Scientific explanation for Bermuda Triangle?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Thread necromancy.

And an awful job in attempting to revive it. Unless you are a scientist or not, as the case may or may not be.

 

[steve s]

why do you say this. there are different theoris about the bermuda triangle. some say there is some like this some say no, but they are scientist and you are not. if you are a scientist exuse me if you are not...

You don't need to be a scientist to show that ships are no more likely to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle than anywhere else. There are over 6000 documented shipwrecks just in the Great Lakes. Compare that to the handful of cases in the Bermuda Triangle that the woo-woos always point to.

Steve S.

 

[MRC_Hans]

Ok, in response to the pirate part, pirates or drug runners at sea can't cause an aircraft to go missing very well and even if they were responsible for some large number of ships being attacked and dissapearing with no wreckage (which would make sense if they scrapped a ship out somehow) then how does one explain such ships as the USS Cyclops?

There are several different explanations. That some losses may be due to drug runners does not mean that others can't be due to other reasons. Ships sink all over the planet. Sometimes without a trace.

I think the methane gas idea is pretty good, especially with the mention of disturbing instruments.

No, it is at best responsible for a few losses. Most eruptions would not happen to sink a ship, much less bring an aircraft down (if that was in any way a useful way to bring down planes, it would be part of the anti-aircraft arsenal), which means that we should have lots of observations. We don't.

Coincidentally, if every area with lots of air and sea traffic has just as high a rate of missing ships and persons then why have I not heard of these places? I am not saying that theory isnt substantial, I just have not read of any other place with a reputation like the Bermuda Triangle.

And? So if you haven't heard of it, it doesn't exist?
Actually, there is a narea in the southwest Pacific that has the same reputation. But, the keyword here is reputation. As you may know, reputation does not equal fact.

In response to some of the cases taking place outside the "triangle" itself I don't think means anything really...I'm not claiming paranormal causes here, I'm not saying something patrols this exact area. Its really unrealistic to assume that if anything strange was going on in that general area that it would exist only inside that triangle which was drawn by a person after the area became famous. I simply use the name Bermuda Traingle because thats how the area is know.

The problem is, if you include incidents out of the rough triangle, the density gets even less abnormal.

I would like to point out though that the military and their 400 page report still can't find a single trace of flight 19 even though all 5 planes went down with no damage to them.

5 small single-engine planes going down somewhere in a huge area of deep ocean, and you wonder why they were not found? Please get real.

This should have left huge solid parts intact and we have found plenty of sunken ships and planes even 1 mistaken for flight 19 because of its location yet still no trace of 5 full planes and as far as I can tell no trace of the rescue ship that was lost either.

Needle in a haystack. It was not a rescue ship. It was a plane.

Do you realize the size of the area?

Also, I can't help but wonder if all 4 student planes realized tyler was lost and incoherent then why didnt one of them use their brain and fly west using their working compass'? I mean, if I was a pilot in training and my instructor was clearly incompetent and I knew I could save my own life and my fellow pilots lives I would have instructed the team to follow me to safety. None of them did this.

Well, don't try to make it to military pilot. Things don't work that way; if you head off in your own direction whenever you think you know better, you are not going to last long. Not only will you get penalized, but you will probably get yourself killed.

Hans

 

[Bikewer]

Way back in the seventies, the original book on the "Triangle" was published, authored by a fellow named Berlitz, as I recall.
Within a very short time, skeptics had pointed out that the thing was full of inventions, distortions, and outright lies.
Ships reported as sunk were found to have been sold and re-named. Sinkings or accidents occurring outside of the triangle area were simply moved "in" by the author.
Etc, etc. etc.....
This was all pretty thoroughly debunked quite a long time ago. Yet it has remained in the public imagination and remains fueled by media efforts.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Way back in the seventies, the original book on the "Triangle" was published, authored by a fellow named Berlitz, as I recall.
Within a very short time, skeptics had pointed out that the thing was full of inventions, distortions, and outright lies.
Ships reported as sunk were found to have been sold and re-named. Sinkings or accidents occurring outside of the triangle area were simply moved "in" by the author.
Etc, etc. etc.....
This was all pretty thoroughly debunked quite a long time ago. Yet it has remained in the public imagination and remains fueled by media efforts.

Lawrence David Kusche (1975). The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved. ISBN 0-87975-971-2.

See the wikipedia entry for Bermuda_Triangle^WP

 

[McHrozni]

Also, the chances of a meteor going down in front of them are incredibly remote. I don't think I've ever heard a single story of any other ship at sea witnessing a meteor splash down.

I'll just address this part, since the rest is receiving due attention.

The fact that an incident is unlikely doesn't mean it's impossible. We do know that a meteor could appear as described, and we do know that meteors routinely strike Earth. The fact that there are no known incidents of it happening doesn't mean Columbus couldn't have been the first and only by pure chance. Also keep in mind that a good number of ships have sunk, and it is possible that some of them saw a meteor before sinking, possibly as a result of the impact. Chances are remote, but not impossible.

I once saw an explanation that he saw fires of Taino Indians, which is probably a more likely explanation, though since we don't know what he saw that too is just another speculation.

McHrozni