This area of ​​the Atlantic Ocean also acquired the name "Devil's Triangle" He has more than 100 missing ships and aircraft on his account. Any technique that has fallen into this mystical circuit malfunctions in navigation, sometimes taking thousands of human lives with it into the unknown.

The Devil's Triangle first received attention after an article by Vincent Gaddison. It was dedicated to the loss of 5 huge torpedo bombers "Eveger" with an experienced crew, and subsequently the aircraft sent in search of a sea convoy. This happened over 70 years ago. And from that time "Bermuda Triangle" swallowed up more than one thousand lives. In its waters, both small and large ships disappeared without a trace. In 1963, the cargo ship "Marine Sulfur Queen" will be on his account. A sea giant with a length of more than 100 meters will disappear without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle.

On the world map, the "Devil's Triangle" is located between the coasts of Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. By connecting 3 points with segments, an equilateral triangle appears on the map.

Recent studies have shown that at the bottom of this area there are previously unknown objects that strongly resemble pyramids. Moreover, the bottom of the "Dead Sea" is absolutely smooth and does not have marine vegetation and depressions on its surface. Unknown objects are likely to be of unearthly origin, because the technologies with which you can build such structures are unknown to mankind.

There are many hypotheses describing these anomalies, but none is fully confirmed. Here are the main ones:

Huge methane bubbles. From the cracks of the Atlantic Ocean, huge methane bubbles burst to the surface. The gas rushes into the sky, and the unfilled volume left in place of the bubble creates a funnel that absorbs everything around.

Sargasso Sea. It is located in the east of the Bermuda Triangle and is surrounded on all sides by strong currents: the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic, the Canary and the North Trade Wind. Together, these currents create a closed circular motion, which is the cause of all troubles.

These hypotheses only explain the disappearance of ships, but the question of the disappearance of aircraft remains open.

Pyramids. These strange structures at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle are home to aliens. The supporters of this theory came to such conclusions because of the huge number of unidentified luminous objects rising from the depths.

The investigation and study of the "devil's sea" continues. And many more different theories will be put forward by scientists and ordinary people. In the meantime, one can only guess and hope that someday the Bermuda Triangle will reveal all its secrets.

is the so-called anomalous zone in Atlantic Ocean, approximately indicated on the map as a triangle whose vertices are limited by three segments (Peninsula Florida-Bermuda-Puerto Rico). Within this mystical region, strange cases are often observed: navigation equipment fails, entire ships and planes often disappear, there were even incidents when the missing ships were still found, but with dead passengers on board.

Bermuda Triangle. Conditional scheme.

Until recently, these mystical events remained a mystery, but more recently, the Bermuda Triangle revealed its secrets to scientists. It turns out that the cause of the mysterious events lies in the natural gas methane. This assumption was put forward by the administration of the State Australian university Monash. This hypothesis was proven by Professor Joseph Monaghan in a scientific alliance with his student David Maine. The discovery of the researchers was detailed in an article for the authoritative in the world of science, the American journal "Journal of Applied Physics".

The Bermuda Triangle stores at the bottom more than a thousand ships that sank at different times.

The wrecked liner, Bermuda region.

Scientists managed to find out that the Bermuda Triangle is located in the area of ​​ancient volcanic eruptions, as a result of which a large amount of methane hydrates is concentrated in this area, it is he who rises from the natural faults of the ocean floor and becomes the culprit of mystical catastrophes. This happens at the moment when methane, when combined with water, turns into a gas bubble, is pushed to the water surface and explodes there.
With the help of a computer program, scientists simulated the circumstances of the disasters. It was possible to find out that getting into the methane bubble, the sea vessel loses its buoyancy and goes to the bottom. Methane affects airplanes differently - it is able to disable engines or even become the culprit of an explosion.

The anomalous Bermuda Triangle is created by methane bubbles.

