Scientists may have just made a huge breakthrough in explaining the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
Scientists may have solved an enduring mystery that has plagued us since records began in 1851.
Scientists believe methane gas explosions may be linked to the
mystery of the disappearance of around 8,127 people in the Bermuda
Triangle.
The mythical, triangular stretch of ocean, roughly
encompassing Puerto Rico, the island of Bermuda, and Miami has been
called the Devil's Triangle and more commonly called the Bermuda
Triangle.
For the past 165 years, according to the International Business Times,
numerous ships and airplanes have disappeared in the area, usually
under mysterious circumstances, taking the lives of over 8,000 souls.
But new research from scientists at Arctic University in Norway suggests
that multiple giant craters on the floor of the Barents Sea may help to
explain what's going on in the Bermuda Triangle.
The craters surrounding the seabed on the coast of Norway
mark area's where massive explosions of methane gas may have exploded.
The study of these craters, some of them are actually chasms 150-feet
deep and half-a-mile wide, could have been caused by gas leaking from
oil and gas deposits buried deep in the sea floor.
In the past two years, scientists have documented methane
gas bubbling up from the sea floor off the coasts of Washington state
and Oregon, as well as off the East coast of the United States. And in
the frozen stretches of Siberia last year, scientists discovered four
new holes, bringing the number to seven craters that have formed after
an eruption of methane gas, according to Digital Journal.
Further details on the discovery will be released next month at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union,
to be held in Vienna, Austria April 17 through 22. One of the topics to
be discussed will be whether methane gas explosions on the seabed could
threaten the safety of ships. Scientists now have radar capable of
giving them detailed images of the seabed showing areas of methane gas
seepage around the world.
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"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,"
said researchers at the Arctic University of Norway. "The crater area is
likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine
methane release in the Arctic."
Applying the Barent's Sea study to the Bermuda Triangle
This is not the fist time the possibility of methane gas eruptions in
the Bermuda Triangle have been suggested. Last year, a group of
researchers, led by Igor Yelstov of the Trofimuk Institute in Russia claimed the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle were the effects of hydrant gas reactions.
Yelstov told The Sunday Times
that the when the craters start to actively decompose, methane ice is
transformed into gas. He said the process happens the same way that
avalanches occur, and are almost like a nuclear reaction that produces
huge amounts of gas.
If the theory of methane gas explosions being the cause of so many
disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle proves to be correct, then we can
chalk one up for science. But would the theory explain the magnetic
anomalies associated with the area? It will be interesting to hear what
is decided at the meeting in April.
Scientists may have just made a huge breakthrough in explaining the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
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