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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Big
Bubbles
Mitra Malek
writes for the Herald Tribune that some scientists believe the Bermuda Triangle
could be losing ships to the world by use or force of big bubbles.
Hollywood special effects
artist, Phil Beck, of Awesome FX, has recreated the phenomena so he could test
this theory.
The Bermuda Triangle
stretches from Florida to Bermuda and Puerto Rico.
Many ships and airplanes
have disappeared but no one can figure out why.
Beck has forced compressed
air through an underwater grid in the ocean, forcing bubbles to the
surface.
After five tries, he was
able to suck a Sea Ray cruiser under the water.
“The bow went up, the stern
went down, and it went under,” he said. “I’ve sunk lots of boats, but I’ve
always just blown holes in them.”
The experiment had been
carried out before in tubs with tiny boats, like playing in the bath with
plastic boats, well, yeah, that’s exactly what he was doing, but he’d never
attempted it with a full size boat. He couldn’t get it to fit in the
bathtub.
“It was doing it out on the
ocean. That was the key,” said Steve Wilkinson of BBC, which, along with the
Discovery Channel, is filming the experiment. “It is one thing to test in a
tank, but to do it out in the water with currents… is another… We’re looking at
the Bermuda Triangle mysteries with fresh eyes. There is background to some of
the myths.”
The bubbles may come from
the methane gas frozen in the ocean floor. If the floor becomes warmer or
develops cracks, the methane gas could be released, producing huge bubbles a
mile wide.
This explains why ships are
lost in the Bermuda Triangle, but doesn’t explain the disappearances of
airplanes.
According to the Navy, the
Bermuda Triangle is one of the two places on earth where a magnetic compass
points to true north instead of magnetic north.
A navigator who didn’t
compensate for that “could find himself far off course and in deep trouble,” it
states on the Navy website. Planes, however, could be affected by giant
bubbles. If one reached the surface, it could explode in the air, creating an
air current that would pull the plane down into the ocean.
Sort of kicks in touch the
Atlantis theory doesn’t it…!
Big Bubbles
written by Bill Barber
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