For the accuracy of the data, Monaghan and Main also conducted a practical experiment, which confirmed the previously obtained results. To do this, they poured water into a huge tank and from the bottom of the vessel began to release large methane bubbles to mini-ship models floating on the surface. Experience has shown that ships begin to sink as soon as they find themselves between the middle and the outer edge of the bubble. However, in cases where the ship was sufficiently distant from the edge of the gas bubble or was directly above it, the ship was all right. This experiment also explained the cases of ships with dead passengers on board. In all likelihood, the people were poisoned by the poisonous fumes of methane gas, as their ships were directly above the methane bubble.

Recently, Russian scientists discovered about 7,000 underground methane bubbles in Siberia that could explode at any moment.

"Their appearance so close to the surface of the earth is most likely associated with the thawing of permafrost," explains the representative Russian Academy Sciences. “And this, in turn, was the result of a general increase in temperature in the north of Eurasia in recent decades.”

The discovery is alarming for three reasons. First, methane traps 86 times more heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Melting permafrost releases both carbon dioxide and methane, but most forecasts assume that only carbon dioxide is released. If more methane is released during the melting process, the temperature will increase much faster than scientists' calculations show.

Secondly, another study showed that due to global warming melting permafrost has intensified more than expected.

Third, the permafrost is already melting at a dangerous pace. In the Arctic, temperatures are rising twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

The Academy of Sciences reports that last year on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, where many gas bubbles were found, "there was an abnormally warm summer."

However, high temperatures were again observed in Siberia in March, according to NASA. In parts of Siberia and the Arctic, temperatures were 12.1 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average.

Are there similar methane mines in the US, also called "exploding" or "alternative" pingos (regular pingos are mounds of ice covered with earth, so they don't explode)?

Geocryologist and permafrost specialist Vladimir Romanovsky of the University of Alaska Fairbanks told the Washington Post that methane-filled pingos are "definitely warming" and could appear in Canada or Alaska.

"Similar craters will appear in North America, it's only a matter of time," Romanovsky said. Several pingos have already formed "right under the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline," the scientist says. If one of these bubbles turns out to be an alternative pingo, it will not lead to anything good.

And then there are these bubbles:

But remember there was such a hole:

And here is the explanation for the occurrence of this crater:

Vladimir Potapov, researcher at the Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “It can be compared with the first time I saw the Mir quarry in Mirny. This is a very large object! But there it is done by human hands – and it has been done for a very long time – but here it is nature, and the impressions are very great.”

Explosion atomic bomb, the fall of a meteorite, traces of aliens and even the gates of hell that opened - what versions did not sound. For several months, scientists scrupulously studied the composition of soil, water and air, the background radiation and dozens of other parameters. And they found the answer: the giant deposits of gas hydrate in the permafrost are to blame.

Igor Yeltsov, Deputy Director for scientific work Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. A. Trofimuka: “A gas hydrate is a substance that stores methane in a solid state. But when for some reason conditions change - pressure, temperature - it is released in a very large volume. And the volume of gas that is obtained from a piece of gas hydrate ice exceeds this volume by 150 times. It's just such an air exhaust, as if a champagne cork flew out.

Pieces of soil scattered for tens of meters. Around the crater is a mound. The minerals, however, did not melt, which means that there was no high-temperature explosion. All this points to the correctness of scientists. Summer in Yamal turned out to be hot, towards the atmospheric heat, hot magma rose from below, from a tectonic fault. "Methane ice", heated from both sides, melted and "rushed".

Researchers also believe that a similar process could be happening in the Bermuda Triangle! According to Siberian scientists, the Bermuda Triangle works like this. Huge masses of heated methane rush into the sea and gas-saturated water literally boils. Its density, accordingly, drops sharply, and the ships fall into the abyss without even having time to send a distress signal. Pure science, no mysticism."

In a few years, the crater will fill with water. There are many round lakes in the tundra - it is possible, geophysicists say, that they arose from the same pneumoplasts. Scientists want to return to Yamal in winter: it is easier and safer to study the sinkhole bound by frost and the reservoir at its bottom. The result of the research will be recommendations to gas workers: to build drilling rigs and pipelines away from tectonic faults. Otherwise, you can literally "fall through the ground." The advice is not idle: just thirty kilometers from the crater is the largest Bovanenkovo ​​deposit.

