then it owuld be a circle and be called the bermuda circle

[cashman99]

one day i am going to fly right though it with a UZI and a boat load of people to bail me out

[Jane Deere]

Wow! i really love it when people find the posts from way back when, and not only post in it once, but three times in a row! :thumbsup:

I don't know much about this Triangle thing, but I'll just blame in on pirates.

[Hypernova]

Ok I know this may be a bit weird but...

Due to a large amount of magetic rock it messes with compasses andinstruments...and you know sea monsters and interdeminsional ports things disapear...and those things make a connection because...weird thinga ARE happening and things reappear.

Or theres an unidentified Island where pirates have lived since long long ago. and they patrol the sea's taking everything they find. their dark witch doctors cast spells to confuse victoms instruments...and of course they have anti-aircraft guns to shoot done aircraft.

Or Aliens have a secret base there and they just fuck around with us and laugh. and of course horribly totrue and mutilate those unfortunate few who made way upon their secret base.

Or its a big lie that all our goverments are feeding us...because their being paid of by shows that talk about weird things...and college history books that need that extra page so they can up the charge $30.

or...well I think thats about all I think...

[The_Observer]

ok i don't know how old this thread is or if anyone has already said this but:

the whole triangle thingy had its affects because of the magnetics of the rocks or whatever and because of the huge amounts of methane gas underneath the surface of the earth. If the tectonic plates moved just right, the gas would be released and if a ship were to be just on top of the bubble then it would sink instantly. Then if the crust were to shift again, the ship would be possibly pulled beneath the surface of the earth and forever lost.

or some shit like that. I watched a show on it once.

wow this thread is too damn old. shouldn't have posted, sorry.

[BamWam]

It would be fun to believe in the Bermuda Triangle but I just think that it is just not real. It seems that people like to make up things like this to amuse the mind.

[cashman99]

thats to boring use ur imagination

there is a sientific explination and a mystical one whichever one is proved first it true

[angrywelshman]

I actually watched a show about the bermuda triangle and its relevance to plane crashes...its really about volcanic vents in the "Ring of Fire" that release certain gases that happen to be lighter than air. So when planes pass through this highly volcanic area, their plane tends to lose altitude very quickly due to its inability to generate resistance. When it comes to boats, I believe it is the same effect.

[cashman99]

has anyone suvived the burmuda triangle????????

[Hypernova]

yeah man there entire islands in the bermuda

[Jack]

Probably about 99.5% of any vessel that has traversed it.

[Elite Hunting]

I have my own Bermuda Triangle. The first point is named Bush. The second is Cheney. And the third point is named Rice. And inside it, pure greed and evil, devouring everything.

And one of the points is so stupid, when quail hunting, it shoots peoples' faces instead.

[The_Observer]

I actually watched a show about the bermuda triangle and its relevance to plane crashes...its really about volcanic vents in the "Ring of Fire" that release certain gases that happen to be lighter than air. So when planes pass through this highly volcanic area, their plane tends to lose altitude very quickly due to its inability to generate resistance. When it comes to boats, I believe it is the same effect.


thats what i said, but i left out the ring of fire in place with shifts in the crust. the methane or w/e it is floats up and shit comes down.

[KatLovesTheJam]

I think we should go out there and find out for ourselves :D

[Hypernova]

30 ppl crammed into a medium sized yatch, on a month long voyage...right, yeah, right behind you bucko

[The_Observer]

oh come on it would be a fuck fest.

[Peacthruvandlsm]

They way I see it that it is lame. I went through the middle of it twice and nothing happend execpt that the water was calm and it was a nice day. Ships like the Norwegian Spirit go through practicly daily and nothing happens. It's just an over active imagination.

[car15]

Honestly, from what I've heard about it I have to say it's just a treacherous area of the ocean. Sorry. Nothing supernatural here.

[The_new_Guy]

to be a bit historical and all, but according to different countries in the 1700's there were three different triangles of varying size, the smallest being the common bermuda triangle that we know today and the largest almost 2.5 times the size of the Bermuda Triangle.

The scary fact about the Bermuda Triangle is that it makes a Perfect equilateral Triangle.:eek: