• Scientists Claim to Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
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https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/zmkyp8/scientists-claim-to-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle
tl;dr "So what are rogue waves? Basically, they’re abnormally large and unexpected waves in open sea. According to a study on Freak Waves, a standard-issue large wave of around 12 metres will have a breaking pressure of 8.5 psi. Modern ships are designed to tolerate a breaking wave of 21 psi, but a rogue wave can deliver a crushing 140 psi, grossly exceeding the limits of what ships are expected to tolerate." New theory suggests very big, very powerful waves
It's clearly an interdimensional anomaly lmao
It's just a bugged poly, someone remake Earth from scratch
It's swamp gas released from the anuses of our reptilian overlords, that evolved by starting gay relationships with each other because of the chemicals in the sky!
Still doesn't explain how an entire flight of TBM Avenger bombers went missing, along with a PBM-5 Mariner that was assigned to search for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19
very large rogue waves
The triangle was an invented mystery. It's not statistically more dangerous than other stretches of the ocean. People latched on to pulp culture mysteries, like Bigfoot and Loch Ness monster.
the article even says this. the wikipedia article talks about this. it was a training flight and the compasses ended up getting damaged and stopped working. misidentifing islands they flew over, they went too far out to sea and couldn't get home before they ran out of fuel.
Then how haven't their wrecks been found? Surely five torpedo bombers wouldn't be that hard to spot with modern oceanographic equipment.
Pretty sure not only does it take a lot of time to operate machinery, which you use to locate the wreckages, it costs a lot of money. That's a lot of friggin ocean to comb and deep in a lot of instances. The wrecks themself detoriate over time, too.
It's been amused that the planes didn't sink in one piece, and that the wings, tail, and fuselage came apart from each other as it sank in the waves. Backed up by navy reports on how avengers would sink during a water landing.
SO what you're saying is a platoon of Aliens have fallen through a hole in time and are creating giant waves to crash ships so they can use the scrap to build a portal to return to their original time and deliver the data they've collected which will help them send an even larger platoon of aliens back to wipe out the human race? I guess that makes sense
Considering that new shipwrecks are still being located, is it really that surprising that five torpedo bombers haven’t been found? Hell, they spent a lot of resources looking for MH370 or whatever it was called and they ended up finding nothing.
Fair enough. All in all though, I think eventually there should be some renewed effort to look for Flight 19 to give some closure to the families at the very least, even though it did happen 73 years ago.
Same reason we never found MH370. It probably hit the water and broke apart. Plus the strong Gulfstream current likely carries debris for a few miles before depositing it on the seafloor, I've heard. Those planes could be anywhere in any number of pieces. We might find evidence eventually.
I’ll add that you should probably be careful not to conflate two questions - why they went missing and why they haven’t been found are two different questions that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with each other.
The explanation I heard on a TV documentary was methane gas. For ships, an eruption of Methane gas leads to methane large bubbles in the water that up the boyancy and the ship just plunges downward. For older aircraft, it's twofold, the methane forms a large cloud that blocks visibility; since it is lighter than air it also fucks with the instruments. The low pressure tricks the Altimeter into displaying that the aircraft is rapidly climbing at a steep angle, to which the pilot panics dives down to correct it.
Ships can easly get swooped by giant waves but if were talking planes then its still a mystery. Probably there's a giant magnet somewhere.
The Bermuda triangle is so big you could probably draw it on any random spot in the ocean and see a similar amount of missing boats in that area
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