Here is a report on how they got there in the winter -

On October 21, 2003, Reuters, many other newspapers and the Internet commented on the report that Australian scientists, based on natural observations and physical experiments, substantiated the reasons for the unusual disappearance of ships as a result of a breakthrough giant bubbles methane from the seabed.

Being engaged in mathematical modeling of this problem, a few years ago I came to a conclusion repeated by Australian scientists, verifying the version of Japanese scientists (1970-1980) on the mathematical model.

Methane, an odorless gas, solidifies under tremendous pressure at the bottom of the seabed. Ice-like deposits of methane can break down and turn into gas, creating bubbles on the surface. Location studies of the ocean floor in the North Sea, between England and continental Europe, have uncovered a large number of methane hydrates and vents of volatile gases, write May and Monaghan in their report in the American Journal of Physics.

This message was the reason for a comparative analysis of the results of physical and mathematical research secrets of the Bermuda Triangle, published in the Canadian Russian-language press (Montrecal) back in April 1999 and detailed, then, from March 2001 to April 2002, in the history of the disappearance of the Mary Celeste crew.

The latest research by Australian scientists has revealed the presence of sunken ships near the center of one particularly large gas bubble eruption now known as "Witches Hole".

May and Monaghan note that no one has ever seen giant bubbles of gas erupt from the seafloor. No one knows, they say, how likely it is to break off bottom bubbles generated by methane deposits.

In order to study this phenomenon, they created a physical model that can be used to observe the dynamics of the movement of a gas bubble that occurs under the ship. To do this, they poured water between the vertical glass walls of the tank, placed an acrylic model of the ship and released methane from a cylinder installed at its bottom. It turned out that when the radius of gas bubbles rising to the surface of the tank is equal to or greater than the length of the model, it goes to the bottom.

It could be assumed that the concept of “modeling”, used by scientists, reflects the process of formation and accumulation of gases, i.e. creation of a gas accumulator, which, exploding under certain conditions, leads to the rise of a dispersed gas column in the water column. However, the authors claim to have created a “big bubble model”. The question arises - isn't the model in the form of a “small” bubble in an aquarium or reservoir the same bubble? After all, the point is not just a bubble, as such, but a bubble that exists and breaks through the vault, perhaps a solid one, formed on a set of specific natural conditions determined by resonant interactions with environment, destroying the bubble, turning it into countless small, but also bubbles! Therefore, the conditions formulated by May and Monaghan for floating and drowning a ship model in a tank may be correct, but the transfer of the results obtained to the safety conditions for ship navigation in the ocean, when a naturally formed bubble breaks through to the surface, does not seem convincing enough. The claim of safe removal, defined as “sufficient from a bubble”, without specifying a measure, is as vague as it is trivial. Arguments about the safety of a ship located in the center of the explosion or between certain, blurry certain “stagnation points” and the boundaries of the “low pressure area”, do not explain anything, especially since the authors contradict themselves, arguing that near the center of the eruption of gas bubbles and in epicenter of one of the most powerful explosions, were found the remains of sunken ships.

The authors, however, are absolutely right in saying that no one knows how likely it is that large bubbles of methane deposition will break off. But, while stating this, they forget that this probability, being a dependence on many conditions, primarily related to the dynamics of the resonant frequencies of the “bubble-arch-medium” oscillatory system, cannot be determined by a physical experiment in a tank. At physical experiment it is simply impossible to satisfy the requirements of the theory of similarity when reproducing the process of the emergence and development of a bottom bubble. An estimate of such a probability, with one or another error, can only be made theoretically, by mathematical modeling equations of the dynamics of the process of formation and formation of a gas accumulator, taking into account certain local conditions that satisfy the unity of the set of relations connecting these conditions.

Let us assume, as can be understood from the published materials, that this physical model corresponds to a “small”, integral gas bubble (at least the size of a ship) that reaches the water surface without destruction and does not form a dispersed column of gases. Such a model contradicts the physics of the phenomena accompanying the breakthrough of the roof of a gas accumulator formed in vivo bottom pressures at the depths of the World Ocean, although a ship getting into such a “conditional” bubble is an unconditional factor in its drowning (but not disappearance without a trace). It is doubtful, however, that when a gas accumulator breaks through, whole bubbles of gas, with dimensions corresponding to modern ships, can rise without destruction.

