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Purwakarta, candatangan.site – British marine scientists finally concluded what was the cause of the disappearance of many planes and ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
The triangular area that stretches from Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda has for more than a century been a mystery because a number of planes and ships often disappear without a trace when crossing the area.
The New York Times daily notes that 50 ships, 20 planes, and more than a thousand people have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in the last 500 years.
Now researchers from the University of Southampton say the ships were sucked into the ocean by powerful waves over 30 meters high.
This explanation was revealed in a documentary on Channel 5 about the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
“There was a storm going north and south, which then met. We measured the height of the waves being up to 30 meters. The bigger the ship, the more damage,” Dr Simon Boxall, the oceanographer who led the investigation, told The Sun.
Bermuda Triangle Theory
A number of theories kept rolling in to explain the disappearance of ships and planes there, but scientists finally concluded that massive, high waves were the cause when waves as high as 18.5 meters were recorded from the North Sea via satellite imagery in 1995.
The big waves occur when a series of large waves hit the open ocean.
For normal waves about 12 meters can have a pressure power of 8.5 psi.
Modern ships are designed to withstand a pressure of 21 psi. But the mighty waves can destroy ships with a force of 140 psi, enough to topple even the strongest ship.
For this documentary, Dr Boxall and his team created a simulator of the waves and the ship of the USS Cyclops to find out how they impact large ships. The ship Cyclops disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 with 309 on board.
“You can imagine the big waves with an invisible height and there was nothing under the ship. If that happened then the ship could sink in two to three minutes,” said Boxall.
Sheer Myth
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a scientific agency under the US Department of Commerce, has made several attempts to rectify the myth of the Bermuda Triangle.
NOAA emphasized that weather factors and poor navigation were all the causes for the loss of many means of transportation there.
“There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances that occur in the Bermuda Triangle occur with a greater frequency than other marine areas,” the agency said in a statement on its website, as published by the Daily Mail, February 9, 2014.
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Ben Sherman, a spokesman for NOAA told the Sun Sentinel, his agency wrote the story of the Bermuda Triangle as part of a community learning program and answered questions from many people.
NOAA also relies on scientific evidence from the US Navy or US Navy and US Coast Guard that does not recognize the existence of the Bermuda Triangle, as a geographical area that poses a special threat to ships or aircraft.
“Based on studies of plane and ship accidents in the area over the years, there is no evidence to indicate that they were caused by anything other than physical causes.”
Questions about the Bermuda Triangle have also been addressed to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Although acknowledging the presence of gas hydrates in deep-sea sediments in the southeastern US or western regions of the Bermuda Triangle, and that the gas could be related to the sinking phenomenon, USGS geologist Bill Dillon refuted this hypothesis as the cause of the sinking of ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
This is because the release of gas hydrates only occurred at the end of the ice age, about 15,000 years ago or so. Where at that time, the most sophisticated ship that could be made was nothing more than hollow wood.
Moreover, it is evident that more ships have sunk in other locations. “The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is nothing more than a fairy tale,” said Dillon, on the USGS website.
The US Space Agency, NASA also thinks so. “There are no black holes in the Bermuda Triangle. In fact, there is not even such a thing as the Bermuda Triangle. The number of cases of loss in that region is consistent with that of other regions,” explained NASA Scientist, Dr. Eric Christian.
Here are the facts of the Bermuda Triangle
1. Area Unknown
Apart from its uncertain location, the area of the Bermuda Triangle is also unknown. Some say the Bermuda Triangle has an area of about 500 thousand square kilometers, others say the area is three times that estimated.
2. The Origin of the Bermuda Triangle
The name Bermuda Triangle was first coined in 1964 by writer Vincent Gaddis in his writings for Argosy magazine. Although Gaddis was the first to use the term Bermuda Triangle, the figure who played a role in making these mysterious waters popular was Charles Berlitz.
In his book entitled “The Bermuda Triangle” which was released in 1974, Berlitz put forward the theory that the underwater world of Atlantis existed and was related to the Bermuda Triangle. Since then, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been discussed in various television programs, films, documentaries, books, and websites.
3. Theories about the Bermuda Triangle
There are many theories put forward by researchers to explain the phenomenon of the disappearance of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle, both based on science or paranormal.
For a paranormal explanation, some say that this phenomenon is caused by the technology of the mythical city of Atlantis which is under the sea. The technology is called “crystal energy” that can sink ships and planes. In addition, there are also more fantastic theories such as the existence of a time portal and the intervention of aliens living under the sea.
However, there are also more scientific explanations such as geomagnetic anomalies that confuse compasses and pilots, the Gulf Stream, bad weather, methane hydrates or phenomena that can reduce seawater density, and human error.
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