Bermuda Triangle mystery may have been solved after crater discovery

Bermuda Triangle mystery may have been solved after
crater discovery

Richard Hartley-Parkinson for METRO NEWS
http://metro.co.uk

Sunday 13 Mar 2016 4:18 pm

It’s a mystery that has put the fear of God into sailors,
and left scientists scratching their heads for years: What
causes the Bermuda Triangle to claim so many ships and
aircraft.

Scientists believe they may be closer to solving the
mystery after the discovery of a series of craters.

The
craters are actually nowhere near the Bermuda Triangle –
they’re off the coast of Norway – so it’s currently just a
theory.

Basically, the half mile-wide craters are 150ft deep and are
believed to have been created by methane building up and
popping under the seabed.

Researchers from the Arctic University of Norway told the
Sunday Times: ‘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.

‘The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest
hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the
Arctic.’ Experts have previously speculated whether this is
what happens within the Bermuda Triangle.

They are now looking at whether the bursting of these
bubbles is sufficient to sink ships and will present their
findings next month.

Do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle? Igor Yelstov,
from the Trofimuk Institute said last year: ‘There is a
version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas
hydrates reactions.
‘They start to actively decompose with methane ice
turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like
a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas. ‘That
makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters
mixed with a huge proportion of gas.’