Two days ago, me and BHEhalf was having a converasation about this thing. We both enjoy talking about weird things in earth.haha. Not just because that were weird but simply because we find it so amazing how the world had this things that no one could explain. (as what we thought) We almost didn't notice the time. Were both facinated with the stuff to the point that up to now we were still talking about it and searching over the net about it.
The Bermuda Triangle (sometimes also referred to as the Devil's Triangle) is a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by a line from Florida to the islands of Bermuda, to Puerto Rico and then back to Florida. It is one of the biggest mysteries of our time - that perhaps isn't really a mystery. The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first used in an article written by Vincent H. Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964. In the article, Gaddis claimed that in this strange sea a number of ships and planes had disappeared without explanation. Gaddis wasn't the first one to come to this conclusion, either. As early as 1952, George X. Sands, in a report in Fate magazine, noted what seemed like an unusually large number of strange accidents in that region.
In 1969 John Wallace Spencer wrote a book called Limbo of the Lost specifically about the Triangle and, two years later, a feature documentary on the subject, The Devil's Triangle, was released. These, along with the bestseller The Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974, permanently registered the legend of the "Hoodoo Sea" within popular culture.
Why do ships and planes seem to go missing in the region? Some authors suggested it may be due to a strange magnetic anomaly that affects compass readings (in fact they claim Columbus noted this when he sailed through the area in 1492). Others theorize that methane eruptions from the ocean floor may suddenly be turning the sea into a froth that can't support a ship's weight so it sinks (though there is no evidence of this type of thing happening in the Triangle for the past 15,000 years). Several books have gone as far as conjecturing that the disappearances are due to an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea.
The Theory:
Methane Hydrate
Fanciful idea of how a ship could suddenly plunge to the bottom. Methane Hydrate is a cage-like lattice of ice which contains methane molecules. Methane is a natural gas, but it freezes at temperatures higher than regular ice. Methane hydrates exist all over the world, both under land and under the ocean, but only at depths below 1,000 feet from the sea surface. Studies indicate there could be as much as 200 trillion cubic feet of this gas hydrate for US energy use alone. Worldwide estimates of the hydrate beds project 400 million trillion cubic feet exist. This dwarfs the estimates for natural gas which is only 5000 trillion cubic feet. If gas hydrates can account for the missing in the Bermuda Triangle, they should be causing 10 times the disappearances all around the world considering the vast beds beneath.
still seaching other facts.......
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/
http://www.unmuseum.org/triangle.htm
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