Bermuda triangle!

[electricblue]

What is it?Is there anything supernatural?or is it natural phenomena?If so what and how do you explain the boats and ships that have gone missing over the years?

[mike b]

There do appear to be some unusual phenomena in the area - for example, sudden gas releases from the sea bed, which could theoretically sink a ship. However, a lot of the so-called evidence is very dodgy, ranging from "missing ships" which were lost in completely different parts of the world and the flying boat "lost without trace" which was destroyed by a fuel-leak explosion within sight of its base. There has been convincing refutation of most of the myths, but as usual with this sort of thing, if you try an online search you'll find a thousand ******** sites for any grown-up serious one!

[dot.hawkes]

actually i read an item on line recently, when i googled caribbean Cruises, apparently a number of American tourists on cruise ships have mysteriously disappeared from the boats in that part of the caribbean. Check it out.

[Quizmonster]

Myth or reality? Other than the fact that such a geographical region exists, it's a myth. Proper investigations into the so-called �mystery' invariably show that perfectly reasonable explanations cover the phenomena.
For example, one such investigation into the disappearance of a whole flight of aeroplanes which went missing was carried out by a friend of mine who works for the Air Accident Investigation Board. His evidence was shown in a TV documentary in 2004. He proved conclusively that no supernatural explanation was needed, as the error was on the part of the leader of the flight. He imagined his compass was malfunctioning - as was made clear in conversations with the control tower - and then overflew their first turning-point in a triangular training exercise. Thereafter, he mistook one island for another, because of their similar shapes, which further compounded their mistakes. Eventually, they simply flew out over the Atlantic until they ran out of fuel and crashed.
Seabed gases - sometimes blamed for missing ships - are extremely unlikely to affect aircraft.

[Loosehead]

Yep as usual QM is correct. Another branch of the wonderful world of total cobblers.

[Toureman]

Try and make your own mind up with the help of this site.............

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/

[electricblue]

Cant get on to your link for some reason but although i would like it to be supernatural i think its something natural going on over there.

[steve @ home]

Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but why would you like there to be a supernatural explanation? Read Richard Dawkins' Ancestors Tale, watch Planet Earth on the telly, look at stars with binoculars and plant a garden. Nobody needs the supernatural for anything.

[electricblue]

Its been around for so long with all the supernatural theories that yeah i'd like to think it was ok?I don't remember saying i need it to be supernatural,i don't think a bit of mystery in the world will hurt anyone!

[Octavius]

If I said that it was made a "mystery" by the fictional writings of Charles Berlitz (and before him E.V.W. Jones) based on a series of coincidental sea-faring accidents in roughly the same part of the world, would you believe me?

[electricblue]

Wouldn't be surprised but then again is it a problem how it became a mystery?

[mike b]

I feel a bit sorry for Charles Berlitz - as a member of the famous language teaching dynasty, apparently he was brought up with all the members of his polylot extended family speaking to him in different languages, so that by his early teens he was fluent in about a dozen and a complete loony in all of them (and disowned by the family business)...

[Mr.Tamzarian]

I think there was a sailing ship that was sunk in a storm in this area in the early 1990's. There was only 2 survivors but they said they had never seen rain as hard and heavy as they encountered. They said the force of it drove the ship under the water inside 2 minutes.

[electricblue]

Which tells me there IS a real mystery there then??