In the “reservoir” model applied by Australian scientists, the bubble is formed due to the tension forces of the boundary layer separating the gaseous medium from the water one. In the near-bottom bubble, which forms under natural conditions, this layer, forming a vault, is strengthened by age-old sedimentary materials. Some of these materials form its solid backbone associated with the rocks of the solid bottom or sedimentary layer. In the physical model, the turbulence of deep currents is also not reproduced in any way, the pressure of the liquid in the reservoir of the model does not correspond to the real pressure at the depths of the ocean, and, therefore, the system of dynamic interactions “bubble-arch-medium” does not correspond to the real one and does not provide the unity of relations in it .

Moreover, it seems that such a system is hardly amenable to physical modeling and the conclusions made by the authors seem to be real only for the simulation conditions. It also remains unclear to what extent the requirements of the theory of similarity are fulfilled - the doctrine of the conditions of similarity physical phenomena, based on the doctrine of dimensions physical quantities, which is the basis of physical modeling. From the consideration of the experiment described by Australian scientists, it is not possible to assess even the proximity of the model to the natural system "bubble-arch-environment" and the unity of connections in it. This model allowed only to visually trace the general similarity of processes, and does not reflect the entire set of interactions in the prototype of the modeled system. This does not allow us to evaluate the quality of the simulation of ship sinking mechanisms. Other variants of the interaction between the environment and the object of influence, which determine the instantaneous destruction of the hull, the disappearance of the crew while the vessel is intact, as can be seen from the message, were not considered at all. Neither Japanese nor Australian scientists have analyzed the generated, child mechanisms accompanying the explosion of a gas accumulator and the interaction of the vessel with the environment at the moment of its dispersed cloud leaving the water column.

Comparison of the methods and results of the Japanese ship sinking experiment, identification of the hypothesis by mathematical models and its partial verification by the situational "black box" method shows that the factors established by Japanese scientists in the physical experiment are confirmed and refined by mathematical model. It is the Japanese version formulated in relation to the phenomena observed in the water area maximum depths of the World Ocean - the Mariana Trench (length 1340 km., depth 11022 m.), was revised on mathematical models. The results of this audit were reported back in 1999 by the Canadian press. Research by Australian scientists is nothing more than a repetition of the Japanese experiment.

In contrast to Japanese and Australian scientists, illustrating with specific examples and taking into account specific conditions, we described in detail not only the causes and mechanisms of the disappearance of ships and their crews, identified on the mathematical model, but carefully analyzed the consequences of these mechanisms - the aftereffect stages. These stages are different and are formed by the mechanisms of implementation of explosions of gas accumulators of various nature. Causing the results of the interaction of the vessel with the environment, and determining the consequences - the disappearance or sinking of ships ( aircraft) that fell into the exit zone of a dispersed cloud, or the disappearance of the crews while saving the vessel, these mechanisms affected the structure and composition of the model corresponding to the process of generation and accumulation of a gas accumulator. The consideration of these mechanisms made it possible to understand the reasons for the disappearance of the crews of ships, while the latter were actually completely preserved. This required a substantive specification, which was implemented on the basis of event information reflecting the phenomena that occurred on the "Mary Celeste". The available information on this event turned out to be enough to solve the problem and draw parallels between the mechanisms of interaction between the subject components of the situation, its actors and the environment itself. The dynamics of such interaction, leaving a trace in the form of a set of features observed on the Celeste, interpreted in the logic of the situational model of the phenomenon, made it possible to interpret the origins of the appearance of each of the features in the real world of the hypothesis in a new way.

