Experts Seem To Find An Answer To The Bermuda Triangle Mystery

The Bermuda mystery that has haunted the world for centuries seems to have been solved by a team of researchers from the Arctic University of Norway. The experts feel that the mysterious disappearance of ships and aircraft in this area has been due to huge underwater methane explosions triggered by craters discovered near Norway recently.

The craters are about half a mile each in width, situated at a depth of 150 feet and possibly created by the build up as well as the "popping of methane" beneath the seabed.

"Multiple giant craters exist on the sea floor in an area in the west-central Barents Sea ... and are probably a cause of enormous blowouts of gas," the team said. '"The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic."

With a novel radar that reflected various images of the seabed, the experts studied the areas of the methane seepage all over the world.

This suggestion could give a theory to explain the "ghost" ships that have been found here, with crews that died but never showed evidence of trauma, even as methane bubbles led to asphyxiation. Many sailors said that they saw water that would suddenly form bubbles and foam, but with no known or understandable reason.

Even though it is only a theory, the reason being the methane is being thought of as one of the causes of the disappearance of ships in this area.

"There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions," Igor Yelstov, a researcher from the Trofimuk Institute, said last year. "They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas. That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas."

The study will be presented next month at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union.