Scientists Think They've Solved The Bermuda Triangle Mystery

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For today's post, I thought we'd go a little off the radar, act a bit loopy with our foil hats on and look at some conspiracy theories. While I'm no Alex Jones here, screaming on about chemtrails and the government putting things in our water that are turning the frogs gay I do have a keen interest in WTF is going on in the Bermuda Triangle. This seemly random spot on Earth has been the source of plenty of mysterious which have largely been left unexplained for years and its been the inspiration for many a novel and horror movie.

You would think with the improvements in our technology, like Hello we found water on freaking Mars. Surely we can figure out whats happening in the Bermuda Triangle, right? Well not really, but there's an interesting new theory about it surfacing on the web lately.

What is the Bermuda Triangle

For those of you who are not aware of this phenomenon that has captivated so many conspiracy theorists. The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared.

Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found.

While planes have been victim to the Triangles powers plenty of boats have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages.

Despite the range of fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them proves that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-travelled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident, but you know that's not what we're here for, we want to believe in the supernatural, am I right?

Conspiracy Theories

Since these incidents continued to rack up it would naturally start to gain attention in the media and over the years scores of paranormal writers have blamed the triangle’s supposed lethal mysteries on everything from aliens, Atlantis and sea monsters to time warps and reverse gravity fields, whereas more scientifically minded theorists have pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor, but there has been no definitive theory as yet. Hmmmm juicy isn't it?

Latest theory

Now, in 2018 Scientists believe they’ve solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle and it’s not UFOs or sea monsters, crush our dreams much? Geez! What kinda bedtime stories do you read your kids? The periodic table?

So the reason for all these disappearances is, dum dum dum. Another kind of monster: monster waves. According to “The Bermuda Triangle Enigma” on Britain’s Channel 5, scientists now believe conditions in that area were just right for massive rogue waves.

“There are storms to the south and north, which come together,” said University of Southampton oceanographer Simon Boxall, per the Sun. “And if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves.”

Boxall said these rogue waves could reach 100 feet tall. That would be on par with the largest wave ever recorded: A 100-foot tsunami triggered by an earthquake and landslide in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958, the Smithsonian reported.

Using an indoor simulator, scientists discovered that a model of the USS Cyclops ― a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 with 306 people aboard ― was swamped by a wave and sank. A report last year found that a design flaw would make the Cyclops especially susceptible to rogue waves.

“She had a flat bottom, she rolled quite easily and on one day she rolled approximately 50 degrees one way, and in the high 40s the other way,” author Marvin W. Barrash told Forces News. “And to many vessels that could have just continued and caused a complete catastrophe.”

Two of the Cyclops’ sister ships, Proteus and Nereus, were later lost under similar circumstances. They had the same flaw.

Additional simulations showed that a rogue wave of 50 feet would be enough to sink the flat-bottomed ships, Forces News reported. The U.S. Coast Guard says there is nothing particularly hazardous about the Bermuda Triangle:

“The Coast Guard does not recognize the existence of the so-called Bermuda Triangle as a geographic area of specific hazard to ships or planes. In a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there has been nothing discovered that would indicate that casualties were the result of anything other than physical causes. No extraordinary factors have ever been identified.”

The National Ocean Service, part of NOAA, expressed similar sentiments.

“Environmental considerations could explain many, if not most, of the disappearances,” the agency said, adding that there was no evidence that ships disappeared at a higher rate in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other heavily-trafficked ocean route.

“The ocean has always been a mysterious place to humans,” the agency said. “When foul weather or poor navigation is involved, it can be a very deadly place. This is true all over the world.”

The place for the perfect storm

So there you have it, boys and girls, apparently its some kind of super wave that can rock up at a moments notice and swallow up boats whole. While it's not the lost city of Atlantian guards kicking ass and protecting their Kingdom its still a pretty badass phenomenon. Let's see if this theory sticks and if they can continue to show us some real proof, I want to see big ass waves on camera, video and pics or it didn't happen bro.

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Source:

• Huffington Post
• Fox News
• History.com