Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle: The Rogue Waves Hypothesis
Even though this region is no more dangerous than any other similar area of the ocean, the legend lives on. This time, an oceanographer accuses the rogue waves, those poorly explained walls of water that have effectively sunk ships and damaged oil platforms.
In a television documentary, of which it is customary, the British oceanographer Simon Boxall, of the University of Southampton, launched a new hypothesis to explain the disappearances of ships in this area of the Atlantic Ocean forming a triangle between the Bermuda Islands, the tip of Florida and the island of Puerto Rico.
Since the 1960s, the “Bermuda Triangle Mystery” has been part of conversation, selling books and newspaper articles, ensuring the success of television shows and attracting Internet users to videos or to enlightened people. With each new hypothesis, it is fashionable to assert that “the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is (or perhaps is) solved. To put it simply, these are steep waves and much taller than any other, within seemingly normal surface motion.
The Bermuda Triangle awaits other hypotheses
For a long time, the testimonies of sailors remained too imprecise for the phenomenon, very rare and inexplicable, to be seriously studied. Physics considered them almost impossible. But on January 1, 1995, a wave of this kind, 20 meters, hit an oil platform, Draupner, in the North Sea, and could be precisely measured. Studies have advanced the understanding of this exceptional phenomenon, through mathematics or by simulation using light or liquid helium. A wave higher than the others may appear within a ripple. Their frequency could be higher than what was supposed, according to a study published in March 2017, based on the observation of the Andrea wave, which had touched the Ekofisk platform, in the North Sea.
For Simon Boxall, particular stormy conditions would lead to the formation more frequent than elsewhere of rogue waves. However, the distribution of these giant waves on the scale of the Globe remains poorly understood. Apparently, there is no mention in the scientific literature on the question of a greater number of such phenomena in this region of the Atlantic. Let us remember (as has been said thousands of times since the 1960s) that this area is not considered particularly dangerous for maritime navigation. Insurers do not claim higher premiums for vessels passing through it. Moreover, the explanation of the oceanographer of Southampton does not apply to planes, which legend says they also disappear. The door therefore remains open for new hypotheses. See you next time…
The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle finally solved?
The case of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the Atlantic Ocean where planes and boats are said to have gone missing, has held the tightrope for more than 40 years. From alien trap to a hole to another dimension via a crystal pyramid, all the explanations accessible to unbridled imaginations have, it seems, been formulated.
On average, no less than 4 planes and 20 boats literally disappear from the charts each year, in an area of some 500,000 square kilometers between Florida, Puerto Rico and the Bermuda Archipelago. This area is known as the Bermuda Triangle. A team of meteorologists from Colorado State University today shares a theory that could plausibly explain these phenomena.
A very special shape, because, according to meteorologists, the distribution of clouds in the sky is generally random. This same type of cloud formation could be observed on the side of the United Kingdom (observed and studied thanks to radar images taken simultaneously).
Scientists have thus discovered that these hexagonal clouds betray the occurrence of authentic “air bombs”, microbursts of violent winds blowing at more than 270 kilometers per hour.Enough to damage many planes or sink even boats of respectable size.
The hypothesis is however refuted by a British meteorologist of NBC News, Kevin Corriveau, who points out that the comparison of atmospheric structures between the region of the Bahamas, tropical, and the United Kingdom, is hazardous.
The crystal pyramid hypothesis
Despite multiple explanations or denials, the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, a mysterious area where planes and boats disappeared, has continued to fuel fantasies since the 1970s. Recently, the hypothesis of the crystal pyramid has resurfaced. 2,000 m below the surface would be the key to the riddle.
Meyer Verlag, an unknown and still untraceable scientist, would have revealed this beautiful story. Evidenced by an article from MailOnLine and others. We can refer to a synthesis of the NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, United States), which recalls that this region of the Atlantic is crossed by many cyclones (like Matthew in October 2016) and that we can observe there well. A slight disturbance of the earth’s magnetic field.
Moreover, another argument, put forward as early as the 1970s, is that insurance companies do not claim higher premiums on airlines or shipping lines crossing this triangle. Pragmatic people, insurers would not have failed to do so if accidents were more frequent there than elsewhere, whatever the explanation, however supernatural.
An untapped reserve of fossil fuel
But the presence of gas hydrate clusters in the waters of the Atlantic was confirmed during the American drilling program at great depths carried out in the mid-1980s. Hydrates are, remember, solid combinations which are formed from methane and water under certain conditions of temperature and pressure. They are mainly found in the oceans and northern regions of permafrost.
It is said that legends are made of fantastic tales that endure through the ages. Like Atlantis or the legend of King Arthur, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has the makings of legends. Since the 1950s, this 500,000 square kilometer geographic area between Florida, Puerto Rico and the Bermuda Archipelago has been infamous for the repeated disappearances of ships and planes. On average, there are 4 planes and 20 boats that mysteriously disappear each year.
For a long time, the accounts of sailors proved too imprecise for the phenomenon to be seriously studied. Various bizarre theories then emerged, ranging from the trap set by aliens to the existence of a door to another dimension.