If we talk about methane - the main component of the gas bubble - the killers of ships, then this is a natural, easily exploding gas that hardens at a temperature of -182 ° C. Between -182°C and -164°C, methane is a liquid (with a density of 0.47 g/cc) that boils up and turns into a gas at a temperature of minus 164°C. At high bottom pressures, the transition of methane to a solid state is achieved at a temperature close to zero. Literary sources indicate that its hydrated forms can also be found at shallow depths, in areas continental shelves. In diagenesis - a set of processes of transformation of loose bottom sediments, they form fossils on the ocean floor - in various zones of gas bubbles, causing the creation and accumulation of huge reservoirs - gas accumulators in bottom sediments.

A detailed description of the phenomena associated with gas accumulator explosions is currently published on the website http://www.port-folio.org/archive.htm of the Portfolio Almanac.

Yakov Gelfandbein

Why do disasters occur in the Bermuda Triangle? and got the best answer

Answer from Valent[guru]
Proponents of the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle have put forward several dozen different theories to explain the mysterious phenomena that, in their opinion, occur there. These theories include space aliens or Atlanteans hijacking ships, travel through holes in time or rifts in space, and other paranormal causes. Other authors try to give scientific explanation these phenomena.
Their opponents argue that reports of mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle are greatly exaggerated. Ships and aircraft are also dying in other areas the globe sometimes without a trace. A radio malfunction or the suddenness of a disaster can prevent the crew from transmitting a distress call. Searching for debris at sea is not an easy task, especially in a storm or when the exact location of the disaster is not known. Given the very heavy traffic in the Bermuda Triangle, frequent cyclones and storms, a large number of shallows, the number of disasters that have happened here that have not been explained is not unusually large.
Methane emissions
Several theories have been proposed to explain the sudden death of ships and aircraft by gas emissions - for example, as a result of the decay of methane hydrate on the seabed. According to one such theory, large bubbles saturated with methane form in the water, in which the density is reduced so much that ships cannot swim and sink instantly. Some speculate that once airborne, methane could also cause plane crashes, for example, by lowering air density, which reduces lift and distorts altimeter readings. In addition, methane in the air can cause engines to stop.
Experimentally, the possibility of a fairly quick (within tens of seconds) flooding of a vessel that was on the border of such a gas release was indeed confirmed.
wandering waves
It has been suggested that the cause of the death of some ships, including those in the Bermuda Triangle, may be the so-called. wandering waves, which are believed to reach a height of 30 m.
infrasound
It is assumed that under certain conditions, infrasound can be generated in the sea, which affects the crew members, causing panic, as a result of which they leave the ship.

Answer from John[guru]
disasters happen everywhere, but disasters in bermudas just get more attention ... and there are a lot of such triangles

Answer from MichLen[guru]
Various hypotheses are put forward to explain these disappearances, from unusual weather events to alien abductions. Skeptics argue, however, that the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle occurs no more often than in other areas of the world's oceans and is due to natural causes. The same opinion is shared by the US Coast Guard and the insurance company Lloyd's.

Answer from kite[active]
..firstly, this is one of the busiest shipping and air routes, and statistics just work here ... secondly, there is a hypothesis that there are huge deposits of methane on the seabed around the world, and some other combustible gases, which, if the corresponding factors coincide , it is assumed that they can come to the surface in the form of huge "bubbles", continuing their ascent upward from the seabed until their density matches that of the air. When a material object, such as an airplane or a ship, gets into such a bubble, it will simply blow it up .. with all the ensuing consequences .. well, I like this kind of vermiya))).. especially since it looks like the truth ..

Answer from Natasha[guru]
Why do disasters occur in the Bermuda Triangle? The mysterious disappearance of ships and planes in this area, located between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Florida peninsula, has long attracted scientists. Many explanations for this phenomenon have been proposed. One of the most plausible is the "bubble" theory, according to which huge amounts of methane escape from ancient underwater gas deposits from time to time. Rising, it saturates the water and reduces its density. This "light" water cannot hold not only multi-ton ships, but even people thrown overboard in life jackets. According to the same theory, methane emissions are also the cause of air crashes. Airplanes flying into a thick methane cloud that rose above the surface of the ocean, the oxygen supply to the aircraft engines was cut off, and they fell into the water. If the concentration of methane was lower, then its combination with air formed a flammable mixture and an explosion occurred upon contact with a heated engine.